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Letter to the editor: Casey’s fentanyl ad deceptive
In Sen. Bob Casey’s political ad against Dave McCormick, he focuses on McCormick’s investment in a Chinese company making fentanyl and smuggling it to Mexico to make illegal drugs and smuggle it back into the U.S. That company is Humanwell. Its income is between $3 billion and $4 billion per...
Editorial: Scirotto chose NCAA over Pittsburgh. That’s why he shouldn’t have taken the job in the first place
Pittsburgh police Chief Larry Scirotto is resigning his position effective Nov. 1. He isn’t doing it because of problems within the department. He isn’t doing it because of rampant crime that can’t be controlled by the officers under his leadership. He’s doing it because he would rather referee basketball games....
Morning services, fall food festival and more at Sewickley area houses of worship
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. First Friday virtual bible study is at 6:30 p.m. A link is available on the website. Beth Samuel Jewish Center 810 Kennedy Drive,...
The Stroller, Oct. 26, 2024: 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. Champion’s Crusaiders and Five...
Letter to the editor: Why Trump is against immigrants
Why does Donald Trump say he will gather immigrants into camps and deport them? He must mean illegal immigrants, because 75% of U.S. immigrants are legal. But even those illegal immigrants still do the things that most immigrants do: They work, pay taxes and add to the strength of our...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 25, 2024
High school Football Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Central Catholic 38, Canon-McMillan 13 Mt. Lebanon 42, Norwin 20 North Allegheny 38, Seneca Valley 0 Class 5A Allegheny Six Moon 28, South Fayette 7 Peters Township 31, Bethel Park 28 Upper St. Clair 59, Baldwin 14 Big East Franklin Regional 29,...
High school football roundup for Oct. 25, 2024: No. 3 Peters Township edges No. 4 Bethel Park in Allegheny Six
Nick Courie ran for 133 yards and the game-winning touchdown in the fourth quarter as No. 3 Peters Township clinched second place in the Allegheny Six Conference with a 31-28 victory over No. 4 Bethel Park (8-2, 3-2) on Friday night. Nolan DiLucia threw for 137 yards and a touchdown...
Trib HSSN’s 2024 Week 9 top performers for passing, rushing, receiving
Top performers for Week 9 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 370 - Joey Felitsky, North Catholic (25 of 31) 332 - Jeff Thompson, Clairton (10 of 14) 305 - Michael Pastirik, Seton LaSalle (17 of 22) 288 - Houston Guseman, Jefferson-Morgan (10 of 22) 251 - Jaydon...
Steel Valley runs away from South Allegheny football team in rout
No. 5 Steel Valley and No. 4 South Allegheny were among the better offensive squads coming into a de facto second-place game in the Class 2A Allegheny Conference. The Gladiators scored 48.5 points per game in their last four games, and the Ironmen averaged 47.8 points in their previous five...
Trinity stuns Belle Vernon to clinch playoff spot; Leopards now at mercy of selection committee
With a playoff spot up for grabs between two highly competitive teams, it was Trinity that pulled away from Belle Vernon with a 31-21 victory Friday night to clinch the second postseason spot out of the Big 6 Conference in Class 4A. The Hillers (5-5, 4-1) and the Leopards (4-4,...
Conference champion Elizabeth Forward rallies past playoff-bound Mt. Pleasant
Interstate Conference leader Elizabeth Forward seemed on the way to another dominating victory at Mt. Pleasant on Friday when an unexpected delay led to a change of momentum that created a first-half barnburner. Elizabeth Forward used its potent offense and eventually fought off the Vikings’ challenge to pull away to...
WPIAL clinched: Field of automatic qualifiers set for football playoffs
Here’s a look at teams that have automatically qualified for the WPIAL football playoffs. The WPIAL football committee will choose the wild card qualifiers Saturday. The playoffs begin next Friday. Watch the Trib HSSN playoff pairings show at 3 p.m. Saturday. Class 6A (4 qualifiers) 1. Central Catholic, 2. North...
