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Steelers return to team’s headquarters one day early

LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — Mike McCarthy arrived at Saint Vincent College for his first training camp as coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers with a detailed plan designed to maximize the club's annual three-week trip to the western Pennsylvania hills. Mother Nature wreaked havoc with it, so much ...

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Tuesday, Aug. 18 High school golf: Marietta, Cambridge at Fort Frye, 4 p.m.; Warren at Parkersburg (PCC), 4 p.m. High school boys soccer: Jackson at Warren, 7:30 p.m. High school girls soccer: Warren at Jackson, 7 p.m.

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MOVTA/POWER POINT TENNIS SCORES SINGLES: Isaac Stephens def. EJ Abels 6-0 Ru He def. Matthew Goodson 6-2 Zander Duncan def. Alex Waskey 6-2 Kase Duncan def. Isaeh Stark 6-3 DOUBLES: K. Duncan/He def. Waskey/Abels 6-0 Z. Duncan/Stephens def. Goodson/Stark 6-0

Obsessed with yesterday, Trump unprepared for tomorrow

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." The Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner wrote those words in 1951. Yet, they could be a commentary on the political scene 75 years later. No issue matters more to President Donald Trump than the results of the 2020 election. Despite newspaper investigations, congressional hearings and the results of over 60 legal challenges, he still says he won. This year, FBI agents in flak jackets seized boxes related to the presidential election six years ago in Fulton County, Georgia. After a Justice Department investigation, his former ...

Trump promised to be a dictator. Now we know which one

It was already one of the most clownish (if sinister) moments in the Trump administration -- the Department of Justice actually brought criminal charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn for sabotaging the president's big, beautiful reflecting pool. It then dropped them for legal reasons that amounted to: "We screwed up." But now we learn that Trump can't let it go. The Wall Street Journal reports that the White House is pressuring the DOJ to revisit the case. Wonder if Todd Blanche will "talk the president out of it." (Just kidding.) This is Trump's America. Hearn was ...

About to get even crazier for American League wild card

The middle of the American League standings has turned into a medicore mess. It might make for a fascinating playoff race. There are seven teams fighting for the final AL wild-card spot and all of them have a record below .500. The Baltimore Orioles would make the playoffs if the season ...