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The Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media on Monday closed the Regent Square Theater and the Harris Theater, Downtown, and will cease operations at year’s end in the Marshall Mansion, its main building at the corner of Fifth and Shady avenues in Pittsburgh’s East End. In a letter to its...

College-level esports finally may be getting a little respect. They haven’t signed any deals to replace college football on Saturday afternoon TV. And it’s not exactly Gatorade, but the Robert Morris University esports team has a new corporate partnership deal with Mountain Dew AMP Game Fuel, an energy drink especially...

A Slippery Rock University student is trying to bring “The Rock” to The Rock. Samantha Kochis, 20, created an online petition on Change.org to bring movie megastar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to Slippery Rock University, also nicknamed The Rock. “This campaign started out as a joke among a few friends....

A former Westmoreland County chief deputy sheriff claims in a federal civil lawsuit she was subjected to age and sex discrimination because she was the first woman to hold the supervisory position in a department dominated by men. Patricia Fritz of Mt. Pleasant is seeking unspecified damages in the lawsuit...

A green space project in Penn Hills and Churchill will get a $500,000 boost from state money, state Sen. Jay Costa Jr. announced Monday. The $500,000 grant will go to Allegheny Land Trust, the future owners of the former Churchill Country Club property. “It is exciting to see a partnership...

A Mt. Pleasant man remains in jail on allegations he seriously injured a cat he threw against a wall. Tyler Robert Kebberly, 21, is being held in the Westmoreland County Prison without bond on an aggravated animal cruelty charge, a felony. Police arrested him Friday. Investigators were called by Green...

Parking at meters and in city-owned metered lots will be free on Thanksgiving through Sunday, Dec. 1, according to the Pittsburgh Parking Authority. The authority’s board of directors Wednesday unanimously agreed to waive meter enforcement for Saturday, Nov. 30, a busy shopping day dubbed Small Business Saturday. Parking at meters...

Friday garbage pickup in New Kensington has been pushed back a day, according to the city. The city said in a news release that garbage normally scheduled to be picked up on Friday would be picked up on Saturday instead because of the Thanksgiving holiday....

Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series that features Alle-Kiski Valley residents and the notable things they do. A love of fly fishing and a love of helping people thousands of miles away has bonded a pair of Oakmont brothers. Matt Geppert and his older brother, Sam, grew...

Highlands School District appears ready to go to work to remedy deficiencies from a state performance measure. Assistant Superintendent Cathleen Cubelic said the Pennsylvania Future Ready Index showed Highlands students are not meeting state averages in a number of categories. The three testing categories were: state assessment measures, on-track measures...

Allegheny Valley School District officials are considering fortifying the Lincoln Avenue wall of Veterans Memorial Stadium in Springdale. “It’s pretty evident that the wall is continuing to move,” Matt Pitsch of Senate Engineering told the school board last week. The large block wall of the stadium where the Springdale Junior- Senior...

Cathy Blythe was driving past the shuttered Rite Aid on Corbet Street in Tarentum when, she says, God spoke to her. He told her to call the real estate agent selling the building. Blythe took over as pastor of Abundant Joy Fellowship in Tarentum after her husband, Greg Blythe, died...

My previous column dealing with Lafayette Street in 1939 described a “frontier” neighborhood full of newly constructed houses and numerous vacant lots. This week, I have imported my brother, Joe, and Dale DeBlander to help describe a much more mature neighborhood, 15 years later, in 1954. One of several errors...

Brennan Calloway’s eyes light up and a smile stretches across his face when Paige Banas enters Chartiers Valley Primary School. He and Paige, a Chartiers Valley High School senior, do a secret handshake before starting a lesson together. About 20 students from Chartiers Valley High School venture across the street...

Gasoline prices in the Pittsburgh area rose over the past week despite falling nationally, according to the price-tracking website GasBuddy.com. In the Pittsburgh area, gas prices went up 7.1 cents per gallon over the past week to an average of $2.86 per gallon, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 731 stations....

An argument over money led to the early-morning stabbing of a 28-year-old Monessen woman who was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital Monday, police said. Tiffany Grogan, 37, is accused of stabbing Haley Aldrich inside Aldrich’s residence at Highland Manor in the 300 block of 10th Street at 1:42 a.m., according...

On Thanksgiving morning, Doris Daigle can be found in one place — the intersection of Westminster Avenue and West Pittsburgh Street in Greensburg. She will be looking up the hill through her red-framed eyeglasses at a sea of runners closing in on the finish line of the city’s annual Turkey...

Stuff the Cruiser event set in Saxonburg Saxonburg Police Department will host a Stuff the Cruiser event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at South Butler County Library, 240 W. Main St., and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Saxonburg Coffee and Tea, 211 W. Main St., in...

Companies increasingly are going beyond what federal mandates require when it comes to reducing their negative impact on the environment and quality of life of residents. It’s not because benevolent company leaders want to do charity work, but because their investors, employees and consumers are demanding it, said Jerry MacCleary,...

Cheswick residents can dispose of their electronic and hazardous household waste in the final of four special collections this year on Dec. 6. Residents have until 5 p.m. Monday to schedule a pickup by calling Vogel Disposal Service at 724-625-1511. Household items being collected include latex paint, automotive products, garden...

Allegheny County police believe a man and a woman were shot to death Sunday night in Wilkinsburg by a passenger their car. Police found Elarrah Nichole Findley, 18, of Pittsburgh lying in the road in the 700 block of Midland Street after multiple 911 calls were received shortly after 9...

It was a celebration of martial arts throughout Pennsylvania and beyond as hundreds of competitors from across the state and throughout the country descended on Valley High School earlier this month for the 47th annual Pennsylvania Karate Championships. Frank Caliguri, event co-organizer, said he was pleased with the spirit of...

A Mt. Lebanon engineering and architecture firm will study Norwin school facilities and prioritize what needs to be repaired or replaced and how much it would cost. The school board hired VEBH Architects to do the comprehensive facilities master plan for $35,800. The plan is to be finished in March...

As a teenager growing up in the East Huntingdon village of Tarrs in the early 1970s, Paul D. Poole found the path he would follow the rest of his life. “He felt the call to serve in the ministry at age 16. He was influenced by his pastor, Wesley Jantsen,”...