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Editorial: South Side violence closes more doors as little changes
On Monday, Carson City Saloon announced it was closing its doors — at least temporarily. A sports bar on the South Side doesn’t do that lightly. It isn’t a new business. It has been around for 17 years. It’s baseball season. But right now crime season is taking the spotlight....
Sharpsburg Neighborhood Organization and CMU spinoff create digital borough currency
A Sharpsburg organization has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company to create a digital borough currency. Sharpsburg Bucks was launched a little more than a month ago to encourage people to shop and keep their money local. The alternative currency is a pilot project of the Sharpsburg Neighborhood Organization...
Defense tries to discredit expert witness who says Pittsburgh synagogue attacker isn’t mentally ill
Robert Bowers’ defense attorneys tried Tuesday to discredit the government’s final expert witness on mental health by questioning him about his billing rates, a 20-year-old case where he was investigated for perjury, and presentations he’s made in the past. The defense cross-examined nationally renowned psychiatrist Dr. Park Dietz for three...
Sen. Ryan Aument: Young people need opportunity, not student loan forgiveness
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness proposal on June 30. While this ruling is a win for taxpayers, there are still millions of Americans with trillions of dollars in outstanding student loans who now need to pay back that debt. I applaud the high court’s...
Franklin Regional grad Victoria Rothrauff, classmates persevere through upheaval with Seton Hill women’s soccerVideo
In Victoria Rothrauff’s three seasons — now heading into the fourth — with the Seton Hill women’s soccer team, the only stable factor has been instability. The Franklin Regional grad and the rest of her fellow rising seniors are on their fourth coach. They were recruited by Andy McNab, but...
Freeport grad Lauren Lampus hopes to lead Westminster volleyball back to top of PACVideo
This college volleyball stuff is easy. At least that’s what Lauren Lampus must have thought during her first two seasons at Westminster. After winning two WPIAL Class 2A titles and a PIAA title during her time at Freeport, Lampus rolled into the New Wilmington campus and was an immediate contributor...
Powerball jackpot climbs to $725M — 2nd highest this year
The Powerball jackpot rose to $725 million after no one secured the jackpot in Monday night’s drawing. The winning numbers were white balls 2, 24, 34, 53, 58 and red Powerball 13. Two people, one in California and one in Iowa, matched all five white balls but missed on the...
‘A childhood dream come true’: Watt brothers featured on iconic Wheaties box
NFL players and brothers T.J. Watt and J.J. Watt are the first duo and first brothers to be featured on the iconic orange Wheaties cereal box. “Built around a uniting love for football, the Watt family is grounded in perseverance, togetherness, and a commitment to doing the right thing when...
MyPillow auctions equipment after retailers pull its products
MyPillow is auctioning off hundreds of pieces of equipment and subleasing manufacturing space after several shopping networks and major retailers took the company’s products off shelves. The Minnesota-based manufacturer recently listed more than 850 “surplus equipment” items on the online auction site K-Bid. Sewing machines, industrial fabric spreaders, forklifts and...
How Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget breakdown over school vouchers was a rare misstep
PHILADELPHIA — In the span of a week, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro managed to agitate everybody. His Democratic allies and labor supporters initially felt burned by his pursuit of a private-school voucher program. When he agreed to veto it, top Republicans cried foul. The budget controversy feels like a rare...
Clinic for students interested in running set at Robert Morris sports center
P3R, the self-proclaimed engine behind Pittsburgh’s favorite races and runs will present a running clinic at the Robert Morris University Island Sports Center. P3R is partnering with UPMC to provide UPMC Sports Medicine Running Clinic: Empowering the Teenage Athlete on July 27 and 28 at the P3R Track and Field...
Thomas Zeitzoff: ‘Idiots,’ ‘criminals’ and ‘scum’ — nasty politics highest in U.S. since the Civil War
Joe Biden, “together with a band of his closest thugs, misfits and Marxists, tried to destroy American democracy.” This is what Donald Trump said to his supporters hours after pleading not guilty in federal court in June 2023 to his mishandling of classified documents. The indictment of a former president...
