September 9, 2020 1:29 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) – After more than a decade, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” will be ending its run next year. Kim Kardashian West and other members of the extended Kardashian-Jenner family said in a statement Tuesday that they are saying goodbye to the reality show with “heavy hearts.” áIt was a family decision, they said. The show’s home, the E! network, said it’s a delayed farewell. The new season begins Sept. 17, with the final season to air in 2021. The series, which debuted in October 2007, áspawned 12 spinoffs, including “Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami” and “Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian.” (Photo: CNN)
September 9, 2020 9:54 am
The Washington County District Attorney’s office has been closed and some 30 staff members are now working remotely. District Attorney Gene Vittone says they were informed Tuesday that a staff member tested positive for COVID-19. Vittone tells WJPA that the individual is asymptomatic but did come in contact with numerous other workers in the office. The office is now being cleaned and sanitized. All of those workers are getting tested. Vittone says all protocols are being followed and he praised the county’s response to the situation. He says his staff will continue to work remotely until it is deemed safe to return.
September 9, 2020 9:26 am
Just days into the new school year, the Trinity School District has been forced to change its schedule, but it has nothing to do with COVID-19. The district has announced that high school, middle school and Trinity West Elementary students will have remote-learning only on Thursday. In a letter to parents, the district says it is the result of a political rally and planned protests. Eric Trump, the son of President Donald Trump, is to be at the American Legion Post 175 along Park Avenue Thursday afternoon. The district says they “learned that groups are planning to protest in front of our high school from South Main Street to Franklin Farms Road.” They say the “heightened level of security and road construction traffic will disrupt our transportation and safe access to three of our school buildings”. Students and staff will not report to those buildings on Thursday. Trinity North, South and East will have no change in their schedule.
September 9, 2020 8:56 am
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) – Teachers in at least three states have died after bouts with the coronavirus since the dawn of the new school year. A teachers’ union leader worries that the return to in-person classes will have a deadly impact across the U.S. if proper precautions aren’t taken. AshLee DeMarinis was just 34 when she died Sunday. She taught social skills and special education in Potosi, Missouri. A third grade teacher died Monday in South Carolina. And two other educators died recently in Mississippi. It’s unclear how many teachers in the U.S. have become ill with the coronavirus since the new school year began.
September 9, 2020 8:54 am
Late-stage studies of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate are on temporary hold while the company investigates whether a recipient’s “potentially unexplained” illness is a side effect of the shot. In a statement issued Tuesday evening, the company said it was pausing vaccinations to look into “a potentially unexplained illness,” to see if the link is real or a coincidence. Temporary halts in medical studies aren’t uncommon. Two other vaccines are in huge, final-stage tests in the United States. One is made by Moderna and the other by Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech.
September 9, 2020 8:53 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry says a bombing in Kabul targeting the convoy of the country’s first vice president killed 10 people and wounded more than a dozen others, including several of the vice president’s bodyguards. First Vice President Amrullah Saleh suffered minor burns in the attack on Wednesday morning. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing but the Taliban denied they were involved. The Interior Ministry says the bomb went off as the vice president’s convoy was passing through a section of Kabul with shops that sell gas cylinders. The blast ignited a fire that set ablaze a number of shops.
September 9, 2020 8:52 am
NEW YORK (AP) – A magnitude 3.1 earthquake struck in East Freehold, New Jersey, early Wednesday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey says it hit at about 2 a.m. and was centered 3 miles deep. People are taking to social media to express their shock at the rare occurrence. Hundreds of reports are coming in from as far as Philadelphia and Long Island, New York on the USGS’ “Did You Feel It?” map. But USGS geophysicist Robert Sanders says it’s unlikely to have caused anything other than damaged shelves or falling picture frames. He says there have been just two other quakes over 3.0 magnitude in the area since 1970.
September 9, 2020 8:51 am
ESTACADA, Ore. (AP) – Firefighters in the Pacific Northwest are scrambling to keep up with dozens of wildfires that have burned houses, forced people to flee and trapped firefighters and civilians. Oregon’s governor said Wednesday that hundreds of homes have been destroyed. In neighboring Washington state, one fire leveled an entire farming town. Pacific Northwest firefighters say they are stunned by the intensity and speed of the blazes in areas that almost never experience such fire activity because of the zone’s normally cool and wet climate. Gusting winds with speeds of 30 to 50 mph that can easily fan flames were forecast Wednesday through Thursday.
September 9, 2020 8:49 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A western Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 14 to 28 years in the death of a university professor found slain two years ago in the Pittsburgh home the two men shared. Thirty-seven-year-old Joseph Martin was sentenced Tuesday by an Allegheny County judge and will be allowed to serve his sentence in a facility with mental health treatment. Martin pleaded guilty but mentally ill in June in the death of 71-year-old Ricardo Tobia, a voice instructor at Point Park University in Pittsburgh. Tobia was a professor there for 35 years and worked part time.
September 9, 2020 8:48 am
CALIFORNIA, Pa. — (WPXI) – A Central Catholic graduate and California University of Pennsylvania football player died Tuesday, reportedly from complications due to COVID-19. Jamain Stephens was the son of former Steelers offensive tackle Jamain Stephens. According to the university, the younger Stephens was a business administration major and a senior on the football team. He played in 32 games for the university. “Jamain was such a wonderful student with a smile on his face every time you saw him,” said athletic director Dr. Karen Hjerpe. “His personality was contagious, and he made such a positive impact on everyone he met.” Central Catholic High School posted on Facebook that Stephens commonly went by his nickname, “Juice,” and was a defensive lineman for the school. He won two Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League championships and a state championship in 2015. “Rough day. Jamian had a huge impact on our program, was well-liked by everybody. He had a personality that was contagious,” said Cal U head football coach Gary Dunn. It’s evident that Stephens had a big personality and was loved by so many. “You could always count on him putting his big hand on ya and saying, ‘What’s up, coach?’ and I’m just going to miss him being around,” Dunn said.
