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Donald Trump’s presidency had a powerful warping effect on American politics. The biggest example of this is the way that politically minded evangelicals moved, almost in lockstep, from a longstanding view that “character mattered,” to the belief that only “policy mattered,” to the conclusion that only “loyalty mattered.” Trump similarly...

Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst and coach Matt LaFleur say they expect Aaron Rodgers to remain their team’s starting quarterback in 2021 and beyond. Gutekunst and LaFleur made those comments Monday during season-ending Zoom sessions with reporters. After the Packers’ 31-26 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in...

TAMPA, Fla. — There have been four previous Super Bowls in Tampa, some amid war and economic distress, but none have faced the challenges this year’s event encounters because of the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout. Tickets for Sunday’s game are limited to about a third of the capacity of...

A Braddock man is set for arraignment Wednesday in federal court after he was found with drugs that authorities have linked to overdoses in the area during a traffic stop in North Huntingdon last month, according to court records. Deshaun Curtis Jones, 29, was ordered detained pending trial last week...

Here’s a list on which Pittsburgh should be relieved it ranks only in the middle of the pack. A survey released Monday by pest control specialists Orkin ranks Pittsburgh as the 19th-worst city for bed bugs. Pittsburgh also ranked 19th last year and 24th the year before that. The worst...

On the list of matters that concern Jeff Capel, perhaps, the loneliness of the Petersen Events Center might be the least worrisome (even though on game days it seems more like a big, empty barn than an ACC basketball arena). Still, he did comment Monday about what has happened to...

Tim Benz and Mark Madden return for this week’s edition of “Unfiltered” on TribLive’s Facebook page to talk Penguins hockey, the Steelers’ future, Super Bowl and all things Pittsburgh sports. As the Penguins search for their next general manager, Mark Madden thinks they are looking for a ready-made guy that...

BOSTON — Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia, who was the AL Rookie of the Year in 2007 and the MVP in his second season but played in a total of nine games in the last three years because of a knee injury, retired on Monday. A four-time All-Star who...

The deadliest month yet of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. drew to a close with certain signs of progress: covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are plummeting, while vaccinations are picking up speed. The question is whether the nation can stay ahead of the fast-spreading mutations of the virus. The U.S....

Baylor has overshadowed nearly everything in the Big 12 this season as it tries to complete an undefeated season. Oklahoma has been making a statement of its own. With a win over then-No. 9 Alabama on Saturday, the Sooners became just the second team in 25 years to beat three...

The number of new cases of coronavirus in Pennsylvania declined more than 27% from December’s totals to January’s totals. The latest reports from the state show Pennsylvania added 202,899 new cases of the virus in January, compared with 278,861 cases in December. In a report issued Monday by the Pennsylvania...

Penguins defenseman Kris Letang will miss Monday’s road game against the New York Rangers due to an undisclosed injury. Coach Mike Sullivan termed his absence as “day to day.” Letang, the team’s top defenseman, left Saturday’s 5-4 overtime road win against the Rangers at 10:15 of the first period. He...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is threatening to slap new sanctions on Myanmar after a coup that saw the military arrest the civilian leaders of its government. Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been a U.S. democracy promotion project for decades, though there have been recent and serious concerns about...

It’s audition time — for your fur baby. Since your pet is better than all others — you don’t doubt that, do you? — why not sign Fido or Mittens up to claim their fame. Hershey is holding auditions for its third annual Cadbury Bunny Tryouts, with the winning pet...

Westmoreland County recorded nearly 47% fewer new cases of covid-19 in January than in December. The latest report from the Pennsylvania Department of Health completes January’s data, showing a total of 5,370 new cases, a 46.7% decline from December’s total (10,072). The report stated there were 105 additional cases over...

English teachers are deciding which books to skip. History teachers are condensing units. Science teachers are often doing without experiments entirely. With instruction time reduced as much as half by the coronavirus pandemic, many of the nation’s middle school and high school teachers have given up on covering all the...

The WPIAL on Monday morning released its latest swimming and diving performance lists. They are for times and point totals recorded at meets through Saturday (Jan. 30). Seneca Valley junior Daniel Simoes, North Hills senior Joshua Bogniard, North Allegheny sophomore Alexa Sundgren, Neshannock senior Conner McBeth, Quaker Valley junior Isabel...

