November 9, 2020 5:50 am
The Trinity School District has closed the high school through Tuesday, November 17 after reporting additional students tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 14 days. Superintendent Dr. Michael Lucas tells WJPA that there are now six confirmed cases. High school students will continue with remote education for the next seven school days. All weekend activities have been cancelled. The closure is only for the high school. The high school has been operating under a four-day-a-week, in class schedule with remote learning on Friday’s. Peters Township High School is also closed until Thursday, November 19th because of additional virus cases.
November 9, 2020 4:08 am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – Joe Biden is signaling that he plans to move quickly to build out his government. The first focus for the president-election is the coronavirus pandemic that will likely dominate the early days of his administration. Biden has named a former surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, and a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, David Kessler, as co-chairs of the coronavirus working group. Other members are expected to be announced Monday. Transition team officials say Biden this week will also launch his agency review teams. They’re the transition staffers with access to key agencies in the current administration to help smooth the transfer of power.
November 9, 2020 4:07 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Trump campaign’s election night watch party in the White House East Room was supposed to be a scene of celebration. Instead, the event has emerged as the latest cautionary chapter in the tale of how the president’s approach to the coronavirus has affected the nation, his presidency and those around him. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows attended the event, and has become the latest top White House official to contract the coronavirus. Meadows is part of another White House cluster that has emerged a month after President Donald Trump’s own diagnosis.
November 9, 2020 4:05 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Norm Crosby, the comedian known for mangling the English language, has died at 93. Crosby’s daughter-in-law, Maggie Crosby, told The New York Times that the comic died Saturday of heart failure in Los Angeles. Crosby worked steadily in his native New England before his first major New York appearance, in 1963. Casting around for a way to stand out, he began noticing how people misuse words. He started breaking up audiences by such gaffes as calling the famed baby doctor Benjamin Spock “Dr. Spook.” Starting in 1978, he starred in a syndicated TV show, “Norm Crosby’s Comedy Shop” and for many years he served as co-host with Jerry Lewis on the telethon for muscular dystrophy.
November 9, 2020 4:03 am
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Eta is causing dangerous flooding across Florida’s most densely populated urban areas. The system stranded cars and swamped entire neighborhoods with fast-rising water that had no place to drain. The system made landfall Monday in the Florida Keys and posed a serious threat across South Florida, which was already drenched from more than 14 inches (35 centimeters) of rain last month. Forecasters say Eta could dump an additional 6 to 12 inches (15 to 30 centimeters). Earlier, the storm struck Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane and killed nearly 70 people from Mexico to Panama.
November 9, 2020 4:02 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has promised legal action in the coming days as he refused to concede the presidency after his loss to Democrat Joe Biden. What Trump is lacking, though, is proof. But senior administration officials told The Associated Press that overwhelming evidence of fraud isn’t really the point. The strategy to battle against the votes tallied for Biden through litigation in Pennsylvania and other places is more to provide Trump with an off-ramp for a loss he can’t quite grasp and less about changing the election’s outcome – and a platform to plot his post-White House future. The officials spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
November 9, 2020 4:00 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – Officials with the University of Pittsburgh report that at midnight the campus will move to the Elevated Risk Posture after at least 40 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been identified since Friday. School officials said they believe the cases are linked to gatherings that took place over the Halloween weekend. The school will also enacted a shelter-in-place order at midnight that was originally scheduled for Nov. 12. During this time period, students should only leave their rooms or apartments to attend classes, labs or clinics in person; to pick up food; to exercise safely; to study in the library; to work when necessary; and shop for essentials.
November 9, 2020 2:45 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alex Trebek, who presided over the beloved quiz show “Jeopardy!” for more than 30 years with dapper charm and a touch of schoolmaster strictness, died Sunday. He was 80. Trebek, who announced in 2019 that he had advanced pancreatic cancer, died at his Los Angeles home, surrounded by family and friends, “Jeopardy!” studio Sony said. The Canadian-born host, who made a point of informing fans about his health directly, spoke in a calm, even tone as he revealed his illness and hope for a cure in a video posted March 6, 2019. In the video, Trebek said he was joining the 50,000 other Americans who receive such a diagnosis each year and that he recognized that the prognosis was not encouraging. But Trebek said he intended to fight it and keep working, even joking that he needed to beat the disease because his “Jeopardy!” contract ran for three more years. Less than a week later, he opened the show with a message acknowledging the outpouring of kind words and prayers he’d received. “Thanks to the — believe it or not — hundreds of thousands of people who have sent in tweets, texts, emails, cards and letters wishing me well,” Trebek said. “I’m a lucky guy. An outpouring of grief from former contestants and the wider public quickly followed news of his death.
November 9, 2020 1:58 am
Officials in the Washington School District announced on Friday that they have been notified of three positive cases of COVID-19 AT Washington Park Elementary School and as a result, will be closing that building from November 9th through November 13th. Students will be moved to a remote learning environment. Officials say students in Group A may return to school on November 16th and students in Group B can return on November 18th. Staff at the school will report as normally scheduled and students at the Junior/Senior High School will continue to operate as normal during that time.
November 8, 2020 7:57 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump never admits defeat. But he faces a stark choice now that Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House: Concede graciously for the sake of the nation or don’t — and get evicted anyway. After nearly four tortured days of counting yielded a victory for Biden on Saturday, Trump was still insisting the race was not over. He threw out baseless allegations of voter fraud, promised a flurry of legal action and fired off all-caps tweets falsely insisting he’d “WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT.” Trump is not expected to ever formally concede, according to people close to him, but is likely to grudgingly vacate the White House at the end of his term. His ongoing efforts to paint the election as unfair are seen both as an effort to soothe a bruised ego and to show his loyal base of supporters that he is still fighting. That could be key to keeping them energized for what comes next.
