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High school scores, summaries and schedules for Nov. 18, 2023
High schools Football WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Championship Saturday’s result North Allegheny 44, Central Catholic 41 Class 5A Championship Saturday’s result Peters Township 43, Pine-Richland 17 Class 4A Championship Friday’s schedule Aliquippa (11-0) vs. McKeesport (11-1) at Acrisure Stadium, 8 p.m. Class 3A Championship Friday’s schedule Belle Vernon (10-1) vs....
Light Up Night kicks off holiday season in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh kicked off the holiday season with the Highmark Light Up Night on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. The Downtown event featured the City of Pittsburgh Tree Lighting, as well as the Highmark Christmas Tree Lighting. The Sister Bridges were light up and the night ended with a fireworks spectacular. Tribune-Review...
North Allegheny handles pressure, sweeps Unionville for 7th straight PIAA volleyball crown
SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP — North Allegheny and state girls volleyball championships are synonymous with each other. North Allegheny won its seventh straight PIAA Class 4A title Saturday night with a sweep of Unionville at Cumberland Valley. Game scores were 25-18, 25-18, and 26-24. The only loss this season for WPIAL...
Fan at Taylor Swift concert dies amid Rio De Janeiro’s record heat wave
A fan died at Taylor Swift’s Rio de Janeiro concert Friday night, during a record-breaking heat wave. Ana Clara Benevides, a 23-year-old psychology student, fainted in the front row of the concert and was given 40 minutes of CPR on-site before being taken to the hospital, where she died, her...
Moon passes tough title-game test to complete PIAA 3-peat
MECHANICSBURG — Two Goliaths grappled in the Class 3A girls soccer state championship game. Reigning back-to-back champion Moon defeated undefeated Abington Heights, 3-1, securing a state final three-peat Saturday night. “Three in a row’s nice. I’m happy for the kids,” Moon coach Bill Pfeifer said. “To win one that really...
Hampton falls to Pope John Paul II in state championship battle of volleyball unbeatens
SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP — Hampton took its unbeaten streak on the road to Cumberland Valley High School for the PIAA Class 3A girls volleyball championships against fellow unbeaten and defending state champion Pope John Paul II from District 1 on Saturday. Pope John Paul II repeated as champions, winning 3-1...
District college football roundup: Slippery Rock, Grove City win in NCAA 1st round
Brayden Long threw for 234 yards and a touchdown to lead No. 15 Slippery Rock to a 45-14 victory over East Stroudsburg (9-3) in the first round of the NCAA Division II playoffs Saturday. Chris D’Or ran for 90 yards and a touchdown, Khalid Dorsey added 85 rushing yards and...
IBM, EU, Disney pull ads from Elon Musk’s X over concerns about hate speech
Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with billionaire owner Elon Musk inflaming tensions with his posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory. IBM, NBCUniversal and its parent company Comcast said this...
Suspect identified in fatal New Hampshire psychiatric hospital shooting
CONCORD, N.H. — A man killed by a state police trooper after he shot a security guard to death at a New Hampshire psychiatric hospital has been identified, authorities said Saturday. New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said 33-year-old John Madore entered New Hampshire Hospital on Friday afternoon and killed...
Erwin Chemerinsky: Supreme Court finally has a code of ethics, but it has a fatal flaw
Although it is welcome and overdue that the Supreme Court finally adopted an ethics code for its justices on Monday, the approach is seriously flawed in that it includes no enforcement mechanism. Instead it continues to leave it to each justice to decide whether to be recused in a particular...
Carl P. Leubsdorf: 60 years ago, in Dallas
It was one of those mild November days, typical of Washington autumns, the temperature pushing 70. Because I worked nights, I was trying to nap between picking up the 3-year-old at play school and her older siblings at 3. But excited voices interrupting the music on my favorite oldies station...
Sounding off: Biden, Trump, Middle East, gun laws among topics on readers’ minds
Biden not ‘destroying America’ I take most letters to the editor with a grain of salt, but “Biden destroying America” (Nov. 6, TribLIVE) was so off the grid I decided to look up the writer’s “facts” Regarding “opening our borders to millions”: There have been a lot of mistakes made,...