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian state TV on Monday aired the launch of the country’s newest satellite-carrying rocket, which it said was able to reach a height of 310 miles. The footage of the solid-liquid-fueled rocket showed the launch taking place during daytime in a desert environment. The report did not...

The driver of a Pittsburgh salt truck somehow escaped injury when the truck went over a hillside Monday morning in the South Side Slopes neighborhood, a city official said. The Department of Public Works truck was plowing and salting streets and went over the hillside on Mt. Oliver Street shortly...

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Netflix’s latest series to film in Pittsburgh, “The Chair,” is rounding out its cast with the addition of several actors, including Philadelphia’s David Morse, who previously spent two seasons in Pittsburgh filming WGN America’s “Outsiders” and before that appeared in the filmed-in Pittsburgh Will Smith film “Concussion.” Most recently Morse...

The Penguins will wear white alternate jerseys for Monday’s road game against the New York Rangers. With the NHL struggling to generate revenue this season as a result of limited ticket revenue because of the pandemic, the league has made all 31 active teams don alternate jerseys this season. The...

Allegheny County saw a 39% decline in new covid-19 cases in January compared to December. The latest report from the Department of Health shows a total of 15,559 cases reported in January. In December, health officials reported 25,405 new cases. January saw an average of 502 newly reported cases per...

It’s Super Bowl week. And as the unofficial national holiday of game day approaches, so do the lists celebrating America’s favorite sport. And, at least according to a popular personal finance website, in no U.S. city is it better to be a football fan than Pittsburgh. Buoyed by an NFL...

The TSA announced that the rate of firearm detection at airport security checkpoints doubled from 2019 to 2020. At the same time, the number of passengers screened dropped by 500 million. Does this mean that air travelers were safer in 2020, or were there more firearms being carried onto airplanes?...

The SUV involved in the wrong-way crash Saturday morning that killed two people on Route 28 entered the highway from Anderson Street on Pittsburgh’s North Shore before it crashed into another vehicle that was traveling south on the highway near the East Ohio Street exit, Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Cara...

NEW YORK — Tony Bennett has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease but it hasn’t quieted his legendary voice. The singer’s wife and son reveal in the latest edition of AARP The Magazine that Bennett was first diagnosed with the irreversible neurological disorder in 2016. The magazine says he endures “increasingly...

The overnight snow couldn’t stop Dunkin’ from opening its second Oakland store Monday. It’s the 64th location owned by Heartland Restaurant Group and will employ 30 people. It becomes the second location in Oakland, joining the one at Forbes Avenue on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The new store is...

The advent of the early signing period for college football in December has taken much of the drama out of the annual national signing day in February, which used to be a day filled with much drama and fanfare. Now, teams are mostly finalizing their classes with a couple commits...

Giant Eagle was named tops in corporate policies related to LGBTQ workplace quality, in part for its equitable benefits and fostering an inclusive culture, according to a national benchmarking survey. The O’Hara-based company earned a score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index (CEI). “We...

Carnegie Museum of Art today is launching its first-ever podcast series, investigating the intersection of photography, surveillance and artificial intelligence. Each episode of the free, six-part series, “Mirror with a Memory,” will feature artists, writers and academics exploring a different facet of the conversation surrounding AI and photography. The host...

I am the son of a Purple Heart recipient, and I honor Rep. Guy Reschenthaler’s military service. But Reschenthaler, R-Peters, my former state senator, has dishonored his office. At 12:16 p.m. on Jan. 6, Reschenthaler’s tweeted: “@realDonaldTrump is the BEST president since Lincoln.” He posted this 16 minutes into President Trump’s incendiary speech at the “Rally to Stop the Steal,” following hours of speakers like Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., who told the crowd to “start

It saddened me to read the article “Greater Latrobe School District starts vaccinating staff, sees ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ ” (Jan. 23, TribLIVE). My husband, a senior citizen, and I have been trying to schedule his vaccination. Most pharmacies aren’t even taking names to put on a wait list. Seems you need the clout of the PSEA to get pharmacies to vaccinate their staff (which are 1B and not even eligible yet,

A weekly look at how Penguins prospects and minor leaguers have fared over the past week: • In the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), forwards Nathan Legare and Sam Poulin each made their debuts for Val-d’Or Foreurs on Saturday in a 3-2 shootout road win against the Gatineau Olympiques....

