June 24, 2021 4:08 am
SOUTH PARK TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – A worker died after falling through the roof of a building Wednesday morning in South Park Township, police said. The fall happened at the Agricultural Building of the South Park Fairground on Brownsville Road around 10:15 a.m. Wednesday. Police said the worker was a 59-year-old man who was on the roof of the building and fell through a skylight. Police said the man was found unresponsive when first responders arrived, and paramedics attempted lifesaving measures, but the victim eventually succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said the man was an employee of Marsa Masonry, contracted to perform work on the Agricultural Building. He left the scaffolding he was working from and climbed onto the roof of the building before a witness saw him fall backwards and through a skylight in the roof, about 21 feet. (PHOTO; WPXI)
June 24, 2021 3:28 am
(AP) – Microsoft has unveiled the next generation of its Windows software, called Windows 11, that has a new “start menu” and other features. The newest version of Microsoft’s flagship operating system announced Thursday will be a successor to today’s Windows 10, which the company introduced in 2015. Windows 11 is expected to become available later this on new computers and other devices and as a free update for those with Windows 10. In a challenge to rival Apple, the company also announced that it won’t force app developers to pay fees to Microsoft for using its app store.
June 23, 2021 10:40 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court has ruled that a Pennsylvania public school wrongly suspended a cheerleader over a vulgar social media post. The court voted 8-1 Wednesday in favor of Brandi Levy, who was a 14-year-old high school freshman when she expressed her disappointment over not making the varsity cheerleading team on Snapchat with a string of curse words and a raised middle finger. Levy was not in school when she made her post but was suspended from cheerleading activities for a year anyway. The high court ruled the suspension violated Levy’s First Amendment rights. But the justices did not foreclose schools from disciplining students for what they say off campus.
June 23, 2021 7:40 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden is announcing an effort to stem a rising national tide of violent crime as administration officials brace for what could be a turbulent summer. They’re focusing on attacking gun violence, funding cities that need police and offering community support. In Biden’s speech Wednesday, he will announce a “zero tolerance” policy that gives no leeway to gun dealers who fail to comply with federal law – their license to sell will be revoked on the first offense. The Justice Department is launching strike forces in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., to help take down illegal gun traffickers.
June 23, 2021 7:37 am
Tuesday evening saw Claysville community members congregate for a public input meeting fronted by the Master Revitalization Steering Committee. The committee, established in 2019, seeks to rejuvenate the area’s commercial and economic states alongside pursuing new opportunities with infrastructure, assets, and businesses. Composed of nine total municipalities (East/West Finley, Donegal, Claysville, Blaine, Buffalo, Morris, South Franklin, and Green Hills Borough), the committee’s Claysville Area Master Revitalization Plan primarily focuses on improving the way of life for all of its inhabitants through reviving its area and serving for their essential needs, such as functional, broadband internet. In May 2019, the committee was formed from representatives of different municipalities and organizations to decide upon the project, which was originally designed to only cover Claysville and Donora. Accrued funding from both public and private sources will be directed towards the engineering firm and consultant partners Herbert, Rowland, and Grubic Inc., who will help coordinate funding sources, according to committee member Rick Newton. “What HRG is going to do is help us create a revitalization plan: A multiyear, multiphase revitalization plan that then will also have funding sources identified”, said Newton. Since the plan pertains to a wide scope of communities with separate demands and necessities, the committee held a public meeting to hear the input of Claysville locals. Through different group surveys, attendees provided plenty of suggestions, ideas, and feedback for the area’s revitalization. Topics ranged from developing historical museums, building youth facilities, ensuring broadband internet service, and preserving the agricultural aspect of the area. Members from both the committee and Herbert, Rowland, and Grubic Inc. briefly studied the group responses recorded and found that the residents prefer infrastructure for senior living homes and communities rather than housing for larger nuclear families and that establishing a broadband, fiber-optic network is the most important utility demand for them. With the countless subjects of change espoused by the people, committee member Dennis Dutton remarked that meeting all of these goals would be difficult, but he nonetheless remained hopeful about the project. “In any area like this, each municipality has their own goals, and making that into one goal is very challenging to itself”, Dutton said. In continuing these surveys, the second and final public input meeting will be held on July 13th at the same location.
June 23, 2021 4:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is signaling that she is poised to create a new committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, pushing closer to a partisan investigation of the attack after Senate Republicans blocked the creation of an independent probe. A person familiar with the matter said after a meeting with Democrats that Pelosi had told her colleagues that she would create a select panel. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private remarks. But Pelosi later denied that, telling reporters, “No, I did not make that announcement.”
June 23, 2021 4:17 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Democrats’ sweeping attempt to rewrite U.S. election and voting law has suffered a major setback in the U.S. Senate. The bill failed in a key test vote Tuesday, blocked by a filibuster wall of Republican opposition. The measure would strike down hurdles to voting that advocates view as the Civil Rights fight of the era. President Joe Biden declared that “this fight is far from over.” But the Senate defeat leaves the Democrats with no clear path forward. Republican leader Mitch McConnell called the bill a “a solution looking for a problem,” and Sen. Ted Cruz dismissed it as merely “designed to keep Democrats in office.” Pressure has been mounting on Democrats to change Senate filibuster rules to enact Biden’s agenda.
June 23, 2021 4:16 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Kobe Bryant’s widow has agreed to settle a lawsuit against the pilot and owners of the helicopter that crashed last year, killing the NBA star, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others. Vanessa Bryant, her children and relatives of other victims filed a settlement agreement notice Tuesday with a federal judge in Los Angeles but terms of the confidential deal weren’t disclosed. Bryant and nine others died when their chopper, flying in fog, plunged into hills in January of last year while flying from Orange County to a youth basketball tournament in Ventura County. Federal investigators blamed pilot error.
June 23, 2021 4:14 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – American authorities have seized a range of Iran’s state-linked news websites they accuse of spreading “disinformation.” The move Tuesday appears to be a far-reaching crackdown on Iranian media amid heightened tensions between the two countries. The Justice Department said 33 of the seized websites were used by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union, which was singled out by the U.S. government last October for what officials described as efforts to spread disinformation and sow discord among American voters ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The takedowns come as world powers scramble to resurrect Tehran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal.
June 23, 2021 4:12 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Local police would be able to use radar to enforce speed limits under a bill that has passed the Pennsylvania Senate. Senators voted 49 to 1 on Tuesday for the legislation. Local jurisdictions would have to pass an ordinance, train police in using radar guns and follow rules for regular testing and calibration of the speed measurement devices. For the first three months of use, only warnings would be issued. Pennsylvania has long limited the use of radar to state police, and repeated efforts to allow it for local police have never succeeded. The bill was sent to the House for its consideration.
