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Upper St. Clair High School Speech and Debate Coach Ben Edwards has earned his fourth Diamond Award from the National Speech & Debate Association. To qualify for this recognition, Edwards earned more than 90,000 points throughout his coaching career that spans 20-plus years. Since 1925, the National Speech & Debate Association has been recognizing student […]

Christopher Shepherd was gunned down Sunday evening by multiple police from multiple departments after approaching them with a kitchen knife, based on reports by Allegheny County Police.

Robert W. Orchowski was honored recently for his service as an Upper St. Clair Township commissioner. After 26 years, Orchowski did not seek reelection for his term that ended Dec. 31. He was the longest serving commissioner in the township’s history. Over a dozen friends and former colleagues attended an informational and general affairs meeting […]

Allegheny County police said dispatchers were alerted around 3 p.m. to reports of a domestic incident between a known 48-year-old man and a family member at a house in the 100 block of Lamar Road.

Mt. Lebanon defeated Baldwin, 73-50, to start the New Year with its first Section 2 victory in Class 6A. The triumph on Jan. 2 also raised the Blue Devils’ overall record to 9-1 and marked the 401st career coaching win for Joe David. But, who’s counting? Certainly not the Lebo coach, who in his 23rd […]

Upper St. Clair police are asking for the public’s help to find a missing man who’s on the autism spectrum.

Canon-McMillan, Chartiers-Houston, McGuffey, and Peters Township high schools in Washington County have been named to the 2022-23 AP School Honor Roll, which recognizes schools whose Advanced Placement programs are delivering results for students and broadening access. Mt. Lebanon and Upper St. Clair high schools are among 18 Allegheny County high schools named to the honor […]

Upper St. Clair students earned a first place and two third-place finishes in the South Hills Literary Festival held recently at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie. In the high school division, the high school team of Josh Beitler, Sophia Whitman and Carlee Santel placed first in the book sculpture challenge […]

A team of Fort Couch Middle School students placed first in the annual regional History Bowl held Dec. 7 at the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. Eighth- graders Claire Birmingham, Alexa Galbraith and Kiran Khurana earned top honors in the middle school division (6-8), marking back-to-back History Bowl wins for Fort […]

What started as a required school project turned into an international writing contest that bridged Upper St. Clair students to teen writers across the globe. Earlier this year, Nikhita Thakuria, then a sophomore at Upper St. Clair High School, created a website for the school’s mandatory International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme, which encourages students to […]