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An employee at a Westmoreland County nursing home says the conditions of her job have brought her to tears. Residents regularly have to wait for help and often go hungry because of a lack of people to feed them. A single staffer sometimes is asked to care for 60 residents...

Mary Ellen Cross lived some of the best days of her life each December when she spent hour upon hour baking cookies and wrapping gifts, carefully crafting what she hoped would be the perfect, magical Christmas for her family. The baking began weeks in advance, sometimes with her eclectic playlist...

A review of state nursing home inspection reports reveals no mention of two patients who died about a year ago at Quality Life Services-Chicora after being given fatal doses of insulin. Registered nurse Heather Pressdee, who is charged in the killings, told investigators “she felt bad for their quality of...

A review of state nursing home inspection reports reveals no mention of two patients who died about a year ago at Quality Life Services-­Chicora after being given fatal doses of insulin. Registered nurse Heather Pressdee, who is charged in the killings, told investigators “she felt bad for their quality of...

An employee at a Westmoreland County nursing home says the conditions of her job have brought her to tears. Residents regularly have to wait for help and often go hungry because of a lack of people to feed them. A single staffer sometimes is asked to care for 60 residents...

Tools designed to help families researching a nursing home are obscure and often criticized by industry experts over their reliability and accuracy. The Care Compare website maintained by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services houses detailed data about nursing homes, provides quality-of-care ratings and flags homes for incidents...

Ky’Ron Craggette ran for 208 yards and two touchdowns to lead Seton Hill to a 38-28 victory over Edinboro in PSAC football Saturday afternoon. Jake Cruz threw for 175 yards and a touchdown to Mark Bails Jr., who had five receptions for 165 yards for the Griffins (4-5, 3-3). Isaac...

The fog of the Israeli-­Hamas war is made more intimidating by the thick mist of misinformation. What are smart news consumers, and impressionable students in classrooms nationwide, supposed to do as rampant falsehoods spread? NewsGuard, the anti-­misinformation company I work for, is toiling 24/7 with a tsunami of wrongheaded claims...

North Allegheny again swept the WPIAL Class 3A cross country championships as the boys and girls teams captured titles last Thursday at White Oak Park. The boys won their sixth straight title, scoring 59 points to edge Butler (67), Fox Chapel (124), Norwin (155) and Upper St. Clair (179). North...

The Saturday Night Massacre refers to the extraordinary clash between the commitment to democratic principles and the outer limits of presidential power that created the most memorable constitutional crisis of the Watergate era. And it carries exceptional relevance for today’s political climate. The defining moment of the “massacre” was the...

There’s just something about the Jews. (I’m Jewish, so I can say that.) For thousands of years, from the Romans to the Nazis to Kanye West, we have possessed that je ne sais quois that drives people mad. To paraphrase Regina George, “Why are you so obsessed with us?” In...

Hopefully, this letter ends all of the lies, half-truths and misleading information that has been circulated about District Judge Cheryl Peck Yakopec. Most of us know she has been our judge in the Lower Burrell, Upper Burrell, Allegheny Township, Vandergrift, etc., area for the past 29 years. Peck Yakopec has...

In judicial races, it’s common to hear buzzwords like “fair,” “neutral” or “impartial.” While a candidate may use these words, too often the same candidate will take campaign funds from special interest groups or from those with commercial interests in district court, pay to receive political endorsements or seek the...

In fall 2024, The Kiski School will be welcoming girls. But will it really? The school administration announced the move this month, with Head of School Christopher Brueningsen saying “maintaining enrollment has been challenging.” It’s not just a Kiski problem. It’s an issue in single-sex boarding schools in general, which...

In response to the letter “Petrush qualified to be judge” (Oct. 18, TribLIVE): I agree that being qualified matters greatly for a magisterial district judge. The writer mentioned not seeing Judith Petrush’s opponent, Robert Klingensmith, in the courts in Greensburg. If he had looked beyond the courts in Greensburg, he’d...

Garden of the Month Greybrooke Garden Club chose the beautiful gardens at the Town Green at McCandless Crossing to receive the Club’s September outstanding community “Garden of the Month” Award. This monthly Award is presented during the spring and summer seasons to a worthy recipient in Pittsburgh’s North Hills. Winners...

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. Thanksgiving Day meal program accepting monetary support Compassion Network will distribute...

Nearly 25 years ago, I crossed party lines to vote for Charley Conway as magisterial district judge in District Court 10-3-02 because his character, community involvement, and practice and knowledge of the law made him the best candidate. Our community now has the responsibility to choose a new district judge...

A portion of West Leechburg Hill Road will be closed for nearly three months starting Monday, Nov. 6. PennDOT said the road needs to be shut down in order to make structural repairs to a large culvert. The site is in West Leechburg. West Leechburg Hill Road will be closed...

High schools Football Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Canon-McMillan 41, Mt. Lebanon 28 North Allegheny 49, Seneca Valley 14 Class 5A Allegheny Six Moon 42, Baldwin 16 Peters Township 68, Bethel Park 28 Upper St. Clair 34, South Fayette 21 Big East Norwin 47, Hempfield 21 Penn-Trafford 27, Franklin Regional...

Matt Sieg ran for 251 yards and seven touchdowns to lead top-ranked Fort Cherry a 55-22 win over Burgettstown (5-4, 4-3) in the Class A Black Hills Conference on Friday night. Sieg scored on runs of 22, 19, 8, 20, 12, 11 and 5 yards. Ethan Faletto added 156 rushing...

Tristan Reed threw for 181 yards and two touchdowns to lead No. 5 Washington to a 13-7 win at McGuffey (7-3, 5-1) in the Class 2A Century Conference on Friday night. Zxavian Willis caught five passes for 95 yards and a touchdown for the Little Prexies (9-1, 5-1), who clinched...

A week after running for nearly 500 yards, freshman Armand Hill rushed for 201 yards and three touchdowns as West Mifflin scored a 35-0 win at South Park (6-4, 3-3) to lock down second place in the Class 3A Western Hills Conference on Friday night. Darnell Carswell and Jose Perez...

Luke Goodworth hit Aidan Alessio with a 20-yard touchdown pass with 10 seconds left in the game to give Mars a 17-14 victory over North Catholic in a Class 4A Greater Allegheny Conference game Friday night at J.C. Stone Field in North Park. With the win, Mars claimed the Greater...