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High school scores, schedules for March 24, 2019
High Schools Baseball WPIAL Sunday’s results WPIAL Nonsection Ripken Experience tournament In Myrtle Beach Peters Township 2, Fordham Prep (N.Y.) 1 Nonsection Upper St. Clair 3, Revere 2 Upper St. Clair 13, West Carrolton 1 Monday’s schedule WPIAL Nonsection Ambridge at New Brighton, 4 p.m. Apollo-Ridge at Leechburg, 3:45 p.m....
Trib HSSN PIHL Team of the Week: Pine-Richland
Going into the season, Pine-Richland’s goal was to win a state championship. In order to do that, the Rams needed to win a Penguins Cup at the Double-A level. The Rams set their goal before finding out they would represent the PIHL in the USA Hockey Division 1 High School...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week: Lincoln Park’s Isaiah Smith
Isaiah Smith School: Lincoln Park Class: Junior What do you get when you add a highly decorated player to a perennial basketball powerhouse? WPIAL and PIAA gold is a nice start. After helping Sewickley Academy win back-to-back WPIAL titles and a PIAA championship in his first two years of high...
Trib HSSN PIHL Player of the Week: Pine-Richland goalie Danny Stauffer
During the PIHL regular season, Pine-Richland junior goaltender Danny Stauffer led Double-A in goals-against average. Ask him, and he will tell you it has a lot to do with the guys in front of him. “I mean, really it’s the players in front of me,” Stauffer said in December on...
Timothy L. O’Brien: Trump can take a victory lap, but it’s a partial one
President Trump scored a significant political and legal victory on Sunday. Attorney General William Barr, in a brief summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 presidential election, said that Mueller has determined that Trump and his aides didn’t conspire or coordinate with Russia in that country’s efforts...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week: Moon
The Trib HSSN Team of the Week suffered heartbreak at the WPIAL finals only to bounce back with five consecutive wins in the PIAA playoffs and earn a state championship, as we salute the Moon Tigers. All losses hurt, but when you lose a big double-digit second-half lead in the...
John Steigerwald: Remember the 1979 Pirates? You must be old
So, how old would you have to be to remember the last time the Pirates were in the World Series? I remember it well. I was 30 years old and had been working at WTAE for four months when they opened the 1979 season at Three Rivers Stadium on April...
Boys basketball rankings for week of March 24, 2019
Moon, Lincoln Park, Imhotep Charter, Kennedy Catholic, Math, Civics & Science and Sankofa Freedom Academy were celebrating at the end of the Road to Hershey. The final rankings are easy because they are based on what just happened in the last few rounds of the PIAA playoffs. The real test...
Pine-Richland finishes season atop Trib HSSN PIHL power rankings
For the final time in the recently completed 2018-19 PIHL hockey season, the TribLive High School Sports Network releases the weekly Power Rankings. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. In the final rankings are three Penguins Cup winners, a PIHL Division II champ and a Pennsylvania Cup state champion, along...
High school sports broadcasts scheduled this week on Trib HSSN
Call it the calm between the storms as we transition from the winter to spring high school sports seasons starting this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN turns the page to spring with the debut of coverage of both WPIAL boys volleyball and boys lacrosse. It’s...
Mystery parent paid $6.5 million to get children into top universities
Of the many outrageous allegations by federal prosecutors in the college cheating scandal, one stands out. Someone paid $6.5 million to get his or her children into elite schools. But the identity of that parent — and details about which schools were involved — remains a mystery nearly two weeks...
S.E. Cupp: Dems need Oprah, since nobody in current field can beat Trump
O Oprah, Oprah, wherefore art thou Oprah? The Democrats’ attempt at unseating President Trump is in its nascent stages, but it’s starting to feel a little star-crossed. Despite a crowded sea of hopefuls, no true love match has emerged. If you ask me, that’s because she hasn’t decided to run....
