Only two classifications saw changes last week in the Trib HSSN state baseball rankings as we bid farewell to April.

While thoughts and prayers go out to those in the state still recovering from a damaging storm Tuesday, there was a great calm in the state softball rankings as we head into May.

An 0.68 ERA is proof that Avonworth pitcher Carson Franc has had other great outings, but his coach called this one his best yet.

Phones blared emergency signals in unison as Tuesday’s destructive storm approached Charles A. Huston Middle School in Lower Burrell. On the baseball diamond, host Burrell had just taken the lead against Deer Lakes in the bottom of the fourth inning when the storm hit.

BRYCE CANYON CITY, Utah — Two people died in a 380-foot fall from a viewing area in southern Utah’s Bryce Canyon National Park.

In February, singer Sheryl Crow celebrated Valentine’s Day by dumping her Tesla in a video she posted to Instagram. Soon after, a man with a gun showed up on her Nashville property.

Falling into last place with one week left in the regular season is not a good recipe for a postseason run.

A federal judge has strongly rebuked Apple, finding that the iPhone maker willfully violated a court injunction in an antitrust case filed by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games.

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performed Wednesday evening at the Saint Vincent Archabbey Basilica in Unity.

Pittsburgh Pirates manager Derek Shelton has said repeatedly, as recently as Tuesday, that the club’s experiment featuring Carmen Mlodzinski as a starting pitcher will continue.

At 8:50 p.m. during the bottom of the seventh inning of Wednesday’s game at PNC Park between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, play was stopped when a fan fell from the Clemente Wall onto the right-field warning track.

NEW YORK — WNBA training camps just opened, and there already are so many eyes on the 2026 season when more than 100 players will be free agents.

Fresh off a career milestone and a tight loss, Riley Miller made sure Hempfield softball bounced back on senior day.

Giannis Antetokounmpo had to have known the question was coming.

Schools throughout the Alle-Kiski Valley and well beyond were shuttered Wednesday, and maybe longer, after Tuesday’s fast-moving thunderstorms.

Two days after its wide release, “Death County, PA” has risen to the top spot of Apple’s ranking for top ‘Podcast Series.’

A man who caused a drunk-driving crash last year in Pittsburgh that killed his cousin is being sued for negligence in her death along with the Mt. Washington bar where they were said to be drinking that night.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — On a crisp, clear morning, a chestnut thoroughbred thundered down the dirt strip at Churchill Downs, his exercise rider leaning forward above the saddle. Other horse-and-rider pairs followed.

Rustic Ridge No. 1 Mine near Donegal has state approval to expand its operations under the Pennsylvania Turnpike and tap into 1,450 acres of a coal seam in an area along Route 711.

LA QUINTA, Calif. — Jeff Sperbeck, a business partner and former agent for NFL Hall of Famer John Elway, died Wednesday after suffering an injury last weekend at a Southern California golf resort community. He was 62.

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A judge on Wednesday released a Palestinian student at Columbia University who led protests against Israel’s war in Gaza and was arrested by immigration officials during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship.

Doctors recommended that Endy Rodriguez immobilize his right index finger for another week, a setback for the Pittsburgh Pirates catcher/first baseman’s timeline to return to playing.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Members of a high school lacrosse program in upstate New York are accused of staging an armed abduction of younger players in a stunt that “went way beyond hazing,” prosecutors said this week.

Joe Warren has been in the drive-in movie scene for about six decades. But he has rarely seen devastation to an outdoor theater like he did Wednesday morning at Evergreen Drive-In.