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Westmoreland happenings: Festivals, sandwich and salad luncheon, blood drive, more
Festivals • St. Regis Parish, Trafford, will have its community festival from 6 to 10 p.m. July 19 and 20 on the church grounds, 517 Homewood Ave. There will be food, beer, games and a DJ. Details: Guy Lucas, 412-992-1173 or glucas762@comcast.net. • Wesley Family Services and ParentWISE will sponsor...
The Stroller, July 17, 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. Donations sought for holiday flag display Lower Burrell Veterans of Foreign...
Letter to the editor: Supreme Court’s moves
The Supreme Court conservatives essentially lied through their confirmation hearings, piously saying they would “respect precedent.” Now we also know some are demonstrably corrupt. Less noted is that, going back decades, they are also remarkably stupid. They made George W. Bush president, and he gave us two of the longest...
Young Thug trial in peril after judge’s removal: ‘Irrevocably tainted’
The recusal of Fulton County Chief Judge Ural Glanville in the midst of the gang and racketeering trial against rapper Young Thug and his alleged associates is unprecedented and places what has become Georgia’s longest trial in uncertain territory. Legal experts say a mistrial is likely, and that, if there...
President Joe Biden to propose Supreme Court reforms, including term limits
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is planning to unveil proposals that could dramatically reshape the Supreme Court, including term limits on justices who now sit on the court for life, according to a person familiar with the deliberations. The effort represents a substantial shift for a president who has long...
J.D. Vance as VP pick fuels European anxiety over U.S. backing for Kyiv
When an outraged Ukrainian lawmaker berated J.D. Vance at this year’s Munich Security Conference over the Republicans’ blocking of aid to his country, the U.S. senator listened patiently. But Oleksiy Honcharenko couldn’t change his mind. That task will now fall to European allies and Ukrainian politicians after former President Donald...
Cyberattack targets Allegheny County DA’s office
A cyberattack that targeted the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office last week continues to disrupt prosecutors’ phones and computers and has left administrators scrambling to restore services while they jury-rig solutions. Those efforts continued Tuesday, even as the office said it caught the intrusion early enough to avert disaster. Officials...
Kiski Township man who snorted heroin before causing fatal head-on crash sent to prison
A Kiski Township man who was high on heroin when he crashed the car he was driving and killed his friend in 2022 will serve at least two years in state prison. Matthew Carlson, 36, was sentenced Tuesday in Allegheny County to 27 to 54 months after pleading guilty in...
Trump compares bullet to ‘world’s largest mosquito’ in call to RFK Jr.
Former President Donald Trump compared being shot to being bitten by “the world’s largest mosquito” in a leaked phone conversation with rival Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that also suggests the two men share radical anti-vaxxer views. “It felt like a a giant … like the world’s largest mosquito,” Trump told...
5 years into Amazon’s Climate Pledge, workers challenge its progress
Five years after Amazon committed to an ambitious climate goal, the company says it is making progress on reducing emissions, but critics allege those calculations are misleading. In its annual sustainability report, released this month, Amazon said carbon emissions dropped 3% last year, largely because of its sizable investment in...
Sam Rosenberg: The Secret Service failed
There has been no shortage of political and cultural commentary related to the attempted assassination that occurred in Western Pennsylvania on Saturday night, so I will avoid that sort of commentary here. What I would like to focus on instead is related to security, and what I see as a...
John Dorfman: Pilgrims Pride, Wabash National look good on this ratio
Want to invest in a company that is better at generating sales than profits? On the surface, that sounds like a remarkably bad idea. But investing in a company that has robust revenues and skimpy profits can sometimes pay off. New management, new products or plain old cost cutting may...
Anita Prizio and Erika Strassburger: Pa. stands to gain from methane reduction funding
The recent announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy regarding $850 million in federal funding for methane reduction projects marks a significant opportunity for Pennsylvania’s economy and environment. This investment, part of President Biden’s ambitious climate agenda, not only aims to cut methane emissions from oil and...
With Roe overturned, Trump’s GOP turns to transgender health care
WASHINGTON — When he ran for office in 2016 and 2020, Donald Trump focused heavily on abortion, vowing to nominate Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade — which he did as president. But this year, with Roe now overturned, the 2024 GOP presidential nominee and the Republican...
What we know: Secret Service director calls Trump rally shooting ‘unacceptable’
As FBI investigators make incremental progress toward determining what prompted a 20-year-old gunman to open fire at a political rally in Butler County, the Secret Service is facing scrutiny for the security lapse. Meanwhile, communities around Southwestern Pennsylvania and beyond are grappling with the fallout. Former President Donald Trump was...
SUV carrying 5 people falls into hot, acidic geyser at Yellowstone National Park
Five people ended up in the hospital after their SUV drove off the road and landed in a geyser at Yellowstone National Park last week. The vehicle went off the road and was fully submerged in 9 feet of water inside the inactive Semi-Centennial Geyser thermal feature near Roaring Mountain,...
Dennis Aftergut and Austin Sarat: The American tragedy of the Trump assassination attempt
Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was a crime against the entire country and against democracy itself. Every American should be grateful that it failed, and that Trump has survived it. Let’s say it plainly. It is an abomination that he was wounded as he campaigned for a...
Letter to the editor: Scary scenarios under Biden
I’m wondering where the writer of the letter “Project 2025 would end our freedoms” (June 27, TribLive) came up with all those terrible situations. Oh, I know — we already have them under President Biden. Frances Olyarnik Hempfield...
Letter to the editor: Trump advocates violence
Let me see if I have this right. Donald Trump, the same man who encouraged an insurrection and publicly advocates violence, escapes an assassination attempt, and the right-wing media and Republican voices blame the Democrats and their rhetoric. Wasn’t it Trump who promised a “bloodbath” if he doesn’t win the...
Letter to the editor: Sotomayor’s poor example
Donald Trump “(o)rders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune.” I take great umbrage at the use of the Navy Seal Team 6 example utilized in the presidential immunity decision by the Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor to “whack” a presidential enemy or opponent. Elected...
Letter to the editor: Why would you vote for Biden?
Why would you vote for a person for president of the United States that you would not want driving your kids’ school bus? Clem Zahrobsky Delmont...
Letter to the editor: Ligonier needs a pool like Youngwood’s
Recently, our daughter and grandkids came to visit us from the Richmond, Va., area. Even though they belong to a massive pool complex at their neighborhood, I wanted to take them to a local pool. They were skeptical at first, but we all went to Youngwood Park and Pool. They...
Editorial: Challenging times require people to do the reading
There has never been a time when it was this important to consume the news critically. It is important to know what is happening. This is an Olympic year and an election year. There are wars raging in Israel and Ukraine. Governments are being upended in Europe and South America....
Editorial: U.S. primary-care system can’t withstand the next pandemic
An unprecedented strain of bird flu is spreading among dairy cattle in the U.S. An outbreak of a flesh-eating bacteria has infected more than 1,000 people in Japan. At least 13 communicable diseases including measles, dengue and polio have surged past pre-pandemic peaks in regions across the world. The threat...
Letter to the editor: Biden, Trump from different planets
I almost choked when I read George Will’s June 30 column, “Debate displays representative government.” He states President Biden and Donald Trump are two peas in a pod. I am afraid Will is showing his age by his muddled thinking. Biden is empathetic, caring and kind toward his follow man....
