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High school scores, summaries and schedules for June 15, 2024
High schools Lacrosse PIAA playoffs Championships Saturday’s schedule At Panzer Stadium, Penn State Boys Class 3A Radnor 9, LaSalle College 6 Class 2A Marple Newtown 11, Mars 9 Girls Class 3A Conestoga 10, Radnor 4 Class 2A Archbishop Carroll 16, Twin Valley 7 Volleyball Boys PIAA playoffs Championships Saturday’s schedule...
Pirates farm report for June 15, 2024: Matt Gorski, Joshua Palacios homer in Indy win
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 29-37) handled Jacksonville (Marlins), 6-2. CF Matt Gorski (.262) went 2 for 4 with double and his 13th home run. LF Joshua Palacios (.238) went 2 for 5 with a double and his first Triple-A homer of the season. SS Andres Alvarez (.267) went 4 for 4 with...
Riverhounds’ winless streak hits 6 with loss at Hartford
A slow start to the 2024 season for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds has dragged on into the middle of June. Michee Ngalina scored twice in the first 17 minutes of the match, and the Riverhounds were unable to mount a comeback, losing 2-0 at Hartford Athletic on Saturday night. The Riverhounds...
Penguins to play preseason game in Northern Ontario
The Pittsburgh Penguins will play an exhibition game in Northern Ontario in the fall. The Penguins will face the Ottawa Senators on Sunday, Sept. 29, as part of the NHL’s Kraft Hockeyville contest, which was won by Elliot Lake, Ontario. It will be the third Hockeyville appearance by the Penguins,...
Shaler boys volleyball sweeps Parkland to avenge loss, claim program’s 1st state title
STATE COLLEGE — Shaler dropped last year’s PIAA Class 3A championship to District 11 champion Parkland in three straight games and wanted revenge. They got it with a complete team victory and a three-game sweep Saturday at Penn State’s Rec Hall. Game scores were 25-21, 25-15, and 25-20, giving the...
After penalty stroke, Mt. Lebanon’s Neal Shipley shoots 71 in 3rd round of U.S. Open
Mt. Lebanon’s Neal Shipley is 4-over par after three rounds of the U.S. Open at Pinehurst. If his ball hadn’t moved a matter of millimeters at an inopportune time Saturday, he’d be 3-over par. Shipley was assessed a one-stroke penalty on the 13th hole when his ball, sitting on an...
LZ Granderson: So what if Gen Z applicants bring their parents to a job interview?
Bring your parent to school, bring your child to work, bring your mother to a job interview. That last one may stick out as odd, but it is apparently a growing phenomenon in the workforce. A recent study indicates that as much as 25% of Generation Z job applicants have...
Julie Leininger Pycior: Hubert Humphrey’s lessons from the 1968 DNC
Anti-war protesters decry a president who is running for reelection: Are we talking Joe Biden in 2024 or Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968? After all, just as demonstrators this spring at campuses across the country demanded that Biden call for a cease-fire in Gaza and cessation of American military support...
Amy Lockard: Biology does not a father make
The “Father of our Country,” George Washington, was ironically not himself a father — not a biological one anyway. He was a stepfather and raised two of his stepgrandchildren, one of whom was named after him. With his stepchildren/grandchildren and many nieces and nephews, he relished his large family and...
Unruly customer breaks bartender’s jaw at central Pa. restaurant
A man broke the jaw of a bartender at a popular Lebanon County restaurant and assaulted two other female employees after they asked him to leave earlier this week, the owner told CBS 21. The owner of Downtown Lounge on the 700 block of Cumberland Street said two men came...
Letter to the editor: Safer under Trump
The old saying “keep your friends close and your enemies closer” was President Trump’s train of thought. That way, he knew what they were up to. This resulted in no wars. I guess President Biden does not adhere to this, and what has happened? Pointing your finger and saying “you...
Sounding off: Trump trial, homelessness among week’s topics
Ending Pittsburgh’s homeless problem The homeless problem in Pittsburgh can be almost completely eliminated by taking a page out of the Texas and Florida illegal immigrant playbooks. A one-way Greyhound bus ticket from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles is approximately $200. If the city offered to buy their tickets, there would...
