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Pitt, Japanese students celebrate newfound adulthood with traditional ceremonyVideo
While volunteers wrapped and folded Emily Farmer in the layers of a kimono, she put her four semesters of Japanese to the test. The Pitt sophomore majoring in molecular biology understood when they would ask about things like the lengths of the garments or its front and back during the...
Learn new skills, life hacks through program
Mary Menk chopped the tomatoes, cilantro and jalapenos as a small group of ladies looked on inside the Lincoln Gallery at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall. A squeeze of lime juice and voila! The fresh, homemade pico de gallo was ready for devouring. It’s that simple. Even...
Clairton’s Lamont Wade among 3 Penn State players to enter transfer portal
Three more Penn State football players have entered the NCAA transfer portal to examine their options with other schools, according a report Sunday from the SEC Network. Sophomore safety Lamont Wade, redshirt junior wide receiver Brandon Polk and redshirt sophomore defensive back Zech McPhearson were said to have put their...
Reports of Patriots’ death are exaggerations
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — It was 20 degrees in Gillette Stadium, according to the newly installed thermometer that the light and breezy Los Angeles Chargers had to run past in the tunnel, onto a field clouded by the white frost exhaled from about 66,000 shouting mouths. Even colder, though, were the...
Authorities: 4 foster kids die in West Virginia house fire
CLAY, W.Va. — Authorities in West Virginia say four foster children have been killed in a house fire. Deputy State Fire Marshal Jason Baltic tells news outlets the fire destroyed the home Saturday night in Clay. The state Department of Health and Human Resources’ Bureau for Children and Families said...
Analysis: Stagecraft won’t win shutdown battle for Trump
WASHINGTON — Military salutes. Heaps of contraband. Oval Office optics. President Trump, who has long put a premium on stagecraft, is discovering he cannot resolve the partial government shutdown simply by putting on a show. With the standoff over paying for his long-promised U.S.-Mexico wall dragging on, the president’s Oval...
Jonah Goldberg: Recycled ‘Green New Deal’
It’s fitting that the Green New Deal pushed by many but popularized by Democratic phenom Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who had her “60 Minutes” debut last week, is a triumph of recycling. Not of plastic bags or soda cans, but of ideas. Specifically, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal...
Trade war’s wounded: Companies improvise to dodge cost hikes
WASHINGTON — In Rochester, N.Y., a maker of furnaces for semiconductor and solar companies is moving its research and development to China to dodge President Trump’s import taxes — a move that threatens a handful of its 26 U.S. jobs. In California’s San Joaquin Valley, the CEO of a company...
Editorial: Taking care of elderly pays debt
Pennsylvania has learned hard lessons about protecting its children in recent years, from the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal to the failures of ChildLine to the Catholic Church grand jury report. We’ve taken deep looks at the value of our kids and the consequences of not protecting them. Hopefully,...
Letter to the editor: Liberals & immigrants
I wholeheartedly agree with Robert Ritchey’s ideas in his letter “Immigration win-win-win” (Jan. 4, TribLIVE). They are right on the money. I would like to add one stipulation: Bleeding heart liberal citizen sponsor will relinquish citizenship and be deported to immigrant’s country of origin along with immigrant when said immigrant...
Letter to the editor: Peduto, bring both sides together on guns
Mayor Bill Peduto has a unique opportunity to bring people together rather than to continue to divide us, as the recent gun legislation proposals are doing (“What’s next for Pittsburgh’s controversial gun-regulation proposals,” Jan. 8, TribLIVE). We are hearing a lot of viewpoints from both sides, but very little that...
Letter to the editor: See Trump for what he is
I am continually amazed by how so many people cannot, or will not, see Donald Trump for what he really is. The letter from Lou Mangione (“Let Trump do his job,” Dec. 17, TribLIVE) could, by some, be considered accurate. And yet: • Trump is no more scrutinized than was...
