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Wreaths to be placed on graves of about 4,600 veterans at area cemeteries
Veterans buried in 10 cemeteries in Hempfield, Irwin, North Huntingdon and Penn Township will be honored Saturday with wreaths on their graves as part of a national program. Volunteers with the North Huntingdon Chapter of Wreaths Across America will lay 2,880 wreaths on the graves of veterans buried in Union...
‘The Pittsburgh Novel’ catalogs Western Pennsylvania fiction back to the late 1700s
As a young man in the early 1960s, Peter Oresick stopped at his local library and borrowed a copy of “Request for Sherwood Anderson,” a story collection by fellow Ford City native Frank Brookhouser. In the book, he recognized settings and surnames from his hometown – and that was the...
Report: Reliability, low fares, short trips key to transit in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia
(The Center Square) – As transit agencies across the country struggle to recover from pandemic-induced ridership loss, getting back to the basics of reliability might matter most. A new report from Moovit, a trip-planning app, analyzed user data in 2022 in 10 major American cities. Transit riders complained of unreliable...
How Fed’s series of rate hikes could affect your finances
NEW YORK — The Federal Reserve’s move Wednesday to raise its key rate by a half-point brought it to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, the highest level in 14 years. The Fed’s latest increase — its seventh rate hike this year — will make it even costlier for consumers...
TV Talk: WOW wrestling star Rachel Kelvington has roots in Western Pa.Video
On the first-year, nationally-syndicated series “WOW — Women of Wrestling,” wrestler Chantilly Chella is from Indio, Calif. In real life, the woman who plays Chella, Rachel Kelvington, is from Western Pennsylvania. But the rest of Chella’s backstory, as revealed in a November episode (supportive mom, alcoholic dad), syncs up with...
Santa pays his pre-Christmas visit to Arnold neighborhoods — with help from Fire Company No. 2
Volunteers with Arnold Volunteer Fire Company No. 2 walk through the city’s neighborhoods delivering goodies to kids and families while Santa Claus rides behind in his sleigh Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. Fire Company No. 2 has been helping bring Santa to visit locals around the neighborhoods since the 1960s. With...
Carnegie Science Center puts moon rock from Apollo mission on display
A moon rock collected during a 1971 Apollo mission to the moon will be making its home at Carnegie Science Center for at least the next five years. The moon rock was taken by crew members of Apollo 15, in the fourth human landing on the moon, from the top...
‘Ellen’ show DJ tWitch dead at age 40
The man known to many daytime viewers of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” as tWitch has died, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office. Stephen Boss, known as tWitch while serving as DJ on DeGeneres’s daytime show was 40 years old. TMZ is reporting the death appears to be...
No, holiday tips are not mandatory — especially if your finances have changed. Here’s what etiquette experts say
Ah, the holiday season. It arrives each winter, bringing feelings of gratitude, merriment, generosity — and financial anxiety. The cost of gifts and gatherings isn’t the only subject that weighs on people’s minds this time of year. Holiday tipping can be stressful, too, with individuals, couples, and families deciding which...
TV Q&A: Who’s the new KDKA-TV anchor?
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: I turned KDKA-TV on as a newscast was concluding at 7 p.m. Dec. 2. There was a new female anchor with Kym Gable. Who is...
Pitt honors Trib publisher with distinguished alumni award
The University of Pittsburgh recently honored Trib Total Media President and CEO Jennifer Bertetto for her professional accomplishments in the news industry. The university recognized Bertetto with the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professional Achievement Alumni Award. The school’s dean, Kathleen Blee, said the award recognizes...
Westmoreland officials kick off effort to target blight at Greensburg building set for demolition
It was a bittersweet moment for local officials Tuesday as they contemplated the impending demolition of a 119-year-old building on Greensburg’s South Main Street. “I’m a bit torn, a bit heartbroken,” said Brian Lawrence, executive director of the Westmoreland County Redevelopment Authority, as he stood across the street from the...
Wawa goes west: Convenience chain is eyeing locations in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana
Wawa is scouting new store sites in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, with the first gas-and-sandwich convenience stores under the flying-goose signs to be announced next year and opened after 2025, the company said recently. It also plans to move into Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia by 2024. The company...
