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.
November 8, 2020 7:55 am
NEW YORK (AP) — In a normal year, the newly inducted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class would have hit the stage and perform the well-known songs that made them famous and helped them enter the prestigious organization. Not in 2020. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s all-star group was inducted Saturday night in a taped HBO special that told the stories of Whitney Houston, Notorious B.I.G. and the Doobie Brothers’ rise to fame and how acts like Nine Inch Nails, T. Rex and Depeche Mode heavily impacted the music industry and generations after them. As she inducted Houston into the Rock Hall, Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys gave a beautiful, heartfelt speech about one of the best singers in pop history.
November 8, 2020 7:52 am
LONDON (AP) — Britain and the United States will work together to support democracy and combat climate change, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday, while denying that his close ties to President Donald Trump would hurt U.K.-U.S relations once President-elect Joe Biden takes office. Johnson congratulated Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory and said the two countries’ “common global perspective” would be vital to shore up a rules-based global order that is under threat. “The United States is our closest and most important ally,” said Johnson, who has yet to speak to Biden. “And that’s been the case under president after president, prime minister after prime minister. It won’t change.”
November 8, 2020 7:50 am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden used his first national address as president-elect to vow to heal a deeply divided nation, declaring it was time to “let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end” and reaching out to the millions of people who voted against him to say, “Let’s give each other a chance.” His calls for reconciliation at a Saturday evening victory celebration came even as President Donald Trump continued to argue that the election had been stolen from him, an indication that the divisive politics that have gripped the U.S. over the past four years are far from over. It also suggested that even as Biden seeks to build out a government during his transition to the presidency, the president has little interest in helping him do so. Biden heads into his first full day as president-elect on Sunday with key staffing decisions to make as the coronavirus rages. The always-frenzied 10-week transition period before Inauguration Day on Jan. 20 already has been shortened by the extra time it took to determine the winner of Tuesday’s election.
November 8, 2020 7:44 am
WAYNESBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man shot in the ankle by a western Pennsylvania police officer and later found with heroin and cocaine on his person 3 1/2 years ago has been sentenced to six years in prison. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that a federal judge imposed the sentence Friday on 35-year-old Julius Hurt, who pleaded guilty in February to violating federal gun and drug laws. Authorities said a Waynesburg officer responded to a report of an unruly man near the Greene County Courthouse in May 2017 and chased the suspect when he ran. Authorities alleged that Hurt pulled a gun from his waistband and pointed it at the officer, who fired. Authorities said two loaded guns fell next to Hurt as he collapsed. As Hurt was being treated at a West Virginia hospital, a doctor told state police that two large plastic baggie containing white powder were found on the suspect.
