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A Butler County family is now homeless because of a fire that they say was caused by their pet pig. Thomas and Margaret Painter in Brady Township told WRAL they believe the fire that happened New Year’s Eve started when their pot-bellied pig Albert moved some fresh hay into his...

Church News • Greensburg Church of the Brethren will host a night of fun and fellowship for individuals and groups with developmental disabilities from 5 to 7 p.m. Mondays at the church, 554 Stanton St., Southwest Greensburg. Dinner is included. Participants must be accompanied by a family member or caregiver....

For two years I have spoken about what Steelers Nation saw in the Dec. 23 shellacking of the Bengals. It knocked those rose-colored glasses right off Mike Tomlin’s nose and the rest of the excuse-making Kenny Pickett supporters. Only Matt Canada is laughing harder than yours truly. Tomlin finally let the...

America has become a place of evilness. A Congress that doesn’t do anything about gun violence and immigration. Do nothing and become millionaires from political donations. All we hear is excuses. Every day we are bombarded with lies, fear, hate and conspiracy theories to where we can’t figure out the...

There is only so much you can rely upon people to do for themselves — especially when it’s clear they aren’t doing it. Given the opportunity, people will drive their cars faster than the speed limit. To address that, we have speeding tickets that make it expensive to ignore the...

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. Library announces 26th annual Quilt Show Community Library of Allegheny Valley...

Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution states: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The Constitution is very clear about what constitutes an impeachable...

High schools Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Central Catholic 55, Pine-Richland 48 Butler 72, Seneca Valley 60 Section 2 Canon-McMillan 57, Norwin 50 Mt. Lebanon 73, Baldwin 50 Upper St. Clair 57, Hempfield 25 Class 5A Section 1 Bethel Park 70, Ringgold 52 Trinity 64, Connellsville 47...

Ava Kobus scored 15 points, and Lauren Palangio finished with 13 to lead No. 2 Norwin to a 47-42 victory over No. 1 North Allegheny in a battle of the top two girls basketball teams in Section 1-6A Tuesday night. Norwin (8-2, 1-0) took control of the game with a...

Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward looks forward to 2024 as a year that will deliver a seismic change to Pennsylvania’s education system, a long-awaited boost in the state’s minimum wage and stronger laws against human trafficking. In remarks made after being re-elected for a second year as the chamber’s...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A former Kentucky county official who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, a federal judge has ruled. That judgment against Kim Davis is in addition to a total of...

A former Pennsylvania congressional candidate filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to remove Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry from the state primary ballot, arguing that Perry’s role challenging the results of the 2020 election should make him ineligible to run for office. Gene Stilp filed the suit as a voter in...

The Monroeville Public Library hosted a New Year’s Eve ball drop - albeit 12 hours early - on Dec. 31. Hundreds of people attended, along with library staff, for this free event, which was held inside Monroeville Mall on the first floor in front of Dick’s Sporting Goods. “It all...

Council holds reorganization meeting Penn Hills Council met Jan. 2 to swear in Shawn Kerestus and Alan Waldron and to appoint a deputy mayor. Councilwoman Catherine Sapp received the unanimous nod, returning to a role she held from 2018 to 2022. She replaces outgoing Councilman Frank Pecora. The Penn Hills...

Foxwall EMS board meeting set for Jan. 16 Foxwall EMS will have its annual board meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 16 at the station along Hemlock Hollow Road. The meeting is open to the public. Acting Chief Gino Mollica said the board meets in January for the purposes of electing...

Latchkey kids. Slackers. Caffeine lovers. Grunge. That’s how a lot of people have referred to Generation X, the 46 million Americans, like myself, who were born between 1965 and 1980. We were a generation that has been perennially pegged as cynical, self-indulgent, aimless, contrarian and often peripheral when it comes...

The lawsuit filed by the New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement pits one of the great establishment media institutions against the purveyor of a transformative new technology. Symbolically, the case promises a clash of the titans: labor-intensive human newsgathering against pushbutton information produced by artificial intelligence....

The dominant storyline of our American Revolution is about patriotic defiance — refusing to pay taxes, dumping tea into the Boston Harbor and shooting redcoats once we saw the whites of their eyes. It’s about virtuous lawbreaking in the name of freedom. There is plenty of evidence to support this...

Seattle-based Zillow is suing real estate listing services across the United States, arguing the services are forcing out a Zillow subsidiary to maintain illegal monopolies. If you’ve used Zillow to schedule a home tour recently, you’ve likely accessed a widely used, Zillow-owned scheduling platform called ShowingTime. That platform is now...

I tried going vegetarian once when I was in high school. My best friend was a vegetarian, and I was curious. I lasted only about four days. My downfall: a buffalo chicken sandwich. Since that ill-fated attempt, I’ve never tried to curb my meat consumption. It’s just too dang tasty....

The arrival of 2024 brings a 3.5% pay raise for Gov. Josh Shapiro and other executive branch officials and judges across Pennsylvania. Under state law that provides for automatic pay hikes for the governor and other top officials, Shapiro’s salary will increase to $237,679 - about $8,000 more than he...

Regarding the article “Westmoreland commissioners blame past fiscal neglect in approving 32.5% tax hike” (Dec. 21, TribLive): Dear Westmoreland County commissioners: How dare you! Raise property taxes 32.5%? Give yourself a 3.5% raise? I will not be getting a cost of living raise. When I have a debt to pay,...

On Pittsburgh Regional Transit buses, the first two seats behind the driver and the first three seats by the door entrance have the back toward the windows. The first two seats on each side that face the front, along with those first five seats, have one thing in common —...

The New York Times is not content to let OpenAI and Microsoft get rich using the newspaper’s web content for artificial intelligence like ChatGPT without paying and sued this week in federal court. We don’t know if the pun on the word “content” is particularly funny or if an AI...