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Iowa rallies late, sends Penn State to its 4th consecutive loss
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa quarterback Mark Gronowski rushed for a career-high 130 yards and two touchdowns, and Kaden Wetjen scored the go-ahead touchdown on an 8-yard run with 3:54 to play as the Hawkeyes defeated Penn State, 25-24, on Saturday night. The Hawkeyes (5-2, 3-1 Big Ten) trailed 24-19...
Homeland Security purchase of business jets during shutdown draws Dems’ ire
WASHINGTON — Democrats in Congress on Saturday criticized the Trump administration’s decision to buy two Gulfstream G700 jets for $172 million during the ongoing government shutdown that are to be used by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other senior leaders. The Coast Guard entered into a sole-source contract Friday,...
U.S. returning Caribbean strike survivors to Colombia and Ecuador, Trump says
WASHINGTON — The United States is sending the two survivors of a Thursday strike in the Caribbean to their home countries of Colombia and Ecuador to be detained and prosecuted, President Donald Trump said Saturday. The move means the U.S. military will not have to grapple with thorny legal issues...
District college roundup: Cal (Pa.) stings Clarion with last-minute touchdown
Phaeton Hill hit Deontae Williams for a 56-yard touchdown catch with 11 seconds left in the game as Cal (Pa.) defeated Clarion, 31-28, in a PSAC thriller Saturday. Anthony Guercio connected with Holt Egan on a 16-yard TD pass with 1:17 to play to give Clarion a 28-24 lead. Hill...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 18, 2025
High schools Football Saturday’s results WPIAL Class A Big 7 Neshannock 49, Summit Academy 6 Eastern Clairton 66, Riverview 0 Saturday’s summaries Neshannock 49, Summit Academy 6 Neshannock 22 13 7 7 —49 Summit Academy 0 0 0 6 —6 N: Anthony Eakin 4 run (Jino Mozzocio run) N: Mozzocio...
High school roundup for Oct. 18, 2025: Thomas Jefferson squeezes past Shaler in 1st round of WPIAL playoffs
Owen Householder scored on a first-half penalty kick and goaltender Sam Wessel recorded his 12th shutout of the season to lead No. 5 Thomas Jefferson to a 1-0 victory over No. 12 Shaler (12-6) in the first round of the WPIAL Class 3A boys soccer playoffs Saturday. The Jaguars (16-2-1)...
Mariners try to put dramatic Game 5 win behind them, focus on Game 6 of ALCS
TORONTO — The Seattle Mariners will be sailing in uncharted waters Sunday night when they visit the Toronto Blue Jays for Game 6 of the American League Championship Series. The Mariners can shed the albatross of never having reached the World Series with a victory. They took a 3-2 lead...
Westmoreland H.S. athletes of the week: Greensburg Salem’s Bella Dinkel and Hempfield’s Guerin Gardner
Bella Dinkel School: Greensburg Salem Class: Sophomore Sport: Volleyball Claim to fame: Dinkel, a 5-foot-4 setter, has been a key facilitator for the Golden Lions (15-1), who could make some noise in the WPIAL Class 3A playoffs. She had 64 assists in her last three games. “She can put the...
MLB playoff bedlam as Mariners homers, Blue Jays meltdown flip ALCS on its head
Baseball’s majesty and misery are almost always intertwined. And in a stunning eighth inning in an unforgettable Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, they were inseparable. For several pulsating minutes at T-Mobile Park, the fates of the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners hung first on a crucial...
McDowell earns pole for crucial NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Michael McDowell might be competing for a new team this year, but the Spire Motorsports driver still proved himself one of the fastest at a superspeedway. He earned pole position for Sunday’s YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. McDowell turned in a lap of 182.466 mph in the...
WVU remains winless in Big 12 after blowout loss at Central Florida
Tayven Jackson threw a pair of touchdowns to Chris Domercant in the opening quarter on fourth down as UCF rolled to a 45-13 victory over visiting West Virginia on Saturday afternoon in Orlando, Fla. Jackson returned after sitting out last week’s loss with a shoulder injury suffered two weeks ago...
