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Charity ride through Frick Park raises money for family of mountain biker who died in May
The untimely death of a mountain biker from Pittsburgh hit close to home for Dave Brown. Brown, 47, of Plum started coaching on the Pittsburgh East Composite Mountain Bike Team earlier this year when his 12-year-old son joined the team. The biking team comprises around 40 athletes from school districts...
Serious covid-19 outbreak threatens hundreds at Pa. prison for medically vulnerable
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan 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 — A serious coronavirus outbreak is unfolding inside the Pennsylvania prison facility for medically vulnerable inmates diagnosed with cancer or...
Thomas Solich is the piano man at the Pittsburgh Opera’s saleVideo
Thomas Solich learned to play the piano by reading Braille, a system of raised dots that can be read with the fingers by people who are blind or who have low vision. He can’t see the more than 100 stunning instruments in the room as they sit idle, waiting for...
To help economy, bank proposes tax on working from home
LONDON — White collar staff reaping the financial benefits of working from home should be taxed to help other workers who aren’t getting the same advantages, experts at Deutsche Bank said in a new report. In its report on how to rebuild the economy after covid-19, the bank proposed a...
Irwin’s Victoria Piekut feels like a winner even without Miss USA crown
Victoria Piekut didn’t come home from Memphis with the Miss USA crown, but she said she still feels like a winner. The Irwin resident and reigning Miss Pennsylvania USA competed in pageant activities that culminated Nov. 9 with Asya Branch, the first Black woman to be crowned Miss Mississippi USA,...
TV Talk: Holiday TV movies rev up as ‘Christmas on Wheels’ rolls onto Lifetime
Again this year Hallmark Channel and Lifetime started televising Christmas movies the weekend before Halloween and Netflix dropped its first holiday-themed rom-com a few days later. Ambridge native Marita Grabiak directed Lifetime’s “Christmas on Wheels” (8 p.m. Saturday), the story of a woman (Tiya Sircar, “The Good Place”) who...
Region’s veterans support praised by Army artificial intelligence director at CMU — a Norwin gradVideo
s The military’s efforts to incorporate artificial intelligence in military operations is focused on developing capabilities to support the soldiers, the director of the Army’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities said Wednesday during Veterans Day ceremonies in North Huntingdon. A graduate of Norwin High School, Ret. Col. Douglas Matty spoke Wednesday to...
Alle-Kiski Valley couple celebrates 70 years of marriage, 75 years in loveVideo
An instant schoolgirl crush proved to be a life-changer for Vivian Beers. “I saw a guy sitting outside with a bunch of boys and I said to my girlfriend, ‘See that boy over there? I’m going to marry him,” said Vivian Beers, 89, of Winfield. That boy was Jim Beers,...
‘A Taffeta Christmas’ bringing holiday cheer to The Lamplighter in Delmont
Four singing sisters take a break from their national tour to return to their hometown of Muncie, Ind., for the holidays. While there, they visit a local television show to perform some ‘50s favorites and holiday classics. That’s the premise of “A Taffeta Christmas,” which the Orchard Performing Arts Company...
Editorial: Veterans deserve lifelong support for their life of service
A veteran is usually identified as a person who served in the military. It also can mean a person of great experience. There is a reason for the overlap. U.S. military veterans seem to have experience in so many fields. Of 45 presidents sworn into office, 26 served in uniform...
TV Q&A: Where is PBS’s ‘The Trouble with Maggie Cole’ filmed?
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 began watching the “The Trouble with Maggie Cole” on PBS (8 p.m. Sunday, WQED-TV) and it seems to me that where they are filming...
McKees Rocks bakery Jenny Lee to be featured on QVC
Jenny Lee, a McKees Rocks brand owned by 5 Generation Bakers, will be featured on QVC at 3 p.m. Tuesday. The QVC feature will showcase four flavors of Jenny Lee’s staple swirl bread, according to Cody Baxter, director of marketing. The QVC promotion will offer six loaves of bread for...
