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Fueled by ubiquitous sport utility vehicles and distracted drivers, Pennsylvania saw a 41 percent increase in the number of pedestrian fatalities in the first six months of 2018 over a similar period the previous year, a new report has found. Pennsylvania wasn’t alone. The more than 6,200 pedestrians killed on...

Everybody Gardens editor Doug Oster will be appearing at the Duquesne Light Home and Garden Show from March 1-10, speaking every day. The event is held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center and Oster will be speaking from the Green Thumb Stage, which is on the first floor, in...

Shaler Area High School senior Marissa Fukas has been selected into the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association’s All-State Orchestra. Fukas earned second chair in the viola section of the All-State Orchestra following the audition process for the ensemble. This year, Fukas also was selected for the PMEA Honors Orchestra, PMEA District...

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) named two Pine-Richland High School students among approximately 15,000 finalists in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Seniors Luke Francis and Devin Golla were named semifinalists and then again finalists in February of 2019. More than 1.6 million juniors in about 22,000 high...

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Authorities say a young man at a New Jersey supermarket assaulted an 81-year-old who was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat. Somerset County prosecutors have charged 19-year-old Ryan Salvagno with assault and harassment. Officials say Salvagno exchanged words with the older man about the hat...

It was a record many considered unassailable for years. But New Castle is on the brink of tying Farrell’s longstanding mark of 13 WPIAL boys basketball championships. Farrell won its 13 titles from 1951-92, a period of 42 seasons. New Castle (20-4) will go after No. 13 at 1 p.m....

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Courtney Stockard had 21 points as St. Bonaventure easily beat Duquesne, 68-47, on Wednesday night. Lamar Norman Jr. scored a season-high 20 points for the Dukes (18-10, 9-6 Atlantic 10). Eric Williams Jr. had five points despite coming into the contest as the Dukes’ leading scorer...

While the Path to the Pete is complete and the finals are set for this weekend, the Road to Hershey will tip off next week. The WPIAL will send a handful of teams from each class into the PIAA postseason field, ranging from five teams to seven teams. While all...

Virginia first lady Pam Northam, who told her husband not to moonwalk during a news conference about wearing blackface, reportedly handed out cotton to black students on a tour of the governor’s mansion. Last week, the first lady and her husband, Ralph Northam, hosted about 100 students who had worked...

WASHINGTON — Heath Mayo had had enough of CPAC, and now his idea of getting a few friends together to talk conservative issues as an alternative to the star-studded, high-priced event has mushroomed into a national movement to skip the Conservative Political Action Conference altogether. CPAC, the year’s biggest gathering...

Ryan Stowers regained his cool as quickly as he lost it. The Quaker Valley senior guard swatted at Ambridge forward Liam Buck following a loose ball scramble with 3 minutes, 15 seconds remaining in a WPIAL Class 4A semifinal playoff game Wednesday night at North Hills. For his frustration, Stowers...

Every Wednesday during the 2018-19 WPIAL basketball season, the TribLive High School Sports Network releases Power Rankings during the WPIAL Roundball Report at 6:30 p.m. Then after the show, the Trib Ten is posted at TribHSSN.TribLive.com. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. Here are the ranking for the Week of...

High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Wednesday’s results Butler 70, Pine-Richland 68 Mt. Lebanon 58, Canon-McMillan 39 Championship Saturday’s schedule Butler (20-4) vs. Mt. Lebanon (21-3) at Petersen Events Center, 9 p.m. Class 5A Championship Friday’s schedule Mars (23-1) vs. Moon (23-1) at Petersen Events Center, 9...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State is trying to avoid a last-place finish in the Big Ten, but the Nittany Lions aren’t playing like a team that looks like it belongs there right now. Lamar Stevens scored 16 of his 24 points in the second half, and Penn State had an...

It’s a wonderful thing when imagination catches up to reality. That’s what happened for Chartiers Valley girls basketball coach Tim McConnell and his Colts. Everything came to fruition Wednesday evening at Fox Chapel as the top-seeded Colts rode the red-hot hand of Mackenzie Wagner’s 3-point shooting and punched their ticket...

It’s tough to know all the answers at tax time, particularly in a year with massive tax law changes. Sometimes people need help, but where should they turn? Here are a few options: IRS The IRS has answers to most tax questions online. Its website also has a number of...

Class 2A girls Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (20-4) vs. Brentwood (19-3) 5 p.m. Thursday, Petersen Events Center Starting lineups No. 4 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (20-4) Coach: Don Eckerle No. Player, Pos., Ht., Yr. 11 Haley Hamilton, G, 5-4, Jr. 25 Grace Bradley, G, 5-6, So....

Class A boys Vincentian Academy (16-7) vs. Nazareth Prep (18-3) 7 p.m. Thursday, Petersen Events Center Starting lineups No. 1 Vincentian Academy (16-7) Coach: Tim Tyree No. Player, Pos., Ht., Yr. 1 Nate Cullo, G, 5-8, Jr. 5 Alex Griggs, G, 6-0, So. 22 Matt McDonough, G, 5-10, Fr. 24...

Jenna Clark and her Thomas Jefferson teammates we’re well aware that a Jaguars girls basketball team hadn’t made a WPIAL final since 1980, and they made it their mission to change that this season. The Jaguars took the court with a determination and self-belief on Wednesday and continued to roll...

Shady Side Academy’s girls basketball team punched its first ticket to a WPIAL championship game. Coach Amy Szlachetka fought back tears at midcourt Wednesday night after a 38-35 win over South Park that came down to a last-second shot. For her, it was a reminder of how close her teams...

Neshannock came into the WPIAL tournament as the perennial favorite to win the Class 3A crown. The No. 1-seeded Lancers rolled to a 21-2 record — their only losses coming to Beaver, last season’s Class 4A runner-up, and Central Valley, which will play in this season’s 4A title game —...

WASHINGTON — Michael Cohen, once among President Trump’s most ardent defenders, turned on him in a combative congressional hearing Wednesday, describing a culture of nonstop lying around Trump involving his alleged mistresses, inflated personal wealth and secret efforts to build Europe’s tallest skyscraper in Moscow. Cohen, who worked at Trump’s...

WASHINGTON There have been many memorable — and eventually consequential — Supreme Court dissents that affirmed principles that, in time, commanded a court majority. It is, however, rare that a justice’s opinion concurring in a unanimous ruling is more intellectually scintillating and potentially portentous than the ruling itself. This happened...

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the administration continues to weather criticism over its relationship with Riyadh following the murder of a U.S.-based columnist. Kushner and two other senior administration officials met with the crown prince and...