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Class 2A doubles teams turn in WPIAL’s best showings at PIAA tennis championships
District 1 champions Hannah and Rebecca Kideckel of Lower Moreland won the PIAA Class 2A doubles championship Saturday in Hershey, but they had to go through the WPIAL’s best to get to the top of podium. In the finals, Kideckel defeated WPIAL third-place finishers Katie Hardy and Brea Kelly of...
District college football roundup: Slippery Rock locks up 1st place in PSAC West
Brayden Long threw for 400 yards and five touchdowns as No. 5 Slippery Rock amassed 670 yards of offense in a 56-18 PSAC victory at Edinboro on Saturday afternoon. Slippery Rock’s Cohen Russell caught five passes for 180 yards and three touchdowns while teammate Kyle Sheets added five receptions for...
South Fayette stuns Hampton to complete surprise playoff run with WPIAL Class 3A title
A dominant force throughout the regular season, the Hampton boys soccer team entered the WPIAL Class 3A championship game hoping for more of the same. Undefeated against 3A competition and having outscored its opponents by a combined 72 goals this season, the No. 2 Talbots took to the Highmark Stadium...
Trump calls DeSantis ‘wounded, falling baby bird’ at Florida GOP summit
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis made his case for the presidential nomination at the Florida Republican Party’s annual summit Saturday, only for Donald Trump to compare him to a “wounded, falling baby bird” in casually dismissing the governor’s chances. “He asked me for the endorsement,” Trump said of DeSantis...
Justin Turner turns down option with Red Sox; Boston declines option with Corey Kluber
BOSTON — Justin Turner declined his $13.4 million player option with Boston, and the Red Sox turned down their $11 million option on right-hander Corey Kluber. Both players became free agents. Turner gets a $6.7 million buyout, completing a contract he agreed to in January that paid $16 million, including...
Chicago White Sox decline their $14 million option on star shortstop Tim Anderson
CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox declined their $14-million option for next season on two-time All-Star shortstop Tim Anderson and bought him out for $1 million on Saturday. The bat-flipping face of the franchise, Anderson led the majors with a .335 batting average in 2019 and made All-Star teams in...
Tigers acquire outfielder Mark Canha in trade with Brewers
DETROIT — If you are going to preach a certain approach to hitting throughout your organization, it would probably be quite useful to have a model of that approach playing nearly every day at the big-league level, right? Veteran outfielder Mark Canha, whom the Tigers acquired in a trade from...
Montez Sweat reportedly agrees to 4-year, $98 million extension with Bears
CHICAGO — Ryan Poles was unflinching in his confidence Montez Sweat would be part of the future of the Chicago Bears, and a new deal for the defensive end materialized quickly. The Bears have finalized a contract extension for the 27-year-old Sweat, NFL Media reported, ensuring he will be much...
Arab envoys reject Blinken’s call for limited war pause in Gaza
Secretary of State Antony Blinken took U.S. calls for “humanitarian pauses” in the Israel-Hamas war to key Arab allies, who publicly insisted on an immediate cease-fire instead. The rift played out on Blinken’s tour of the Middle East against the backdrop of a growing backlash against the death toll in...
Serra Catholic defeats Bishop Canevin to capture school’s 1st WPIAL volleyball title
For the Serra Catholic volleyball team, the wait for the program’s first WPIAL title was totally worth it. After losing in the finals to Frazier last year, the top-seeded Eagles showed their poise on the court Saturday afternoon in the WPIAL Class A championship match at Peters Township High School’s...
Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial exposed crypto fraud but Congress has not been eager to regulate the industry
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — The conviction of former cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried for stealing at least $10 billion from customers and investors is the latest black mark for the cryptocurrency industry, but in Washington, there seems to be little to no interest in pushing through regulation. When cryptocurrencies collapsed and...
The Stroller, Nov. 4, 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. Annual lottery ticket fundraiser to aid Animal Protectors Animal Protectors of...
Letter to the editor: Bag ban nonsense
Your “lance” about Pittsburgh’s plastic bag ban made me laugh (“Cold cases and bag bans,” Oct. 27, TribLIVE). Next time you go to the store, check out all that plastic packaging for everything. And let’s not forget all the plastic cups, forks, spoons, etc., plus soda bottles, signs … ....
