October 28, 2021 4:08 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden and Democrats are getting low marks from the public as they try to get a roughly $2 trillion spending package over the finish line. Fewer than half of Americans approve of how they have handled negotiations. And many say they know little to nothing about the bill. Overall, 36% say they approve of Biden’s handling of the talks, while 41% disapprove. Another 23% say they neither approve nor disapprove. That’s according to The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll. Ratings of Republicans’ role in the situation are even worse. Republicans, who have been shut out from the talks over the bill, are expected to overwhelmingly, if not unanimously, oppose the Democratic package.
October 28, 2021 4:07 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Democrats want to again try letting millions of immigrants stay temporarily in the U.S. as part of President Joe Biden’s economic plan. People familiar with the effort say Democrats want to let migrants in the U.S. before 2011 apply for temporary permits letting work in this country for five years, and then renew it once. The proposal needs a sign off from the Senate parliamentarian, who enforces the chamber’s rules of what is allowed in certain bills. The renewed focus on immigration comes as Biden met with House Democrats and sought support for a framework of his 10-year, $1.75 trillion plan.
October 28, 2021 4:05 am
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – A criminal complaint filed by a police investigator with a court in Albany has accused former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of committing a misdemeanor sex crime, though there were reports Thursday that the document might have been submitted in error. The brief complaint accused Cuomo of putting his hand under a woman’s shirt on Dec. 7, 2020. The document didn’t name the woman but Cuomo had been publicly accused of groping aide Brittany Commisso at the executive mansion in Albany last year. The Albany County district attorney’s office and Albany County Sheriff did not immediately return messages. áCuomo’s lawyer and spokesperson didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment. (Photo: AP)
October 28, 2021 4:03 am
NORTH STRABANE TWP., Pa. — (WPXI) – The family of a woman killed while driving home on Interstate 79 is speaking out for the first time. Holly Davis was just one exit from home when a driver going the wrong way hit her vehicle head-on. Her family has learned someone has anonymously paid for all of her funeral expenses. Jamar Davis lost his mother last weekend. Holly Davis leaves behind her two sons and a 2-year-old grandson, who has spent the last few days asking where her grandmother is. Holly was driving north on Interstate 79 near the Houston exit, as drivers were calling 911 to say someone was driving in the wrong direction. One of those drivers even captured some of it on cellphone video. Kristina Coyne, 26, of Washington, was driving in the wrong direction on her way to a Pittsburgh hospital. Officials are still investigating. Davis was a certified nursing assistant for more than 35 years. As they were making funeral arrangements Tuesday, they discovered everything had been paid in full by someone anonymous. “They told us not to worry if she had the best insurance or any insurance. An anonymous donor was going to take care of everything and that’s a blessing.” he said. Holly’s family believes the anonymous donation came from someone she took care of.
October 28, 2021 3:40 am
North Franklin Township is in the process of installing an advanced early warning siren system. The service will be tied into the National Weather Service that will initiate the alarm during a severe weather event. The county 9-1-1 system will also be able to set off the alarm in the event of a severe accident. Township Supervisor Chairman Bob Sabot states the supervisors have been working on the $60,000 system since September. He states that if the system saves one life, it is well worth the investment. Residents will be able to differentiate between a traditional fire siren that has an up and down wail that will last for a minute and the weather alert siren that will be an upward wail that will last between three to five minutes. Both the township and fire department will be educating residents about the system in their respective newsletters. The system is currently under design to make sure the 7.4 square mile township and its 5000 residents will be able to hear the alarms that will be placed at each of the township’s three fire stations.
October 27, 2021 10:49 am
WJPA & WJPA) – A man was run over by a truck that was carrying a wood chipper Wednesday morning in Cecil Township, emergency dispatchers said. The accident happened shortly before 9 a.m. along Fawcett Church Road. Investigators say the truck carrying the chipper either lost its brakes or the driver lost control and ran into a man who was standing in front of a stump grinder, trapping him between the truck and the stump grinder. The victim was taken to the hospital with a leg injury. OSHA has been called in to investigate.
October 27, 2021 7:55 am
LONDON (AP) – Pharmaceutical company Merck has agreed to allow other drug makers worldwide to make its COVID-19 treatment, the first pill that has been shown to be effective against the disease. The move aims at helping millions of people in poorer countries access to the drug. The U.N.-backed Medicines Patent Pool said in a statement on Wednesday that it had signed a voluntary licensing agreement for molnupiravir with Merck and its partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics. The deal will allow the Medicines Patent Pool to grant further licenses to qualified companies wishing to make the drug. Neither drug maker will receive royalties under the agreement for as long as the World Health Organization deems COVID-19 to be global emergency.
October 27, 2021 4:22 am
HUIXTLA, Mexico (AP) – After three days of walking along a scorching highway in southern Mexico, a couple thousand migrants decided to rest here, receive medical attention for badly blistered feet, wash clothing in the river and doze in any shade they could find. Nitza Maldonado and Omar Rodríguez sprawled on the sidewalk beside a local church with their 6-year-old son on Tuesday. The Honduran family had paid a smuggler $12,000 last year to get to the United States, but they were nabbed in Texas and deported. They decided the risks of rough handling or deportation by Mexican authorities were worth joining the large group effort to walk north.
October 27, 2021 4:21 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill is now half its original size and being pulled apart and reconfigured as Democrats edge closer to satisfying their most reluctant lawmakers. They’re trying to wrap up talks on what’s now about a $1.75 trillion package. A proposed billionaires’ tax is running into criticism as cumbersome, leaving the revenue needed to pay for the package deeply in flux. That’s forcing difficult reductions of proposals for health care and paid family leave, among others. Biden met Tuesday with lawmakers at the White House, including two holdout Democrats, Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
October 27, 2021 4:18 am
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico authorities said Wednesday they have recovered a lead projectile believed to have been fired from the gun used in the fatal movie-set shooting. Investigators discussed their initial findings in the shooting in which actor Alec Baldwin fired a gun, killing a cinematographer and wounding the director. Testing is being done to determine whether the lead projectile recovered from director Joel Souza’s shoulder was fired from the gun used by Baldwin. Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said it’s too early to comment on whether any charges will be filed. He also noted that 500 rounds of ammunition – a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and live rounds – were found while searching the set. The sheriff would not comment on how the rounds got on set.
