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High school roundup for March 21, 2024: Deer Lakes pitcher throws no-hitter
Maddie Kee threw a five-inning no-hitter, striking out 10, to lead Deer Lakes to a 13-0 victory over Highlands (0-1) in nonsection softball Thursday. Kee also singled, doubled and drove in a run. Avery Rethage homered and drove in a pair, and Tia Germanich had a double, triple and three...
Heinz History Center to open ‘A Woman’s Place’ exhibit Saturday
Opening this Saturday, “A Woman’s Place: How Women Shaped Pittsburgh” is a new exhibition by the Heinz History Center in the Strip District that chronicles and explores the lives of women from Western Pennsylvania and beyond. Situated in the first-floor gallery, “A Woman’s Place” is two centuries and more than...
Aquinas Academy hosts chess tournament in Hampton
Six Aquinas Academy of Pittsburgh students won awards at the Aquinas Chess Invitational Tournament, held March 9 in the Rhodora J. Donahue building on the school’s campus in Hampton. A total of 175 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, representing 25 schools, competed at six levels (K-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8...
LeBron James becomes No. 1 fan of Duquesne basketball
As the Duquesne men’s basketball team began celebrating a 71-67 win over No. 6 BYU at the CHI Health Center Arena in Omaha, Neb., and students and alumni reveled in ending a 55-year stretch without an NCAA Tournament victory, the Dukes’ No. 1 fan took to X to congratulate his...
Students from Aquinas Academy in Hampton qualify as Shakespeare finalists
Nine students at Aquinas Academy of Pittsburgh in Hampton qualified for the Pittsburgh Public Theater’s Showcase of Finalists in two scenes. The students performed live at the O’Reilly Theater in February. Fifth graders Theodore Burchill (Cassius), Nicholas Crawford (Messenger), Ethan Mullican (Brutus), John Paul Richthammer (Antony) and Luke Roney (Octavius)...
Family, neighbors, community come together for Jeannette fire victims, survivors
On Thursday morning, Richard John got what he said was the best phone call of his life. “I talked to my grandson,” John said. “He couldn’t talk, but just to see him. I haven’t seen any of them since the fire.” It was the first time John had been able...
Odyssey of Mind scholarship awarded to Hampton resident
Hampton resident Jeremiah Bennett, a 12th grader at Commonwealth Charter Academy and A.W. Beattie Career Center, was named the recipient of the Western PA Odyssey of the Mind 2024 Paul H. Dunn Jr. Memorial Scholarship. Jeremiah participated in Odyssey of the Mind for five years, and his experience in the...
Pine-Richland students named National Merit finalists
Five Pine-Richland High School seniors were named finalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corp. In September, they were named semifinalists based on earning some of the highest scores nationwide on the PSAT/NMSQT out of more than 2 million test takers. The Pine-Richland students have earned the additional finalist commendation by...
Ben Folds, Los Lonely Boys among Three Rivers Arts Festival’s featured concerts
This year’s free featured concert lineup for the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival was announced Thursday. The festival, running May 31-June 9 in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District, will feature singer-songwriter Ben Folds, seminal hip-hop groups the Sugarhill Gang and the Furious Five, among others. The main stage is moving to...
Maya Haber: Opponents as enemies a dangerous tactic
I was born and raised in Tel-Aviv, Israel. On the evening of Nov. 4, 1995, I attended a rally there to support Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s peace initiative. At the end of the rally, an ultranationalist assassinated Rabin. The next morning, an IDF soldier I was speaking with insisted that...
Letter to the editor: Sad state of sports in Pittsburgh
The way all the Pittsburgh pro sports teams have played in the last several years is about as bad as it gets. In my opinion the owners are in it just for the money. I am so upset the way the owners are doing business. Every team — baseball, football,...
Letter to the editor: Westmoreland’s many issues
In 2014 our three commissioners decided to avoid lawsuits in our prison system by allowing a watered-down sanctuary status. In 2019 and 2023, I ran for county commissioner and spent $102,000 of my retirement money to wake Westmoreland up on a number of issues. I mailed 140,000 flyers to every...