LONDON — Prince Harry on Monday accepted an apology and damages from the publisher of British tabloid The Mail on Sunday and its online version, MailOnline, in a libel lawsuit relating to articles about his relationship with the British armed forces. Harry sued Associated Newspapers for libel over two articles...

LONDON — The price of silver is rallying as the online trading movement fuelling the rise of unloved shares like GameStop took a shine to the precious metal. Silver futures jumped 11% on Monday to about $30 per ounce — an eight-year high — following strong gains over the weekend....

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to meet Monday with a group of 10 Republican senators who have proposed spending about one-third of the $1.9 trillion he is seeking in coronavirus aid, though congressional Democrats are poised to move ahead without Republican support. An invitation to the White House...

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said its fighters shot down an Israeli drone on Monday over a southern village near the border with Israel. The Israeli military did not confirm the shootdown but said a drone had crashed on Lebanese territory. Tensions in the region have been rising over the past months amid Israeli airstrikes on Iran-backed fighters in neighboring Syria. Hezbollah has also vowed to respond for the killing of one of its

Pittsburgh police are investing after officials say someone fired a gun inside an East Hills Family Dollar Sunday night in an attempt to rob the store. Officers were called to the store, located in the 8100 block of Frankstown Avenue, shortly after 7 p.m. where three witnesses said a man...

Plum School District officials accepted a couple grants on behalf of their educators. Kelly Wickersty at Holiday Park Elementary was awarded $370 through Donors Choose to purchase Storyworks digital and print resources for grades 4-6. Mark Dinga at Plum High School was awarded $370 through Donors Choose to purchase high...

Etna council will interview 11 candidates for the newly formed human relations committee over the next couple of weeks. Council is scheduled to appoint members during the next business meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 16. Remember trash collection limitations Waste Management allows one bulk item for collection each week....

Block Party To Go charity fundraiser Participants in North Hills Community Outreach’s annual block party fundraiser won’t be able to gather in person this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. But the North Hills charity and social service agency is still planning to party. Have fun at home with a...

Lauri Ann West Community Center is hosting “Love the Center,” a fundraiser that teams residents with local small businesses for a Valentine’s Day celebration to enjoy at home. Participants can choose to make purchases from couples or family dinner options from Aspinwall Everyday Gourmet, cocktails from 4Four6 Distillery and flowers...

Two students originally from Monroeville have made the dean’s list at their colleges for the 2020 fall semester. To be named on the dean’s list, students typically need to carry a 3.5 GPA under 12 or more credits. • Jonelle Menner: She is a senior at Hamilton College in New...

1913 — Jim Thorpe, star of the 1912 Olympics, signs to play baseball with the New York Giants. 1914 — The Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play an exhibition game to promote baseball in Egypt. The game ends in a 3-3 tie. 1956 — Hayes Alan Jenkins leads...

Is the movie “Legally Blonde” worth quoting? Yes, in fact, when truth is subdued, children devoid of understanding rule. Millennia ago, Aristotle spoke what Elle Woods cited in her graduation address: “The law is reason, free from passion.” Today, reason is bad, and emotion is everything. Childish rants negate truth in favor of political correctness. The cancel culture requires the destruction of anyone who dares say what is not acceptable. What happened to the maxim

Monday’s “First Call” is a hockey hotbed. Former Penguins goaltender Matt Murray is continuing to have problems with his new team. And on Sunday, many of them were caused by some other guys who also used to skate in Pittsburgh. In fact, ex-Penguins are scoring like crazy all over the...

Based on the information coming out from Steelers headquarters last week, it sounds like the organization is taking a slow and steady approach to fixing the issues present with the team at the end of 2020. In fact, Steelers owner Art Rooney II went so far as to tell reporters...

The 1980s were good for a few things. Hair metal. Karate. Tom Cruise movies. Acid wash jeans. Just a few things that leap to mind. However, they weren’t a great time for the Pittsburgh sports scene. No titles were won in Pittsburgh from 1979 (when the Steelers and Pirates both...

