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New coach Colin Johnston hoping to guide Saint Vincent wrestling back to top of PAC
Dom Nania launched Saint Vincent’s resurrected wrestling program two years ago by leading the Bearcats to the Presidents’ Athletic Conference title. Last season, the Bearcats were PAC runner-up. But in April, Nania stepped down to focus on a career outside of wrestling. A month later, Saint Vincent had its new...
Letter to the editor: Am I no longer a professional?
I have been a nurse since 1982 when I graduated from Penn State. I worked nine years as a critical care nurse. I worked very hard at obtaining new skills, obtaining credentialing as a critical care registered nurse (CCRN), all while going to graduate school to gain additional knowledge and...
The Stroller, Nov. 30, 2025: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Follow the Stroller on X at @VNDStroller. Annual Harrison Christmas parade...
Steelers vs. Bills: Get ready for 2025 Week 13 matchup
The Buffalo Bills have had the number of the Pittsburgh Steelers the past several seasons, winning four of the past five in the series, dating to 2016. The teams will meet at 4:25 p.m. Sunday at Acrisure Stadium. The game will be broadcast on CBS, with Jim Nantz on play-by-play...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 30, 2025
ALLEGHENY COUNTY Chalfant Starry Night 88 LLC sold property at 230 Fairview Ave. to 4313 East View LLC for $41,790. Churchill Omid Kashefi sold property at 1921 Garrick Drive to Joseph Balaban Jr. and Marc Schuler for $430,000. Edgewood Estate of Robert Fuchs sold property at 235 Dewey St. to...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of Nov. 30, 2025
Bell Acres Tracia Kunovic sold property at 121 North Ave. to Jason and Tresa Steranko for $435,000. Franklin Park Patricia Cash sold property at 1603 Briarwood Drive to American International Relocation Solutions LLC for $1,000,000. American International Relocation Solutions LLC sold property at 1603 Briarwood Drive to Jason and Danielle...
Westmoreland happenings: Light Up Latrobe, blood drive, Christmas market, more
Christmas event • The annual Light Up Latrobe and Holiday Night Market will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4 in James H. Rogers Memorial Park, behind the Latrobe Art Center. There will be a holiday trolley, arts and crafts, carolers and a tree lighting ceremony at 7 p.m....
Editorial: School funding, cyber charter oversight are state-created problems
Education is built on the basics. ABCs become words, then sentences, then books. Counting becomes adding, then long division, then algebra. If you don’t get a good grounding at the primary level, everything gets harder until the learning process falls apart with the advanced material. That might be the issue...
Letter to the editor: People deserve easier access to lifesaving screenings
As a registered infant nurse, I see how carefully parents protect their children’s health, but I also see how often they overlook their own care, including preventative screenings. Colorectal cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, despite the fact that it is also one of...
Report: Congress orders probe of Hegseth boat order
WASHINGTON — Republican-led Senate and House committees say they will increase scrutiny of the Pentagon after a report said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of all crew members of a vessel suspected to be carrying drugs, The Washington Post reports. The Post reported earlier that Hegseth had given...
Frostburg State knocks Cal (Pa.) out of NCAA Division II playoffs
Harrison Fritz capped a 15-play fourth-quarter drive with the go-ahead 20-yard field goal with 4:06 to play, giving Frostburg State a 23-21 victory over Cal (Pa.) in the second round of the NCAA Division II playoffs Saturday. Harry Radcliffe missed a 45-yard field goal attempt with 1:38 to go for...
Peter Morici: Prosperity without workers — the AI paradox shaping Trump’s economy
The economy is growing, but jobs are harder to find. Second-quarter growth in gross domestic product was 3.8%, thanks to robust investment in information processing equipment, software, and research and development, mostly to build out artificial intelligence. The Wall Street Journal survey of private prognosticators pegged third-quarter growth at 2.5%,...
Sophia Greene and Dr. Claudia Fernandes: A broken pipeline — costing us our next generation of scientists
Science has always relied on young innovators to drive progress. In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, still PhD students, founded Google. More recently, in 2020 and 2021, Kizzmekia Corbett, then a senior research fellow at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Vaccine Research Center, led a team of scientists...
Carl P. Leubsdorf: Republicans hope the Supreme Court will help them hold the House
Perhaps it was inevitable. But it seems increasingly likely that the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, will play a major role in determining which party wins the U.S. House next year. That possibility increased when Justice Samuel Alito paused a lower court’s rejection of the effort by Texas...
Abby McCloskey: The gender wars are heating up — on the right
More than half a million women left the labor force this year. Many are mothers with young children. It’s being called the next she-cession. This may be a good thing to the extent it reflects women’s preferences, such as wanting to spend more time with their families or it represents...
Letter to the editor: Give peace a chance
To all people of the world, regardless of color or national origin or positions we might hold: We are in turmoil in the whole world. We are looking for answers to problems in the wrong places. We all have a part of the answer within us: our hearts and minds....
Letter to the editor: Deluzio, other Dems’ actions inappropriate
I think the article “Deluzio, other Dems tell troops to refuse illegal orders, Trump labels them as ‘traitors’ ” (Nov. 20, TribLive) was a blatant political attack on the Trump administration because the Democrats could not identify any illegal orders issued to current military forces. However, the Dems may have...
Editorial: Exploratory studies are smart, but crushing college debt isn’t
What do you want to be when you grow up? The older students get, the more complicated the answer can become. By the time they graduate high school, plenty of young adults don’t have a grasp on what their next act might be. Many pick a college but not a...
The Stroller, Nov. 29, 2025: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Follow the Stroller on X at @VNDStroller. Free groceries available for...
Clothing drive, live nativity and more at Sewickley area churches
Antioch Baptist Church 332 Elizabeth St., Sewickley. 412-741-7688. antiochfwbaptist sewickley.org. Morning worship and praise service is at 10:45 a.m. First Sunday Sunday School is at 9:30 a.m. Beth Samuel Jewish Center 810 Kennedy Drive, Ambridge. 412-266-5238. bethsamuel.org. Beth Samuel Jewish Center offers weekly Shabbat services, monthly family and Zoom Kabbalat...
Letter to the editor: Natural gas benefiting our communities
Butler County is once again reaping the benefits of the commonwealth’s natural gas impact fee. This unique Pennsylvania fee — which is essentially just another tax on the industry — provides funding every year to the state’s county and municipal governments. This year, Butler County received the seventh highest distribution...
Trump announces plan to terminate Biden’s autopen directives
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he is terminating every document former President Joe Biden signed with an autopen in his latest move to eradicate his predecessor’s legacy. In a Truth Social post Friday, Trump accused Biden of signing “approximately 92%” of documents through the use of an autopen. The...
Cal (Pa.) football team returns home for 2nd round of playoffs
Cal (Pa.) will try to extend its postseason run Saturday when it hosts No. 24 Frostburg State in the second round of the NCAA Division II playoffs at noon at Adamson Stadium. The matchup marks the teams’ second meeting in four weeks and follows a dramatic opening-round win for the...
Dr. Nina Stachenfeld: So DEI doesn’t work. OK, what would be better?
It is no secret that diversity, equity and inclusion programs are under attack in our country. They have been blamed for undermining free speech, meritocracy and America itself. The University of Virginia is the latest to settle with the government and walk away from its DEI initiatives rather than defend...
Community, routine spur gym-goers to work out after the holiday
Judy Sproat of Buffalo Township is no stranger to working hard during the holiday season. “I worked as a nurse all my life. I always worked holidays and the day after,” she said. “I don’t take a day off.” Sproat, 75, brought the post-holiday habit into her retirement as she...
