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July 24, 2025
• 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...
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July 24, 2025
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...
Entertainment Calendar, Features
July 24, 2025
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...
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July 24, 2025
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...
Clingy girlfriend’s behavior could be a marriage red flag
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July 24, 2025
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...
Friend squanders career opportunities
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SENSE AND SENSITIVITY
July 24, 2025
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...
Far beyond Harvard, conservative efforts to reshape higher education are gaining steam
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By By HEATHER HOLLING-SWORTH Associated Press 
July 24, 2025
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...
Remembering heavy metal rock legend Ozzy Osbourne
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By By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer 
July 24, 2025
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...
Chance encounter still burns in divorced neighbor
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July 23, 2025
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....
Mom’s parenting confession hurts reader
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SENSE AND SENSITIVITY
July 23, 2025
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...
One Tech Tip: ‘Click-to-cancel’ is over, but there are other ways to unsubscribe
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By By CORA LEWIS Associated Press 
July 23, 2025
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...
Federal judge reverses rule that would have removed medical debt from credit reports
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By By ADRIANA MORGAAND CORA LEWIS Associated Press 
July 23, 2025
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...
Labubu not the first toy craze, and certainly won’t be the last
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By By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer 
July 23, 2025
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...
Overdoses lead to crackdown on nitazenes, a powerful class of opioids
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By JACK TROY TribLive 
July 22, 2025
The Pennsylvania Department of Health has criminalized nitazenes, a class of synthetic opioids that can be even stronger than fentanyl, as overdose deaths in the state mount. Nitazenes are temporarily...
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Latorre named to
July 22, 2025
Erin Mcchesney, of Scenery Hill, was named to the 2025 spring dean’s list at Tufts University, Medford, Mass.
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July 22, 2025
The following have applied for marriage licenses through the Westmoreland County Register of Wills: • Micheal Joseph Quinn, 30, and Kayla Marie Baldinger, 28, both of Monessen. • Joshua Michael Walls,...
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July 22, 2025
PROTESTING ON COLLEGE campuses is a rite of passage — part of the process of growing up and learning. It is universal. Student protests happened in medieval France, in the streets of China in the 1980...
Co-worker’s ‘raging crush’ must be tamed
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July 22, 2025
DEAR ABBY: After six years of working closely together, I have developed a raging crush on my co-worker and project partner, “Brett.” It’s a full-on, face-flushing, daydreaming kind of situation, and ...
Pet owner sees cat in neighbors’ window
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SENSE AND SENSITIVITY
July 22, 2025
DEAR HARRIETTE: A few weeks ago, my cat went missing. I put up flyers around the neighborhood, posted on local social media pages and walked around calling her name. Then, a few days ago, I spotted he...