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Southbound Route 28 restricted to 1 lane in Aspinwall, O’Hara
The single lane restriction along Route 28 southbound in Aspinwall and O’Hara will continue through Thursday, PennDOT announced. A single-lane restriction will occur on southbound Route 28 from the Virginia Avenue on-ramp to the Highland Park Bridge interchange from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. Crews will conduct sound...
Kennywood to open on time following security meeting with DA’s office, law enforcement
Kennywood says it will open for its 125th season as scheduled on April 22 after amusement park officials met with the Allegheny County District Attorney’s office last week to address security concerns. “The intent of the meeting and future steps is to demonstrate the shared commitment the park, law enforcement...
Hallie Dong: Early school start times harm students’ health, success
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! It’s 5:30 a.m., and all around the North Allegheny School District, alarms jolt teens from their dreams. They wake up, contemplate life choices, then groggily crawl out of bed, sometimes eat breakfast, and try to catch the school bus in time. Sleep deprivation, whether due to late-night...
FBI issues warning about ‘juice jacking’ when using public charging stations
Travelers using public cellphone charging stations at airports - and other places - have been warned by the FBI to be wary of using them. Your information could be a victim of “juice jacking” by those stations available to the public in places including airports, hotels and shopping centers. Earlier...
Penn State’s Beau Pribula on QB competition, increased role and his ‘underdog mentality’
Tommy Stevens was assigned the “Lion” position ahead of the 2017 Fiesta Bowl. Will Levis featured in the “Falcon” package in 2020. There’s precedent for Penn State to utilize the legs of its backup quarterback. That’s why interest was piqued when James Franklin said at the start of spring that...
Letter to the editor: Will we hold Biden accountable for immigrant deaths?
I read the article “Pence says Trump ‘endangered my family’ on Jan. 6” (March 12, TribLIVE). Former Vice President Mike Pence said, “I had no right to overturn the election. And (Trump’s) reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day, and I know history will hold...
Penn Hills native named Thiel College’s Student of the Month
Malajah Johnson, a member of Thiel College’s class of ’23, was named as one of the Student of the Month honorees for March. The Student of the Month honor is awarded to seniors. It is among the most prestigious student awards at Thiel College, with only six students each semester...
Letter to the editor: Immigrants exploited in U.S.
The letter “DeSantis would be better than Biden” (March 28, TribLIVE) notes that “Over the last two years, our (shining city on a hill) has been tarnished” by illegal immigration. Both political parties use immigration as a political football. Neither one wants to solve the issue. They would rather have...
Pine-Richland student achievements for the week of April 11, 2023
Robby Palmieri is one of seven Baldwin Wallace Univeristy and one of 364 NCAA Division III men’s wrestlers to be named as a National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Scholar All-American honors. Palmieri, who garners his first accolade, is a national security major. This season, he was an All-Ohio Athletic Conference...
Letter to the editor: Legislation targeting university funding limits students’ opportunities
Eric Nelson is proposing legislation to decrease funding to the University of Pittsburgh, University of Pennsylvania and Temple University. These are premier public schools in the state. The University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy League school and supports one of the few veterinary schools in the nation. This legislation is...
Active shooter reports at Pitt library deemed a hoax
Reports of an active shooter at Hillman Library on the University of Pittsburgh’s Oakland campus just after 11 p.m. Monday night turned out to be false after a heavy police presence was called to the scene. At 11:20 p.m., Pittsburgh and Pitt police responded to reports of shots fired at...
Editorial: Clarence Thomas situation shows why Harrisburg needs gift ban
If you want to know why a gift ban is important, look no further than U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. On Thursday, a ProPublica investigation outlined years of travel and generosity from Texas real estate billionaire Harlan Crow to Thomas, who has sat on the country’s highest court since...
Letter to the editor: With Biden, it’s always America last
America last: This phrase becomes more true every day. Seems our government is more worried about everybody except Americans or America. We now have people from over 140 countries plowing our so-called “under control” border, including Chinese and Russians. This, mind you, is a border that the so-called border czar...
The Stroller, April 11, 2023: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
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Letter to the editor: Funding, not schools, broken
In his op-ed “Now is the time for transformational change in Pa. education” (March 28, TribLIVE), state Rep. Jesse Topper fails to mention that the majority of K-12 funding for public education comes from property taxes — not from state revenues. Pennsylvania ranks 43rd nationally for state share of funding,...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 10, 2023
High schools WPIAL Baseball Monday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Pine-Richland 12, Allderdice 0 Section 2 Hempfield 8, Baldwin 6 Central Catholic 3, Mt. Lebanon 2 Canon-McMillan 16, Norwin 13 Nonsection Carmichaels 2, McGuffey 0 Tuesday’s schedule Class 6A Section 1 Allderdice at Pine-Richland, 4:15 p.m. North Allegheny at Butler,...
High school roundup for April 10, 2023: Central Catholic gets past Mt. Lebanon in 10 innings
Brady Koziara led off the top of the 10th with a double and scored on a sacrifice fly by Cade Clister to lift Central Catholic to a 2-1 victory over Mt. Lebanon in Section 2-6A baseball Monday. Clister also drove in Central Catholic’s first run in the first inning with...
Pa. Democrats aim to appeal to working-class voters with policy, symbolism, and some anger
Pennsylvania Democrats are trying to show they can be populists, too. When Gov. Josh Shapiro took office in January, he sent a symbolic message by using his first executive order to end the four-year college degree requirement for most state government jobs. Sen. John Fetterman campaigned as a Democrat who...
Senate Democrats ask chief justice to probe Clarence Thomas’ luxury trips
WASHINGTON — All Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have called on Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate undisclosed luxury trips that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted from a wealthy Republican donor. The panel, the Democrats said in a Monday letter, would soon hold a hearing on the court’s...
Analysis: What does Odell Beckham Jr.’s deal mean for Ravens, Lamar Jackson?Video
The hints were there. Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey last month tweeted that Odell Beckham Jr. “looks like a Raven to me.” John Harbaugh said at the NFL owners meetings in Phoenix two weeks ago — three days after signing free agent receiver Nelson Agholor — that Baltimore wasn’t done...
Bethel Park speaker sends care packages to native Ukraine
Millions have fled war-torn Ukraine, but when Russia invaded the country last year, Lesya Jurgovsky’s first instinct was to pack her bags to go there and help. She didn’t. Jurgovsky, a Ukraine native who has lived in the United States since 2004, made a life in Pittsburgh complete with a...
Trump appeals ruling that Mike Pence has to testify to Jan. 6 grand juryVideo
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is appealing a court decision that would require former Vice President Mike Pence to appear before a federal grand jury investigating efforts to undermine the 2020 presidential election, according to a person familiar with the matter. A federal judge in Washington in late March rejected the...
Fox News settles 2020 election-related defamation suit with Venezuelan businessman
It’s not the settlement the media industry has been anticipating, but Fox News has reached an agreement with a Venezuelan businessman whose name was linked to false allegations about voting machines used in the 2020 election. Attorneys for Fox News and Majed Khalil, the plaintiff in the suit, filed a...
Grand jury charges mother of Virginia 6-year-old who shot teacher
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A Newport News grand jury on Monday indicted the mother of the 6-year-old boy who shot his first grade teacher at Richneck Elementary School three months ago. Deja Nicole Taylor, 25, of Newport News — whose son shot 25-year-old teacher Abby Zwerner during class on Jan....
Pa. Supreme Court candidates with party backing show fundraising advantage
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. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — The candidates running for an open seat on Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court are getting campaign money from wealthy donors, their...
