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Bethel Park students continue tradition of serving breakfast to veterans
Election Day meant a day off school for most kids in Bethel Park, but a small group of students went to Independence Middle School, anyway, to serve breakfast to veterans. Eleven middle school students and five high school students helped serve about 75 veterans in the IMS cafeteria on Nov....
Garen Wintemute: How a divided America splits on QAnon, racism and armed patrols at polling places
There is much talk about political violence in America these days. Garen Wintemute, a University of California, Davis, scholar who researches firearm violence, has recently led a nationwide survey research project on political violence. The Conversation U.S. asked him for a portrait of what Americans think about political violence as...
Remember When: WKPA Radio broadcast to the Alle-Kiski Valley for over 50 years
It was once the “Voice of the Valley.” For more than 50 years, WKPA Radio of New Kensington presented a mix of local news, plus many genres of pop and ethnic music, along with sports talk. WKPA was chartered June 25, 1940, and the call letters stood for Kensington, Pa....
Review: In ‘The Fabelmans,’ Spielberg looks back in vanityVideo
A movie by one of Hollywood’s most successful directors that’s based on his early life begins, appropriately enough, at a movie theater and ends in a movie back lot. “The Fabelmans” is clearly a very personal film for Steven Spielberg and it’s as much a coming-of-age journey as a form...
Letter to the editor: Regulations on industry protect us
Do you believe regulations on industry should be reduced or eliminated? Remember, that includes eliminating the regulations on chemicals industry can release into our rivers and send to our landfills. The chemicals all end up in our drinking water. Vickie Oles Ligonier Township...
5 mistakes you’re making with Medicare open enrollment
Millions of retirees are in the thick of Medicare open enrollment, which runs from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7, but many find the process challenging. Some don’t understand the difference between Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage, many are overwhelmed by Medicare advertising, and only 4 in 10 people review their...
Letter to the editor: Are we too lazy to vote in person?
If you can get around and do your normal daily activities, then one day a year you can take 10 minutes to go to your local election site. Here’s the problem: Society is so lazy that people can’t even muster the incredible strength to actually do their own shopping or...
Editorial: Election rules shouldn’t differ county to county
OK, it’s over now, right? The political ads are done. The polls opened. The polls closed. The ballots were cast. The early and absentee ballots came into election offices and through the mail. It’s all done but the final counting and certification, right? Oh, if only that were true. We...
Letter to the editor: Domestic drilling would ease our gas pains
Just as gas prices started to recede somewhat (albeit slowly), we now see they are rising again. Why? Because Saudi Arabia, in coordination with Russia and other oil-producing nations (OPEC), decided to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day. For Russia, higher gas prices could help them finance...
The Stroller, Nov. 9, 2022: 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. Holiday scavenger hunt to aid local families A Santa’s List scavenger...
Letter to the editor: Celebrating the Jayhawks
This season the Jeannette faithful have endured criticism and disrespect from the Tribune-Review. Yes, some kids left the district, not the city. Yes, some kids left the city and now reside in other districts. This letter isn’t about those student athletes or their families; people need to make decisions that...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Nov. 8, 2022
High schools Field hockey PIAA playoffs Class 3A First round Tuesday’s results Downingtown West 1, Souderton 0 Wilson 4, Cardinal O’Hara 0 Honesdale 5, Spring-Ford 4 Emmaus 4, Methacton 1 Lower Dauphin 3, Central Bucks West 1 Great Valley 2, Easton 0 Conestoga 3, Penn Manor 1 Manheim Township 2,...
High school roundup for Nov. 8, 2022: WPIAL champion Moon pulls off comeback win
Aedan Costa’s second goal of the game provided the winning margin as WPIAL champion Moon rallied from a two-goal deficit to earn a 3-2 win over Palmyra in a PIAA Class 3A first-round boys soccer playoff game Tuesday. Palmyra (18-4-1) jumped out to an early 2-0 lead after the first...
