November 22, 2020 4:15 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. — According to officials, a second week of substantial level of COVID transmission has the Washington School District moving to full remote learning. The District made the decision Friday afternoon to have students learn from home from Monday, November 23rd to no earlier than Monday, January 4th 2021. Pandemic Coordinator and nurse Cheryl Blosl says the district will continue to access and monitor the coronavirus spread in the community and make another decision on December 21st as to whether remote learning will be extended past the January 4th end date.
November 22, 2020 1:18 am
EIGHTY FOUR, Pa. – Westbound lanes of Interstate 70 in Eighty Four were closed for a time Saturday morning following a rollover accident involving two cars. According to reports, the accident happened just before 11:00 a.m. near exit 25 on I-70 west. Witnesses on scene said one of the vehicles involved was a pickup truck. According to reports, a 21-year-old male was taken to Washington Hospital for head lacerations and back pain. The highway was closed to conduct an accident investigation following the crash. There is no word on how that accident occurred or who was involved.
November 21, 2020 4:27 am
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) – Federal prosecutors say four men with connections to white supremacists are accused of illegally making firearms and two of them discussed shooting protesters at a Black Lives Matter rally. A news release from the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday that the men have been charged in a superseding indictment with conspiring to make, transport and sell firearms and then hide the sales from the federal government. The indictment also says two of the men indicted discussed on social media shooting protesters at a Black Lives Matter rally in Boise, Idaho, in August. Authorities say one of the four men is currently a Marine and two are former Marines.
November 21, 2020 4:26 am
China is starting mass testing on 3 million people in a section of the northern city of Tianjin and has tested 4,015 others in a hospital in Shanghai after the discovery of a pair of cases there. The National Health Commission recorded seven new domestically transmitted cases Saturday, including five in Tianjin and two in Shanghai. Tianjin on Friday reported community transmission involving four different individuals and another case. In response, local authorities sealed off the residential community where the people lived as well as a hospital and a kindergarten. On Saturday, authorities have starting testing all residents in the Binhai district of Tianjin. Authorities in Shanghai sealed off a hospital after a husband and wife tested positive for COVID-19.
November 21, 2020 4:25 am
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – The U.S. and Taiwan are stepping up cooperation in a newly created economic dialogue, in another move from the outgoing Trump administration to increase official exchanges with the self-ruled island. The two sides signed a five-year agreement establishing the U.S.-Taiwan Economic Prosperity Partnership Dialogue, which is meant to be held annually. The deal falls short of a long-desired bilateral trade agreement, but is a significant step that increases cooperation between Washington and Taipei. China, which views Taiwan as its own territory to be reunited by force if necessary, has criticized such steps as provocation. Taiwan and the U.S. do not have a free trade agreement. However, Taiwan in August announced the easing of restrictions on imports of American beef and pork.
November 21, 2020 4:24 am
While President Donald Trump vows to press ahead with efforts to overturn the election, judges across the country have consistently swatted down his legal challenges. Trump’s campaign has failed to make any real headway in court without proof of widespread fraud, which experts widely agree doesn’t exist. Experts say Trump won’t succeed in stopping President-elect Joe Biden from taking office in January. But his repetition of baseless claims that the race was rigged is undermining public confidence in the election system while instilling in his supporters the idea that Biden will be an illegitimate president.
November 21, 2020 4:23 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President-elect Joe Biden turned 78 Friday, and he’ll soon take the reins of a politically fractured nation facing the worst public health crisis in a century, high unemployment and a reckoning on racial injustice. As Biden wrestles with those issues, he will be attempting to accomplish another feat: demonstrating to Americans that age is but a number. Biden will enter office as the oldest president in the nation’s history, displacing Ronald Reagan. Reagan left the White House in 1989 when he was 77 years, 349 days old.
November 21, 2020 4:22 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department has scheduled three more federal executions during the lame-duck period before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, including two just days before his inauguration. The announcement comes a day after the federal Bureau of Prisons carried out the eight federal execution this year after a 17-year hiatus, and it is likely to increase pressure on Biden to take a public stance on whether his administration would continue to schedule executions once he is sworn in. The Justice Department is scheduling the executions of Alfred Bourgeois for Dec. 11 and Cory Johnson and Dustin Higgs for Jan. 14 and 15.
November 21, 2020 4:21 am
WAUWATOSA, Wis. (AP) – Police searched Friday evening for the suspect in a shooting at a suburban Milwaukee mall that left seven adults and a teenager injured. Wauwatosa Police Chief Barry Weber gave no motive for the attack at Mayfair Mall in a brief update about three hours after the 2:50 p.m. attack. He said the extent of the eight victims’ injuries was unknown, but all were alive. He said the shooter was “no longer at the scene.” when authorities arrived. Based on statements from witnesses, Weber said police were seeking a white man in his 20s or 30s and were working to identify him.
November 21, 2020 4:09 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Motorists who register an electric vehicle in Pennsylvania would have to pay an annual fee, under lame-duck session legislation approved by the state’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives. The bill now goes to the Senate for approval. Opponents say it’s a bad idea to impose costs on people who own electric vehicles during the fight against climate change. The fee varies depending on the type of vehicle but would be $75 for a hybrid gas-electric vehicle. Backers of the bill say the fee is only fair since people who fuel their cars with gasoline are paying taxes that build and repair roads. The money would go toward the state’s highway maintenance fund.
