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Pirates farm report for June 27, 2023: Tres Gonzalez smacks 2 hits in Grasshoppers’ loss
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 33-41) was idle Next: Wednesday at Louisville (Reds), 6:35 p.m. ALTOONA (Double-A, 34-34) was idle. Next: Wednesday at Harrisburg (Nationals), 6:30 p.m. GREENSBORO (High-A, 37-31) dropped a 7-2 decision to Hickory (Rangers). LF Tres Gonzalez (.268) was 2 for 5 with a double and RBI. SS Mike Jarvis...
Rep. Guy Reschenthaler: I will never abandon Marc Fogel
Over the past five years, I’ve worked to solve a multitude of issues facing American citizens overseas. In 2020, my office helped secure the African evacuation of Andrew Mewbourn, a Hempfield Township teacher suffering from a severe eye ailment. In 2021, I fought to hold President Biden accountable for his...
Smoke from Canadian wildfires prompts events to move indoors
Smoke from wildfires in Canada is again impacting air quality in Western Pennsylvania and affecting how people work and play, and will continue to do so on Thursday. The state is advising young children, the elderly and people with respiratory problems to limit outdoor activities Wednesday because of unhealthy pollution...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will no longer speak at Moms for Liberty summit in Philly
PHILADELPHIA — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Democratic presidential candidate known for promoting anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, will no longer speak at the Moms for Liberty summit this week in Philadelphia. The campaign for Kennedy, who had been announced as a speaker a week earlier, “told us his schedule changed and...
Home prices recover further as buyers battle for tight supply of listings
Home prices in the U.S. rose for a third straight month, pushed up by growing buyer demand for a tight supply of listings. A national gauge of prices increased 0.5% in April from March, according to seasonally adjusted data from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller. The U.S. is in what’s traditionally its...
Truck startup Lordstown files for bankruptcy after Foxconn deal falls through
Lordstown Motors Corp. shares plummeted after the electric-vehicle maker once hailed by former President Donald Trump for saving automaking jobs filed for bankruptcy. The move to seek Chapter 11 protection from creditors follows a protracted dispute with iPhone maker Foxconn Technology Group over a deal to make pickup trucks for...
Darlene Leslie: In drought, water should be for people, not profit
The commonwealth of Pennsylvania has issued a drought watch, acknowledging what those of us with gardens have known for months: We are well short of the rainfall we’d normally expect by this time of year. According to the National Weather Service, we’ve received only 13.6” inches of rain when we...
Supreme Court rejects GOP claim that state lawmakers have full power over electionsVideo
WASHINGTON — In another surprise ruling, the Supreme Court on Tuesday firmly rejected a Republican claim that the Constitution gives state lawmakers full and unchecked power over the elections of members of Congress and the president in their state. The so-called independent state legislature theory had alarmed Democrats and threatened...
Trump target Al Schmidt gets crucial approval as he moves closer to becoming Pa.’s top election official
This article is made possible through Spotlight PA’s collaboration with Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting. Al Schmidt, the former Philadelphia city commissioner who made national headlines in 2020 for rebuking then-President Donald Trump’s election fraud claims, is one step closer to officially becoming Pennsylvania’s...
It’s official: Harrison has a new police chief
Harrison police Sgt. Brian Andrew Turack officially is the department’s new chief. Turack was sworn in at Monday’s commissioners meeting. He has been serving alongside retiring Chief Michael Klein since May, when commissioners appointed Turack to the chief’s post. Klein has been the chief for the past 29 years. His...
Experts debate brain imaging of Pittsburgh synagogue shooter
An MRI of Robert Bowers’ brain shows an unusually large number of white matter lesions that could be indicative of schizophrenia, an expert testified Tuesday. But those types of lesions also can be caused by uncontrolled high blood pressure, migraines or heavy smoking, the expert said. Dr. Murray A. Solomon,...