The Stroller, June 15, 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. Annual night race scheduled July 20 in Apollo Roaring Run Watershed...
Editorial: Minimum not enough for Westmoreland register of wills to keep job
Making payments in time to avoid penalties is a regular occurrence at a county courthouse. It happens when people pay taxes. It can happen when closing a deal or settling a case. Taking care of the money aspect of a legal transaction can be the final piece that cements everything....
Letter to the editor: Ending Pittsburgh’s homeless problem
The homeless problem in Pittsburgh can be almost completely eliminated by taking a page out of the Texas and Florida illegal immigrant playbooks. A one-way Greyhound bus ticket from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles is approximately $200. If the city offered to buy their tickets, there would be a lot of...
10 years in, James Franklin reaches a critical point in his Penn State tenure
James Franklin leaned back in his seat as he pondered the question. Was he as happy as he anticipated being 10 years into his Penn State career? He sat in a makeshift office two floors lower in the Lasch Football Building than his office of the past decade, due to...
Letter to the editor: Why should Pittsburgh Mills businesses get money back?
After reading the article “Deer Lakes to refund more than $700K to 3 Pittsburgh Mills properties after reassessments” (May 28, TribLive), I wonder why rich companies that have businesses in the Pittsburgh “Travel at Your Own Risk” Mills complex get to get money back for assessments. Who pays people for...
High school scores, summaries, schedules for June 14, 2024
High schools Baseball PIAA playoffs Championships Friday’s results At Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, Penn State Class 5A Governor Mifflin 2, Hollidaysburg 1 Class 3A Neumann-Goretti 12, Avonworth 0 Class A Faith Christian 4, Eden Christian 1 Lacrosse PIAA playoffs Championships Saturday’s schedule At Panzer Stadium, Penn State Boys Class...
Pirates farm report for June 14, 2024: Indianapolis wins on Liover Peguero homer
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 28-37) beat Jacksonville (Marlins), 3-2, on a solo home run by SS Liover Peguero (.265) that snapped a 2-2 tie in the top of the ninth. It was Peguero’s fourth homer of the season. LF Matt Fraizer (.240) went 1 for 3 with two RBIs. 3B Malcom Nunez...
Braves leadoff hitter Michael Harris II headed to IL with hamstring injury
ATLANTA — Atlanta leadoff hitter and center fielder Michael Harris II will be placed on the 10-day injured list after leaving the Braves’ game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday night with tightness in his left hamstring. Harris led off the first inning with a single off right-hander Zack...
Mt. Lebanon’s Neal Shipley makes cut at U.S. Open at unforgiving Pinehurst
Mt. Lebanon native Neal Shipley went viral in the online golf community this week with his choice of head cover for his driver. It’s a replica of an order of curly fries from Arby’s. He’s also making some headlines for more substantive reasons. Shipley made the cut in a major...
Southwest plane plunged within 400 feet of ocean near Hawaii
A Southwest Airlines Co. passenger flight in April came within 400 feet of slamming into the ocean off the coast of Hawaii after weather conditions forced pilots to bypass a landing attempt. The Boeing Co. 737 Max 8 jet briefly dropped at an abnormally high rate of more than 4,000...
Blue Mountain stops Elizabeth Forward in PIAA Class 4A championship game
STATE COLLEGE — Elizabeth Forward lost the PIAA Class 4A softball championship game 4-0 to Blue Mountain on Friday afternoon at Penn State’s Beard Field. The Warriors (23-2) managed five singles but never got a runner to third base. The Eagles (27-1), who won their second-straight state title, scored single...
Las Vegas shooting survivors alarmed at Supreme Court’s strike down of ban on rifle bump stocks
Survivors of the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas and families who received somber calls from police hours later said they were alarmed when the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down a ban on the gun attachment used by the shooter who rattled off over 1,000 bullets into a...
Jay-Z enters one of Pa.’s messiest political fights
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. HARRISBURG — A series of events intended to get Philadelphians to support using taxpayer money to fund private school vouchers is bankrolled by an unexpected...
