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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in Washington County conducting its National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Mailers to 650 randomly selected addresses were sent out to participate in the  60 year old survey. According to spokesperson Jenna Green-Ross, participants can be any age from “cradle to grave”.  If you have been selected, a field interviewer will conduct a in home interview before you proceed to the mobile testing facility that is located in the Tanger Outlets parking lot. All participation is completely voluntary. Once at the mobile site, participants will have typical procedures for weight, height urine samples performed. Other tests include bone density scans and allergy tests for approximately 150 irritants. Data collected us used for assessing nutritional status of the country, developing national standards for height, weight and osteoporosis and research and development of safety products and procedures. It is also used in the CDC Pediatric Growth Charts.  Data collected will be used for research only. Collection procedures are completely secure. Once data has been analyzed, it is completely de-identified. The mobile testing facility will be in Washington County until September 26.

You will want to watch your speed if you travel Waterdam Road in North Strabane and Peters Township.  North Strabane Director of Public Safety Mark Grimm says a joint effort that has been going on for more than two weeks. North Strabane Township, Peters Township and State Police are all involved.  According to Grimm, the crackdown has led to 196 warnings, 93 tickets and 3 arrests with excessive speed being the primary offense. One of those arrests involved a driver going 85 miles per hour. According to police, the road sees more than 7200 vehicles a day.  Resident complaints and an excessive number of accidents prompted the department to apply for and receive a grant to cover the cost of the enforcement. Grimm said that speed enforcement will continue. He said that VASCAR speed lines have been painted on Waterdam Road for future enforcement. (Photo: North Strabane Township Police Department Facebook Page)

Funeral services have been set for former Congressman Tim Murphy, who died of an apparent heart attack over the weekend. Murphy represented the area in Congress for 15 years, and was a state senator before that.  Viewing is scheduled for 2-8 p.m. on Friday at Beinhauer Funeral Home in McMurray. A Mass of Remembrance will take place Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Thomas More Church, located at 126 Fort Couch Road. Mourners are asked to meet at the church. Instead of sending flowers, the public is asked to consider donating to the Band of Parents in support of pediatric cancer research, specifically Neuroblastoma.

CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels says they have attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, and the U.S. military said it conducted a 12th night of strikes against Iran as the two countries vie for control of vital shipping lanes. The Houthi attack in the Red Sea announced Thursday threatened to open a new front in a war that has roiled the global economy, sending prices for fuel and other goods surging across the world. Saudi state media reported that a tanker named the Encelia was set ablaze by an attack while sailing overnight in the Red Sea, citing an unidentified source from the General Authority of Transport.

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — President Donald Trump is honoring the lives of four U.S. service members who were killed in the Middle East and returned to their families at an air force base in Delaware. Trump saluted Wednesday as four transfer cases carrying the service members’ remains were escorted off an airplane during the dignified transfer. Earlier in the day, he called the ritual over the loss of life as “one of the hardest things to do as a president.” The service members were identified as 25-year-old Tyler James Feehan of Hawaii, 19-year-old Isabella Gonzales of Texas, 28-year-old Angel S. Rampersad of New York, and 30-year-old Michael Emmanuel Swinton of North Carolina.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has forged a new agreement with Saudi Arabia that could potentially provide the kingdom with uranium enrichment capability for its civilian nuclear program. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Saudi Minister of Energy Abdulaziz bin Salman on Wednesday signed the nuclear cooperation agreement, known as a “123 agreement,” alongside what the Trump administration described as a “bilateral safeguards agreement.” The U.S. administration released scant details of the deal. But the framework of the agreement paves the way for the building of a uranium enrichment facility in Saudi Arabia after a joint U.S.-Saudi study. That’s according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to comment publicly.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House adopted a Republican-only $95 billion budget proposal, a long-shot effort to fund the Iran war and other White House priorities. Speaker Mike Johnson worked Wednesday to push it over objections from Democrats and some GOP holdouts as a priority before the midterm elections. The package includes $73 billion for the Pentagon and other national security needs, $12 billion for farmers struggling under President Donald Trump’s tariffs and $10 billion for voting law changes that are a Trump priority. Democrats argued the money should be spent at home, particularly on efforts to lower costs for Americans. It next goes to the Senate.