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In his commentary “In Pa., will Shapiro unlock decades of affordable energy?” (Jan. 24, TribLIVE), Gordon Tomb of the Commonwealth Foundation presents a biased picture, ignores basic physics and, for good measure, contradicts himself. Tomb doesn’t seem interested in energy production unless that production comes from burning fossil fuels. He...

Kaden Smith scored 22 points as No. 14 Clairton stunned No. 3 Fort Cherry, 53-46, in a WPIAL boys basketball Class 2A first-round playoff game Tuesday night. Devon Dean and Taris Wooding each added eight points for the Bears (11-12), who took an 18-11 advantage after one quarter and led...

The Biden administration announced a policy Tuesday that would limit asylum access to immigrants who cross into the U.S. without authorization and fail to apply for protections on the way to the southern border with Mexico. The proposal will not take effect immediately and will go through a regulatory process...

High schools WPIAL playoffs Boys Class 6A Quarterfinals Friday’s schedule Norwin (14-8) at New Castle (20-2), 7 p.m.; Butler (14-7) at Mt. Lebanon (15-7), 7 p.m.; Seneca Valley (9-12) at Upper St. Clair (14-8), 7 p.m.; Baldwin (12-10) vs. Central Catholic (13-9) at Gateway, 7 p.m. Class 5A Quarterfinals Wednesday’s...

For the first time since the 2018 season, the Belle Vernon girls basketball team is moving on in the WPIAL playoffs. Presleigh Colditz hit the first playoff 3-pointer since 2021 to start the fourth quarter, and Kenzi Seliga added another three minutes later to help push the Leopards (15-8) to...

Highlands’ Katelyn Myers carried her hot shooting into the playoffs, leading the host Golden Rams to a 54-34 victory over Laurel Highlands in a WPIAL Class 4A girls first-round game Tuesday evening. A junior, Myers scored a game-high 21 points, including six 3-pointers. Four of those treys came in the...

WASHINGTON — Tucker Carlson’s access to unpublicized footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is an “egregious security breach” by Republicans, the House’s top Democrat says. Democrats will hold a virtual conference call on Wednesday to discuss the details of the thousands of hours of security footage that, Axios first...

A husband and wife are dead from an apparent murder-suicide in Monroeville on Tuesday, according to police. Allegheny County Police homicide detectives are investigating the shooting incident after Monroeville and Pitcairn police officers responded to a call for gunfire in the 400 block of Ashbury Court in Monroeville. First responders...

A remote section of the Great Allegheny Passage between Ohiopyle and Confluence is closed for the next two months while construction crews replace an aging culvert. The section between mile markers 68 and 69 was closed earlier this month in Ohiopyle State Park and construction vehicle traffic is heavy in...

Guns N’ Roses is returning to the road for the first time since 2021 in a major way this year. The veteran band’s 2023 tour of stadiums, festivals and arenas, which will crisscross the globe between June and October, was announced Tuesday. The tour, with original members Axl Rose, guitarist...

Kraft Heinz and singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran have collaborated on a new brand of hot sauce that uses Sheeran’s childhood nickname. Tingly Ted’s comes in two varieties — Tingly Sauce and Xtra Tingly Sauce — that are available for pre-order now before being rolled out worldwide later this year. Sheeran, who...

The Lenten season is upon us, which means many Christians are fasting and abstaining from things they enjoy or even from what they consider to be bad habits for the next 40 days. How did this tradition originate? By the fourth century, the 40-day fast was common enough to be...

After the train derailment in Ohio, now is the time for the conservatives to push for more pipelines, as transporting dangerous materials by pipelines seems safer than by rail cars. Clem Zahrobsky Delmont...

Caitlin Dee, a 2013 graduate of Baldwin High School, has received a Fulbright Award to teach in Malta. Dee is working as an English Teaching Assistant (ETA) for the 2023 academic year, supporting the teaching of English at St. Benedict College Kirkop Secondary School and the University of Malta as...

Mary Katherine Stewart, Kellie Smith, Dawson Arnold and Luke Wood were named to the dean’s lsit at Belmont University for the fall 2022 semester. Hollianne Sebrosky, a class of 2023 criminal justice major at York College of Pennsylvania, was named to the fall 2022 dean’s list. Olivia Whitacre was one...

Gibsonia residents Albert and Thelma Weigand celebrated 65 years of marriage on Feb. 11. The couple was introduced to each other by Thelma’s friend, Gerry Bly, on Christmas Day in 1956. They got engaged in August of 1957 and married on Feb. 11, 1958. Albert worked at several places when...

Madelyn Kramer and Emma Szymanski were named to the dean’s list at Saint Francis University for the fall 2022 semester. Lydia Nebiolo was named to the dean’s list at Frostburg State University for the fall 2022 semester. Youngstown State University students Alexis Cerny and Luke Franks were named to the...

In the article “Activists: Shell cracker plant not living up to ‘good neighbor’ promises” (Feb. 2, TribLIVE), spokesperson Curtis Thomas claims Shell alerts the community about flaring events. This flaring, seen miles away, is apparently just a part of the plant operating, but Thomas’ statement is inaccurate. Shell Monaca has...

East Palestine, Ohio, is not the only place where Norfolk Southern has tracks and runs trains. The Georgia-based railroad company is the fifth-largest railway in the country. It operates about 19,500 miles of track crisscrossing the eastern United States. It pulled in $11.14 billion in revenue in 2021. The company...

To write or not to write, that was the question. The reprehensible display during the president’s State of the Union address is what necessitates this letter. Like Joe Biden or not, I expected silence from the audience, not crude outbursts. The office of the presidency deserves courtesy even if you...

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Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli claims her accident was “minor” — $33,000 in damages to a $33,000 vehicle (“Westmoreland DA crash racks up nearly $33,000 in SUV repairs,” Feb. 16, TribLIVE). Boy, I would hate to see her idea of a major accident. I am a former county employee...