November 6, 2021 9:18 am
BERLIN (AP) – Police in Germany say a knife attack on a high-speed train has injured several people. Local police said a man has been arrested in connection with the Saturday morning attack at the train station in Seubersdorf. Police say multiple people were injured but they were unable to provide a specific number. So far, there is no information available about the attacker or possible motives. The train in question, one of Germany’s high-speed ICE trains, was traveling between the Bavarian cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg at the time of the attack. Germany’s interior minister said the background behind the “terrible” attack was “still unclear” and is “now being clarified.
November 6, 2021 9:16 am
HOUSTON (AP) – Officials in Texas say at least eight people are dead and numerous others are injured following a surge of the crowd during a performance by rapper Travis Scott at the Astroworld music festival Friday night. The Houston fire chief told reporters that the crowd began to compress toward the front of the stage, which caused some people to panic. The show was called off shortly after people began suffering injuries. The fire chief says 17 people were transported to hospitals, including 11 people who were in cardiac arrest. An estimated 50,000 people attended the festival. Drake had also joined Scott on-stage at the concert, which was livestreamed by Apple Music.
November 6, 2021 7:54 am
BOSTON (AP) – A former athletics official at the University of Southern California has pleaded guilty to her role in the college admissions bribery scandal. The Boston Globe reports that Donna Heinel made her plea Friday in U.S. District Court in Boston to one count of honest services wire fraud. She is the California school’s former senior associate athletic director. Court documents show that prosecutors agreed to drop several other charges in exchange for her guilty plea. An indictment accused Heinel of taking bribes to designate students as recruited athletes even though they weren’t qualified.
November 6, 2021 7:53 am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – The astronauts who will depart the International Space Station on Sunday will be stuck using diapers on the way home. That’s because the toilet in their SpaceX capsule is broken. NASA astronaut Megan McArthur says it’s just one of many challenges she and the others faced during their six-month mission. NASA and SpaceX decided Friday to bring McArthur and her three crewmates back before launching their replacements. That launch already has been delayed more than a week by bad weather and a minor medical issue involving one of the crew. SpaceX and NASA are now targeting Wednesday night at the earliest for the launch.
November 6, 2021 7:51 am
MEXICO CITY (AP) – The U.S. government is offering $5 million rewards for information leading to the capture of four Mexican drug lords. Those subject to the $5 million bounty included Aureliano Guzman-Loera, the brother of imprisoned capo Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The State Department said Friday the four operate in the northern Mexico states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua. áGuzman-Loera and three brothers from the Salgueiro-Nevarez family were indicted in the United States of conspiring to traffick marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, was responsible for about 61,000 overdose deaths in the United States between March 2020 and 2021.
November 6, 2021 7:50 am
DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (AP) – Southern California air regulators have approved new restrictions on area oil refineries that could remove tons of smog-forming pollutants from the air. The board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District adopted rule changes Friday requiring emissions limits on oxides of nitrogen. Those are the gases produced by combustion that contribute to ozone smog. The AQMD says the new rules could reduce those gases by about eight tons a day over the next 14 years. California has some of the nation’s dirtiest air, and some of the worst air quality is near refineries clustered near low-income, heavily minority neighborhoods.
November 6, 2021 7:47 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The House has approved a $1 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects after Democrats resolved a months-long standoff between progressives and moderates. The vote late Friday notches a victory that President Joe Biden and his party had become increasingly anxious to claim. The legislation would create legions of jobs and improve broadband, water supplies and other public works. The 228-206 House vote prompted prolonged cheers from the relieved Democratic side of the chamber. The measure now goes to the desk of a president whose approval ratings have dropped and whose party got a cold shoulder from voters in this week’s off-year elections.
November 6, 2021 4:20 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Jake Corman is the ranking Republican in Pennsylvania’s state Senate. He is widely expected to run for governor and has begun inviting donors to an announcement next Thursday night. The event is billed as a “special announcement” in Corman’s hometown of Bellefonte. Corman’s entry into the race would swell an already big field of Republicans running for governor. It’s double-digits deep and growing. The party is searching for a nominee to potentially succeed outgoing Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat. Corman is the Senate’s president pro tempore and has served in the Senate since 1999. Corman has said he would discuss his political plans after Tuesday’s election.
November 6, 2021 4:19 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf says his mail-in ballot was dropped off by his wife before Tuesday’s election despite a state law requirement that voters deliver them in person. Wolf’s spokeswoman Beth Rementer calls it an honest mistake. Wolf, a Democrat, told a radio interviewer Tuesday that he’d voted two weeks earlier and that first lady Frances Wolf had delivered it. State law requires voters who do not mail their absentee or mail-in ballot to “deliver it in person to (their) county board of election,” although with preapproval others can do it under certain circumstances.
November 6, 2021 3:35 am
The Pleasant Valley School District in Brodheadsville, Pa. has unanimously approved Dr. James Konrad as their new Superintendent. School Board President Donna Yozwiak tells WJPA News the vote was unanimous (8-0). She called Konrad “articulate, charismatic, and very well educated”. She says he was, by far, their top candidate. According to Yozwiak, Konrad will receive a five-year contract with a salary of $170,000. She says some details of that contract are still being finalized but Konrad is to begin his new job before January 10. Yozwiak says Konrad was in attendance at Thursday nights meeting and will be touring district facilities Friday. Konrad has been superintendent at Washington since July of 2017. Attempts to reach Dr. Konrad and other Washington School District officials for comment have been unsuccessful.
