November 29, 2022 4:02 am
Peters Township Council held a public hearing to present the proposed 2023 budget. In a presentation from Township Manager Paul Lauer, the budget contains $23 million in revenues and $27.5 million in expenditures. Budget shortfalls will be made up from the use of the federal American Rescue Plan funds and from bonds purchased previously. Projects included in next year’s budget include the total re-engineering and paving of Longvue Drive and a storm sewer project along Marlboro Drive. Fire station number 3 and a new fire truck will also be included in the 2023 budget. Council also addressed several traffic issues. One concern on Druid Drive is lack of sight distance on a steep hill and safety issues created when landscape trucks and delivery vehicles are parked on the hill causing drivers to blindly navigate the parked vehicles and the crest of the hill. Staff will be doing traffic counts to determine the amount of speeding going on and if the road qualifies for traffic calming measures. Additionally, council gave the green light for pavement markings to be installed at the intersection of Valleybrook Road and Rt. 19. Those markings will hopefully make clear the path for drivers to take to continue on Valleybrook Road heading into Lawrence.
November 29, 2022 3:08 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – A woman was thrown from a vehicle along a highway ramp in Pittsburgh after she was shot, according to Pittsburgh police. Officers responded to the intersection of I-579 and the Boulevard of the Allies around 1:30 p.m. When they arrived, they found the woman who had been shot in the leg. She was taken to a hospital in serious but stable condition. The ramp was shut down as detectives processed the scene. Police said the driver of the vehicle fled. Pittsburgh police are continuing to investigate.
November 28, 2022 1:51 pm
MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, Md. (AP) – Authorities say they rescued two people from a small plane that crashed into a Maryland electricity tower. Officials say the crash Sunday evening in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Montgomery Village temporarily knocked out power to about 120,000 customers and left the plane dangling 10 stories above the ground. Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein says responders were able to safely remove the pilot and passenger early Monday after electricity crews made it safe to attempt a rescue. He says both suffered serious injuries and were taken to hospitals. Authorities say the plane departed from White Plains, New York, and that the pilot is from Washington and the passenger is from Marrero, Louisiana. (Photo: ABC)
November 28, 2022 12:41 pm
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – The white gunman who massacred 10 Black shoppers and workers at a Buffalo supermarket has pleaded guilty to murder and hate-motivated terrorism charges. Payton Gendron entered the plea Monday in an Erie County courtroom. The charges carry an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole. The 19-year-old used a legally-purchased semiautomatic rifle to gun down victims at the Tops Friendly Market in May. He said in writings posted online that his goal was to terrify Black people and preserve white power. His own lawyer said Monday’s plea “represents a condemnation of the racist ideology that fueled his horrific actions.” Gendron has pleaded not guilty to separate federal hate crime charges that could carry the death penalty.
November 28, 2022 12:38 pm
HONOLULU (AP) – Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, has started to erupt for the first time in nearly four decades, prompting volcanic ash and debris to fall nearby. The U.S. Geological Survey says the eruption began late Sunday night in the summit caldera of the volcano on the Big Island. Early Monday, it said lava flows were contained within the summit area and weren’t threatening nearby communities. The agency warned residents at risk from Mauna Loa lava flows should review their eruption preparations. Scientists had been on alert because of a recent spike in earthquakes at the summit of the volcano, which last erupted in 1984. (Photo: ABC)
November 28, 2022 5:41 am
Some two-thousand customers throughout Washington County are still experiencing the effects of strong storms that rolled through the region Sunday afternoon and left behind damage in several municipalities. The National Weather Service says they received reports of golf ball sized hail that damaged homes and vehicles in California, Long Branch and Stockdale Borough (pictured). In Donora, fire officials reported several sheared off utility poles from wind damage and in Monessen their were reports of quarter-sized hail. The storms knocked out power to many locations and even though West Penn Power crews spent most of Monday making repairs, more than two-thousand customers remain without electricity and the company tells us that it may late Tuesday before it is restored. The hardest hit areas appear to be East Bethlehem Township and Centerville Borough. About 180 customers in Greene County and more than 170 In Fayette County were also without service. It’s unclear when those customers can expect to have their power restored. (PHOTO: Glady Beveridge)
November 28, 2022 4:31 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is in the fight of his political life as he seeks enough GOP backing to become the next speaker of the House. The California congressman is grinding through the promises and proposals, cajoling and deal-making necessary to win over reluctant colleagues. He needs at least 218 votes to become Democrat Nancy Pelosi’s successor. The overtures McCarthy is making include the symbolic and the substantive, but often come with a political cost. For example, he’s promised to restore the committee assignments of a far-right Republican, Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, and take them away from some high-profile Democrats. McCarthy remains confident of garnering enough support, saying that “we’ll get there.”
November 28, 2022 4:28 am
PHOENIX (AP) – Six Arizona counties will decide Monday whether to certify 2022 election results. Some Republicans are pushing officials not to officially approve a vote count that had Democrats winning for U.S. Senate, governor and other statewide races. Election results have largely been certified without issue in jurisdictions across the country. That’s not been the case in Arizona, which was a hotbed for efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the the 2020 election and push false narratives of fraud. Two Republican-controlled Arizona counties have voted not to certify. They deferred a final decision until Monday, the last day it’s allowed under state law.
November 28, 2022 4:26 am
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) – Devastating Russian strikes in Ukraine have cut off power to many hospitals. Power outages have strained and disrupted the country’s health care system, already battered by years of corruption, mismanagement, the COVID-19 pandemic and nine months of war. Scheduled operations are being postponed; patient records are unavailable because of internet outages; and paramedics have had to use flashlights to examine patients in darkened apartments. The World Health Organization said last week that Ukraine’s health system is facing “its darkest days in the war so far,” amid the growing energy crisis, the onset of cold winter weather and other challenges.
November 28, 2022 4:25 am
BEIJING (AP) – Chinese authorities have eased anti-virus rules in scattered areas but affirmed their severe “zero-COVID” strategy after crowds demanded President Xi Jinping resign during protests against controls that confine millions of people to their homes. The protests are the most widespread display of opposition to the ruling Communist Party in decades. The city of Beijing announced it would no longer set up gates to block access to apartment compounds. That followed a deadly fire last week that set off demonstrations following angry questions about whether firefighters or victims trying to escape were blocked by locked doors or other controls. The ruling party newspaper People’s Daily defended “zero COVID,” saying it has “withstood the test of practice.”