Leaving an elected office is not the end of the world. Plenty of people go on to live rich, full lives after they depart the world of public service. They might retire to concentrate on things they never got to do before, like President George W. Bush, who has embraced...

Would you like your bills paid? Would you like someone else to provide your housing and food? That can happen — and soon! A new group wants to provide for your every need. They will decide what your children are required to learn in school. They will decide where you work, where you live and how much you earn. Slaves in the South were given free housing, clothing, food and health care, but they were

Several inches of snow settled across Southwestern Pennsylvania Monday morning as part of a system that is expected to remain in the area through Tuesday. A preliminary report by the National Weather Service in Moon posted around midnight suggested the facility received 4.5 inches of snow since the storm began...

In the campaigning for the presidential election, it was difficult to determine whether Joe Biden planned to move to stop fracking. He gave conflicting statements concerning his intent. With the canceling of the Keystone Pipeline construction permit, it is reasonably clear what direction his administration is taking on fossil fuels. Under the guise of environmental concerns, they withdrew the permit to continue construction. Even liberal Canada has said they can construct the pipeline in an

The Stroller is compiling a list of fish fries taking place Ash Wednesday and/or Fridays during Lent. To your non-profit’s fish fry listed in the paper and online, send complete information in writing to Carol Pinto-Smith, Valley News Dispatch, 210 Wood St., Tarentum, PA 15084 or email cpinto-smith@triblive.com. Coat drive...

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Coffee with the Chief goes virtual South Fayette Township Police Chief John Phoennik invites the public to a virtual lunchtime session of Coffee with the Chief from noon to 1 p.m. Feb. 12. Via the online Zoom platform, attendees can meet Chief Phoennik, share comments and ask questions. Use your...

Block Party To Go charity fundraiser Participants in North Hills Community Outreach’s annual block party fundraiser won’t be able to gather in person this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. But the North Hills charity and social service agency is still planning to party. Have fun at home with a...

Child Health Association hosting virtual fundraiser The Child Health Association of Sewickley has been dedicated to caring for children in our area for the past century. The all-volunteer organization typically produces a biennial play in conjunction with a black-tie optional gala to raise money in support of children’s causes in...

Block Party To Go charity fundraiser Participants in North Hills Community Outreach’s annual block party fundraiser won’t be able to gather in person this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. But the North Hills charity and social service agency is still planning to party. Have fun at home with a...

A historic rural restaurant remains closed because of the pandemic. 1844 Restaurant, located at 690 Route 66, 3 miles north of Leechburg in Gilpin, closed in March. It is too early to say when it will reopen, said owner/operator Robert Gorelli. Gorelli, 78, said he wants to see widespread covid-19...

When Pennsylvania partially abolished slavery in 1780, it established the Pittsburgh region — between the Southern slave states and Northern free states — as a destination for Black Americans looking for liberty. “It set Western Pennsylvania up as the crossroads between slavery and freedom,” said Samuel Black, director of African-American...

Two men from Western Pennsylvania have been indicted by a federal grand jury on Pittsburgh related to their alleged roles in a drug-related gang, federal prosecutors said. Brandon Quinn, 32, of Beaver Falls and Jeremiah Irving, 31, of New Castle are accused of plotting to sell large amounts of cocaine...

A Washington County man has been accused by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh of attempting to sell more than 500 grams of cocaine, federal prosecutors said. Patrick Ellis, 43, of the city of Washington, faces a narcotics charge in a one-count indictment in which Ellis is named as the...

The final month of the regular season in WPIAL girls basketball tips off with several marvelous matchups Monday. In Section 2-6A, three girls basketball teams are unbeaten in section play and have been ranked in the HSSN Top 5 all season. The thing is none of them have played each...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Police in Rochester released two body-camera videos Sunday of officers restraining a distraught 9-year-old girl who was handcuffed and sprayed with what police called a chemical “irritant.” The Democrat and Chronicle reported that prior to the release of the videos, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren expressed her concern...

Basketball Boys Sunday’s result Nonsection Highlands at North Catholic, ppd. Monday’s schedule WPIAL Class 3A Section 3 Valley at Apollo-Ridge, 7:30 p.m. Nonsection Albert Gallatin at Waynesburg Central, 6:30 p.m. Beth-Center at Frazier, 5:30 p.m. Greensburg Salem at Mt. Pleasant, 7:30 p.m. Jefferson-Morgan at Avella, 3 p.m. Penn Hills at...