Ken Silverstein: Bridging the red-blue divide on climate
Heather Reams, the president of Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES), stepped onto the stage at Breckenridge’s Mountain Towns 2030 summit — a room full of progressives accustomed to negotiating with Republicans on climate policy. She faced an audience from Idaho, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado — areas that often depend...
Diego Pavia does it again as No. 17 Vanderbilt beats No. 10 LSU
Diego Pavia ran for two touchdowns and passed for one to help No. 17 Vanderbilt defeat No. 10 LSU, 31-24, on Saturday in SEC play at Nashville, Tenn. Pavia passed for 160 yards and rushed for 86, and the Commodores (6-1, 2-1 SEC) scored on five of their first six...
Patricia Murphy: Trump forged Middle East peace. How about fixing Congress next?
Defying the odds and expectations of many, President Donald Trump went to the Middle East last week and announced what many thought impossible — a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and, hopefully, a path to peace in the Middle East. As a part of getting both sides to agree to...
Moon’s largest crater harbors secret on south pole where NASA astronauts will land
U.S. astronauts who return to the moon’s surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a permanent human lunar settlement. That may be the primary objective for spacefarers in NASA’s Artemis...
Ryan Kennedy: Far fewer Americans support political violence than recent polls suggest
A series of recent events has sparked alarm about rising levels of political violence in the U.S.: the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10 ; the murder of a Democratic Minnesota state legislator and her husband in June ; and two attempts to kill Donald Trump during...
No Kings protests in Pittsburgh, Greensburg bring out thousands with varying concerns
Seventy-three-year-old Lee Vest couldn’t ignore the chance to revolt against what she called the downfall of our country. “I’ve never seen such a thing in all my life,” Vest said. “We need an administration that will fight for the people, not put it down.” Vest was among thousands who gathered...
‘I was in shock’: James Franklin opens up on being fired by Penn State
James Franklin spoke publicly for the first time Saturday since he was fired by Penn State on Oct. 12. Franklin joined the ESPN “College GameDay” set only three weeks after he appeared on the show ahead of the Nittany Lions’ Sept. 27 game against Oregon, back when Penn State was...
It’s Day 18 of the government shutdown and there’s no end in sight
Day 18 of the government shutdown is here, the third longest in history. The Democrats and Republicans are still at an impasse over healthcare subsidies and the Senate funding bill failed for a 10th time on Oct. 17. The Senate is scheduled to reconvene at 3 p.m. Monday. The Senate...
Gaza’s Rafah border crossing to reopen on Monday, Palestinian embassy in Egypt says
Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt will reopen on Monday, the Palestinian embassy in Egypt said on Saturday, almost a week after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire and hostage deal was agreed between Israel and Hamas. The crossing, which has been largely closed since May 2024, will allow Palestinians residing in Egypt...
North Hills girls tennis posts breakthrough year
Amy Myers has been able to spend her time as North Hills’ girls tennis coach watching a core group develop from freshmen to seniors. And that development paid off in a big way this fall. The Indians, for the first time in 17 years, clinched a spot in the WPIAL...
North Hills notebook: After slow start, Indians start to find success
The North Hills football team has found more success following a tough start to the season. Through Week 7, the Indians sat at 2-6 overall but at 2-2 in the Class 5A Northeast Conference. North Hills ended a four-game losing streak to begin the season with a 56-7 blowout of...
Letter to the editor: Vote out incumbents
Potential voter: Are you dissatisfied with our federal, state and local governments? I believe the solution lies in voting out long-term incumbents. If a government is corrupt, not serving all its constituents, lacking transparency or simply failing to perform its duties, the incumbent is ultimately accountable. In any other profession,...
Letter to the editor: Energy development facts
In the op-ed blaming technology companies for rising energy prices (“AI, crypto and Pa.’s war on the little guy,” Sept. 20, TribLive), the authors include an unrelated, passing reference to so-called “subsidies” included in the recently enacted federal legislation dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). The authors assert the...
The Stroller, Oct. 18, 2025: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
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