He hopes a 2-17 season was the first step in bringing stability to Greyhounds baseball. Frank Rapsky wasn’t surprised when his first Monessen baseball team finished 2-17 last season. The Greyhounds’ r...

Coach Brandon Yorty is counting on improvement from the offense. Things are looking up for Monessen’s girls softball team and coach Brandon Yorty. The Greyhounds have reached the WPIAL playoffs in eac...

Five returning starters will try to improve on last season’s 11-11 record. Following several positive developments in coach Jeff Lander’s second season in charge last year, the Ringgold baseball team ...

The new coaching staff has Ringgold ties and collegiate experience. The Ringgold softball program is hoping for a fresh start this season with the addition of a new coaching staff that brings both fam...

Brian Dzurenda is waiting for basketball season to end to round out his team. As Serra Catholic baseball coach Brian Dzurenda looks over the roster, he sees the same thing he’s seen in years past. You...

Serra Catholic’s coach is back from a one-year absence with the Eagles’ entire lineup intact. After a year away from the Serra Catholic bench, Denny Willaman is back as the head coach of the Eagles. W...

Coach Gibby Pohodich is counting on production from a lot of freshmen. The South Allegheny baseball team will look to blend experience and youth into success this spring as it prepares for another cha...

The Gladiators bring back an experienced roster in their quest for postseason success. It was a landmark season for the South Allegheny softball program last spring as the Gladiators put together a 14...

Coach Tim Vickers lost his entire outfield from last season. With some heavy hitters departing the Thomas Jefferson baseball program, as well as a few key pieces not being fully entrenched in baseball...

Coach Heidi Karcher’s roster will be loaded with freshmen and sophomores. It’s always beneficial for a team to have plenty of experienced varsity players guiding the younger group, especially in the g...

Coach Jeff Kuzma has 10 seniors to rely on this season. Some years, sports programs just have those teams where the stars seem to be aligning, with returning starters and difference makers coming back...

Coach Erik Hilligsberg expects to contend in a “wide open” section. After a strong showing last season and the return of eight starters, the West Mifflin softball team appears well positioned heading ...

The Yough grad hopes to lead the Cougars back to the playoffs. A new era begins for Yough baseball this spring as Andy Chopp takes over the program with the goal of restoring confidence and building t...

The former all-section pitcher was sidelined all of last season due to a medical issue. There’s a sense of excitement around the Yough softball program, and it started with one text message. It came w...

By HANNAH FINGERHUT, MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, MICHAEL CATALINI AND BILL BARROW Associated Press DE SOTO, Iowa (AP) — Standing alongside his son’s Ford pickup truck at a central Iowa gas st...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of the Chaldean Catholic bishop of San Diego, Calif., a decision announced Tuesday by the Vatican after the bishop was arrested on embezzlement ch...

• Robert Lawrence, 38, of Monessen was charged with fleeing or attempting to elude police, driving without a license, driving with a suspended/revoked license, disorderly conduct and evading arrest on...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Sixty- one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns abou...

NEW YORK (AP) — “Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and...

Children living through the latest war in the Middle East or seeing images of the conflict may need help making sense of events that many adults find unnerving. Exposure to war, even if it is indirect...