When Mallory Daly was in grades 1-3, she reached the team championship of the annual NFL Punt, Pass and Kick competition, earning a chance to show off her skills at halftime of a Steelers game at Heinz Field each year. Daly now is in ninth grade at Brentwood. Her passes...

The Armstrong girls basketball program began its sixth season this year with an overall record of 56-55 in the regular season and 0-2 in the postseason. However, the arrow is pointing skyward for this balanced group. Armstrong is in first place in Section 2-5A with a 5-0 record through January,...

Here are the latest PIHL high school hockey standings through Sunday. The PIHL announced games for Wheeling Park and Wheeling Central Catholic have been postponed until March 1. The Pa. Cup state hockey championships are set for April 24. Wins – Losses – Overtime/Shootout Loss = Total Points Class AAA...

LOS ANGELES — After a group of protesters managed to disrupt operations at Dodger Stadium’s mass covid-19 vaccination site Saturday, some Los Angeles officials expressed fury at the demonstrators while calling for increased security at testing and vaccination installations. Los Angeles Fire Department officials closed the main entrance to the...

Goaltender Emil Larmi made 21 saves for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, who opened their preseason with a 5-1 road win against the Binghamton Devils at the RWJBarnabas Health Hockey House in Newark, N.J., on Sunday. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton got goals from forwards Jordy Bellerive, John Gruden, Zach Nastasiuk, Tim Schaller and defenseman Josh...

There was a regular-season shootout and a playoff masterpiece the first season Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady met on a football field. Brady came out ahead in those two meetings, but Mahomes has gotten the edge the past two times they met. Now as they are set to meet on...

Southbound lanes of Interstate 79 reopened Sunday night after a crash closed part of the road in the North Hills for several hours, according to PennDOT. Crews closed the highway around 8:30 p.m. at Mt. Nebo Road, exit 68, because of a truck crash, PennDOT spokeswoman Yasmeen Manyisha said. The...

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, an international authority on addiction who founded Gateway Rehabilitation Center, died from covid-19 Sunday in Israel, according to several reports. Dr. Twerski, 90, had been hospitalized after contracting covid last week, The Yeshiva World reported. Twerski founded Gateway, a drug and alcohol treatment center in Center...

With Feb. 2 being Tuesday, HSSN is a lot like the old movie “Groundhog Day.” We go all out to cover high school sports day after day after day after day. Here’s what is on tap this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have plenty of video...

SAN DIEGO — Patrick Reed was so unaffected by a rules controversy a day earlier that he won the Farmers Insurance Open by five shots, the biggest margin in his nine career PGA Tour victories. Reed closed with a 4-under 68 at Torrey Pines, making an eagle on the par-5...

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar — Myanmar’s military staged a coup Monday and detained senior politicians including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi — a sharp reversal of the significant, if uneven, progress toward democracy the Southeast Asian nation has made following five decades of military rule. An announcement read on military-owned Myawaddy...

There weren’t many fans to witness it, but Aquinas Academy sophomore Vinnie Cugini made WPIAL history Friday night. The 6-foot-1 guard scored his 1,000th career point in the Crusaders’ 84-76 loss to Leechburg, his 29th game at the tiny private Catholic school in Hampton. Cugini became the fastest player in...

A West Leechburg resident is retiring from public office after serving the borough for 40 years. Jim Gallucci, 72, has served as mayor for 36 years. Prior to being elected, he served on council four years. Long ago, a friend urged him to run for mayor after leading a successful...

Five years ago, after teasing a potential run for the White House for years, Donald Trump descended down a golden escalator, and from that moment on, the news cycle was predominantly his. Trump hijacked our collective attention span and held it hostage for the duration of his presidency, subjecting Americans...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump on Sunday named two lawyers to his impeachment defense team, one day after it was revealed that the former president had parted ways with an earlier set of attorneys. The two lawyers representing him will be David Schoen, a criminal defense lawyer with offices in Alabama...

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball has proposed a one-month delay in starting spring training because of the coronavirus pandemic and pushing back opening day to April 28, two people familiar with the plan told The Associated Press. Under the plan presented to the players’ union on Friday, the regular...

