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...

Charleroi Regional • Anthony Francis Schindler, 42, of Donora was charged with use/possession of drug paraphernalia stemming from an alleged incident Oct. 28, court records state. McKeesport • Evan Ja...

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CHICAGO (AP) — From former presidents to an NBA Hall of Famer to prominent pastors, stories of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s influence on politics, corporate boardrooms and picket lines loomed large Fr...

• Denver Wayne Black, 27, of Donora was charged with harassment, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness stemming from an alleged incident Feb. 26, court records state. A preliminary hearing before ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Thursday fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, after mounting criticism over her leadership of the department, including the handling...

For the MVI Cherri Rogers, of Scottdale, a union nurse and lifelong resident of Pennsylvania House District 58, has announced her candidacy for state representative. “Committed to lowering costs, defe...

By JIM VERTUNO AND SEAN MURPHY Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge on Wednesday ordered Camp Mystic to preserve damaged cabins but stopped short of blocking reopening plans after a fam...