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Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are engaged
There’s a new reason for Katy Perry to sing with joy. The pop star is engaged to actor Orlando Bloom, whom she first started dating in early 2016. The “Firework” singer and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star each shared a selfie to their Instagram pages showing Perry wearing a...
Google will expand finance team to Chicago, adding ‘hundreds’ of jobs
CHICAGO — Google plans to create “hundreds” of new jobs in Chicago this year, expanding the office it already calls its Midwest headquarters. The tech giant employs more than 1,000 people at its Chicago office, which opened as a sales outpost in 2000 and has grown to include engineers and...
FedEx jolts Wall Street with surprise exit of CEO’s deputy
FedEx Corp. threw Wall Street for a loop, announcing the resignation of Fred Smith’s top deputy just weeks after he joined the company’s board. Raj Subramaniam will take over as president and chief operating officer March 1, replacing David Bronczek, the shipping giant said in a statement Thursday. Bronczek, 64,...
Noah Feldman: Democrats’ compromise strengthens case for Trump’s wall ‘emergency’
In retrospect, it seems obvious that President Donald Trump would want to have his cake and eat it, too. That’s essentially what he’s doing by both signing a government funding bill that provides $1.375 billion for a barrier with Mexico and also declaring a national emergency to allocate other federal...
Police: 3 people found dead near railroad tracks in Columbus
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Police say the bodies of three people have been found near railroad tracks in Ohio’s capital city of Columbus. The Columbus Dispatch reports someone called 911 around 7:30 a.m. Friday to report finding the bodies. A dispatcher told the newspaper that officers found one person on the...
Man living in U.S. illegally sentenced for rape of girl, 12, in Lancaster County
LANCASTER COUNTY — A Guatemalan national who is living in the United States illegally will serve between six and 12 years in prison for the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Quarryville, according to the borough’s police department. Magdilio Diaz-Vasquez, 22, was sentenced on Jan. 18, the same day he...
Lane restriction planned for Camp Horne Road
A lane restriction is planned on Camp Horne Road, Route 4021, in Ohio Township Feb. 18-21, weather permitting. A single-lane restriction will occur as needed in the eastbound direction between Ben Avon Heights Road and the on-ramp to southbound I-279 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, according to...
Letter to the editor: Border disdain
Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and their minions are showing disdain for our national security and the Border Patrol. The RINOs are just as disrespectful to our front-line Border Patrol agents, who are in harm’s way day and night. We have caravan after caravan approaching our border from...
Letter to the editor: No comparison with the Berlin Wall
The letter “Reagan, Trump — one great, one a disgrace” (Jan. 31, TribLIVE) requires a response. To compare the Berlin Wall to the proposed “Trump Wall” is absolutely ludicrous. The Berlin Wall was a political division of a sovereign country. The only comparison would be a wall extending from Canada...
Letter to the editor: Global lukewarming
The late Charles Krauthammer’s book “The Point of It All” includes an article titled “Apocalypse With and Without God.” He cites major apocalyptic writings which have authoritatively and “scientifically” predicted the demise of civilization. He includes Paul Ehrlich’s best-seller “The Population Bomb,” an astonishingly wrongheaded prediction of the end brought...
Letter to the editor: Howard Schultz looking for big money
The only reason Howard Schultz announced that he’d run as an independent is he is looking for a big-money bribe from the Democrats to not run. Regis Kruth Shaler...
Economic trends turn downward for farmers
Things are not looking good for the farm economy. On Thursday, the farm belt’s malaise deepened after the Department of Agriculture predicted soybean exports would stay below their pre-trade war levels until the 2026-2027 season. That followed a report that sales of the oilseed in early January had the worst...
John Stossel: Unique school allows struggling students to flourish
There must be a better way to keep kids interested in school than drugging them. Today, one in five school-age boys is diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Many are given drugs that are supposed to help them pay attention. “I was the rowdy kid, the bad kid,” says Cade...
