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Fort Ligonier will commemorate the anniversary of the death of Gen. John Forbes with a special program at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Center for History Education at the historical complex at routes 30 and 711 in Ligonier. “This new event is meant to shine some light on the man...

Music was the order of most days at the Rhodes house in South Greensburg. “Dad would play guitar and sing. My mother would harmonize while she was doing dishes,” Cathi Rhodes said. “I thought everyone grew up this way. I’d go to some of my friends’ houses, and I’d say...

Motorists who use the Highland Park Bridge ramps to connect to Sharpsburg and Aspinwall will need to allow extra time after the ramps were closed Tuesday for a long-term project. Northbound and southbound off-ramps from Route 28 to Freeport Road are scheduled to be closed through May, PennDOT announced. Crews...

The Brewer Foundation and New York University announced Pine-Richland High School is one of the “Sweet 16” teams for the Annual International Public Policy Forum — the first and only contest that gives high school students around the world the opportunity to engage in written and oral debates on issues...

Crews responded to a fire in North Braddock on Tuesday morning. The fire was reported at 6:19 a.m. in the 500 block of Stokes Avenue, an Allegheny County 911 dispatcher said. The dispatcher said no one had been taken from the scene with injuries, though crews were still battling the...

Publicize your community Easter Egg hunts, breakfasts with the Easter Bunny and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Applications being accepted for Rotary scholarships The Rotary Club of Leechburg will award community service...

Getting a handle on infrastructure status and needs appears to be a major priority for the Springdale Township commissioners. The commissioners, during their meeting Thursday, Feb. 24, said they have asked township engineer, Sean Naylor of Senate Engineering, to provide a proposal on formulating three 5-year plans. Areas of the...

NAPLES, Maine — A 22-year-old New Kensington woman was killed in a pickup truck crash, police said. The single-vehicle crash happened on Sunday night in Naples when the truck collided with a tree, police said. Police said two occupants had freed themselves from the vehicle and two others were trapped...

Franklin Regional School District is “pausing” use of a novel in a freshman honors English course after school board members asked administrators to review its use amid concerns from some residents in the district. “Persepolis,” Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel about growing up as a 10-year-old girl amidst the Iranian Revolution...

Nineteen teams of students from eight school districts in Western Pennsylvania were hoping to keep things “al dente” Monday night at the 15th annual Pasta Bridge Engineering Competition, held at Saint Vincent College. That wasn’t the case for one of three Norwin students teams. “We had some issues with the...

After four consecutive wins on the “Jeopardy!” television game show, Pittsburgh resident Margaret Shelton was defeated on Monday, ending her nearly weeklong run. Shelton risked all of her $12,300 in Final Jeopardy! and was defeated by Maureen O’Neil of New Hampshire. Shelton amassed $79,700 in earnings over her four-game win...

A federal jury on Monday ordered West Mifflin School District to pay nearly $3 million to former Superintendent Daniel Castagna in connection with his 2019 firing. The jury late last week ruled in favor of Castagna, now acting superintendent at Woodland Hills, on all but one of the claims he...

A 26-year-old man died Sunday shortly after collapsing at Allegheny County Jail. A jail spokesman said the man, later identified by family members as Gerald Thomas, exited his cell shortly after noon and asked other inmates for assistance before collapsing. “A medical emergency was called, and life-saving measures were performed...

One person was transported to a hospital after being injured in a Monday building collapse in Munhall, authorities said. Allegheny County dispatch said the collapse was reported around 4:15 p.m. at 501 E Ninth Ave. It is the home of Steadfast Outreach. Firefighters were still on scene around 6 p.m....

Courthouse Square and the Main Street entrance to the Westmoreland County Courthouse will be closed for at least six months to repair structural issues on the lower two underground parking levels below the government complex in Greensburg. Commissioners on Tuesday are expected to award a $7 million emergency contract for...

A Pittsburgh foundation has donated $100,000 to help transport desperately needed medical and other supplies to those who have fled war-torn Ukraine and those who remain under siege by the Russian army. Eden Hall Foundation has donated $100,000 to Brother’s Brother Foundation of Pittsburgh’s North Side to help pay to...

Lawyers for a Vandergrift man who suffered a broken neck and spinal cord injuries in a swimming pool accident at a friend’s Washington Township home in 2013 on Monday asked a Westmoreland County jury to award him more than $9 million in damages. Jurors will spend the next week hearing...

It’s often been said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. However, many children often go without it and show up to school hungry. In fact, nearly 100,000 area children go to bed worried about their next meal and one in five live with hunger, according to...

U.S. Steel faces a $1.8 million fine from the Allegheny County Health Department because the department said the company emitted too much hydrogen sulfide, the colorless gas that smells like rotten eggs, into the air more than 150 times since 2020. The health department said the Clairton Coke Works plant...

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified a man killed in a weekend motorcycle crash. Robert Timothy Agurs III, 28, died when his motorcycle collided with at least one other vehicle on the West End Bridge on Saturday night, according to the medical examiner. The crash happened about 7:30...

A 25-year-old man was shot and killed Monday afternoon in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, according to police. The shooting happened around 4 p.m. on Bedford Avenue, police said. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office identified the victim as Cha Ron Guyton of Pittsburgh. One person was detained for questioning, police said....

A local family is seeking support from the community after a serious accident in Natrona Heights left a member of their family in critical condition. A GoFundMe page launched by Katie Stivers is raising money to support the family after her father, Jim, was injured in a crash on March...

After putting the proposed Oakland Crossings project on hold for a couple of months, Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey said Monday that his office has reached a deal with developer Walnut Capital on proposed zoning for the large-scale development in central Oakland. The proposed 17-acre project initially included denser housing development,...

Sewickley Academy assistant Head of Schools Ken Goleski and four other faculty members are no longer working at the private Edgeworth school, academy officials confirmed Monday. The personnel changes are part of the response to a chaotic day in which students and parents attempted to deliver a petition to academy...