October 28, 2020 4:06 am
North Strabane Supervisors took safety measures into their hands as they voted unanimously to remove the collector street designation from Brehm Road. Ongoing development in the area of Brehm Road caused supervisor Harold Close to move that the designation be removed. He states that the road is not up to collector street standards that the other collector streets in the township are designed with. Close says that his main safety concern is the width of the road. Brehm Road is not as wide as other collector streets and developers cannot be mandated to make improvements to township roads. The township will also enter into an agreement with Washington County to take advantage of their share of federal CARES Act funds. Township Manager Andrew Walz says the township is in line to receive nearly $416,000 in funds. Walz indicates that some of that money will go to reimbursements for salaries and ppe used to protect employees during the pandemic. Improvements to the townships parks will also be considered for improvements to amenities to make them touchless. Walz says he is working on a list of items so they can use every dollar of the money that they have been awarded.
October 28, 2020 2:42 am
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – A federal judge has ruled in favor of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice in a lawsuit over his decision to close bars in student-heavy Monongalia due the coronavirus pandemic. The owners of 12 establishments sued the governor last month for ordering them to close after pictures were posted online of college students packing bars without masks. News outlets report the judge issued an order Tuesday denying a motion for injunctive relief on behalf of the businesses. The ruling said the “right to do business” has not been recognized as constitutionally protected and the claims “ignore the grave nature of why the Governor issued a state of emergency.”
October 27, 2020 5:39 pm
(WPXI) – Former Jeannette High School football star and NFL wide receiver Terrelle Pryor and his girlfriend have both just pleaded guilty to charges related to a domestic incident at their apartment in 2019. Pryor, 31, and Shalaya Briston were living at Heinz Lofts last November when police said Briston, 25, stabbed Pryor several times in his chest and arm after an argument, then drove him to the hospital for treatment. Pryor pleaded guilty to harassment and received 90 days unsupervised probation, while Briston pleaded guilty to simple assault and received two years probation.
October 27, 2020 4:46 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – A panel of U.S. health experts wants adults to start getting colon cancer screenings at 45. That’s five years younger than previous guidelines. The change reflects a growing concern about rising rates of colon cancer in younger people. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released the draft recommendations Tuesday. How often someone should get screened after age 45 depends on the type of test and other factors. The task force change brings it in line with the American Cancer Society, which previously lowered the age to start screening from 50 to 45.
October 27, 2020 9:24 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Police leaders are struggling to answer questions about what led to the death of Walter Wallace under more than a dozen rounds fired by two Philadelphia officers. Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw deferred many questions at a news conference Tuesday about events before the previous afternoon’s shooting of the 27-year-old Black man that led to unrest and arrests. Chief Inspector Frank Vanore says that police received a call about a man screaming and that he was armed with a knife. He says the two officers each fired at least seven rounds but could not say how many times Wallace was struck. Officials say neither officer had a stun gun. More than a dozen people were arrested and more than 30 officers injured in protests stemming from the shooting. Officials said Tuesday that the 27-year-old Wallace refused police orders to drop a knife in the confrontation captured on video. Wallace’s father told The Philadelphia Inquirer that his son appeared to have been shot 10 times and had struggled with his mental health.
October 27, 2020 4:12 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Amy Coney Barrett is headed to to the Supreme Court. The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee, with Republicans overpowering Democratic opposition a week before Election Day. Barrett will be the third Supreme Court justice nominated by Trump. At 48, she is likely secure a conservative court majority for years to come. With no real power to stop the vote, Democrats still argued the winner of the Nov. 3 election should choose the nominee. Barrett will fill the vacancy left by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the liberal icon who died last month.
October 27, 2020 4:11 am
U.S. government officials are putting an early end to a study testing an Eli Lilly antibody drug for people hospitalized with COVID-19 because it doesn’t seem to help. Independent monitors had paused enrollment in the study two weeks ago because of a possible safety issue. But on Monday, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which sponsors the study, said a closer look found no safety problem but a low chance that the drug would prove helpful for hospitalized patients. President Donald Trump received a similar drug when he was sickened earlier this month.
October 27, 2020 4:10 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Southern California Edison says its equipment may have sparked a Southern California wildfire that has prompted evacuation orders for more than 90,000 people and critically injured two firefighters. Edison filed a report with the state Public Utilities Commission that says a “lashing wire” may have struck a conductor in the area where the fire broke out Monday. That blaze and a smaller one nearby prompted evacuation orders in Irvine and other Orange County communities. The blaze came as the state was hit by another round of strong, dangerous winds, and the fire danger is expected to remain through Tuesday.
October 27, 2020 4:09 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court is siding with Republicans to prevent Wisconsin from counting mailed ballots that are received after Election Day. In a 5-3 order, the justices on Monday refused to reinstate a lower court order that called for mailed ballots to be counted if they are received up to six days after the election. A federal appeals court had already put that order on hold. The three liberal justices dissented from the order issued just before the Senate started voting on Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination. Democrats argued that the flood of absentee ballots and other challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic makes it necessary to extend the deadline.
October 27, 2020 4:08 am
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) – Hurricane Zeta has come ashore on the Caribbean coast of the eastern Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, while whipping the resorts around Tulum with rain and wind. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Zeta made landfall late Monday just north of Tulum with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph). Zeta is predicted to lose some power while crossing the peninsula, before regaining hurricane strength in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday while heading for the central U.S. Gulf Coast and a likely landfall Wednesday night.