Sounding off: Rep. Mike Johnson, bag bans, school bus safety
Johnson as speaker bad news for America Finally, and with so much turmoil in the world that needs to be addressed by Congress, U.S. House Republicans have elected a speaker. The elevation to this position of Rep. Mike Johnson is good news for him, for Donald Trump, whose approval was...
Letter to the editor: Green initiatives losers for U.S.
President Biden wants to scatter thousands of windmills throughout the ocean. I’m betting that salt water will eat away at these monsters, rendering them junk in a matter of years. Where is this junk going to go? People moan about steel mills and pollution; well, where do you think the...
Letter to the editor: Those were the days
It seems as though that dangerous, bigoted white nationalist, who spent much of his time in a worn-out easy chair smoking a cigar, was never more right than now. Fifty years ago, Archie Bunker and his wife Edith sang the theme song to “All In The Family”: “And you knew...
Editorial: Independence has rose-colored glasses for Excela’s red-ink report
The idea was to save money while still doing the job. That was what then-Excela Health CEO John Sphon, now retired, said in June 2022 when the Greensburg-based hospital network and Butler Health System announced their merger. “We believe strongly that our new partnership will extend our intellectual and financial...
Letter to the editor: Hydrogen blending not the answer
It is no surprise that Columbia Gas is testing hydrogen blending in gas appliances, despite the fact that scientists are warning legislators that hydrogen blending results in more warming emissions than if they were to just burn gas. In the second largest gas-producing state in the nation, Pennsylvania gas companies...
Letter to the editor: We must stop hate and fearmongering
Ray Epps was a true believer. He believed what former President Trump, Fox News and the right-wing media repeatedly told him about the 2020 election being stolen. So on Jan. 6, he stormed the Capitol. But then the conspiracy machine turned on him. They said Epps was an FBI plant...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Nov. 3, 2023
High schools Football WPIAL playoffs Class 6A Semifinals Nov. 10 schedule Mt. Lebanon (5-5) vs. Central Catholic (9-1) at Fox Chapel, 7 p.m.; Canon-McMillan (6-4) at North Allegheny (9-1), 7 p.m. Class 5A Quarterfinals Friday’s results Moon 35, Gateway 31 Penn Hills 63, Penn-Trafford 28 Peters Township 35, Franklin Regional...
WPIAL football playoffs roundup: Evan Wright’s 4 TDs lift Mars past Chartiers Valley
Evan Wright ran for 159 yards and four touchdowns to lead No. 4 Mars to a 44-19 victory over No. 13 Chartiers Valley (3-8) in the first round of the WPIAL Class 4A football playoffs Friday night. Luke Goodworth threw for 133 yards and one touchdown for Mars (9-2), which...
School news from the Fox Chapel area
Fishing club assists with trout stocking Members of the Fox Chapel Area High School Fishing Club partnered with the Allison Park Sportsmen’s Club and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission to stock trout in the Pine Creek Watershed on Oct. 24. The students and FCAHS teacher and fishing club sponsor...
Pine-Richland slams Bethel Park in playoff opener
Winners of four straight games and six of its last seven, Pine-Richland entered Friday evening’s home WPIAL Class 5A quarterfinal matchup against Bethel Park looking to keep the good times rolling. It did that and then some. The reigning WPIAL and PIAA champions left no doubt in their postseason opener,...
No. 10 Trinity rolls past North Catholic for 1st playoff win since 2007
Despite winning three of its last four games, including a win over perennial power Thomas Jefferson, which had just beaten 3A state champion Belle Vernon, the Trinity Hillers finished in a three-way tie for second place in the Big Seven Conference. Tiebreaker points and head-to-head results later, the Hillers ended...
Bentworth stages furious comeback to beat Charleroi, win school’s 1st WPIAL soccer title
Having lost to Charleroi twice already earlier in the season, it would be easy to assume the Bentworth boys soccer team was on its way to a third defeat when the Bearcats trailed the Cougars 2-0 at halftime during Friday night’s WPIAL Class A championship game. But in the end,...
