To the Editor, “Donora, Home of the Champions, Next to Yours the Best Town in the USA!” is the town motto. “Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve” was the motto of Donora Senior High School. I am very pro...

Meetings in local government next week Here’s a look at the upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley. If there’s an item or other event of public interest, we’ll include that below the l...

DEAR ABBY: I am a 54-year-old mother of two, a wife and a full-time teacher. My days are long, busy and usually uneventful. Every evening, I am expected to call my 84-year-old mother, who lives a few ...

DEAR HARRIETTE: Over the past three years, my ex and I have found our way back to friendship. When we first broke up, we left each other alone, which was probably for the best. Lately, we check in fro...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — To earn his freedom, 15-year-old Cayden Gillespie had to complete three school assignments a day. But school had gone virtual for Cayden and other incarcerated young people in...

NEW YORK (AP) — Feeling nostalgic for the days when going back to school meant picking out fresh notebooks, pencils and colored markers at a local drugstore or stationary shop? The annual ritual is bo...

• Cory Joseph Smith, 42, of Monongahela, was charged with possession of marijuana stemming from an alleged incident on Aug. 1, court records state. • Adam Dale Carmichael, 40, of Hamer, S.C., was char...

• Gregory Fowler, 49, of Charleroi was charged with defiant trespasser stemming from an alleged incident Aug. 9, court records state. A preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge Mark Wilso...

BERLIN (AP) — President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that there will be “very severe consequences” if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not agree to stop the war against Ukraine after the two lea...

WORLD BRIEFLY WASHINGTON (AP) — As a wary Washington waited, the White House promised a ramp-up of National Guard troops and federal officers on the streets of the nation’s capital around the clock st...

Thursday Events • Bike night, Coconut Joe’s Tiki Bar, Finleyville, 6:30 p.m. • Line dancing, H Lounge, Hollywood Casino at The Meadows, North Strabane Township, 8 p.m. • Dames for Dogs, Giant Oaks Win...

DEAR ABBY: My parents divorced when I was in high school, and Dad kept the house I grew up in. I’m in college across town and have my own place, but I still visited Dad often. As a teenager, it used t...

DEAR HARRIETTE: My 13-year-old daughter has recently started refusing to attend family gatherings like birthday parties or Sunday dinners at my parents’ house. She says they’re “boring, fake and a was...

In Starz’s “Outlander,” Caitriona Balfe’s Claire Fraser is bold and brave. She can also think on her feet in high-pressure moments. Her husband Jamie Fraser, played by Sam Heughan, is protective and e...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Daryl Hall and John Oates have resolved their dispute over a Hall & Oates business partnership through arbitration, reaching a private ending after details of their rift went p...

• Kendy Buteau, 21, of Charleroi was charged with making a false report and careless driving on Monday, court records state. • Joseph Carl Vranka, 66, of McKeesport was charged with simple assault and...

The Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Senate advanced proposals Tuesday to end the state’s budget impasse and address funding problems at transit agencies for the next two years. Both proposals passe...

ASTROGRAPH by Eugenia Last

DEAR ABBY: My husband is going to be 70 next month. He is in good physical shape but has taken up smoking marijuana every day. He says he is addicted. I have told him how much I hate that he uses dope...