Letter to the editor: Proud people, what are you proud of?
Regarding the letter “We should all be proud of who we are” (June 18, TribLIVE): OK, Proud people, is this what you are so proud of? Chanting in your parades, “We’re here! We’re queer! We’re coming for your children!” Or perhaps riding stark naked on bicycles. Letting it all hang...
Pine, Richland student achievements for the week of July 11, 2023
Callie Kuehn, Nicholas Lenhart and Mary Romano made the provost’s list at Ohio University for the spring 2023 semester. Owen Degregorio, Liz Dziubek, Jaclyn Murray, Abbey Nardulli and Amy Sippell made the president’s list. The following students made the dean’s list: Madison Alexander, Trenton Bellora, Katie Duker, Elena Fleming, Joe...
Letter to the editor: Spotlighting Pa.’s lack of oversight of higher education
You are to be commended for publishing the long-overdue article on the declining enrollment of related Pennsylvania institutions’ branches — particularly PSU/Pitt (“Pitt, Penn State branch campuses bleeding enrollment; decline expected to continue,” June 25, TribLIVE). The six Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education schools were excoriated last year for...
Editorial: Pa. budget standoff drags on
The worst kind of budget impasse is when both sides have a point. It’s easy to say what should happen when there is a clear right and clear wrong — even if it is only about perspective. If something is as simple as raising taxes versus lowering them, most people...
The Stroller, July 11, 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. Volunteers needed at Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley Animal Protectors of...
Letter to the editor: Social justice vs. actual justice
The political left has bastardized the English language to promote its radical ideology. Words and phrases are used in ways that can never be fully comprehended, then repeated ad nauseam by politicians and media types. Terms like “racial justice,” “social justice,” “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion” and a host of others spill...
Grand jurors who will consider Trump charges to be selected Tuesday
The selection of two Fulton County grand juries will be made Tuesday, with one of the panels expected to decide whether to hand up an indictment for alleged criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election. One set of jurors is likely to be asked to bring formal charges against former...
Rep. George Santos compares himself to civil rights hero Rosa Parks because he refused to sit in the back of CongressVideo
Rep. George Santos says he’s the new Rosa Parks — because he wouldn’t go sit in the back of Congress. The controversial Long Island Republican absurdly compared himself to the civil rights icon, who famously challenged segregation by refusing to move to the back of a public bus in Montgomery,...
Amazon Prime Day isn’t the catalyst it used to be
Amazon.com Inc.’s annual Prime Day shows that e-commerce isn’t the driver it once was for the stock, as investor focus shifts to the company’s faster-growing and profitable cloud-computing unit. In the past four years, the stock has fallen in the week of the two-day sale in which the retail giant...
Madonna says she’s ‘on the road to recovery’ but postponing Celebration tour
Madonna has emerged to update fans on her health and the state of her impending Celebration tour following her hospitalization late last month. The Material Girl, who spent several days in the ICU after developing “a serious bacterial infection,” showed gratitude Monday on Instagram, thanking fans for their positive energy,...
Pittsburgh synagogue attacker had capacity to plan, intent to kill, expert witness says
The government’s final witness in the eligibility phase of Robert Bowers’ trial testified Monday that the man who killed 11 people at a Squirrel Hill synagogue had the capacity to plan and the intent to kill, making him a candidate for execution. Dr. Park Dietz, a nationally renowned psychiatrist, cited...
Funding for Pitt, Penn State, other state-related schools caught in Pa. budget impasse
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. HARRISBURG — After repeated legislative failures, Pennsylvania state House members left Harrisburg indefinitely without passing funding for the commonwealth’s state-related universities. Appropriations for Lincoln University, Penn State...
Letter to the editor: How will cocaine be blamed on Trump?
President Biden’s Secret Service found cocaine in the White House. Hunter Biden is an admitted drug user who is said to be living in the White House. I have just one question: If this is true, how are they going to blame it on Trump? Jeanne Shields North Huntingdon...