Carnegie exploring new banking options
Carnegie borough officials say the municipality will likely switch banks from PNC to Washington Financial Bank in order to take advantage of the lower fees and more favorable interest rates it offers. Carnegie council passed a motion by a unanimous vote on Feb. 11 authorizing Borough Manager Steve Beuter to...
Amazon lets amateurs publish custom Alexa apps to reach broad audiences
Amazon is enlisting customers to create voice-controlled games, broadcast lectures and sermons, and turn blogs into audio presentations available to anyone, through its growing universe of Alexa-enabled speaker-and-microphone devices. The move, rolled out this week, represents a potentially significant advancement for voice-first computing and content creation — akin to the...
A.W. Beattie students win World of Wheels competition
A.W. Beattie Career Center students have won the World of Wheels Peddle Car Challenge for the second consecutive year. The career center is a three-time champion in the competition, having also won in 2015. The most recent victory, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, was in A.W. Beattie’s Automotive...
Charleroi, Deer Lakes boys looking for long-awaited playoff victory Saturday
History will be made Saturday afternoon at Keystone Oaks in a Class 3A first-round matchup between two programs starving for a postseason win. This is the seventh time this decade Charleroi has made the WPIAL boys basketball playoffs after finishing 11-10 and in third place in Section 4-3A. However, the...
High school scores, schedules for Feb. 14, 2019
High schools Basketball Boys Thursday’s results District 8 City League Carrick 67, Westinghouse 66 Allderdice 70, Brashear 46 Obama Academy 67, Perry 52 District 6 Nonsection Ligonier Valley 83, Bedford 63 WPIAL playoffs Class 6A First round Tuesday’s schedule Penn-Trafford (14-8) vs. Peters Township (15-7) at Mt. Lebanon, 8 p.m.;...
Trump administration sued over shift in asylum policy
SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration’s policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico while their cases wind through immigration courts violates U.S. law by putting the migrants in danger and depriving them of the ability to prepare their cases, a lawsuit filed Thursday by civil liberties groups claims. The lawsuit...
Former Penn State receiver Juwan Johnson transferring to Oregon
Former Penn State wide receiver Juwan Johnson announced Thursday on Twitter that he is transferring to Oregon for his final season of eligibility. Johnson, who starred at Glassboro High School, put out a tweet that read “Eugene, see you this fall #GoDucks” with a photograph of a player wearing an...
Analysis: Why Pennsylvania needs to ditch fracking and get a Green New Deal of its own
If a foreign adversary announced to the world that it had a new arsenal of destructive nuclear weapons and threatened the imminent doom of the United States, what would we do? Push for a peace deal that would limit and hopefully end the atomic threat? Invest heavily in missile defense?...
AP Explains: Can Trump declare emergency to build his wall?
WASHINGTON — The White House says President Trump will declare a national emergency and take other executive action to allow construction of the president’s long-promised southern border wall, after bipartisan congressional negotiations provided less than a quarter of the $5.7 billion Trump wanted to start building more than 200 miles...
Growth outlook weakens as a result of disappointing retail data
The surprising plunge in U.S. retail sales undermined the outlook for economic growth and is likely to leave the already-cautious Federal Reserve in an extended holding pattern. A government report out Thursday — delayed four weeks because of the partial federal shutdown — showed retail sales fell in December from...
Laurels & lances: Perfection, Parkway, Pittsburgh Dad and payment
Laurel: To Olivia Grace Fertig for keeping it real. The Highlands High School senior has a following of thousands on her social media accounts, but unlike many “influencers” and celebrities who keep their fans with a Photoshop view of a life with perfect skin and perfect hair and perfectly fake...
Second-grader hits all the right notes with contest-winning composition
Alex Lauver barely has a free moment — and he doesn’t mind. The Gill Hall Elementary student’s evenings are filled with basketball, soccer, Cub Scouts, church choir and running — things many 8-year-olds like to do. One way Alex spends his time, however, isn’t something most musically-inclined people start doing...