Sheetz offers free meal, car wash on Veterans Day
In honor of those who have served and are currently serving our country, Sheetz wants to pay its respect. On Wednesday — Veterans Day — all Sheetz locations will offer a free meal and car wash to veterans and active duty military personnel. “Sheetz, a family owned and operated restaurant...
Murrysville girl cast in Westmoreland native’s latest filmVideo
Esha Chundru technically was cast as the main character in the upcoming film, “Definition Please.” Luckily for the 8-year-old Murrysville girl, she was cast for a flashback to the character’s elementary-school days — and the toughest thing she had to memorize was how to spell “opsimath,” since her first scene...
Christmas tree to be installed in Pittsburgh
During a week when unseasonably warm weather is making it feel like anything but Christmas, the annual installation of the City-County Building’s Christmas tree is set for this Saturday. Though it might seem that the tree is going up early, City Forester Lisa Ceoffe said the installation is actually later...
WQED combines events for a kindness trifecta on Cardigan Day
November’s Friday the 13th will be a lucky day, as World Kindness Day coincides with King Friday the XIII’s birthday, making it the ideal time for WQED to celebrate its third annual Cardigan Day. “King Friday’s birthday is celebrated every Friday the 13th, no matter how many there are every...
At Glen’s Frozen Custard, sales of frozen novelties have been sweetVideo
With only weeks left before the seasonal closure of Glen’s Frozen Custard, this longtime purveyor of frozen desserts in Springdale and Lower Burrell has experienced sweet sales during the pandemic and a sunny summer. The ice cream business category is on fire now, according to the Dairy Foods website. Sales...
TV Talk: ‘A Teacher’ explores damage of a teacher-student relationship
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. The taboo of a female teacher getting sexually involved with her male high school student has been covered in pop culture before, most notably in “Dawson’s Creek” and more recently on “Riverdale.” So there was...
Deer Lakes middle schoolers participating in KidScience Program at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
Wesley Reagle wants to learn as much as he can about animals to help better protect them. That’s one of the reasons why the Deer Lakes seventh grader applied for the KidScience Program at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium. “I was very excited to get a chance to go...
Love it or hate it, here’s how the Electoral College came to be
CHICAGO — As they do every four years, pundits and newscasters again are explaining why we choose a president in the peculiar way we do. By now, our customary amnesia has set in. Millions of Americans voted for president on Nov. 3, but it is the 538 electors in the...
Elation and anger: Catharsis in the streets around U.S. as election ends
As soon as the news buzzed on their phones, Americans gathered spontaneously on street corners and front lawns — honking their horns, banging pots and pans, starting impromptu dance parties — as an agonizingly vitriolic election and exhausting four-day wait for results came to an end Saturday morning. And for...
Pittsburgh Good Deeds owner makes free desks for students in need
The founder of a local nonprofit has been making desks for students learning from home, and business has been booming, he said. Jon Potter, 30, of Shaler said his nonprofit, Pittsburgh Good Deeds, has made nearly 50 wooden school desks since September. He and some volunteers have built them out...
UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital offers new drug for postpartum depression
Having babies brought Emily Washburn joy. The experience of motherhood also crippled her with sadness. Washburn, 25, of Carlisle, was diagnosed with postpartum depression – in September 2017 after the birth of her first child, Wyatt, a boy. As she is about to deliver her third baby, she remembers her...
Presidential concession speech ‘critical’ to reconciliation, democracy
After hard fought games, win or lose, even if they feel the officials made bad calls, football coaches walk across fields, shake the other coach’s hand and say “good game.” Should it hold that President Trump loses his bid for reelection to Democratic challenger Joe Biden, Joe DiSarro, a professor...
State Attorney General Josh Shapiro fires back at Ted Cruz after his shot at Pa.’s vote counting
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro responded to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz after the Texas Republican criticized election vote counting in largely Democratic-run cities, including Philadelphia, while on Fox News “The Sean Hannity Show” Thursday night. “What we’re seeing tonight, what we’ve been seeing the last three days, is outrageous,” Cruz...