Editorial: Leaders can learn from firefighters
How do you encourage people to participate by denying them a benefit of participation? Local fire companies and emergency medical services need more volunteers. In Pennsylvania, these critical first responders — the people who show up at your home when there is a fire or along the road when there...
DOJ: Trump campaign did not coordinate with Russia in 2016
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr told Congress Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller did not find that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign “or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia” in 2016. Barr also wrote in a letter that the evidence collected by Mueller does not conclusively show...
Live: Vigil in memory of Antwon Rose
Supporters of Antwon Rose gathered for a vigil on Sunday, two days after former police Officer Michael Rosfeld was acquitted of homicide in Rose’s 2018 death. The vigil began just after 2 p.m. at Hawkins Village in Rankin, where Rose’s mother lives. Several dozen people formed a circle and sang....
Letter to the editor: Defending cash, defending freedom
Finding points of unity in this political climate is similar to panning for gold, yet our brethren on the eastern side of the state have done it. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney signed into law a bill introduced by City Councilman William Greenlee banning the phenomenon of cashless stores. While the...
Letter to the editor: Republican in name only
In response to the article, “Westmoreland commissioner endorses chief of staff in Republican primary” (March 14, TribLIVE): Chuck Anderson sent a clear message that a vote for Sean Kertes is a vote for Gina Cerilli. Apparently the minority commissioner likes the status quo and couldn’t bring himself to endorse a...
Kraft Heinz can’t count on ketchup to save it from the future of food
What went wrong at Kraft Heinz Co.? Years before last month’s jaw-dropping $15.4 billion writedown, the company had been on a mission to make over some of its quintessential products, removing maligned ingredients from its mac and cheese and hot dogs to better compete with newer, more natural upstarts. The...
Sewickley selected as ‘Banner Community’
The Borough of Sewickley was honored at a ceremony March 8 as a 2019 Banner Community. The program, sponsored by Allegheny County and the Allegheny League of Municipalities, recognizes communities that show a commitment to professional development, prudent fiscal management, transparency, accountability, and proactive communications to engage community stakeholders. A...
Russian arrested smuggling drugged orangutan in Indonesia
DENPASAR, Indonesia — Authorities say they have arrested a Russian tourist who was attempting to smuggle a drugged orangutan out of Indonesia’s resort island of Bali. Andrei Zhestkov, 27, was captured late Friday at the airport after an X-ray found the 2-year-old male orangutan in a rattan basket inside his...
Driver working with NBC News killed in Syria
BAGHOUZ, Syria — A driver working with an NBC News crew in Syria has been killed by an explosive device in eastern Syria, where several media outlets are covering the liberation of the last sliver of territory held by the Islamic State group. NBC employees escaped unharmed and expressed “deepest...
Barr preparing a summary of Mueller report’s key conclusions
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr scoured special counsel Robert Mueller’s confidential report on the Russia investigation with his advisers, deciding how much Congress and the American public will get to see about the two-year probe into President Trump and Moscow’s efforts to elect him. Barr was on pace to...
DNA testing kits lead to interest in custom genealogy tours
Are DNA kits giving way to a new travel trend? Traveling to discover heritage or ancestry is definitely not a new thing, but companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com, which provide DNA testing and results that make it easy for people to trace their backgrounds, are inspiring more people to...
Local filmmaker to shoot scenes at Leechburg B&B, converted churchVideo
A local independent film crew has set its sights on filming in the Leechburg area. Spruce Films of Ebensburg has secured historic buildings at 156 Siberian Ave. in Leechburg and a tavern in Hyde Park as filming locations for a short feature horror film titled “Occurrence at Mills Creek.” Written...
West Deer announces paving plan, money for bathroom repairs
West Deer Supervisors plan to spend almost $1 million on this year’s summer paving program. A contract of just more than $803,500 and another worth $173,500 were awarded to Youngblood Paving of Wampum. The larger contract is for paving Hillcrest Drive, Rickenback Road, Havencrest Drive, Dawn Road, Skyview Terrace, Paradise...
