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Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra will continue its long-running tradition of going “Home for the Holidays,” with the annual concert set for 7:30 p.m. Dec. 17 at The Palace Theatre in Greensburg. But there are new elements in the mix this year. As usual, the All-Star Choir of Westmoreland County will perform,

A 16-year-old Tulsa runaway reported missing by her mother took shelter with a man who falsely claimed to be a U.S. Marshal, according to police.

Neurological experts in the Bay Area agreed that the study was among the first they were...

After more than a year of virtual rehearsing and performing, Pitt-Greensburg Theatre Company will sprint back to the stage for the rollicking British farce, “See How They Run.” The 1944 Philip King play finds the actors galloping in and out of the four doors of an English vicarage. The madcap

Image of the olfactory bulb. The green in the image shows immunostained cerebrospinal fluid from one patient containing neural autoantibodies. Image

One of the enduring mysteries of COVID-19 is why it makes some people deathly sick but gives others only mild symptoms or none at all. We know that age matters, as do race; gender; and pre-existing medical conditions like high blood pressure, heart problems, and obesity. We also know that most people who succumb to the disease die because they develop severe pneumonia, also known as acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS.  What we still don’t know, however, is what tips one COVID-19 vi...

Special to The Alliance Review Minerva First Christian Church has celebrated 55 young men as Eagle Scouts over the 83 years it has sponsored a troop. The year 2021 has been much different. The church’s Boy Scout Troop 150 this year has celebrated four Eagle Scouts. It is the most to receive the distinction in one year since the troop’s beginnings in 1938. “This is a remarkable achievement in a normal time, but with a year of COVID restrictions, it lifted the troop to a higher level of dif...

February 15, 2021 by Julie Parry In March of 2020, Shelli Farhadian, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (infectious diseases) and neurology, began to see parallels in her pre-pandemic research on neurologic effects in patients with HIV infection and the possibility of neurologic effects on patients with SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19. “There was some literature out there that suggested that coronaviruses could have an effect on the brain. So, knowing that that was a potential possibility, even...