WASHINGTON — Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula.

LOS ANGELES — Kendrick Lamar gave music listeners an early holiday present Friday with the surprise drop of a new album.

MELBOURNE, Australia — The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia was released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore on a popular tourist beach, officials said Friday.

More than a year after it was approved, Tarentum’s second megawatt billboard is finally expected to light up the borough’s western side.

Two new champions will be crowned in Class 3A and 2A while two teams look to repeat as champions in Class 5A and A as part of the four WPIAL football championship games to be played Saturday at Acrisure Stadium.

Riverview girls basketball coach Jill Catanzaro doesn’t need a lot of time to take roll call before a practice session.

Andrew McCutchen will join 180 volunteers helping to package and deliver more than 2,000 Thanksgiving meals across Pittsburgh as part of an event called Yinzgiving.

Pitt and LSU met Friday afternoon in the Greenbrier Tipoff in White Sulpher Springs, W.Va., but the Panthers’ 74-63 victory beared no resemblance to the teams’ most recent meeting Jan. 31, 1969. That day, Pete Maravich scored 40 points in LSU’s 120-79 victory against coach Buzz Ridl’s Panthers.

Riverview boys basketball coach Dre Corbin joined the program in May and quickly got a feel for what kind of team could take shape for the 2024-25 season.

For the second time this week, the PIAA has made a change to the PIAA Class A quarterfinal matchup between City League champion Westinghouse and District 6 champ Bishop Guilfoyle.

One big takeaway from the 2024 election cycle has largely escaped notice in the Northeast: Voters decisively rejected every state ballot initiative to legalize the sale and marketing of marijuana for recreational use. This rejection marks a clear victory for families over the marijuana industry’s addiction-for-profit business plan.

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — A jury convicted two men of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border during a 2022 blizzard.

Demeatria Boccella and her business partner, Darnell McLaurin, are spotlighting the beauty of the African diaspora in Pittsburgh one event at a time. Their Africanism Gala, held at Ice House Studios in Lawrenceville Thursday night, was packed with attendees, leaving only standing room for the showcase of African fashion, music and culture. The event was a ...

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Construction of restrooms at Springdale Junior/Senior High School will be contained to the auditorium lobby area.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The Daniel Jones era in New York is over.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The owners of a Colorado funeral home accused of piling 190 bodies inside a room-temperature building and giving the grieving relatives fake ashes pleaded guilty Friday to corpse abuse as aggrieved families looked on in court.

State police are looking for help from the public to identify a man who they say took a woman’s wallet from the Hempfield Walmart store and lied to her that he had it.

Sewickley officials plan to hold the line on real estate taxes as part of next year’s budget.

Pittsburgh’s Larimer neighborhood is vibrant — but it also has the lowest life expectancy rate in the city at less than 65 years old.

Santa made an early appearance Nov. 20 in Penn Hills with a special visit to the Berkshire Hathaway office on Frankstown Road.

Pittsburgh Public Safety will have a strong presence at the city’s Light Up Night celebration Downtown Saturday.

A West Newton auto shop is facing criminal charges after state police said employees there were putting inspection stickers on vehicles they didn’t actually inspect, according to court papers.

A proposed real estate rate tax increase of 0.3 mills in Franklin Park for 2025 will be voted on at a special meeting at 7 p.m. Dec. 4 at the municipal building on West Ingomar Road.

Amazon is investing an additional $4 billion in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic as major technology companies rush to fund generative AI.