Leechburg girls basketball team made the playoffs with an 8-11 record last season. This year, the Blue Devils want nothing more than to make it back.

About 30 volunteers spent part of Nov. 16 planting eight trees near a stone turnout along Allegheny River Boulevard in Penn Hills.

Andrew McDermott is heading into his second year coaching a hungry Leechburg boys basketball team. The players, coaches and community are determined to turn the ship around.

WASHINGTON — Republicans on the House Ethics Committee voted Wednesday against releasing a report on the panel’s long-running investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, the top Democrat on the panel said.

Oregon is playing in the Big Ten championship game, the conference announced Tuesday. Seemingly, it took the Big Ten a couple days to figure out its own tiebreakers to determine that there was no scenario in which the Ducks would be left out out of the conference title game Dec. 7 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

Westmoreland County’s former director of purchasing was arrested Tuesday on felony charges accusing him of stealing $9,800 by allowing department employees to work an extra 30 minutes daily.

McALLEN, Texas — Texas is offering a parcel of rural ranchland along the U.S.-Mexico border to use as a staging area for potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump.

Philadelphia’s mass transit system has reached a tentative contract deal with its largest workers union, averting a potential strike that could have seen thousands of employees walk off the job.

Robert Cindrich served as the federal government’s top prosecutor in Pittsburgh during the Jimmy Carter administration.

There are a lot of familiar teams playing in the WPIAL football championships this fall.