Twenty-one WPIAL girls basketball players and two from the City League were named to the 2024-25 Pennsylvania sports writers all-state girls basketball team Thursday, including nine first-team honorees.

After more than 50 years with Heritage Valley Sewickley, the Valley Ambulance Authority is instead relying on physicians from Allegheny Health Network’s hospital in Wexford for authorization to treat patients in the field.

Plum School Board moved forward with an extensive renovation and addition process at two district schools during a special meeting Wednesday night.

Penn State won’t announce which of its branch campuses will close until after the class of 2025 graduates, university officials said Thursday.

Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC will welcome another MLS opponent to Highmark Stadium next month.

The Pittsburgh Pirates celebrated Andrew Heaney for 10 years of major league service before his start Thursday, with carved watermelons and cupcakes representing the six teams he’s pitched for over 12 seasons.

Citing personal matters that are commanding his attention, Aaron Rodgers isn’t ready to announce whether he will play for the Pittsburgh Steelers – or any other NFL team – in the 2025 season.

Penn State’s linebacker play was at times detrimental in 2024, both against the pass and the run. But NFL-bound Kobe King’s talent and experience often covered for any deficiencies over the course of the game.

Washington Nationals reliever Jorge Lopez was suspended three games and Nationals manager Dave Martinez one game by MLB for intentionally throwing a pitch at Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen on Wednesday night.

SAN FRANCISCO — Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to boost the profits fueling an internet empire currently worth $1.8 trillion.

LONDON — Astronomers have found possible chemical signs of life on a distant planet outside our solar system, though they caution more work is needed to confirm their findings.

For two decades, energy and intensity have been the defining characteristics when two of the NHL’s most iconic stars, Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin, have collided on the ice.

MOSCOW — Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a ban on Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, a group that was designated as a terrorist organization more than two decades ago.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — An active shooter was reported Thursday on the Florida State University campus in Tallahassee, according to the school’s alert system.

Lee Corso’s nearly four-decade run on ESPN’s “College GameDay” is coming to an end.

Quaker Valley School District officials are considering a new policy that would regulate requests from businesses, organizations and individuals seeking naming rights to district facilities.

A lot has changed since St. Scholastica elementary school was established along the tree-lined streets of Aspinwall in 1925 – most notably, the name.

Regardless of which option Burrell School Board chooses when it comes to renovating Bon Air Elementary School, it has the support of Lower Burrell’s planning commission.

PennDOT is alerting motorists to a restriction on a section of Hulton Road in Penn Hills.

It took nine rounds of voting, but Plum School Board appointed a new member during a special meeting Wednesday night.

The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled forward Sam Poulin from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) Thursday morning in advance of their regular season finale, a home contest against the Washington Capitals.

Until the first year of the Omar Khan-Andy Weidl regime atop the front office, the Pittsburgh Steelers hadn’t selected an offensive tackle in the first round of an NFL Draft since 1996.

Two men on Wednesday pleaded guilty in connection with a 2022 shooting death in Penn Hills.

NEW YORK — The worst plunge for UnitedHealth Group’s stock in more than a quarter century is weighing on Wall Street, even as most stocks ticked higher.