Editorial: Firefighters show up when it matters most
If you want to know why it is important to support emergency services, look to Jeannette. At 12:02 a.m. Wednesday, the first call came in about a fire with entrapment on Guy Street. Jack Mull was a neighbor who made the call after he stepped out for a cigarette and...
The Stroller, March 21, 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. Color fun run planned April 27 in Gilpin The second David...
Letter to the editor: Start a kindness movement
It takes one person to start a movement. That one person could be you. Today, with divisiveness being stoked by politicians and the media, change may seem hopeless. But it does not have to be this way. The power others seem to hold they have because we give it to...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for March 20, 2024
High schools Baseball Wednesday’s results Nonsection Riverside 6, Beaver 1 Kiski Area 10, Burrell 3 Bethel Park 11, Canon-McMillan 1 Mohawk 6, Hopewell 0 Mapletown 22, Turkeyfoot Valley 8 Penn-Trafford 9, Mt. Pleasant 0 Ringgold 8, Charleroi 7 Jefferson-Morgan 4, Trinity Christian 1 Avella at Washington, (n) Carmichaels at Albert...
High school roundup for March 20, 2024: 2 Penn-Trafford pitchers 1-hit Mt. Pleasant in Myrtle Beach
Travis Kovarik and Hunter Brown combined on a one-hit shutout as Penn-Trafford defeated Mt. Pleasant, 9-0, in a nonsection baseball game Wednesday in Myrtle Beach. Kovarik fanned nine and Brown worked the last two innings. Ian Temple homered and drove in two, Chuck Fontana III doubled and drove in a...
Republicans call for raising retirement age in clash with Biden
WASHINGTON — The largest caucus of House Republicans called for an increase in the Social Security retirement age Wednesday, setting up a clash with President Joe Biden over spending on popular programs. The Republican Study Committee, which comprises about 80% of House Republicans, called for the Social Security eligibility age...
Pittsburgh Public Schools authorizes its attorney to sue Allegheny County to force a countywide property reassessment
Pittsburgh Public Schools officials have authorized their solicitor to sue Allegheny County in order to undergo a countywide property reassessment. But Solicitor Ira Weiss hopes a simple letter to county officials will get the conversation going and a formal legal filing with the Court of Common Pleas will not be...
Homicide victim’s mom calls 22-year sentence slap on wrist for killer of Dravosburg man
A Beltzhoover man will serve at least 22 years in prison after pleading guilty on Tuesday to fatally shooting a man eight times in the head. Le’Juane Powell, 30, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the death last year of Kenneth A. Lennex, 34, of Dravosburg. Allegheny County Common Pleas...
What a proposed performance-based funding model could mean for Pitt, Penn State, other state-related universities
This story was produced by the State College regional bureau of Spotlight PA, an independent, nonpartisan newsroom dedicated to investigative and public-service journalism for Pennsylvania. STATE COLLEGE — Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro has proposed creating a predictable funding formula and boosting state support by 5% for the state-related universities —...
Springdale mom heads to prison in methadone death of daughter, 5
The prosecutor handling the case of a 5-year-old who died from methadone poisoning told the court that there were two unanswered questions. Why was there methadone in Samantha McMunn’s Springdale house on the day her daughter died? And how did it get into her baby syringe? “I just think it’s...
Maggots, heat, decomposition lead judge to find Munhall funeral director guilty of abusing corpse
The Pennsylvania statute defining abuse of a corpse is simple. All that’s required is for a person to treat a dead body “in a way that he knows would outrage ordinary family sensibilities.” For a funeral home director to let a body sit for several days in summer, decomposing without...
Robin Abcarian: Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and iPhones are ruining my kid and yours
With apologies to Allen Ginsberg: I am seeing the best minds of our middle- school generation destroyed by Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and iPhones, Teenagers on the cusp of young adulthood dragging themselves out of bed each day to mainline TikTok and Snapchat. Measuring themselves by the yardstick of uber-filtered Kardashian perfection...
Popular event benefits historic Gilfillan Farm in Upper St. Clair
Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. April 6 for an event that sold out in under 30 minutes last year. The annual Gilfillan Farm Barnyard Beer Benefit is scheduled for May 25 at the corner of Route 19 and Orr Road in Upper St. Clair, near South Hills Village...
