November 11, 2020 3:50 am
North Franklin Supervisors approved a preliminary budget for 2021 bringing good news to residents. Supervisor Chairman Bob Sabot states that the budget will include a tax cut for residents. Even though the tax cut will take effect, the budget will include $480,000 in road projects and nearly double the contribution the township makes to the fire department. Sabot says the tax savings will be approximately $50 on a house assessed at $200,000. Supervisors also adopted amendments to ordinances. The first will allow Factory Authorized Dealers in the Master Overlay district. Director of Planning and Development, Erin Dinch says that the township never allowed such businesses before. A car dealership is interested in locating to the former Sears store in the Washington Crown Center. A second amendment will allow privacy fencing to be installed along the back and sides of properties. The township will advertise an ordinance adopting the Township Code. Dinch states that the code will be much more user friendly. Residents will now be able to look up ordinances and find all the information they are seeking in one spot. The code will also be available on the township webpage.
November 11, 2020 2:40 am
(WPXI) – Pennsylvania’s travel advisory list because of COVID-19 now includes 37 states. Included on the list, which was updated Nov. 6, are three neighboring states: New Jersey, Ohio and West Virginia. Non-essential travel to and from those states is highly discouraged by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. “Given the interconnected nature of Pennsylvania to neighboring states and the region and mode of transport between these states, a recommendation of quarantine for these states is not practically viable,” the Department of Health’s website says.
November 10, 2020 1:25 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – J.C. Penney is on course to emerge from bankruptcy by Thanksgiving after a U.S. bankruptcy court approved the sale of the ailing retailer to two of the nation’s largest landlords and its primary lenders. Under the deal announced earlier this fall, substantially all of J.C. Penney’s retail and operating assets will be acquired by Brookfield Asset Management and Simon Property Group. With no other valid offers in sight, Penney’s fate was hanging by the wire. Penney’s financing agreement expires on Nov. 16 and the sale had to close by Nov. 20 to avoid going out of business. Still, Penney faces an uphill challenge of attracting shoppers this holiday season.
November 10, 2020 10:27 am
PITTSBURGH – The Steelers have placed 4 additional players on the COVID-19 reserve list, including quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. The list also includes OL Jerald Hawkins, RB Jaylen Samuels, and LB Vince Williams on the Reserve/COVID-19 List. Monday, tight end Vance McDonald was officially placed on the list after his COVID-19 test came back positive. The Steelers are scheduled to host the Cincinnati Bengals this weekend, a team that already has five players on its list. These lists include players who are part of contact tracing, but haven’t necessarily tested positive. A source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that Big Ben was deemed a “high-risk, close contact.” If he passes all COVID-19 tests this week, he would be eligible to play Sunday, Schefter reports. Coach Mike Tomlin is to hold his weekly press conference at noon. You can hear it on 1450AM WJPA.
November 10, 2020 4:11 am
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Gov. Gavin Newsom says California is seeing a sobering increase in coronavirus cases that may be partially linked to Halloween. Eleven San Francisco Bay Area health officers are meanwhile urging residents there to quarantine for two weeks if they venture outside the region. Newsom warned Monday that coronavirus case numbers, the positivity rate, hospitalizations and intensive care cases all have reached their highest level in months. The state updates counties’ progress on the state’s four-tier, color-coded system each week and as a result several are expected to move Tuesday to more restrictions on how businesses can operate.
November 10, 2020 4:11 am
Pfizer’s surprising news that its COVID-19 vaccine might offer more protection than anticipated is raising questions about exactly how the different shots will make it to market. Pfizer and the maker of the other leading U.S. vaccine candidate have been cautioning for weeks that the earliest they could seek regulatory approval for wider use of their shots would be late November. Science moves at its own pace. COVID-19 vaccines worldwide are being developed at record speeds in hope of ending the pandemic. And when they’re ready for prime time depends on a long list of research steps including how many study volunteers wind up getting the coronavirus.
November 10, 2020 4:08 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. health officials have allowed emergency use of the first antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday cleared the experimental drug from Eli Lilly for people 12 and older with mild or moderate COVID-19 not requiring hospitalization. Tests of it are continuing, but the drug does not seem to help patients with more serious illness. It is similar to a treatment President Donald Trump received after contracting the virus last month. The government previously reached an agreement to buy and supply much of the early production of the drug.
November 10, 2020 4:06 am
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – Cities in South Florida mopped up after Tropical Storm Eta flooded some urban areas with a deluge that swamped entire neighborhoods and filled some homes with water that didn’t drain for hours. After striking Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane and killing nearly 70 people from Mexico to Panama, the storm swept over South Florida. Then it moved Monday into the Gulf of Mexico. Florida officials say the heavy rain damaged one of the state’s largest COVID-19 testing sites. Eta is the 28th named storm in a busy hurricane season and the first to make landfall in Florida.
November 10, 2020 4:05 am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – Joe Biden is championing the Obama administration’s signature health law as it goes before the Supreme Court in a case that could overturn it. The president-elect is delivering an Affordable Care Act speech on Tuesday, the same day the high court will hear arguments on its merits. The Supreme Court ruled eight years ago to leave intact the essential components of the law known as Obamacare, but is now controlled 6-3 by a conservative majority. The speech reflects the importance Biden is putting on health care as he prepares to take office in January amid the worst pandemic in more than a century.
November 10, 2020 4:04 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is brushing aside results of last week’s presidential election showing that President Donald Trump lost his bid for a second term. He’s also dismissing as “ridiculous” questions about whether Trump’s evidence-free claims of fraud could hurt America’s credibility when weighing in on foreign elections. One of Trump’s most loyal Cabinet members, Pompeo told reporters Tuesday with a grin that the “transition” to a second Trump term would be “smooth.” But he later said the State Department was prepared for any eventuality. Trump has refused to concede to President-elect Joe Biden.
