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Caleb Szramowski of Pittsburgh was named to Southern New Hampshire University’s fall 2022 President’s List. Full-time undergraduate students who have earned a minimum grade-point average of 3.700 and above qualify for the list. Justin Donnick and Aniya Peterson, both of Aspinwall and Leia Ross, Jacob Stahl and Alexis Vivino, all...

Bethel Park Boris Tafkov sold property at 4471-4473 Fourth St. to Brandon Quarles Jr. and Alexandria Quarles for $244,000. Estate of Phillip Fink sold property at 1290 Bethel Green Drive to Almond and David Maleski for $247,000. Agnes Smith sold property at 5805 Glen Hill Drive to Daniel and Danielle...

High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Saturday’s results PBC Legends Classic At Moon Hampton 84, Bethel Park 71 Moon 62, Montour 39 Quaker Valley 65, Canon-McMillan 36 Northgate 65, Riverview 30 The Challenge At Allderdice Imani Christian 71, Central Catholic 66 Highlands 69, North Hills 52 Plum 78, Sto-Rox 69 Allderdice...

Cal (Pa.) had a big Saturday night on the recruiting trail, picking up commitments from a handful of the top high school football players in Western Pennsylvania. McKeesport’s Bobbie Boyd, the Westinghouse duo of Keyshawn Morsillo and Sincere Smith and Bethel Park’s Aidan Currie all committed to the Vulcans in...

Bradyn Foster recorded a double-double with 25 points and 11 rebounds to lead Highlands to a 69-52 boys basketball victory over North Hills at The Challenge at Allderdice on Saturday. Jimmy Kunst added 18 points and Cam Reigard scored 17 for the Golden Rams (13-2), who have won six in...

Westmoreland County Coaches’ Association held its second bowling championship at Hillview Lanes in Greensburg on Saturday. Franklin Regional’s captain, Brandon Smith, took home the boys individual title, and Penn-Trafford’s Alyssa Balest took home her second straight girls title. Both individuals’ high scores contributed to their teams’ overall scoring. Balest scored...

Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican whose 2022 election to the House of Representatives flipped a seat previously held by a Democrat, faces pressure to resign for having reportedly lied extensively about his education, employment history and religious heritage. He also faces allegations that he may have participated in...

Amazon is laying off more than 18,000 workers. Salesforce is shedding 8,000, and Twitter has let go thousands more. While we should never minimize the difficulties of people facing an unexpected layoff, these announcements by major tech companies are not a large-scale tragedy for the American economy. What would be...

North Hills swimming coach Nicole Loutsenhizer leads student-athletes in the pool. But she also feels as if she could take charge of a Model UN class nowadays. Her team is nothing if not diverse. “We have six swimmers who were born in or are from a different country,” said Loutsenhizer,...

North Hills began the 2022-23 PIHL hockey season with a trio of overtime games. The Indians won the first two, then suffered a disappointing setback in a 5-4 loss to Avonworth on Oct. 24. But since then, no one in Class A has been better than North Hills, which has...

The Central Catholic boys basketball team had moved to the top spot in the Trib HSSN rankings following wins over New Castle, Butler and Lincoln Park. On Jan. 17, North Allegheny crashed the Vikings’ party, upsetting Central Catholic, 62-46, at UPMC Court. Joey Dopirak scored 15 points, Ty Iwanonkiw hit...

Damar Hamlin, a safety for the Buffalo Bills, almost died Jan. 2. His heart stopped after a blow to his chest during a “Monday Night Football” game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Thanks to prompt attention by team trainers and paramedics, Hamlin survived, and America enjoyed a collective sigh of relief...

After having the entire spring, summer and fall, PennDOT did little to serve the growing openings in the lanes and seams on Route 30, and now we have moved to larger, deeper holes in random spots running from the Pittsburgh Street entrance near the mall all the way to Latrobe....

Not seeing many ‘wins’ from Gov. Tom Wolf I read with interest the Spotlight PA article “Here’s what outgoing Gov. Tom Wolf will be remembered for” (Jan. 12, TribLIVE). I noticed the authors mostly sought the opinions of politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, in order to propose Wolf “leaves behind...

Thank you, editors, for the excellent editorial “Was Westmoreland County DA Nicole Ziccarelli’s car crash a minor incident?” (Jan. 10, TribLIVE). Ziccarelli should be ashamed of what she did. Does she not own her own car? Did she ever hear about Uber? Lana Lindauer Greensburg...

The letter “EPA’s new soot standards welcome” (Jan. 16, TribLIVE) from a PennEnvironment activist suffers from the same tunnel vision that the EPA does. They both say that tighter standards to reduce soot will save thousands of lives in the U.S. each year. But the EPA and activists never look...

When is taking a sign out of the ground a crime and when is it not? That was the question a Westmoreland County jury had to decide. Did former Franklin Regional School Board member Gary English, 66, of Murrysville steal someone’s property by pulling out the signs that pop up...

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Twenty-one Fox Chapel Area School District students were selected by audition to perform with the 2023 Allegheny Valley senior and junior high honors bands. Seventh to 12th grade student musicians from the Avonworth, Fox Chapel Area, Hampton, North Allegheny, Northgate, North Hills, Pine-Richland, Riverview, and Shaler Area school districts auditioned,...

High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Friday’s results Class 4A Section 1 Knoch 58, Greensburg Salem 31 Section 2 Blackhawk 72, Hopewell 27 Lincoln Park 76, Beaver 59 North Catholic 80, Ambridge 51 Class 3A Section 1 Neshannock 93, Freedom 37 Ellwood City 63, New Brighton 51 Riverside at Beaver Falls,...

Cruce Brookins scored 40 points to lead Steel Valley to a 73-65 victory over Seton LaSalle in a matchup of Section 2-3A boys basketball contenders Friday night. Makhai Valentine added 25 for the Ironmen (7-9, 5-2). Connor Spratt led the Rebels (4-9, 3-4) with 37 points. Allderdice 68, Obama Academy...

Homicide charges against two men who were accused in a North Side shootout that killed three people were withdrawn by prosecutors on Friday after they said that the trajectory from which the shots were fired did not match evidence against them. Charron Troutman, 19, and Samuel Pegues, 30, will both...

Niebel named 2022 Distinguished Alumnus Captain Thomas J. Niebel has been honored as the 2022 Distinguished Alumnus at the National Honor Society induction ceremony at Shaler Area School District. Niebel, a 1996 graduate of Shaler Area High School, was commissioned in May 2000 through the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps...

No. No one planted the various top secret and/or classified documents in the University of Pennsylvania office of President Joe Biden or in Biden’s locked garage where he also keeps his Corvette. And no one planted the documents inside his Delaware home either. An overly zealous Black Democrat congressman recently...

Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate fell to a record low in December, dropping below 4% for the first time since record-keeping began, according to figures released Friday. Payrolls and the workforce grew but remain below pre-pandemic record levels. The rate fell one-tenth of a percentage point to 3.9% from November’s rate, the state...