Monessen High School was evacuated after contractors accidentally struck a gas line Thursday morning, according to county emergency officials. Westmoreland County 911 received a call around 10:20 a.m....

• Jerome Vining, 22, of McKeesport was charged with simple assault and harassment stemming from an alleged incident Thursday, court records state. A preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Jud...

DEAR ABBY: My daughter has been married to her high school sweetheart for 15 years. Their marriage has been rocky from the start due to her husband’s “God” complex. He’s a spoiled brat and a compulsiv...

DEAR HARRIETTE: My 17-year-old daughter recently got into a car accident. Thankfully, she wasn’t seriously hurt, but the car was totaled. After talking to her about what happened, it became clear that...

By JOSEPH WILSON, DEREK GATOPOULOS and TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press Cruel heat is baking southern Europe as the continent slips deeper into summer. In homes and offices, air conditioning is sweet re...

By Talker Research New Jerseyans are America’s biggest “ice cream connoisseurs,” according to a recent survey. The survey of 5,000 Americans, evenly split by state, revealed respondents in New Jersey ...

• Mario Ramir Jackson, 36, of McKeesport was charged with prohibited acts and two counts of DUI July 18, court records state. • Melanie Dawn Meade, 50, of Clairton was charged with two counts criminal...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of 21 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump administration’s restrictions on social services for immigrants in the country illeg...

Thursday Events • Bike night, Coconut Joe’s Tiki Bar, Finleyville, 6:30 p.m. • Finleyville Volunteer Fire Department’s annual carnival, opening at 6:30 p.m. nightly. EZ Action plays at 7 p.m., St. Fra...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A doctor who was a primary target in the sweeping investigation of actor Matthew Perry’s overdose death pleaded guilty Wednesday to supplying the “Friends” star with ketamine despit...

DEAR ABBY: I am a 47-year-old male who is 20 days from being divorced. For the past three months, I have been dating a woman I’ve known for 26 years. We love each other and plan to be married. We have...

DEAR HARRIETTE: I’ve worked in the entertainment industry for a while now, and with that comes a lot of work with adjacent industries like beauty and fashion. A friend of mine admires the work I do. T...

BOSTON (AP) — More than 120 cases, including some for assault on family members and police, were dismissed Tuesday in Boston, the latest fallout from a monthslong dispute over pay that has led public ...

Ken Beckley never went to Harvard, but he has been wearing a crimson Harvard cap in a show of solidarity. As he sees it, the Trump administration’s attacks on the school echo a case of government over...

Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id — of heavy metal, died Tuesday, just...

DEAR ABBY: I am a divorced man in my 60s. Twelve years ago, a neighbor woman who I’m attracted to popped into my house to have a smoke break out on my back deck. When she arrived, I was in the shower....

DEAR HARRIETTE: Out of nowhere, my mom confided in me that she never really enjoyed being a mother. She said that since I am 45 years old, she feels like she can finally be honest about it. She told m...

NEW YORK (AP) — A “clickto- cancel” rule, which would have made it easier for consumers to end unwanted subscriptions, has been blocked by a federal appeals court days before it was set to go into eff...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in Texas removed a Biden-era finalized rule by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have removed medical debt from credit reports. U.S. District Court Ju...

Pop Mart has struck it rich. The Chinese company that caters to toy connoisseurs and influencers said this week that it expects profit for the first six months of this year to jump by at least 350% co...