March 14, 2022 4:16 am
DOVER, Del. (AP) – A trial to determine whether the Boy Scouts of America’s proposed reorganization plan should be approved is beginning more than two years after it sought bankruptcy protection amid an onslaught of child sex abuse allegations. The trial starts Monday and is expected to last several weeks as attorneys and witnesses battle over a host of complex issues. They include insurance rights, liability releases and the value of some 80,000 child sex abuse claims. The reorganization plan includes contributions from the BSA, its roughly 250 local councils, insurance companies and others into a victims compensation fund of more than $2.6 billion. In return for the contributions, the parties would be released from any further liability for Scouting-related abuse claims.
March 14, 2022 4:15 am
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) – A pregnant woman and her baby have died after Russia bombed the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth. Images shot by Associated Press journalists of the woman being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher had circled the world. They epitomized the horror of an attack on humanity’s most innocent. The woman was rushed to another hospital, where doctors labored to keep her alive. But surgeon Timur Marin found the woman’s pelvis crushed and hip detached. Medics delivered the baby via cesarean section, but it showed no signs of life, the surgeon said. They then tried to save the mother but she also died.
March 14, 2022 4:14 am
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian and Russian officials have held a new round of talks as Moscow’s troops press their assault on Kyiv and other cities. Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted a photo of the two sides meeting by video link on Monday but said the talks had ended for the day and would resume Tuesday. Podolyak said on Twitter earlier that the negotiators would discuss “peace, ceasefire, immediate withdrawal of troops & security guarantees.” Previous rounds were held in person on the border with Belarus, most recently a week ago, and failed to produce a breakthrough.
March 14, 2022 4:11 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – There is no word as to whether a Pennsylvania state senator who is running for governor showed up for a deposition in front of the congressional committee looking into the Jan. 6 insurrection, as it had requested when it issued a subpoena last month. Sen. Doug Mastriano did not respond to requests for comment Friday. A spokesperson for the Jan. 6 select committee declined comment. Mastriano was asked by the committee to appear for a deposition Thursday. Mastriano was in regular communication with Trump as the then-president sought to reverse his 2020 election loss, and was outside the U.S. Capitol the afternoon of the Jan. 6 attack.
March 14, 2022 4:09 am
ALVERTON, Pa. (AP) – Authorities say a man operating a snow blower was struck and killed by a pickup truck in western Pennsylvania over the weekend. The Westmoreland County coroner’s office said the pickup failed to negotiate a left curve on an East Huntingdon Township road at about 11:15 a.m. Saturday. Officials said the truck went to the west side of the street and struck 49-year-old Brian Hyde, who was operating a snow blower. He was taken to the Excela Frick emergency department, where he was pronounced dead. The coroner’s office said an autopsy is planned and a ruling on the cause and manner of death is pending.
March 14, 2022 4:08 am
NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. (AP) – State police said 10 people were injured in a crash involving 73 vehicles on a central Pennsylvania highway during a late winter storm over the weekend, but no life-threatening injuries were reported. Trooper Megan Ammerman said the crash was reported shortly after 2 p.m. Saturday on PA 581 in Cumberland County. Ammerman said 10 people sustained injuries ranging from minor to moderate and were transported to hospitals for evaluation and treatment. On-scene investigators determined that about 43 of the 73 vehicle were damaged, police said. The highway was closed for about four hours during the investigation. WHTM-TV said drivers and other witnesses reported whiteout conditions prior to the crash.
March 14, 2022 3:44 am
The major Route 18 rehabilitation project in the City of Washington is set to restart this week. According to PennDOT, single-lane restrictions will occur along Jefferson Avenue beginning Monday, March 14th (weather permitting.) Flaggers working the lane restrictions will be in place between Oakland Avenue and Route 844/Henderson Avenue between 8:00 a.m and 4:00 p.m. weekdays through late April. Crews will perform drainage work prior to the full depth reconstruction of Route 18 in the area. Motorists are urged to use caution in all work zones.
March 13, 2022 7:57 am
LONDON (AP) — Sci-fi epic “Dune” and dark western “The Power of the Dog” lead the race as the British Academy Film Awards return Sunday with a live, black-tie ceremony after a pandemic-curtailed event in 2021. Acting nominees Benedict Cumberbatch and Lady Gaga are among the stars expected on the red carpet at London’s Royal Albert Hall before a ceremony hosted by Rebel Wilson. Last year’s event was largely conducted online, with only the hosts and presenters appearing in person.
March 13, 2022 7:56 am
NEW YORK (AP) — A man stabbed two employees multiple times inside the Museum of Modern Art in New York on Saturday afternoon, leaping over a reception desk to attack them after he was denied entrance for previous incidents of disorderly conduct, authorities said. Police said the victims, a 24-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman, were in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital later Saturday. Their names weren’t immediately released. People posted on social media that museumgoers ran for the exits in confusion and chaos after the stabbing. John Miller, NYPD deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, said the man’s membership had been revoked for two separate incidents of disorderly behavior at the museum in recent days. A letter informing the suspect of his expired membership had been sent out Friday, but he came to the museum Saturday saying he intended to see a film there, Miller said. He then became upset and stabbed the museum employees in the back, collar bone and the back of neck, Miller said. They were rushed within minutes to the hospital. Miller said video showed which way the suspect went after leaving the museum. Police shared photos of the attacker late Saturday night, asking for the public’s help finding him.
March 13, 2022 7:55 am
BEIJING (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases in an outbreak in China’s northeast tripled Sunday and authorities stepped up anti-disease controls by suspending bus service to Shanghai and ordering residents of another city to stay at home. The case numbers in China’s latest surge of infections are low compared with some other countries. But authorities are enforcing a “zero tolerance” strategy that temporarily shuts down cities to isolate every infected person despite a rising economic cost. The government reported 1,938 new cases on China’s mainland in the 24 hours through midnight Saturday, more than triple the previous day’s total. About three-quarters, or 1,412 cases, were in Jilin province in the northeast, where access to the industrial metropolis of Changchun was suspended on Friday and families were told to stay home after a spate of infections. In Hong Kong, the territory’s government reported 15,789 new cases, down by almost half from Saturday’s total.
