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I hate to be a Gloomy Gus. It’s too easy to lay into all the horrible, depressing, negative things that are happening worldwide. Russia. Ukraine. Our uniquely American relationship with uniquely multifarious China. Fortunately, for most people, there isn’t enough information presented on the evening news to act upon. World...

Collaboration is a great way to maximize public resources. It puts everyone together on the same footing. It shares information. It reduces workload. It prevents redundancy. On Thursday, Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli announced an effort to promote better collaboration between detectives from her office and state and federal...

Northland Public Library is open the following hours: Sunday — 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday — 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday — 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday — 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Library will be closed on Friday, Nov. 3 for a staff development...

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 Walk for Hunger event seeks participants The Allegheny Valley Association...

The move by Gov. Josh Shapiro to defund Real Alternatives and pregnancy centers will be to the detriment of the health and safety of women and unborn babies throughout Pennsylvania. Pregnancy centers offer non-judgmental support and direct women to resources for housing, addiction, health care, insurance and supplies. Clients are...

Colin Brady ran for 301 yards and four touchdowns to lead West Greene to a 41-32 victory over Monessen in the Class A Tri-County South Conference on Friday night. Seth Burns and Parker Burns also caught touchdown passes for the Pioneers (5-1, 3-0). Tim Kershaw scored twice, and Lorenzo Gardner,...

Jay Wrona threw four touchdown passes, including two to Bobby Fadden, as No. 5 Mohawk earned a 38-14 win over Ellwood City (3-3, 1-2) in the Class 2A Midwestern Athletic Conference on Friday night. Wrona completed 21 of 38 passes for 289 yards, including two TD passes to Bobby Fadden...

Eric Doerue ran for 185 yards and two touchdowns and Parker Cunningham had two interceptions to set up touchdowns as South Park scored a 35-28 victory over No. 5 Seton LaSalle (4-2, 2-1) in the Class 3A Western Hills Conference on Friday night. Zach Ludwig threw for 106 yards and...

High schools Football Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Central Catholic 49, Canon-McMillan 6 Class 5A Allegheny Six Peters Township 49, Baldwin 6 Moon 24, South Fayette 3 Big East Franklin Regional 45, Plum 26 Gateway 63, Hempfield 21 Penn-Trafford 56, Norwin 28 Northeast North Hills 50, Fox Chapel 0 Class...

Jaydon Oliver threw for 172 yards and two touchdowns as Armstrong scored a 21-20 victory over North Catholic (3-3, 2-1) in the Class 4A Greater Allegheny Conference on Friday night. Chase Jablonski and Nick McNeely caught TD passes, and Kyan Kline ran for a 3-yard TD for Armstrong (4-2, 1-1)....

Franklin Regional overcame an 11-point halftime deficit to earn a 45-26 victory over Plum in the Class 5A Big East Conference on Friday night. Kyle Dupill ran for 240 yards and five touchdowns, and Ayden Hudock had a 65-yard TD run for Franklin Regional (4-2, 1-1). Sean Franzi threw for...

Top performers for Week 5 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 365 - Payton Wehner, Central Catholic (15 of 19) 296 - Tristyn Tavares, Norwin (23 of 35) 292 - Ryan Messina, Elizabeth Forward (14 of 23) 289 - Jay Wrona, Mohawk (21 of 38) 261 — Kadin...

Peyton Wehner threw for 365 yards and five touchdowns to lead top-ranked Central Catholic to a 49-6 victory over No. 3 Canon-McMillan (4-2, 1-2) in Class 6A football action Friday night. Peter Gonzalez caught seven passes for 268 yards and three touchdowns for the Vikings (6-0, 3-0). Zachary Welsh ran...

Sweet concert The Greater Harmony Chorus, a local chapter of Sweet Adelines International, is presenting two concerts Oct. 21 at Ingomar Methodist Church, 1501 W. Ingomar Road in McCandless. Show times are 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. The chorus is the regional first place champion and will be competing at...

Girl Scouts Fox Chapel Girl Scouts will host an event Oct. 7 from 9 a.m. to noon to acquaint parents with the Girl Scout program and how their daughters can join. The event will be held at the Middle Road Soccer Complex Pavilion in Indiana Township. More information is available...

Upper St. Clair came into Friday night’s game looking for a bounce-back effort after suffering its first loss of the season last week. Mason Chambers made sure the Panthers got one. Chambers scored on a 79-yard run in the first quarter and finished with 202 yards and four touchdowns in...

It’s not too often that Moon’s wing-T offense will be flashy, and it wasn’t in Friday’s 24-3 win over South Fayette to allow the Tigers (3-3, 1-0 5A-1) to win their third straight and open conference play in the Allegheny Six. But what the offense lacked in flash, on a...

In a wild contest that featured six fourth-quarter touchdowns, Greensburg Central Catholic coach John Thompson felt the last one exemplified his team’s 40-28 loss at Clairton perfectly. With about a minute remaining, the Bears (4-2, 3-0) faced fourth-and-1 from GCC’s 30-yard line. The score was 34-28, but the Centurions (3-3,...

A week after suffering its first loss of the season at the hands of Thomas Jefferson in nonconference play, Belle Vernon bounced back in dominant fashion Friday night. The Leopards scored 50 first-half points and relied on big offensive performances from Quinton Martin and Braden Laux in a 57-6 rout...

Southmoreland coach Tim Bukowski was steadfast when discussing the outcome of the Scotties’ game with Elizabeth Forward on Friday at Warriors Stadium. “I don’t think the better team won tonight, but the team with the best player did,” Bukowski said. The Warriors scored 21 points in the fourth quarter to...

DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union expanded strikes against Detroit automakers Friday, ordering 7,000 more workers to walk off the job in Illinois and Michigan to put more pressure on the companies to improve their offers. It was the second time the union has widened the walkouts, which started...

BALTIMORE — The Archdiocese of Baltimore on Friday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization days before a new state law goes into effect removing the statute of limitations on child sex abuse claims and allowing victims to sue their abusers decades after the fact. The step will allow the oldest...

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds the power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG — A top official and longtime ally of Gov. Josh Shapiro who abruptly resigned this week had been accused months earlier of sexually...

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said Friday that Pittsburgh police were justified in using deadly force against a woman in February incident. Responding officers shot Adrienne Arrington, 39, of Homestead, five times on Feb. 24 in Allentown. Zappala said she fired multiple shots at the officers from...

State police are seeking a Punxsutawney man in connection with a shooting Thursday in Indiana County. Storm Michael Armagost, 27, is charged with possession of a firearm without a license, reckless endangerment of another person, assault and harassment. An arrest warrant was issued Friday before District Judge Guy Haberl. Troopers...