Pepsi takes on ketchup, debuting its 1st condiment
Heinz Ketchup better watch out, Pepsi’s comin’ for ya. Of course, Pittsburghers know there’s no sub for the ol’ 57, but Pepsi’s giving it a go anyway. The soda company is launching Pepsi Colachup — in a joint venture with the Culinary Institute of America Consulting — as “the world’s...
Peter Rutland: Wagner’s mutiny punctured Putin’s ‘strongman’ image and exposed cracks in his rule
Less than 24 hours after the mutiny began, it was over. As the rebelling Wagner column bore down on Moscow, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko brokered a deal under which Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to drop criminal charges against the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and allow him to seek asylum...
Letter to the editor: We need a nationalist, not a globalist, as president
For years I thought that rich people ran our country. They would pick the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate, so they didn’t care which one won. They were all for the rich. The Clintons were no different than the Bushes and Mitt Romney no different than President Obama. Then...
Sewickley area student achievements for the week of June 27, 2023
Jessica Lamperski graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of science degree in elementary education from James Madison University in May. Colin Fitzgerald, Tatum McKelvey and Ben Mohan made the dean’s list at Bucknell University for the spring 2023 semester. Gabrielle Schultz has been named to the dean’s list at...
South Hills student achievements for the week of June 27, 2023
Claire Hsu graduated from Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences with a bachelor of arts in political science. Hsu was also named to the dean’s list for the spring 2023 semester. Zachary Smith was among the 10 Thiel College student-athletes who were named recently to the 2023 Academic All-District Men’s...
North Hills student achievements for the week of June 27, 2023
Logan Falk graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor of science degree in general psychology from James Madison University in May 2023. Dawson Arnold, Kellie Smith, Mary Katherine Stewart and Luke Wood made the dean’s list at Belmont University for the spring 2023 semester. Zach Neill received a bachelor of...
Letter to the editor: Old and ‘whys’
It’s me again, old and “whys.” Why do the taxpayers have to provide more for prisoners than warm, dry and fed? Prison is supposed to be punishment, not vacation. Why do taxpayers have to support illegal immigrants who obviously are lawbreakers? That’s the illegal part, for those who can’t figure...
Editorial: Juvenile detention needs staffing solutions to keep doors open
Pennsylvania needs to find a fix for juvenile detention. So do counties. Westmoreland County’s Regional Youth Services Center has had its juvenile detention facility shut down temporarily because of staffing issues and state investigations. The investigations come after two incidents occurred in a short time frame. One was a suicide...
The Stroller, June 27, 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. ‘Encanto’ to be featured Friday at Hartwood Acres The free Allegheny...
Letter to the editor: Museum displays offensive?
I recently visited the Carnegie Museum of Natural History with a friend who was visiting from Michigan. She was fascinated with the extensive, preserved displays. However, when we reached the Egyptian area, we were confronted with a sign letting us know the bones, mummies and sarcophagus displays were going to...
Pennsylvania House votes to extend I-95 disaster proclamation until next June
A resolution that would extend to next June Gov. Josh Shapiro’s emergency disaster declaration issued in the response to the collapse of a bridge on I-95 in Philadelphia passed the state House of Representatives. The proposed extension, approved by a bipartisan 165-38 vote, would allow PennDOT to continue to be...
Witness list in Trump classified documents case should be public, press say
The judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump over his handling of classified documents denied a government request to file under seal a list of dozens of potential witnesses who the former president has been barred from speaking to about the case. Special Counsel Jack Smith hasn’t...
San Antonio airport worker died, ‘ingested’ by Delta plane engine
A worker died last week after being “ingested” into an airplane engine at San Antonio International Airport. Shortly after Delta Flight 111 arrived at the airport from Los Angeles around 10:30 p.m. Central time, a worker on the tarmac was “ingested” into the plane’s engine as it was taxiing to...
Pa. hunters experience long lines virtually, in person on 1st day of Game Commission license sales
Dorothy Mutter, a cashier at Hepler’s Hardware in Youngwood, was met with a line of hunters waiting for the shop to open when she came to work Monday morning. It was the opening day of hunting license and doe tag sales, and hunters across Pennsylvania eagerly waited, either in line...
