ASTROGRAPH by Eugenia Last

DEAR ABBY: I am 65, single and retired with an almost-40-year-old bipolar child. Although she’s compliant with her meds, she also self-medicates and sometimes must be hospitalized due to her mania. Sh...

DEAR HARRIETTE: I work remotely, and while I’ve enjoyed the flexibility and freedom it provides, I’ve started to feel increasingly isolated and unmotivated. At first, it felt like a dream: no commute,...

FAMILY FEATURES eading back to school means stocking up on pencils, notebook paper and the like, but there’s more to getting ready to ace a new school year than basic school supplies. Gearing up for a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Russia’s Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump to allow the United States and its European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s coll...

DEAR ABBY: I recently spent weeks caring for my mom in hospice. I was holding her hand when she took her last breath. I had announced to family and friends her choice to enter hospice. They knew her d...

• 71st annual Westmoreland Fair, 123 Blue Ribbon Lane, Greensburg, gates open at 10 a.m. daily through Aug. 23. The $10 admission fee includes parking, amusement rides, entry to all commercial and agr...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and agreed to leave the Washington, D.C., police chief in control of the department, while Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a new mem...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is the first Democratic-led state to wade into a brewing national redistricting fight after President Donald Trump urged Texas Republicans to draw new maps to main...

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...