Wesley Family Services will discontinue two of its support programs for seniors this month because of lack of funding, the nonprofit confirmed to TribLive this week.

NEW YORK — Baseball players proposed optional assignments to the minor leagues be cut from a maximum of five per season to three and those sent down get more pay and service time, aimed at reducing roster churn that teams use for their bullpen back ends in an era when relief pitchers throw an increased portion of games.

Pennsylvania’s public-school employees’ pension fund is $41 billion short of what it needs to pay promised benefits. Last year, it missed the investment benchmark that officials set, a result they said was “primarily due to performance within private equity.”

FORT WORTH, Texas — Seven people were sentenced to prison Wednesday on federal terrorism charges over a shooting at a protest outside a Texas immigration detention center, a week after eight others involved were sentenced to decades behind bars.

Greensburg resident Stephanie Haynes was upset to hear Wednesday morning that Kroger will acquire the Pittsburgh-born grocery chain Giant Eagle — her go-to stop for fresh food.

West Penn Power crews were prepared to respond to heat-related outages Wednesday afternoon, but a demolition mishap knocked out electricity instead.

Gov. Greg Abbott called for blocking new data center development in rural parts of the state during a campaign stop in East Texas on Tuesday.

Deena Alansky has shopped at Giant Eagle for more than 40 years, so news of Kroger’s planned acquisition of the local grocery chain left her with plenty of questions.

HERSHEY — Hershey may be known as the “Sweetest Place on Earth,” thanks to its chocolate-drenched origins, but the Pennsylvania community is also home to Christian Pulisic — the most accomplished and famous player on a U.S. national team that’s dreaming big as it co-hosts the World Cup.

A bullet lodged in a bedroom wall stud was recovered from a Mt. Pleasant Township home where a man was fatally shot last month, according to preliminary hearing testimony Wednesday.

Pittsburgh Regional Transit is introducing some patriotic flair to one of its light rail cars, just in time for America’s 250th anniversary.

Pittsburgh City Council members continued Wednesday to work through their feelings about a controversial Downtown development strategy championed by the mayor’s office.

HAMDEN, Ohio — Sixteen children from the same family who were rescued from a dilapidated home in rural Ohio were living in wretched conditions with human waste all around, confined to just one room over much of the past four years, authorities said Wednesday.

Allegheny County has extended its heat advisory throughout the holiday weekend due to the continuation of hot temperatures.

The Edmonton Oilers signed former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Ryan Shea to a five-year contract worth $4 million on Wednesday.

NHL free agency is always a two-way street.

A former Torrance State Hospital nurse pleaded guilty Wednesday to institutional sexual assault for having regular sexual encounters with an institutionalized adult convicted of juvenile sex offenses.

Brazilian referee Raphael Claus will officiate the United States Round of 32 match against Bosnia and Herzegovina at San Francisco Bay Area Stadium.

The National Archives at Seattle holds census information, maps and more information about the Pacific Northwest's history. It has been slated to move several times.

Thomas Tuchel has said it is "impossible" for England to adapt to the altitude ahead of Sunday's round-of-16 clash with Mexico in Mexico City.

Los Angeles is risking Doni following LeBron James out the door, and a return to Dallas shouldn't be written off

The USMNT have not won a knockout game at the World Cup since 2002, when they made a run to the quarterfinals, while Bosnia and Herzegovina are in the midst of their first-ever World Cup

Meta is reportedly developing its own cloud business that could sell access to its AI models and lease data-center computing capacity to other companies. The move would put Meta in direct competition with Amazon, Google, and SpaceX. Engadget reports: The cloud business could offer multiple services, according to [Bloomberg], like selling access to AI models ...

One person was killed when a freight train crashed into a car in northwest Indiana.