11+ hour, 25+ min ago   (525+ words) A Carnegie Mellon University professor is on a voluntary sabbatical while school officials review what they called “hostile and threatening social media posts.” Uju Anya, an associate professor of second language acquisition, is under scrutiny following a 2021 exchange on X…...

13+ hour, 59+ min ago   (552+ words) Fourteen-year-old Andrew Doran watched for 20 minutes as a blacksmith at the Fort Allen Antique Farm Equipment Association heated a metal rod over coals and pounded it into the shape of an “S” hook. “Nowadays, a machine could spit that out…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (128+ words) Armstrong Junior-Senior High School will hold classes remotely Friday after a threat against the school, the district said in a social media post. A threat of violence was reported Thursday evening through the Safe2Say system, district officials said. “Law enforcement was…...

1+ day, 50+ min ago   (801+ words) The scope of an alleged cocaine distribution ring involving students at Penn State University remains unclear, but testimony at preliminary hearings offered some clarity as to how much money and drugs were exchanged between the two accused leaders of the…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (664+ words) 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. In a message Thursday, Carnegie Mellon President…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1436+ words) Gordon Felt refuses to forget. The retired camp manager lost his older brother — Edward Porter Felt, computer whiz and perennial problem-solver — when he and 39 others on United Flight 93 thwarted hijackers’ plans on Sept. 11, 2001. Their plane crashed in a empty field…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (671+ words) An unheralded African American jazz revolutionary from East Liberty whose progressive passages helped pave the way to the genre’s future had a stretch of street in her old neighborhood renamed Mary Lou Williams Way on Friday. Dubbed “The First Lady…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (505+ words) 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. She wasn’t yet born at the time of the attacks....

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (430+ words) The Trump administration on Wednesday accused UC Berkeley Law School of illegally discriminating against white and Asian applicants, the latest in a wave of such allegations it has leveled against graduate programs in California following a 2023 Supreme Court decision barring…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (429+ words) DETROIT — More than a dozen former hockey players are suing the University of Michigan, alleging their coach and other staff were aware of sexual hazing that included the forced shaving of their genitals and other abuse by teammates decades ago....