Mt. Lebanon, North Catholic, Quaker Valley advance at PIAA team tennis tournament
Mt. Lebanon, North Catholic and Quaker Valley are still alive their quests to win state team tennis titles. All three won quarterfinal matches in the PIAA playoffs Friday in Hershey to move on to Saturday’s semifinals. In Class 2A, WPIAL champ North Catholic (19-1) defeated District 3 runner-up Lancaster Country...
Virginia voter purge blocked by U.S. judge ahead of election
A federal judge in Virginia halted what she concluded was an unlawful, systematic purge of names from the state’s voter rolls ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election in a win for the Biden administration. The ruling Friday came after the U.S. Justice Department sued Virginia and Alabama in the...
Texas man punches election worker who told him to remove Trump hat, police say
A Texas man who wore a hat supporting former President Donald Trump punched an election worker who told him wearing items endorsing a candidate are prohibited at voting sites, a sheriff said Friday. The election worker, identified as a 69-year-old man, was treated at the scene Thursday and returned to...
Preeti’s Pitt homicide case ends with mistrial
The trial for a Pittsburgh man accused of killing a North Hills honors student at a Strip District restaurant ended in a mistrial on Thursday after a police officer referenced the defendant’s previous criminal record. A new trial date for Howard Hawkins is scheduled for Jan. 13 before Allegheny County...
Poplawski, on death row for killing 3 Pittsburgh cops, raises new questions about jury’s conduct
Richard Poplawski, convicted of killing three Pittsburgh police officers 15 years ago, claimed in a recent court filing that the jurors who sentenced him to death may have been unduly influenced during a field trip they took during an off day in the trial. Poplawski, 38, is asking an Allegheny...
A-K Valley WPIAL soccer playoff capsules: Games for Oct. 26, 2024
WPIAL soccer playoffs Boys Class 4A Quarterfinals 8-Canon-McMillan (11-4-2) at 1-Plum (15-0-3) 11 a.m. Saturday, Mustangs Stadium, Plum Winner plays: Winner of 4-North Allegheny (15-3-1)/12-North Hills (10-8) on Tuesday in semifinals (site/time TBD) Corner kicks: Canon-McMillan, the third-place finisher in Section 2, beat Gateway, 6-0, in the first round. The...
An Israeli airstrike killed journalists covering the war in Lebanon as they slept
BEIRUT — An early morning Israeli airstrike killed three journalists as they slept at a guesthouse in southeast Lebanon on Friday, one of the deadliest attacks on the media since hostilities broke out across the border a year ago. It was a rare airstrike on an area that has been...
Letter to the editor: Harris is too liberal
Kamala Harris is a fake, an attempt by the Democratic Party billionaires to create the image of her shedding her skin as a rampaging liberal with socialist ideology and no credentials for leading America. It’s as simple as asking yourself: Am I better or worse off than I was in...
Tom Corbett and Conor Lamb: Our elections are safe and secure, so vote with confidence
America’s elections are the safest and most secure in the world. Bar none. And once again, Pennsylvania is leading the way. The world looks to our electoral system as a model of freedom and fairness, powered by a rigorous system of checks and balances that are viewed across the political...
What the presidential candidates are up to todayVideo
It’s Friday, but this close to Election Day, the campaigns aren’t taking a weekend break. Here’s a peek at what’s been going on 11 days before the election. Where is everyone? For the two presidential candidates, everything is bigger in Texas today. Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris will...
Frank Donatelli: Trump has problems with democracy
Pennsylvania has always prided itself on electing leaders who are focused on governing and making democracy work to solve urgent problems. This has been true from the very beginnings of the American republic and the adoption of the Constitution in Philadelphia over 200 years ago. Pennsylvanians have put the public...
Pittsburgh police Chief Scirotto to step down amid refereeing controversy
Pittsburgh police Chief Larry Scirotto is resigning Nov. 1, capping more than a week of controversy over his decision to return to part-time refereeing at NCAA basketball games. Scirotto sent an email just after 10 a.m. Friday to the 751-member Pittsburgh Bureau of Police notifying the force of his decision....
Gallery: Photos from Oct. 25, 2024
Embark on a visual journey around the Western Pennsylvania region — and the world — with a collection of images. From the rustic landscapes of Western Pa. to diverse corners of the globe, experience the shared moments of humanity....