Letter to the editor: Data will show benefits of CNX agreement
Our modern world is driven by data. Hospitals use it to predict patient needs, engineers use it to analyze traffic patterns; the examples are endless. And in Pennsylvania, a public-private partnership between state government and CNX will use real-time environmental data of natural gas development to inform the public and...
Editorial: More disclosure from Pitt, Penn State is progress
Pennsylvania residents should expect a certain degree of openness from the institutions that serve them. Lawmakers should not just debate legislation openly, but they also should be crystal clear about the funding that keeps them in office. Counties and municipalities should govern in the light of day. School district decisions...
The Stroller, Nov. 18, 2023: 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. Tarentum homes and businesses welcome to enter decorating contest Tarentum Recreation...
Letter to the editor: Kudos to Valley High School Drama Club
Kudos to the Valley High School Drama Club for presenting a drama based on a true story. We often hear the pejorative, “kids these days.” However, if “adults these days” provide the appropriate guidance/opportunity, “kids these days” can rise to the challenge. It is the fashion for high school theater...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Nov. 17, 2023
High schools Football WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Championship Saturday’s schedule Central Catholic (10-1) vs. North Allegheny (10-1) at Norwin, 6 p.m. Class 5A Championship Saturday’s schedule Peters Township (12-0) vs. Pine-Richland (9-3) at Norwin, noon Class 4A Semifinals Friday’s results Aliquippa 47, Mars 24 McKeesport 28, Montour 14 Championship Nov....
What’s new at Northland Public Library in McCandless
Northland Public Library will be closed Sunday, Dec. 24 and Monday, Dec. 25. It will also be closed Monday, Jan. 1. Here are some library activities coming up in December. For a full listing of events, activities and ongoing groups, visit Northland’s website at www.northlandlibrary.org. Select Featured Programs Adults, Children,...
Holiday Happenings in the Fox Chapel area
Blawnox Cookie Tour and Night of Lights The annual Best of Blawnox Cookie Tour is set for 1-4 p.m. on Dec. 2. Maps can be picked up at the Veteran’s Monument at the intersection of Freeport Road and North Avenue that will list businesses involved in the tour. More than...
McKeesport casts a ‘Spell’ on Montour in Class 4A semifinals
Halloween may be in the rearview mirror, but McKeesport still managed to dish out a few belated “Spells” on Montour on Friday night. Senior Keith Spell ran for 190 yards and three touchdowns, while younger brother Kemon Spell added 120 yards and another score to help the No. 2 Tigers...
No. 2 Avonworth takes down Elizabeth Forward, earns return trip to finals
Avonworth will return to the WPIAL championship to face a familiar foe after earning a 21-10 victory over No. 3 Elizabeth Forward in the WPIAL Class 3A semifinals Friday night at Gateway. The No. 2 Lopes (12-0) will get a rematch next Friday with top-seeded Belle Vernon a year after...
Trib HSSN’s 2023 Week 12 top performers for passing, rushing, receiving
Top performers for Week 12 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 190 – Jake Wolfe, Montour (12 of 26) 185 – Kole Olszewski, Bishop Canevin (10 of 24) 169 – Jay Wrona, Mohawk (9 of 25) 167 – Quentin Goode, Aliquippa (9 of 12) 157 – Matt Sieg,...
South Side makes biggest plays in Class A semifinal win over Clairton
After a back-and-forth first half, South Side came out on the positive side of a sequence of plays midway through the third quarter that led to 14 straight points. That third quarter swing killed all the momentum for No. 4 Clairton, as the top-seeded Rams remained undefeated and took a...
Satanic Temple after-school club wins $200k settlement from Pennsylvania school district
PHILADELPHIA — The Lehigh Valley school district that tried to ban an after-school Satan Club from meeting on its property this year has agreed to pay $200,000 to cover attorney fees. The school also will give the club the same access to school facilities as “comparable groups.” In the settlement...
Grand Canyon hiker, 65, dies on popular trail, rangers say
A hiker died while trying to trek across a popular but notoriously dangerous trail in Grand Canyon National Park, rangers said. The hiker’s personal locator beacon alerted dispatchers to the unresponsive hiker on Bright Angel Trail, about 1.5 miles north of Havasupai Gardens, on Thursday, officials said in a news...
