ATHENS, Greece — Out of their darkest moment, a Greek couple managed to make a new start with a baby born this week. Doing so meant using one of Cristina Rapti‑Tzelepi’s decades-old embryos and racing to beat a government deadline.

LOS ANGELES — A federal jury on Friday found rapper Lil Durk not guilty of the attempted killing for hire of rival rapper Quando Rondo at a Los Angeles gas station, a shooting that resulted in the death of Rondo’s cousin.

In their Week 1 win against Derry, Latrobe relied heavily on its run game, specifically running back AJ Yeboah who set a school record for yards (264).

Penn-Trafford senior quarterback Ben Grabowski led the Warriors on a revenge tour with 281 total offensive yards and touchdown runs of 11 and 46 yards in a 22-7 nonconference victory over Moon at Joe Walton Stadium on the campus of Robert Morris.

During the first two games of the season, the Hempfield defense did not get a crucial stop.

Potter Brozeski was ruled out of bounds on his first visit to the end zone Friday night.

After a Week 1 victory at North Allegheny, North Hills had to wait an extra week for the home coaching debut of alumnus Eric Kasperowicz after last Thursday’s game against Seneca Valley was canceled because of storms.

Seton LaSalle delivered a statement at Dormont Memorial Stadium on Friday night, defeating Aliquippa in dominant fashion, 28-0.

Trailing 28-13 with just 50 seconds remaining in the first half, South Fayette got the ball back with an opportunity to trim a two-score deficit to just one. In the blink of an eye, the Lions scored on one play, starting a stretch of 22 unanswered points that rolled into the second half on the way to taking down Montour, 35-28, on Friday.

After conceding 50-plus points in its first two games, Brashear beat Baldwin, 24-10, to earn its first win of 2026 before moving into conference play.

Fans had barely found their seats in time for the fireworks to begin Friday night at West Mifflin High School.

Life had been easy for the Fort Cherry football team the first two weeks of the season. Winning by a combined 64 points would make any team feel like it’s easy.

Rory O’Shea got the ball rolling for Seneca Valley early in a 42-6 nonconference win over visiting Penn Hills on Friday night. Jake Donesec got into the act in the second quarter and later had a special teams score for the second game in a row.

Top performers for Week 3 of high school football in Western Pennsylvania.

As someone in the press box said, “It’s like they never watched a game on TV.”

ATLANTA — Cooper Rush will be the Atlanta Falcons’ starting quarterback on Sunday at the Pittsburgh Steelers after Tua Tagovailoa was ruled out on Friday with an oblique injury.

Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Americans gathered Friday to remember those killed while honoring the first responders, survivors and families forever changed by that tragic day.

Don’t let the infectious, wide, bright smile fool you.

Olivia Roman has no firsthand connection to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when hijackers crashed airplanes into New York City’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Somerset County.

PennDOT has released plans to replace a degrading century-old bridge in Chartiers, Washington County, within the next two years.

UT Martin at West Virginia

As Stowe police exit their agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a second time, the small riverside borough of Versailles has moved to cooperate with the federal agency.

CAIRO — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy said Friday that it had shut down a major cross-country oil pipeline after it was attacked the day before. The statement did not specify who carried out the attacks and called the shutdown “a precautionary measure.”

A Baldwin Borough contractor accused of taking nearly $100,000 for jobs he failed to perform — while withdrawing tens of thousands of dollars at Pittsburgh’s Rivers Casino — was charged this week with home improvement fraud.

An interim policy for Carnegie Mellon University’s Fence — a student-painted, billboard-style forum for free speech and expression — still leaves some gray areas, particularly on controversial issues, some members of the campus community say.