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The Stroller, Dec. 28, 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. MyHeritage research database available...
Editorial: Broadband decisions must outlast politics
Congress made a bipartisan promise a year ago: Every home and business in America would have access to high-speed internet. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act put $42.5 billion into the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program on a simple premise: In a world where work, education and health care...
Letter to the editor: Pharmacists care
One Christmas Eve, while I was closing a pharmacy in Pittsburgh, a woman rushed in with her young son, crying from an ear infection. She had run across the parking lot hoping to make it before we locked the doors. I had already begun to close, but there was no...
Steelers vs. Browns: Get ready for 2025 Week 17 matchup
The Pittsburgh Steelers will make their final road trip of the regular season Sunday when they visit the Cleveland Browns for an AFC North clash. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. The game will be broadcast on CBS, with Jim Nantz on play-by-play alongside analyst Tony Romo and sideline reporter...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Dec. 27, 2025
High schools Basketball Boys Saturday’s results Allegany tournament Fort Hill (MD) 55, Armstrong 34 Apollo-Ridge tournament Summit Academy 69, Trinity Christian 53 Apollo-Ridge 56, Leechburg 39 Aquinas Academy tournament Consolation Winchester Thurston 69, Aquinas Academy 65 Championship Seton LaSalle 54, Springdale 41 Avella tournament Chartiers-Houston 52, McGuffey 38 Avella 59,...
High school roundup for Dec. 27, 2025: Penn Hills boys, Baldwin girls take tournament titles
Calix Clark scored 18 points to lead Penn Hills to a 60-47 boys basketball victory over Elizabeth Forward in the championship game of the South Allegheny holiday tournament on Saturday. Darian Robinson tallied 13 points and Amon Hawthorne added 11 for Penn Hills (5-4). Tyler Basic led Elizabeth Forward (6-4)...
Rams WR Puka Nacua on criticizing refs: I’ll ‘never let it happen again’
LOS ANGELES — Rams players enjoyed the day off they got for Christmas, perhaps no one more than Puka Nacua. The previous week, the star receiver was fined $25,000 by the NFL after he made critical comments about officials during a livestream and then again in a social media post...
Lawsuit accuses deputies at L.A. women’s jail of sexual abuse, watching inmates shower
LOS ANGELES — A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of dozens of current and former inmates in Los Angeles County’s women’s jail claims male correctional officers watched them shower, harassed and groped them and retaliated when the alleged abuses were reported. The suit accuses deputies of taking advantage of women...
Westmoreland H.S. athletes of the week: Latrobe’s Maggie Maiers, Derry’s Mason Horwat
Maggie Maiers School: Latrobe Class: Junior Sport: Basketball Claim to fame: Maiers, a 5-foot-11 forward, continues to be one of the top post players in Westmoreland County. She has produced five double-doubles in six games for the Wildcats (4-2, 3-1). She had a season-high 28 points and grabbed 13 rebounds...
Martin Schram: Teaching the world’s lost leaders
Just about a week ago, we saw how fast a viral video could virally whip around the world. It was taken during Australia’s Hanukkah-by-the-Sea family-fest that turned into a mass shooting tragedy. Yet it ended with that astonishing, made-for Hollywood heroic twist. It was quickly seen by just about all...
Counterpoint: Ban kids from social media? Yes, absolutely.
Should the United States follow Australia’s lead in banning children under 16 from social media platforms? Absolutely! Australia has set a new global standard by requiring platforms to act in children’s best interests. Its new law raises the minimum age to 16, requires age verification, and holds platforms financially accountable...
Point: Throwing parental rights on the barbie won’t fly in the United States
The world’s first social media ban of users under age 16 is in effect in Australia. Whatever parents’ genuine concerns and understandable frustrations around their kids’ safety online, the Aussie approach is not the answer and should not be emulated by U.S. lawmakers. The Australian ban covers Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat,...
Letter to the editor: Approve clean projects to bring down price of electricity
In her story “Why your electric bill is rising this winter and how to prepare” (Nov. 29, TribLive), Megan Trotter states “the price of power has surged because of international conflicts, growing energy consumption and the rising price of natural gas, which made up 43% of electricity generation in 2023...
Letter to the editor: Follow the money on marijuana
Everyone should have the right to choose what they put in their body. But when it comes to “weed,” it’s time to listen to science instead of a 22-year-old budtender claiming “Purple Kushberry Magic” cures depression, headaches and arthritis or an MD collecting $200 to certify the self-diagnosis you walked...
The Stroller, Dec. 27, 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. Bingo bash planned in...
Letter to the editor: Pa. leaders failing us on guns
College campuses should be safe spaces for students. But in the U.S., they aren’t, as this month’s mass shooting at Brown University proved. After reading Megan Trotter’s article “Pittsburgh-area natives share their stories of Brown University shooting” (Dec. 15, TribLive), which detailed how Brown students from the Pittsburgh area were...
Elder abuse agencies fail to mitigate risk as Shapiro admin defends system, touts changes
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — In November, Pennsylvania Department of Aging Secretary Jason Kavulich found himself in the hot seat. He was...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Dec. 26, 2025
High schools Basketball Boys Friday’s results Allegany tournament Allegany (MD) 61, Armstrong 47 Aquinas Academy tournament Seton LaSalle 69, Winchester Thurston 60 Springdale 82, Aquinas Academy 71 Burgettstown tournament Geibel Catholic 65, Riverside 64 Brashear 71, Burgettstown 54 Plum tournament Knoch 54, Latrobe 46 Highlands 85, Plum 82 (2OT) Sharon...
High school roundup for Dec. 26, 2025: Penn Hills, Elizabeth Forward win at South Allegheny tournament
Aiden Thompson and Amon Hawthorne scored 16 points apiece to lead Penn Hills to a 58-35 boys basketball victory over Franklin Regional at the South Allegheny tournament on Friday night. Calix Clark added 12 for Penn Hills (4-4). Webber Rankin and Logan Walter scored 11 points each for Franklin Regional...
California withdraws lawsuit challenging Trump’s $4 billion high-speed rail funding cut
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California this week withdrew its lawsuit against the Trump administration over the termination of about $4 billion in federal funding for its high-speed rail project, citing the federal government’s unreliability as the reason for the decision. The development follows a lawsuit filed in July, when California sued...
Michigan agrees to 5-year contract with ex-Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan has agreed to a five-year contract with Kyle Whittingham to replace fired and disgraced football coach Sherrone Moore, according to multiple reports. Whittingham announced two weeks ago that he would step down after 21 seasons as Utah’s coach. Morgan Scalley was promoted from defensive coordinator...
Police identify suspect they say shot at woman and her dog during domestic incident in Shadyside
Police have released the name of the man who arrested Friday in connection with a violent domestic incident in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood after, police say, he fired shots at a woman, her dog and an employee of a nearby business who had confronted him. Allegheny County Police filed several charges...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt pregnant with 2nd child
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Friday that she’s expecting to become a mom for the second time. “The greatest Christmas gift we could ever ask for — a baby girl coming in May 2026,” she wrote on Instagram. “My husband and I are thrilled to grow our family...
At least $18.7M poured into this year’s critical Pa. Supreme Court retention races
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — Special interests, organizations connected to Pennsylvania’s richest man, and groups with mysterious donors broke spending records to...
Sharon Sedlar: When students fear for their lives, families deserve genuine choices
Sending kids to school shouldn’t be an act of courage — but for many families, it is. Just one mile from my home, at Carrick High School in Pittsburgh, there was a stabbing. During this horrifically violent episode, kids texted with their parents to let them know they were ok....
