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High school schedules for April 22, 2019
High Schools Baseball Monday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Section 3 Upper St. Clair vs. Canon-McMillan, Wild Things Park, 4 p.m. Class 5A Section 2 Mars at Shaler, 4 p.m. Section 3 Trinity at Laurel Highlands, 4 p.m. Class 3A Section 2 Ellwood City at Shady Side Academy, 4:15 p.m. Section...
Patricia Murphy: Trump’s warning you: The socialists are coming!
Meet “socialist,” the hardest-working word in politics in 2019. The single word has helped upstart Democrats attract young and social-curious potential voters, given the paddles of life to desperate-for-a-cause conservatives, and led President Trump to an early and effective way to frame the re-election battle he wants to have with...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: Quaker Valley’s Christian Johnson
Christian Johnston School: Quaker Valley Class: Senior In a five-year period from 2013-17, Quaker Valley baseball was a legitimate contender. While the Quakers did not strike gold in their run, they did reach the WPIAL finals in 2013 and ’15. The program hit a wall last spring, missing the playoffs...
Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week: Union
The Trib HSSN Team of the Week, Union, earned two section wins last week to increase its winning streak and hold on first place. After losing two of its first three games, Union has rolled to seven straight wins, including 6-0 in Section 1-A. “The first part of the season,...
Trib Total Media earns Best Overall Daily Newspaper award
Trib Total Media has received several top awards from the Keystone State Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, including being named Best Overall Daily Newspaper across all circulation categories. The award was announced as part of the group’s annual “Best in Journalism Contest,” which draws entries from throughout Pennsylvania...
John Steigerwald: Late Pirates GM Pete Peterson might never be matched
You may not live to see anyone else do what Pete Peterson did. He’s the last Pittsburgh Pirates general manager to win a World Series. They’ve only won three in the past 94 years. Harding “Pete” Peterson died Tuesday at the age of 89, and the fact he was a...
Adam Schiff says Democrats will debate impeachment amid left pressureVideo
WASHINGTON — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Sunday that the Democrats will discuss whether to begin impeachment hearings of President Trump after progressives ratcheted up the pressure on a reluctant party leadership. “We’re going to have a caucus about this over the next couple weeks to try to...
Outdoor notices: April 22, 2019
• Three Rivers Birding Club is holding an outing at 8:30 a.m. April 27 at Frick Park. The outing will be led by Jack and Sue Solomon. Participants will explore the park in hopes of seeing plenty of warblers. For questions, call the Solomons at 412-521-3365. • The 24th annual...
High school sports broadcasts planned this week on Trib HSSN
With a belly full of treats left behind by our furry, hopping friend, we leave Easter behind and focus on the second half of section play in spring high school sports this week here on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN has plenty of WPIAL baseball and softball...
Letter to the editor: Bill Peduto, Pittsburgh officials should be charged
I must heartily disagree with your editorial “Prosecuting Peduto for gun ban is wrong move” that said Pittsburgh politicians should not be charged criminally in their ploy to win votes by passing an illegal ordinance. I saw several of the egotists state they were aware it would be against both...
Letter to the editor: Donald Trump as prince
As the Christian world celebrates the resurrection of the Prince of Peace, our country is in the grip of a different kind of prince. This prince has waged war against anything Obama, United Nations, NATO, Muslims, immigrants, environment and the rule of law. He has slashed vehicle fuel efficiency regulations;...
Letter to the editor: McCain military hero, political nothing
As a proud veteran of the Korean War and former Republican for many years, I find remarks by letter-writer Joe Palumbo (“Where’s outrage over Trump’s McCain comments?”) typical of Democrats who still can’t accept that Trump won. Can you imagine what our country would be like had John McCain or...
Sewickley hospital receives Easter donation
Jim Hindinger and the Sewickley Borough Police Department delivered Easter baskets to Heritage Valley Health System on behalf of Easter for Eli, an organization started by Martin Garrett in memory of his son Eli, who lost his battle with cancer just days before his fourth birthday....
Mark Reynolds & Hilary Schenker: Earth Day call to action on climate
As Americans observe Earth Day today, let’s take a moment to reflect on the power of the grassroots movement behind that first celebration in 1970, which led to dramatic changes that improved the quality of our lives through cleaner air and water. Shocked by the massive oil spill that fouled...
Shaler, Millvale to participate in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day
Norma and Dave Hufnagel of Etna lost their son, David, to a heroin overdose in 2007. They have worked since 2011 to prevent subsequent opioid overdoses by assisting with Shaler’s annual Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The Shaler Township Police Department is holding this year’s event, in cooperation with the...
North Allegheny JROTC cadets compete in national space engineering event
A team from the North Allegheny Air Force JROTC tested its space system engineering skills on a grand scale. The Flying Tigers were one of 10 squads invited to the Air Force Association’s StellarXplorers V National Finals on April 10 through 14 in Colorado Springs. In the competition, teams found...
Bridgeville High School 1960, the final graduating class
This month, the Bridgeville Area Historical Society’s “Second Tuesday” series focused on the BHS Class of 1960. This was the final class of Bridgeville High School; the following year marked the opening of Chartiers Valley High School. The 1960 Class dedicated its yearbook, the Lincoln Log, to all the classes...
Dave McElhinny: When your day goes from bad to worse
Have you ever had one of those days where everything you do is an uphill battle? The kind where no matter how hard you struggle or how positive you try to be, it all goes south? I was driving home from just such a day — one that included a...
Short ribs in a beer and cider vinegar lead to great tacos
Carne deshebrada, literally meaning “shredded beef,” is a common offering at Mexican taco stands. It’s made by braising a large cut of beef until ultra-tender and then shredding the meat and tossing it with a flavorful rojo sauce made with tomatoes and/or dried chiles. Although short ribs are a bit...
Old Joliet Prison offers tour-goers a ‘ruin-porn’ experience
At the start of “The Blues Brothers,” the 1980 comedy classic, “Joliet Jake” Blues walks out the front gate of Joliet Correctional Center, a looming, limestone fortress built in 1858. Now, for the first time since the facility closed in 2002, tourists can walk in through that gate. The Old...
Workplace wellness programs barely move the needle, study finds
Workplace wellness programs — efforts to get workers to lose weight, eat better, stress less and sleep more — are an $8 billion industry in the U.S. Most large employers offer some type of wellness program — with growth fueled by incentives in the federal Affordable Care Act. But no...
Climate protesters march in London again; arrests hit 710
LONDON — London police said more than 710 people were arrested and about 28 charged since climate change protests began last week in the British capital. The Extinction Rebellion protests started Monday and have at times paralyzed parts of London, with peaceful demonstrations at Waterloo Bridge, Oxford Circus and other...
British cyber expert pleads guilty to creating malware
MILWAUKEE — A British cybersecurity researcher credited with stopping a worldwide computer virus has pleaded guilty to developing malware to steal banking information. Federal prosecutors in Wisconsin and Marcus Hutchins’ attorneys said in a joint court filing Friday that the 24-year-old agreed to plead guilty to developing malware called Kronos...
6 explosions hit churches, hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A security official said six near-simultaneous blasts hit three churches and three hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. The official said the explosions caused multiple fatalities among worshippers and hotel guests. The official said the blasts at two churches were suspected to be carried out...
Gunmen storm government building in Kabul; at least 7 dead
KABUL — Suicide bombers and gunmen stormed a high-rise government office building in a busy section of Kabul on Saturday, killing at least four civilians and three members of Afghan security forces in an hours-long battle that ended with all the assailants dead. No group claimed responsibility for the attack...
