January 11, 2023 9:43 am
NEW YORK (AP) – The world’s largest aircraft fleet was grounded for hours by a cascading outage in a government system that delayed or canceled thousands of flights across the U.S. The White House initially said that there was no evidence of a cyber-attack behind the outage that ruined travel plans for millions of passengers. President Joe Biden said Wednesday morning that he’s directed the Department of Transportation to investigate. A order to ground all departing flights by the Federal Aviation Administration was lifted, but there are already 1,000 flight cancellations and more than 7,000 delayed flights. That number is expected to grow as the air travel network comes back to life.
January 11, 2023 4:20 am
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Mega Millions prize has grown again to an estimated $1.35 billion after there was no winner of the lottery’s latest giant jackpot. The numbers drawn late Tuesday night were: 7, 13, 14, 15, 18 and gold Mega Ball 9. Mega Millions says the prize for the next drawing on Friday night is the second highest in the game’s history. There have been 25 drawings over three months since the last time a player matched all six numbers and claimed the jackpot. The estimated $1.35 billion jackpot prize would only be distributed to a winner who chooses an annuity paid over 29 years. Nearly all jackpot winners take a cash payout, which for Friday night’s drawing is an estimated $707.9 million.
January 11, 2023 4:18 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Storm-ravaged California is scrambling to clean up and repair widespread damage as the lashing rain eases. Forecasts call for thunderstorms Wednesday in the north and then another powerful weather front later this week. Crews are working to reopen major highways that were closed by rockslides, swamped by flooding or smothered with mud. More than 10,000 people who were ordered out of seaside towns on the central coast were allowed to return home Tuesday. Yet thousands of people living near rain-swollen creeks and rivers remain under evacuation orders, including some 4,000 residents of Planada in the San Joaquin Valley, where neighborhoods were under water. Governor Gavin Newsom says at least 17 people have died in the series of storms that began late last week.
January 11, 2023 4:16 am
ROME (AP) – Cardinal George Pell, a onetime financial adviser to Pope Francis who had sex abuse convictions overturned, has died. The 81-year-old Australian died Tuesday after suffering heart complications from hip surgery. Pell was once the third-highest ranked Catholic in the Vatican. He was a divisive figure. He lived to see Vatican rivals charged with financial crimes after he worked to reform the church’s finances. In Australia, he was a lightning rod for disagreements over whether the church had been properly held to account for historic child sex abuse. Even after he was acquitted, Pell’s reputation remained tarnished by the scandal and in particular his handling of other priests who abused children.
January 11, 2023 4:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden says he was “surprised’ when he was informed that government records were found by his attorneys at a former office space in Washington. The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee has requested that the U.S. intelligence community conduct a “damage assessment” of potentially classified documents found among the papers. Speaking to reporters in Mexico City, Biden says his attorneys “did what they should have done” when they immediately called the National Archives about the discovery. Biden says he doesn’t know what’s in the documents,” adding his lawyers have suggested he not inquire what was in them. The Department of Justice is reviewing the matter.
January 11, 2023 4:11 am
Sheetz has announced that it’s lowering its diesel fuel prices by 50 cents a gallon for the start of the new year. The offer officially starts on Tuesday, Jan. 10, and ends on Tuesday, Jan. 31. The company said this cut will result in savings of approximately $10 for mid-size trucks, $12 for full-size trucks and $60 for semi-trailers if drivers are filling up their trucks from “empty” to “full.” In September, Sheetz reduced prices of diesel fuel in honor of Truck Driver Appreciation Week. This offer will include both auto diesel fuel and truck diesel fuel options. The company said the price displayed at the pump is the final purchase price and reflects the decrease.
January 11, 2023 4:08 am
North Franklin Township Supervisors are working with residents about their concerns about an inordinate amount of visitors to a local home. Residents of and near Ramsey Street have been talking with township supervisors about a home on Ramsey Street that they say has people stopping by for very short visits at all hours of the day and all night long. At their meeting Tuesday night, supervisors indicated that they are addressing the concerns by erecting signs indicating that the road is a dead end street and is part of a neighborhood watch program. Supervisor Josh Polan is in charge of monitoring the scenario and says that he actually went there and witnessed the problem and the township has sent a letter to the house indicating that officials are watching the activity at the home. Residents are particularly concerned about the traffic because of the number of children in the neighborhood. In other township business, advertisements will be made with regards to an amendment to an ordinance governing the use of fireworks. The proposal is to repeal the current ordinance and replace it with a new one. Once advertised, a public hearing will be held on the changes.
January 11, 2023 4:06 am
CANONSBURG, Pa. — (WPXI) – Two family pets died in a house fire in Washington County on Tuesday evening. According to a Washington County 911 supervisor, the call for a residential fire on Valley Road in Canonsburg came in at 5:16 p.m. Officials say the owners of the home are doing renovation work on the structure, which was previously a commercial building. A resident of the home was working outside near the attached garage. The resident went inside for a short time and saw the garage was on fire when he returned outside. Officials said flames spread to the rest of the residence quickly. No injuries were reported in the blaze. The family dog was rescued from the fire, but a cat and an iguana did not survive. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
January 11, 2023 4:00 am
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) – Bills safety Damar Hamlin has been released from a hospital in Buffalo after his doctors said they completed a series of tests a little over a week after he went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated during a game at Cincinnati. Hamlin is going home after spending two days undergoing tests at Buffalo General Medical Center. He was transferred to Buffalo after spending last week at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where the 24-year-old experienced what doctors called “a remarkable recovery.”
January 10, 2023 3:38 pm
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – States and local governments soon will have new flexibility to spend billions of dollars of federal coronavirus relief funds on some things not directly related to the pandemic. A $1.7 trillion spending bill recently signed into law included several provisions expanding the ways governments can use a pool of $350 billion of previously approved pandemic relief. Transportation infrastructure projects will be eligible at up to $10 million or 30% of their pandemic relief funds, whichever is greater. There will be no cap on using pandemic funds for aid from wildfires, floods and other natural disasters. The expanded spending options are expected to take effect by the end of February.
