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INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 13-12) defeated Buffalo (Blue Jays), 4-3 in 11 innings. RHP Paul Skenes (0.39) struck out seven, walked one and gave up four hits in six scoreless innings, his longest outing a professional. He has struck out 41 in 23 innings with Indy. DH Yasmani Grandal (.231) hit a...

Plum’s volunteer firefighters began using the borough’s former municipal building for training Tuesday night. Firefighters from the Holiday Park, Logans Ferry, Renton and Unity departments were expected to start by practicing forceful entry, wall breaching, large room searches and long hallway searches in the building. The building is slated for...

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are challenging patents on 20 brand-name drugs, including the blockbuster weight-loss injection Ozempic, in the latest effort by the Biden administration targeting pharmaceutical industry practices that drive up prices. The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday sent warning letters to 10 drugmakers, taking issue with patents on...

The West Newton Avenue of Flags celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. As part of the display, Yough High School art students painted multiple downtown windows Tuesday. The annual display of 385 American flags in the West Newton Cemetery will be raised beginning at 9 a.m. May 11. Volunteers are...

Charges against a Hazelwood woman whose vehicle struck and killed a 6-year-old boy riding his bicycle in Glen Hazel nearly two years ago were dismissed on Tuesday after the prosecution conceded it could not prove her guilt at trial. Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Alexander P. Bicket granted a defense...

A special guest made an appearance midway through Eden Christian Academy’s inaugural Community Day: The sun. As youngsters participated in a home run derby as a featured event activity, the school’s newly turfed baseball field lit up with a warm glow that quickly made everyone forget about the earlier cloudy...

Decades of research show, on average, children who grow up with parents who are not married and living together have worse achievement and behavioral and well-being outcomes than children of two-parent homes. Despite this evidence, rates of nonmarital childbearing have risen dramatically in the U.S., especially among the noncollege-educated. What...

Protest signs and tents that had punctuated Schenley Plaza were gone by Tuesday, as pro-Palestinian demonstrators ended a weeklong encampment there and briefly on the University of Pittsburgh campus. Since last Tuesday, Pitt students and others had occupied the city-owned Plaza located in the shadow of the Cathedral of Learning,...

Hockey teams at Robert Morris (men’s and women’s), Mercyhurst (men’s and women’s) and Penn State (women’s) will be part of a new conference starting with the 2024-25 season. The Atlantic Hockey and College Hockey America conferences have merged to form Atlantic Hockey America. That union was announced Tuesday. Robert Morris’...

Just because I think littering should be punishable by death doesn’t mean I’m an unreasonable person. I leave tips at restaurants. I smile when dogs get on public transport. Sometimes, I cry during sitcoms. I also have a freshly oiled chainsaw in my garage. But most suburbanites do. The suburbs...

Penn State is coming off a successful 2024 NFL draft. Olu Fashanu and Chop Robinson were selected in the first round. Adisa Isaac and Caedan Wallace went on Day 2. In total, Penn State had eight players drafted, tied for the fourth-most with Georgia and Oregon. But the Nittany Lions’...

Indie staples Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service are coming to Pittsburgh. On Thursday, the two acts will bring the tour celebrating the 20th anniversaries of their seminal records — “Transatlanticism” and “Give Up,” respectively — to the Petersen Events Center in Oakland. The groups are linked by...

Some letters have appeared in this paper regarding Westmoreland County’s budget and tax increase. Some residents have come to commissioner meetings to voice their concern or called our offices. After reading and hearing these concerns, I think voters are due transparency. Every month in 2024, I will attempt to host...

State Rep. Josh Siegel recently said, “We need to vigorously defend access to drop boxes. Opposition to drop boxes is one of the most unfortunate, pernicious aspects of the increasing efforts to undermine the integrity of our elections.” How so? How in the world can this statement not be seen...

The students were upset. They wanted to be heard. They were emphatic that the university listen to their demands. They were opposed to a war half a world away and wanted to do something. And then people died. In May 1970, U.S. college campuses were rife with protests regarding the...

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Recently, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler proposed renaming Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., the Donald J. Trump Airport. Usually things are named for someone after a consensus has been reached concerning whether his legacy to a community or the nation has been generally good. Trump, being in court and facing 88 felony...

High schools Baseball Monday’s schedule Class 6A Section 1 Seneca Valley 2, Butler 0 Pine-Richland 10, North Allegheny 8 Section 2 Central Catholic 9, Canon-McMillan 5 Mt. Lebanon 15, Baldwin 1 Norwin 10, Hempfield 8 Class 5A Section 1 Fox Chapel 15, Armstrong 0 Plum 7, Franklin Regional 4 Penn-Trafford...

Three of five people suspected of being involved in a pre-dawn burglary at a gun shop in Mercer County were arrested Monday night in Pittsburgh, police said. The juveniles, whose names were not released, were spotted and stopped by Pittsburgh police at West Warrington Avenue and Saw Mill Run Boulevard...

Peyton Ford went 2 for 2 with three RBIs and Pine-Richland survived a late-inning rally to defeat North Allegheny, 10-8, and move into first place in Section 1-6A baseball Monday. Sam Heckert doubled and Keegan Diehl got the win for the Rams (15-3, 9-1). Owen Schall doubled and drove in...

Police have accused a Catholic priest in Montgomery County of stealing over $40,000 from a Chester County parish in order to fund his addiction to cell phone games. The Rev. Lawrence Kozak, 51, of Pottstown, has been charged with theft and related crimes, according to reports from 6ABC and the...

The venerable comic strip “Gasoline Alley” is wrapping up a storyline in which the dastardly assistant mayor schemed to change the town’s name from Gasoline Alley to the ostensibly more modern Electric Acres (without even offering a compromise such as Hybrid Hollow). Sentimentality saved the day in the funnies, just...

Two children were critically injured after they fell from a third story window within moments of each other Monday afternoon in White Oak, authorities said. A six-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl fell out of the window of a house in the 1700 block of Ohio Avenue at about 3:15...

A bill to end the practice of captive pigeon shoots — cruel contests that involve the slaughter of hundreds of birds at close range — cleared the state House Judiciary Committee on Monday. Bill sponsor Rep. Perry Warren, D-Bucks County, called the legislation “progress” in addressing an issue that has...