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Pittsburgh Pirates games will remain on Audacy Pittsburgh radio stations through the 2027 season, the team and Audacy announced Wednesday. The parties agreed to a broadcast contract extension that will keep Pirates games on 93.7 The Fan (KDKA-FM), which has been the team’s flagship station since 2012. “Our relationship with...

I love watching the Pirates but lately they can’t hit. I would try putting the so-called batting coach in to try and hit since the players can’t hit, and if he can’t, get rid of him! Debbie Banichar Apollo...

As a practicing physician and patient, I must address the letter “PBMs support Pa. pharmacies” (April 26, TribLive) by an officer from the lobbyist-driven Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), which claims that pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) save patients money. This assertion is completely misleading. Drug costs continue to rise annually,...

Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 novel “The Kite Runner” was a massive hit in the United States, selling more than 10 million copies in this country to date. In 2022, the stage adaptation of that book, adapted by Matthew Spangler, premiered on Broadway. And on Tuesday night, the epic, devastating touring production...

State Rep. Dan Frankel, D-Squirrel Hill, wanted to have the TSA Firearm Compliance Act introduced to lawmakers already. That hasn’t happened. It has been held amid ongoing communication with state and federal law enforcement to make sure the proposal accomplishes the goals of cutting back on the number of guns...

Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Free fishing derby scheduled by Concordia Lutheran Ministries Concordia Lutheran Ministries...

With regard to your editorial “Can civility return to politics?” (April 28, TribLive): I really wish it could. Instead of attacking the character of their opponents, political candidates and parties should focus on solutions for our problems, how much those solutions will cost, how we will pay for them and...

High schools Baseball Tuesday’s results Class 5A Section 1 Gateway 6, Penn Hills 0 Franklin Regional 1, Penn-Trafford 0 Plum 10, Fox Chapel 4 Class 3A Section 1 Neshannock 1, Quaker Valley 0 Riverside 9, Mohawk 4 Shenango 11, Ellwood City 9 Section 3 East Allegheny 2, Freeport 1 Derry...

Ryan Rupert hit a walk-off sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh inning as East Allegheny clinched a Section 3-3A baseball playoff spot with a 2-1 win over Freeport on the last day of section play. Winning pitcher Michael Cahill struck out 14 and Joe Connors went 2 for...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 16-15) was beaten 6-2 by Louisville (Reds). Starter LHP Eric Lauer (2-1, 3.95) tossed 4⅓ innings and gave up a three-run home run among his four hits allowed, walked two and struck out seven to take the loss. RHP Wily Peralta (5.21) did not allow a hit or...

HARRISBURG — Top Republican leaders in the Pennsylvania House said Tuesday that they want the attorney general’s office to investigate how Philadelphia law enforcement bungled a now-withdrawn arrest warrant for state Rep. Kevin Boyle just days before April’s primary election — and whether their actions violated the state’s election laws....

Cumberland Valley School director Brian Drapp has resigned his school board seat over the district’s handling of a middle school assembly featuring author/actor Maulik Pancholy. But in an interview Tuesday with PennLive, he said that issue is really a symptom of deeper problems with the board’s operation. “I believe you...

Author to discuss ‘Yinzer’ book at free event The community is invited to hear Dick Roberts of Fox Chapel, author of “Growing Up Yinzer,” sharing his memories behind the book during a free event from 2 to 4 p.m. May 19 at the Lauri Ann West Community Center, 1220 Powers...

TikTok, the popular social video app, sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, saying the country’s new law that could ban the app violates First Amendment rights to free speech. President Biden last month signed into law a bill that would effectively ban the service in the U.S. if its Chinese...

Former Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was mentioned Tuesday during Stormy Daniels’ testimony in former President Donald Trump’s election interference trial. Daniels testified under oath about the sexual encounter she says she had with Trump in 2006 and the alleged $130,000 deal to keep it a secret, made just days before...

I am a chronic channel-changer. I may watch six different channels at one time. When a commercial comes on, I flip to another channel. I watch four cable news channels, two Republican and two Democrat — Fox, Newsmax, MSNBC and CNN. When a Democrat channel said President Trump said he...

Believe it or not, Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” makes me think of Mother’s Day. Remember the scene where Allen’s character Alvy was stuck in line at the movies, subjected to the pompous blathering of a pseudo-intellectual? When the topic turned to media philosopher Marshall McLuhan, Alvy handily produced McLuhan himself...

A Florida man responsible for $97 million in health care fraud across three separate schemes in Western Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida will spend 10 years in federal prison. Daniel M. Hurt, 60, of Fort Lauderdale was also ordered to pay that amount in restitution. On Tuesday, Hurt’s attorney said...

Penn State’s Board of Trustees will hold a meeting on May 21 to vote on approving the Beaver Stadium renovation plan. The Board of Trustees will meet via conference call at 10 a.m. in an executive session. The board’s committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning will then hold a...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green is scheduled to continue talks Tuesday with House Speaker Mike Johnson over Greene’s promise to bring forward a motion to remove him. Whether Greene, R-Rome, will follow through with her threatened “motion to vacate” remains to be seen as members of her own...

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — For the first time in at least 16 years, the Democratic and Republican parties in Pennsylvania are...

Tapas Talks second event of the season was held on April 25 at the Allegheny Country Club’s grand ballroom featuring Don Evans, the CEO and president of the Energy Innovation Center of Pittsburgh. According to Evans, EIC is expanding the meaning of energy and finding that we can generate an...

Artificial intelligence is already affecting our lives in many positive ways, automating tasks, helping to diagnose medical issues and acting as a voice-controlled virtual assistant for many. Still, there is a very real danger of misuse and unintended consequences of the technology, as we saw recently in Maryland, with the...

How can we possibly perceive the roughly 90 felony charges leveled against the Republican candidate by multiple Democratic prosecutors in multiple Democratic-led cities as anything other than blatant election tampering? Thomas Wagner Murrysville...