October 27, 2020 4:07 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Joe Biden plans to use the final week before Election Day to go on offense, heading Tuesday to Georgia and planning travel that may put President Donald Trump on defense in other states he won four years ago. The Democratic presidential nominee plans to hit Florida, Iowa and Wisconsin after a pair of stops in Georgia and is dispatching his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, to Arizona and the largest red state, Texas. Trump returns to Wisconsin on Tuesday, visiting West Salem just three days after holding a Janesville rally. While Biden rarely travels to more than one state per day, the president has maintained a whirlwind schedule.
October 27, 2020 4:06 am
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) – The coronavirus is getting worse in states that President Donald Trump needs the most. The upper Midwest is bearing much of the brunt of new infections surging across the U.S. That includes Wisconsin, where Trump is fighting to catch Democrat Joe Biden in a state Trump narrowly won in 2016. Also seeing a surge is Iowa, where Trump is now in a toss-up race with Biden after carrying the state by 9.4 percentage points four years ago. Both states are in the top 10 of those with the fastest-growing number of cases per capita over the past two weeks.
October 27, 2020 4:03 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Two Republican candidates for Congress are settling a lawsuit they filed earlier this month and dropping their effort to force Allegheny County to let them send campaign representatives to observe inside satellite election offices. The candidates dropped that claim in a settlement approved Monday by a federal judge in Pittsburgh. The settlement, instead, describes Allegheny County’s stated process for counting ballots for nearly 29,000 voters who were mailed ballots with the wrong contests on them. State courts have already rejected a similar effort by President Donald Trump’s campaign to force Philadelphia’s election board to allow its campaign representatives to monitor satellite election offices.
October 27, 2020 4:01 am
Township Manager Paul Lauer and Township Engineer Mark Zemaitis updated Peters Township Council on the progress of the realignment of E. McMurray Road and the early development phase of Rolling Hills Park. Zemaitis indicated that the project is on schedule and the road will be open at the beginning of 2021. The realignment will be causing traffic delays as the new road gets tied into the old one. Zemaitis and Lauer suggest alternate routes for the next couple of weeks to avoid any traffic delays. Lauer said that bids will be opened on October 29 for the next phase of the park development. The road that carries traffic through the park and the picnic pavilions that will be located on the Great Lawn are of the park are to begin construction by year’s end. Preliminary drawings of the new aquatic park were also displayed. Bids are scheduled for next spring with a Memorial Day 2022 opening planned. An additional marketing study was done. It confirmed that there is a market for an aquatic park of this type. It will not be limited to Peters Township residents only. The study includes residents from neighboring communities to enjoy the water park also.
October 26, 2020 5:38 pm
(AP) – The stock market had its worst day in a month as virus cases surge and help for the economy from Washington remains nowhere in sight. The S&P 500 fell 1.9% Monday, deepening its losses from last week. Stocks of companies that need the virus to abate and the economy to return to normal had some of the biggest losses. Cruise lines and airlines fell sharply. Energy stocks also dropped in tandem with crude oil prices. In another sign of caution, Treasury yields pulled back after touching their highest level since June last week. Overseas markets also fell.
October 26, 2020 1:22 pm
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio (AP) – Robert Murray, who as a leader of the largest privately owned U.S. coal operator long fought federal regulations to reduce black lung disease, has died. A lawyer tells The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register that Murray died Sunday at age 80 at his home in St. Clairsville, Ohio. He had announced his retirement Oct. 19 from American Consolidated Natural Resource Holdings Inc. as board chairman. The company sued unsuccessfully in 2014 over regulations to cut coal dust in mines to reduce black lung disease. No official cause of death was given. But recent reports stated Murray had applied for black lung benefits with the U.S. Labor Department.
October 26, 2020 4:20 am
LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) – The coronavirus has reached the upper echelons of the White House again, with an outbreak among aides to Vice President Mike Pence just over a week from Election Day. A top White House official declared on Sunday that “we’re not going to control the pandemic.” Officials also scoffed at the notion of Pence dialing back in-person campaigning despite positive tests among several people in his office. Democrat Joe Biden says that the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is effectively waving “the white flag of defeat.”
October 26, 2020 4:19 am
Massachusetts election officials say a fire was set in a Boston ballot drop box holding more than 120 ballots in what appears to have been a “deliberate attack.” The FBI said it’s investigating. Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin’s office said the fire that was set around 4 a.m. in a ballot drop box outside the Boston Public Library downtown. Boston Police said an arson investigation is underway and released surveillance images of a person near the ballot box at that time. Officials said there were 122 ballots inside the box when it was emptied Sunday morning and 87 of them were still legible and able to be processed.
October 26, 2020 4:17 am
MANILA, Philippines (AP) – A fast-moving typhoon has forced thousands of villagers to flee to safety in provinces south of the Philippine capital. It flooded rural villages, ripped off roofs, toppled trees and electric posts and knock off power in several towns. There were no immediate reports of casualties from Typhoon Molave but authorities reported at least one person was missing and seven others were rescued after their yacht sank. The typhoon has sustained winds of 77 miles and is expected to start blowing out of the country into the South China Sea.
October 26, 2020 4:17 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – A deeply torn Senate is set to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Republicans are overpowering unified Democratic opposition to vote Monday on President Donald Trump’s nominee a week before Election Day. Barrett’s confirmation was hardly in doubt as Senate Republicans seized the opportunity to install a third Trump justice, securing a conservative court majority for the foreseeable future. With no real power to stop the vote, Democrats argue the winner of the Nov. 3 election should choose the nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