The WPIAL swimming steering committee is scheduled to meet Wednesday, and the group could finalize a plan for the championships and provide answers amid the uncertainty with covid-19 gathering restrictions. Among the decisions WPIAL swimmers, coaches and others hope to find out is where the championships, slated for the week...

Claudia Papenmeier grew up attending St. John’s United Church of Christ in Larimer, and she remained active in the church well into her 70s. Mrs. Papenmeier met her husband, Arthur, at the church, where he served as a pastor in the 1950s. It was a role that she herself took...

Teachers in the Keystone Oaks School District will go on strike starting Monday, prompting the district to cancel classes for all students, the district announced. The district said the school board and the Keystone Oaks Education Association were unable to agree on a new contract in talks over the past...

From the moment he turns a news conference over to reporters with his signature “time’s yours” phrase, Andy Reid always sticks by his players. The man affectionately known as Big Red never has been a coach who publicly criticizes his guys, even when they play poorly. That hasn’t happened often...

After days of frigid temperatures, the Northeast braced for a whopper of a storm that could dump well over a foot of snow in many areas, create blizzard-like conditions and cause travel problems for the next few days. The storm system blanketed parts of the Midwest in the most snow...

The Penguins might cheat you when it comes to certain things. They might cheat you on structure. They might cheat you on goaltending. Evgeni Malkin is cheating you on production. The cataclysmically injured defense corps is getting cheated on luck. But the Penguins are not cheating you when it comes...

For the NFL’s 100th anniversary season in 2019, the NFL commissioned a documentary examining the lives of four women in influential ownership families. Titled “A Lifetime of Sundays,” it included Patricia Rooney, wife of former Pittsburgh Steelers chairman and Ambassador to Ireland Dan Rooney. It showed how each woman —...

NEW YORK — A small painting by Sandro Botticelli sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $92.2 million, an auction record for the Renaissance master. The work, “Young Man Holding a Roundel,” from about 1475, depicts a young nobleman holding a round painting of a saint. It is one of...

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner has identified one of two people killed in a wrong-way crash on Route 28 near Pittsburgh’s North Side Saturday morning. Kapinga Madeleine Mulumba, 45, of Pittsburgh was a passenger in one of the two vehicles in the crash that was reported just after 7:15 a.m....

Norwin continues to churn out college baseball talent. What else is new? This year’s roster, which the Knights can’t wait to roll out in the spring, especially after last season was canceled, is loaded top-to-bottom with talent. Elijah Dunn is the latest prospect to make a commitment to a NCAA...

BERLIN — Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed to supply 9 million additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the European Union during the first quarter, the bloc’s executive arm said Sunday. The new target of 40 million doses by the end of March is still only half what the British-Swedish...

You can illustrate how dismal of a situation the Pittsburgh Penguins have on defense by simply pointing out they have six defensemen sidelined by injury. But you can paint a much more vivid picture by noting one of their options during a 5-4 overtime road win against the Rangers on...

The Armstrong County Commissioners are donating $15,000 of the $100,000-plus needed to pay to open five locks on the Allegheny River in Armstrong County for recreational boaters on summer weekends. The Allegheny River Development Corp., a nonprofit group of boaters and river supporters, contracts with the U.S. Army Corps to...

WASHINGTON — As the Republican Party wrestles with its identity in the wake of former President Trump, an Illinois Republican is out to prove there is a GOP voter base that wants to give up the division and conspiracy theories that he says have come to define the party. “The...

PORTLAND, Maine — The Super Bowl is going to look different this year for three friends who’ve attended every installment of the big game. But Don Crisman, Tom Henschel and Gregory Eaton have tickets in hand and say they will be there, as they have every year since the first...

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Deputy Health Commissioner Caroline Johnson has resigned after records obtained by The Inquirer show she gave an advantage in a city bidding process to Andrei Doroshin, Philly Fighting Covid’s young CEO who until this week the city entrusted to run its largest vaccination site. Johnson sent a...

OIL CITY — A house fire in northwestern Pennsylvania claimed the lives of three people over the weekend, authorities said. The Oil City fire department was called to the home shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday. Chief Mark Hicks told the Oil City Derrick that arriving crews found a “well seated...