Pine-Richland’s SciGirls club finalists in contest
When friends Mahika Sampat and Devin Golla were younger they enjoyed going to the Carnegie Science Center together and even memorized the periodic table for a fourth-grade talent show. Now the two are seniors at Pine-Richland High School and founders of the SciGirls club, which placed as a finalist at...
New director of community services hired in Hampton
Alex Zarenko, community services director, will be retiring this May after 28 years of service to Hampton Township His position has already been filled by newly hired Kevin Flannery, who is set to begin next month, according to Christopher Lochner, township manager. Flannery has been manager and secretary to the...
Millvale brewery Grist House makes plans for expansion
Grist House Craft Brewery plans to open a production facility and taproom inside a Cold War-era missile command center in Collier. The brewery’s nearly five-year-old Sherman Street, Millvale, location will remain open. “This being the place we call home — that’s not changing,” marketing manager Bailey Allegretti said. She said...
9 steps to the perfect pan sauce
A core principle of my cooking philosophy is to never pass up an opportunity for flavor. So when I see cooked-on juices in the bottom of my saute pan, I don’t see a dishwashing chore. I see pan sauce. Think of it as the difference between a plain pork chop...
A brief guide to Rep. Steve King’s ‘long history of racist statements’
With nearly two decades of Steven Arnold King as a national political figure, the American public has become well-acquainted with the Groundhog Day-like parameters of the Steve King news cycle. 1. King, R-Iowa, says or tweets something widely viewed as racist, anti-Semitic, white nationalist, or he insults immigrants, blacks, Latinos,...
Lonely? Tech firms hope you’ll use an app for that
The post-Internet era has ushered in generations of socially awkward adults who’ve long leaned on technology for their social kicks. But as millennials age out of college, many adults have found themselves … well, painfully lonely. And tech companies have taken note. Technology titans and fledgling startups alike — including...
Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration
President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials, current and former...
David Argall: Road map to safer schools
Citizens throughout the country watched in horror last year as a gunman claimed the lives of 17 students in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. People were heartbroken to see yet another school shooting taking the lives of the innocent. In the midst of this...
Tara Murtha & Susan Frietsche: Nothing ‘pro-life’ about overturning Roe v. Wade
Next week is the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion case that affirmed a woman’s constitutional right to access safe, legal abortion. Every year around this time, people who call themselves “pro-life” cite statistics related to the number of abortions in the United States since 1973 while...
Maria Gallagher: So much wrong with abortion ‘right’
We as Americans take our rights very seriously. The right to free speech. The right to freedom of religion. The right to peaceable assembly. But, there is so much wrong with the so-called “right” to an abortion. As we mark the anniversary of the Jan. 22, 1973, U.S. Supreme Court’s...
Outdoors notices for Jan. 13, 2018
NOTICES Outdoors RIFLE/TRAP LEAGUES • In the Allegheny Valley Rifle League on Jan. 19, Butler (7-2) defeated Fort Hand (2-7),1,166-1,155, and Murrysville (3-6) beat Clymer (6-3) in the A-team standings. In the B-team division, Butler (8-1) topped Fort Hand (1.5-7.5), 1,146-1,085, and Clymer (7-2) beat Murrysville (1.5-7.5), 1,144-1,129. Murrysville’s Ray...
Editorial: Defense makes courtroom work
Everyone deserves a defense. Scratch that. It isn’t that everyone deserves a defense. Let’s face it — if some people did the crimes they were accused of doing, there really is no “deserving” involved. But everyone is entitled to a defense. The American system of jurisprudence is built on a...
‘Pete the Groin Crusher’ lauded for crushing 10,000 patients
PHILADELPHIA — Nobody ever warns the patients at Pennsylvania Hospital about Pete Schiavo, “The Groin Crusher.” The first time most people meet Schiavo, they’ve just come out of a coronary procedure and he’s explaining that after the catheters are pulled out of their femoral artery, he’s going to apply pressure...