Shapiro says Pennsylvania Taylor Swift fans will have another chance to get tour tickets
Pennsylvania fans of pop singer Taylor Swift will have another opportunity to purchase tickets to shows within the state, Attorney General Josh Shapiro said on Tuesday. Tickets for Swift’s “Eras Tour” received such high demand when pre-sales began in November that Ticketmaster canceled sales, leading to a national fiasco. Politicians...
PLCB’s high-end liquor lotteries now off limits to its employees and families
Competition for the limited-release of high-end Pappy Van Winkle products offered by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board last month in a lottery didn’t include any bourbon enthusiasts who work for the agency. Neither did it include any of those 6,800 employees’ spouses, agency board members, their children regardless of where...
Fettermans to appear in Pennsylvania-shot Netflix film starring Christian Bale
John and Gisele Fetterman already have become political celebrities after the high-profile victory in this year’s Pennsylvania Senate race. Their profiles are poised to rise even higher as both will appear in a new Netflix film that premieres later this month. In a tweet, John Fetterman shared a photo of...
$10K reward offered for information about embalmed head found in Beaver County
A $10,000 reward is being offered for this week only in the bizarre case of a woman’s embalmed head that was found lying along a road in Beaver County in 2014. The Beaver County Detective Bureau and Economy Borough police are offering a $5,000 reward that is being matched by...
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking ‘White Lotus’ season finale, Steve Byrne, ‘A League of Their Own,’ Beau BermanVideo
In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including the status of Pittsburgh-filmed “A League of Their Own.” It’s now been roughly four months since the premieres of filmed-in-Pittsburgh series Amazon Freevee comedy...
Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top co-headlining tour visiting Star Lake
A pair of classic rock favorites are bringing the Sharp Dressed Simple Man tour to the Pittsburgh area late next summer. Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top, both members of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, will visit the Pavilion at Star Lake on Sept. 3, 2023. Uncle Kracker will...
Beery Christmas and Hoppy New Year: 10 festive beers to stuff in your holiday stocking
Candy canes are fun. Gift cards are useful. But nothing festively stuffs a stocking — or brightens a Hanukkah or Kwanzaa for that matter — quite like a beer tasting of the season. Holiday beers come in an array of styles: light and dark; elaborate and blessedly simple; sweet, tart...
The 22 best (and 5 worst) movies of 2022, a ‘Maverick’ kind of year
After two years Hollywood would rather forget, 2022 offered some hope. At the beginning of the year, the December 2021 holdover “Spider-Man: No Way Home” was still rocking the box office, breathing life back into the Hollywood machine after the covid-19 pandemic completely derailed the movie industry. That movie proved...
Holiday sale brings out shoppers at Bushy Run Battlefield
Bill and Karen Gourdie were ready for the rush. The owners of Bushy Run Winery brought 30 cases to sell Sunday afternoon for the fourth annual Bushy Run Battlefield Heritage Society Christmas sale. “They’ll probably be all gone by the end of the day,” Karen Gourdie said. Husband Bill serves...
Sharing a roof, and money, with adult kids
When Amanda Claypool was 28, she left a government contracting job in Washington, D.C., and moved back to her parents’ house in upstate New York while she figured out her next step. Then the pandemic struck, and her temporary return lasted longer than she’d planned. Living with her parents for...
Victory Brinker joins Latshaw Pops for holiday show at The Palace
“America’s Got Talent” veteran Victory Brinker will reunite with the Latshaw Pops Orchestra for “The Sounds of Christmas,” set for 3 p.m. Sunday at The Palace Theatre in Greensburg. The precocious opera singer, now 10, made her first appearance in the orchestra’s annual holiday concert in 2021. “Our orchestra was...
Photos: It’s all downhill for 300 skiing Santas, a Grinch and a tree
NEWRY, Maine — A bunch of Santa lookalikes took to the ski slopes to spread some seasonal cheer on Sunday. More than 300 jolly ol’ elves — all dressed in red — dashed together down a mountain with white beards and Santa hats flapping in the breeze at the Sunday...
