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Christians don’t mock the disabled. Christians don’t belittle women. Christians don’t demean prisoners of war. Christians don’t mock people’s appearances. Christians don’t make racist remarks. Christians don’t use foul language in front of children. Christians don’t lie about election results. Christians don’t spread baseless conspiracy theories. Christians don’t undermine democratic...

Kamala Harris will be our next president not because she’s the most qualified but because President Joe Biden paid off his Democratic base with your tax dollars: $36 billion to the Teamsters union fund; $16 billion to historically Black colleges; $146 billion to pay off student loans. Biden also supports...

Sophia Besterman graduated Cum Laude this spring from Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg. Tabitha Moul graduated from Missouri State University this spring with a bachelor of science degree in biology. John Auth earned dean’s list honors at The University of Tampa for the spring 2024 semester. Auth graduated this spring with a bachelor...

If you have a mailbox, you may have gotten a postcard advertisement from U.S. Steel. If you watch television, you may have seen a commercial about Nippon Steel. If you spend time online, you may have seen a pop-up ad about the sale of the high-profile Pittsburgh-based American steel company...

Our Founding Fathers understood that the federal government has one sole purpose: to serve the people. The current culture of Washington, D.C., couldn’t be more removed from this. As our capital’s corruption and incompetence grows, David McCormick seeks to halt its growth. McCormick’s proposal to move federal agencies out of...

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Correctional officers at the Allegheny County Jail need a platform to speak directly to the Jail Oversight Board. According to the 2024 ACJ Correctional Officer Survey, 87% of the officers disagree with the statement concerning jail administration, “Management understands the challenges I experience on my job,” and 84% disagree with...

The best season in Belle Vernon American Legion baseball program history came to an end Monday. Northeastern scored four runs in the first three innings and held on for a 5-3 win in an elimination game of the Pennsylvania Legion State Tournament at North Allegheny. Ryan Wilson went 2 for...

Longtime Olympic commentator Bob Ballard was sent home following a sexist comment about Australia’s women’s swim team. The Eurosport pundit claimed after the Aussies won a gold medal in the 4x100m freestyle team relay that the celebratory swim squad was slow exiting the pool area because they were milling about...

On the heels of a series of successful 2023 events, Hampton Township launched another year of Pints in the Park this May. The weather was, to borrow a description, frightful. And besides for some youngsters having fun in the rain, it was none too delightful. Fast-forward a couple of months,...

State Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, who is running to unseat U.S. Rep. Susan Wild in the Lehigh Valley’s hotly contested 7th District congressional race, is one of a handful of Republican candidates selected to a National Republican Congressional Committee program, which will spend upward of $1 million to elect him. Mackenzie,...

WASHINGTON — Term limits for Supreme Court justices are a popular idea, but would require amending the Constitution and would be unlikely to affect the current justices, legal scholars say. On Monday, President Biden endorsed term limits as one of “three bold reforms to restore trust and accountability” in the...

The grand opening of Northern Tier Library’s Pine Community Center Branch is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 14. Featured will be activities, giveaways and a scavenger hunt. Library staff members will be present to talk about all the services the library has to offer. Food trucks will...

The opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games included many elements of French culture, from musical performances to sports stars. But one particular moment has elicited a firestorm of controversy. Among the performances was a scene set on the Debilly Bridge over the River Seine that included drag queens,...

Pine-Richland High School’s Dance Team won several awards and qualified for the Universal Dance Association’s National Dance Competition in early 2025 following their performances at the Varsity Spirit UDA Camp at Slippery Rock University in July. Led by senior captains Sophia Reighard and Maura Sciullo, the team of 15 attended...

Freeport Road in the area of Springhill Road in Harrison will have single-lane restrictions beginning Tuesday. The utility work is expected to run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays through Aug. 16. Crews from JMT Inc., Navarro and Wright, and All Ways Safe will conduct signal work at the...

Long ago, someone came up with the idea of celebrating winter’s most heralded holiday amid summer swelter. The origin stories for Christmas in July vary, from the lyrics of an 1892 French opera to a two-day fete at a North Carolina camp in 1933, with the concept popularized by a...

Incoming kindergartners invited to playground event The Penn Hills School District welcomes incoming kindergartners to a Popsicles on the Playground event from 1 to 3 p.m. Aug. 6 at Penn Hills Elementary School, 1079 Jefferson Road. The event, which is part of the district’s Summer Kickoff to Kindergarten, is an...

Olympic host cities make promises that are all but impossible to keep, and in recent years, the organizers’ wishful thinking about housing and neighborhood redevelopment has been one of the cruelest Olympic disappointments. As the 2024 Paris Games commence, we are seeing it all over again — displacement, gentrification and...

Though he graduated from Apollo-Ridge, Jake Nulph has an appreciation for the type of football played at Jeannette. The program’s tradition of producing athletic players who also are hard-nosed isn’t lost on the fifth-year Edinboro coach. So it’s easy to understand why Nulph is enamored with senior safety Toby Cline....

When Rich Wall arrived to take over the Mercyhurst women’s soccer program in December 2022, Kiski Area grad Alyssa Poleski wasted no time in making an impression. Wall remembers it vividly. In his first January 2023 training session with the players, he put them through a fitness test, and rising...

I think that the opinions of leading Republicans about Donald Trump are more powerful than anything I can say. Here are some of them: “I can’t stomach Trump. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” From an op-ed for The...

Following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, some Butler County residents were asking why it had to happen here. Butler County has strongly favored Trump and his candidacy: he won 66% of the vote in Butler County in 2016 and 2020. Trump isn’t the first person to hold...

Donald J. Trump is a man of integrity and honor; he possesses all the qualities required to faithfully serve the common good. Unless applicable substantiating facts are clearly delineated, the listing (see Alinsky’s Rule 13) of faults and assessments by the 13 Cranberry Catholics are meaningless (“Trump doesn’t have qualities...

Volunteer gardeners wanted in Leetsdale Leetsdale officials plan to work with environmental nonprofit Grow Pittsburgh to start a community garden program. The program requires at least six dedicated volunteers by Aug. 2. Grow Pittsburgh is expected to cover the cost of setting up the garden on public property and provide...