Andrew Conte’s book mourns the McKeesport Daily News

For over a century, The Daily News supplied the McKeesport and the Mon Valley each day with essential information about the community. The newsroom was such an important part of most people’s daily life that residents even named a local baseball league after the paper.

However, when The Daily News closed in 2015, McKeesport residents were left to try to find a way to fill the void. The shutdown of this beloved newspaper turned McKeesport into a so-called news desert, a community no longer covered by a daily newspaper.

Andrew Conte, director of the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University, NextPittsburgh On Media columnist and a former reporter for a sister publication, says the shutdown of the paper impaired the community — and calls into question the future of local journalism.

“Death of the Daily News” by Andrew Conte.

“People lose touch with what’s going on,” says Conte

Jets says session with Giants will be ‘respectful practice’

The last time the Jets and Giants shared a practice field, it mirrored a scene from a WWE event.

Seventeen years later, after many regime changes between the two teams, the Giants will host their MetLife Stadium partners for a joint practice Thursday afternoon at Quest Diagnostics Training Center ahead of Sunday’s preseason finale.

So how did the idea of ​​having a joint practice against the Giants come about?

“I have a lot of respect for Dabs [Giants coach Brian Daboll] and the person that he is,” Jets coach Robert Saleh said Wednesday. “If he is anything like we are, it is going to be a respectful practice.

“It is going to be a competitive practice, but at the same time, treating each other like our own teammates and protecting one another and making sure we are getting what we need so we can play better.”

In 2005, a bench-clearing

NYPD officers ordered not to ‘congregate’ or chitchat while on patrol

The NYPD has ordered officers to avoid hanging out in groups and making chitchat with one another while on patrol, according to an internal memo.

The rules, dated Tuesday, marked a revision to the Police Patrol Guide to ensure cops do not waste time on the job — with emphasis on supervisors’ responsibility.

“Police officers and supervisors will be held strictly accountable for these provisions,” the order reads. “Patrol supervisors are required to ensure that members of the service are not congregating, or engaging in unnecessary conversation, absent police necessity when visiting members of the service.”

The order is meant to “enhance officer safety, deployment strategies and optimize presence in the field.”

While campaigning last year, Mayor Adams, a former NYC Transit cop, said he was “disappointed” with the way NYC subway cops had

Giants WR Collin Johnson tears Achilles, Sterling Shepard back

The Giants lost a starting-caliber receiver to injury the same day they got one back.

Collin Johnson tore his right Achilles during Wednesday’s practice, the same afternoon that Sterling Shepard made his training camp debut.

Johnson, 24, has been the standout of the Giants’ camp. He had earned regular first-team reps, and his 6-6 frame had given the offense a high-functioning big receiver target with Kenny Golladay off to a slow start.

“The guys who have been out there and are producing — guys like Collin Johnson and David Sills — they’ve stepped up and they’re right in the mix, not just to make the team but to play,” head coach Brian Daboll had said Monday.

The Giants’ projected Week 1 starters at receiver seem to be Shepard, Golladay and second-round rookie Wan’Dale Robinson.

Sills is pushing for a large role. Kadarius Toney continues to spend more time on one

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I’ve given up on the disaster that is the Red Sox

Much of this blog is being written as I sit on the back of my boat along the Bangor waterfront listening to Pitbull.

It wasn’t that many years ago we never would have imagined an artist like Pitbull entertaining 13,000 people on the banks of the Penobscot. That would have seemed as unlikely as the Red Sox finishing in last place this year.

More on that in a minute.

Waterfront Concerts is the best thing to happen to the Queen City in a long time. I work my best with music in the background. Although he is a bit loud.

OK, back to the aforementioned Red Sox. While this is probably not the case, I still feel like this franchise has no idea what they are doing. I understand the team was within two wins of the World Series last year. But this year there’s no way — by rolling

Greenbackville woman pleads guilty to unlawfully wounding step-father

By Linda Cicoira

A Greenbackville woman pleaded guilty Thursday in Accomack Circuit Court to unlawfully wounding her step-father last January.

Forty-five-year-old Karen Garrison, of Brigantine Boulevard in Captain’s Cove, claimed she was defending herself when she cut her step-father in the head with a knife. When her mother tried to stop the fight, Garrison accidentally cut herself and was also treated for her injury.

Harry Wilson told authorities the defendant wounded him when he struck him with a small axe.

Garrison was initially charged with the more serious felony of malicious wounding. That charge was reduced in exchange for the guilty plea.

The defendant told police she walked in front of Wilson’s view of the TV when she went through the living room of their home causing him to get angry and start a verbal dispute. It became physical when he “punched her in the face” so “she grabbed a

Steven “Stevie” Trumble Obituary – The MetroWest Daily News

Steven “Stevie” Trumble, age 50, of Marlboro, MA passed away July 19th, 2022.

Steve grew up in Marlboro and was the son of Karen Helms of Cape Coral, Florida and the late Steven Trumble of Hudson.

Early on Stevie spent his years in restaurants, he worked his way up to becoming an amazing chef! Stevie was the friendliest man you would ever meet. Stevie never met a person he couldn’t engage with. He loved music! He would sing so loud to his favorite songs. His charm and, quick wit was always something we would admire.

Although cooking was on the back burner for him in these past years. He was happy to just to enjoy the wildlife in his backyard, a good movie, or sports on tv. He loved the simple things in life. Giving a compliment to someone was second nature to him, he spoke his mind, and wore