August 10, 2024 3:34 am
VINHEDO, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian authorities are working to piece together what exactly caused the plane crash in Sao Paulo state the prior day that killed all 61 people aboard. Local airline Voepass had an ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop headed for Sao Paulo’s international airport with 57 passengers and 4 crew members when it went down in the city of Vinhedo. Images recorded by witnesses showed the aircraft in a flat spin and plunging vertically before smashing to the ground inside a gated community. Residents say no one on the ground was hurt. The plane’s fuselage was obliterated by fire, but the black box has been recovered.
August 10, 2024 3:32 am
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian health authorities say an Israeli airstrike hit a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, killing more than 60 people. The early morning strike on the Tabeen school in central Gaza City also wounded 47 people. The Israeli military acknowledged the strike, saying it hit a Hamas command center within the school. According to the United Nations, 477 out of 564 schools in Gaza have been directly hit or damaged in the war as of July 6. Since the war began Oct. 7, more than 1.9 million of Gaza’s pre-war population of 2.3 million have been driven from their homes.
August 10, 2024 1:44 am
It seems that a nearly-done deal for the city of Washington to sell its parking garage to the county is not so done after all. Washington County Commissioners Chairman Nick Sherman shared a letter with WJPA that he sent to the Washington Parking Authority, following a parking authority meeting Wednesday night. Sherman asked the authority to reconsider its decision to turn the deal down. Sherman says they wanted more than the four-million-dollars the building was assessed at, but Washington Mayor JoJo Burgess tells WJPA the authority’s decision was made – because after months of paperwork, the numbers didn’t match up to their initial offering. In his letter, Sherman said that they had informed all the parties involved that the funding for the purchase would be coming from the American Rescue Plan Act and a decision would need to be made and voted on at the commissioners August meeting. Sherman says the authorities decision not to accept the offer will force the county to build its own parking garage on county property, creating a significant burden for city residents and school district taxpayers. Sherman asked the authority to reconsider its decision and invited the board to join them at the table for continued discussions.
August 10, 2024 3:23 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A local police officer told a fellow officer after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump that he warned the Secret Service days earlier that the building where the 20-year-old gunman opened fire needed to be secured. Videos show frustration among local law enforcement at how Thomas Matthew Crooks managed to slip away from their view, scale a roof and open fire with AR-style rifle shortly after Trump starting speaking. Trump was struck in the ear but avoided serious injury. One spectator was killed and two others were injured.
August 10, 2024 2:52 am
More money is being made available for trade and vo-tech programs in Pennsylvania. Governor Josh Shapiro visited the Ruff Creek UMWA Career Center in Greene County Thursday to sign a bill earmarking 30 million dollars for the expansion of vocational training and investments in workplace development across the commonwealth. The Governor and Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry Secretary, Nancy Walker, were on hand to roll out the bill that will highlight job training, apprenticeship programs, and vo-tech programs. The bi-partisan deal is part of the 2024-2025 budget signed into law last month. Governor Shapiro says the secured investment will help open doors of economic advancement and give Pennsylvanians the opportunity to chart their own course. The bill is aimed at helping students, and those changing careers, to stay close to home and receive training in specialized fields that may fall outside of a 4 year degree program. The measure is designed to fill trade job openings and allow those who don’t wish to attend college to use their skills in other ways and make a fair living wage. Shapiro also addressed his heightened visibility over the past few weeks as a potential VP pick. He says although he is no longer in the running he is all in supporting the democratic ticket.
August 9, 2024 3:39 pm
VINHEDO, Brazil (AP) — A Brazilian airliner says one of its passenger planes with 61 people aboard has crashed into a gated residential community in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, killing all who were aboard. The airline earlier had reported that 62 people were aboard the flight that crashed in Vinhedo, about 80 kilometers northwest of Sao Paulo, but later updated the number to 61. “The company regrets to inform that all 61 people on board flight 2283 died at the site,” VOEPASS said in a statement. “At this time, VOEPASS is prioritizing provision of unrestricted assistance to the victims’ families and effectively collaborating with authorities to determine the causes of the accident.” (Photo: AP)
August 9, 2024 4:34 am
PHOENIX (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate are campaigning in Arizona as the latest stop on their tour of battleground states. The Arizona swing is especially significant because Harris passed over the state’s junior senator, Mark Kelly, in favor of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate. That may cost her a handful of votes in a state that President Joe Biden won by less than 11,000 votes in 2020. But the state is also chock full of Midwesterners who may warm to Walz. And Democrats say the same energy that’s greeted Harris at earlier stops on her battleground tour is present in Arizona.
August 9, 2024 4:31 am
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump has recommitted to debating Vice President Kamala Harris after recently backing out. The Republican presidential nominee held a lengthy news conference Thursday in which he taunted his new rival, boasted of his crowd on Jan. 6, 2021, and lashed out at questions about the enthusiasm her campaign has been generating. As he addressed reporters at his Palm Beach, Florida, estate, ABC announced that Trump and Harris have agreed to a Sept. 10 presidential debate. In taking questions from reporters for more than an hour, Trump tried to draw a contrast with Harris, who has not held a news conference since she became the likely Democratic nominee following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race.
August 9, 2024 4:19 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A newly filed legal challenge seeks to have third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. kept off Pennsylvania’s fall ballot. It is an effort with ramifications for the hotly contested swing-state battle between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris. The petition argues, among other things, that the nominating papers filed by Kennedy and his running mate “demonstrate, at best, a fundamental disregard” of state law and the process by which signatures are gathered. Kennedy faces legal challenges over ballot access in several states. Kennedy’s lawyer says he’s confident he will be on the Pennsylvania ballot.
August 8, 2024 4:25 am
LUCAMA, N.C. (AP) — Debby’s final chapter involves moving north and northeast from the Carolinas at a faster clip with soaking rains, flash flooding and the threat of tornadoes into the weekend. Accuweather’s chief meteorologist Jon Porter said the Mid-Atlantic states and parts of New York and New England will see significant rainfall that could cause dangerous flooding into the weekend, such as on parts of Interstate 95 near bigger cities. From eastern Virginia up to Vermont, an active stretch of tornadoes was also possible on Friday. Tornadoes spawned by Debby have leveled homes, damaged a school and killed one person. The tropical storm was downgraded to a tropical depression Thursday afternoon.