Voters report problems at some polls, but Westmoreland County says human error most likely cause
Voters in several precincts in the Alle-Kiski Valley reported problems with voting machines Tuesday, but Westmoreland County election officials said the machines worked properly. At issue were votes cast in three precincts in New Kensington and at least one in Lower Burrell. In each of the cases, voters reported that,...
Syrian man who plotted to blow up North Side church gets 17 years in federal prison
Mustafa Mousab Alowemer told a federal judge Tuesday that coming to the United States in 2016 from war-torn Syria where he witnessed dozens, if not hundreds, of atrocities as a child made him “feel like a human being, safe, conflict-free and peaceful.” It was a place that should have been...
2022 Pennsylvania general election results
The close races for Pennsylvania’s next governor and for its open U.S. Senate seat were the top draws as Western Pa. voters made their way to the polls Tuesday. Overnight, Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman was declared the winner of the Senate seat, and Pa. Attorney General Josh Shapiro had...
Christian Pulisic embracing the pressure of spearheading U.S. World Cup ambitionsVideo
LOS ANGELES — Landon Donovan was the young leader of a talented U.S. team that hadn’t won a World Cup game in eight years when he made his tournament debut in 2002. That’s the same situation Christian Pulisic will face Nov. 21 when the U.S., which didn’t qualify for the...
Penn State’s James Franklin praises disruptive defenders, another true freshmanVideo
Penn State’s 2022 recruiting class continues to leave its stamp on the Nittany Lions’ successful season. No. 14 Penn State hosts Big Ten East rival Maryland (6-3) at 3:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon. If James Franklin’s team can run the table in its remaining regular-season games, a 10-2 finish likely would...
Column: Replenishing PGA Tour pipeline starts in collegeVideo
Tiger Woods was one college kid who got everyone’s attention on the PGA Tour. Retired commissioner Tim Finchem recalls being in the players’ dining room at Firestone during the old World Series of Golf in 1996 when Woods, the NCAA champion at Stanford, was going after a third straight U.S....
PennDOT plans short-term closure of Route 28 on-ramp southbound at Fox Chapel Road
PennDOT is planning a short-term closure of the ramp from Fox Chapel Road onto southbound Route 28 in O’Hara Township on Wednesday morning, Nov. 9 weather permitting. Crews will perform shoulder paving on the ramp from Fox Chapel Road to southbound Route 28, requiring a full closure beginning at approximately...
Students paint windows of Tull Family Theater in advance of ‘Black Panther’ premiere
Moon Area School District middle school students put their talents to work on Nov. 8 at The Tull Family Theater. The students, some of them introduced to set design and construction during the theater’s summer Cinema Maker Sessions (CiMS), worked with art teacher Paula Cherian to learn about masking technique...
Luke Bernstein: Autonomous vehicle law puts Pa. in driver’s seat of opportunity, innovation
Pennsylvania’s Legislature recently put the commonwealth in the driver’s seat of innovation and economic opportunity by sending a bill to Gov. Tom Wolf’s desk that paves the way for autonomous vehicle development. In the final days of the 2021-22 session, the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry worked with state...
In a recent WWII Days reenactment, some participants played the Nazis — here’s why they do it
Someone has to play the bad guy. Someone has to play the Nazi. Otherwise, how do you teach history? I heard this a lot. Whenever I would ask anyone portraying a German soldier at Rockford, Illinois’ annual World War II Days about why they had chosen to reenact a soldier...
‘They erase everything’: For this ‘Black Panther 2’ star, representation is resistanceVideo
On his first day at work on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Tenoch Huerta gave an impromptu speech. Hanging above his colleagues on wires in his Namor regalia — pointy ears, piercings, the shortest of short green shorts — the Mexican actor addressed everyone present to express his thanks and to...
Researchers create molecule that kills hard-to-treat cancers
DALLAS — Researchers from two North Texas universities have created a molecule that kills a spectrum of hard-to-treat cancers, including an aggressive form of breast cancer. Their work was published in the journal Nature Cancer. The researchers tested the molecule in isolated cells, human cancer tissue and in mice, with...
