July 15, 2020 4:19 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been admitted to a hospital for treatment of a possible infection and will remain there for a few days. The court says in a statement that the 87-year-old Ginsburg went to a hospital in Washington on Monday evening after experiencing fever and chills. She then underwent a procedure at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last August. The statement says the justice is resting comfortably and will receive intravenous antibiotic treatment.
July 15, 2020 4:17 am
PASADENA, Calif. – Organizers have canceled the Rose Parade because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on long-range planning for the New Year’s tradition. The Tournament of Roses Association say the decision was put off until organizers were certain safety restrictions would prevent staging the 132nd parade. The watched parade is held every Jan. 1 except when New Year’s Day falls on a Sunday. Since its inception in 1891, the parade has been canceled only three times — in the World War II years of 1942, 1943 and 1945.
July 15, 2020 4:15 am
SAN DIEGO (AP) – The Navy says a fire raging aboard a docked U.S. warship has moved away from fuel tanks, easing the threat of an explosion or a million-gallon oil spill in the San Diego harbor, but it’s too early to say whether the vessel can be saved. Rear Adm. Philip Sobeck says the fire aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard could be declared out Wednesday. It begun Sunday as the docked ship was undergoing maintenance. Hundreds of sailors and other firefighters have been battling it.
July 15, 2020 4:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is expected to announce a new federal rule to speed up the environmental review process for proposed highways, gas pipelines and other major infrastructure. Critics are describing the move as a dismantling of a 50-year-old environmental protection law. Trump will travel to Atlanta on Wednesday to announce the federal rule as he seeks to make it easier to meet some of the country’s infrastructure needs. The government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, Brett Hartl, says such a change may be the single biggest giveaway to polluters in the past 40 years.
July 15, 2020 4:12 am
NEW YORK (AP) – Walmart has become the latest major retailer to require customers to wear face coverings at all of its namesake and Sam’s Club stores. The nation’s largest retailer said the policy will go into effect on Monday to give the company time to inform stores and customers. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based company said that currently about 65% of its more than 5,000 stores and clubs are located in areas where there is already some form of government mandate on face coverings. The retailer also said it will create the role of health ambassador at its Walmart stores and will station them near the entrance to remind customers without masks of its new requirement.
July 15, 2020 4:11 am
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Thousands of census takers are about to begin the most labor-intensive part of America’s once-a-decade headcount. They will be visiting the 56 million households that have not yet responded to the 2020 questionnaire. The visits that start Thursday kick off a phase of the census that was supposed to begin in May before it was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The virus forced the Census Bureau to suspend field operations for a month and a half. Census takers will ask questions about who lives in a household and the residents’ race, sex and relations to each other.
July 15, 2020 4:08 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — (WPXI) – One person is in custody after a deadly shooting in Uniontown. The shooting happened around 9 p.m. Tuesday near a Sunoco gas station on Connellsville Street, according to police. Investigators said the victim was shot inside a vehicle, and that person — who has not yet been identified — was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities did not provide details on what led to the shooting, but one person was taken into custody. The suspect was not identified.
July 15, 2020 4:06 am
A much more civil tone played out over Tuesday night’s Monessen City Council Meeting. There were disagreements but the overall combative nature that has been the norm for these meetings subsided greatly. Council received great news financially as the annual commercial insurance package realized a decrease in premium. Annual savings on this year’s insurance package will be over $64,000. Most of those savings came from the Workers Compensation Insurance. Financial disagreement did arise as Councilman Anthony Orzechowski questioned the purchase process in which a new website for the city was carried out. Blaming a very contentious council, Mayor Matt Shorraw took it upon himself to contract for the website design and “deal with it later.” Orzechowski was upset because council was not made aware of the pending website design much less the expenditure. Council also authorized the demolition of 5 blighted properties in the city. That brings the total to 10 for the year. The demolitions will be paid for through a Community Development Block Grant. Shorraw hopes to add more properties to the demolition list and hopefully improve lots in the city to be able to sell to prospective buyers.
July 15, 2020 4:04 am
North Franklin Council is examining legal approaches and ramifications to handling the Washington Crown Center’s northern bridge. After deciding that repairing the bridge would be complicated and expensive, Council is now focused on removing it completely. The mall’s pedestrian bridge is a horrendous sight to the public, according to Council Supervisor Bob Sabot. Additionally, he says the mall has done nothing to renovate or fix the now-defunct bridge. “It has no purpose anymore and they don’t want to spend any money to fix it”, argues Sabot. However, demolition will be difficult, since the township cannot exercise authority over the mall’s property. In order to legally tear down the bridge, Council plans to cite the bridge’s violations in hopes of state enforced action. “It’s unsightly and the fence is falling down, which is in violation of township code enforcement, so we can cite based on that”, states Sabot. Exactly when Council will cite the bridge’s violations is undetermined.
July 15, 2020 2:32 am
The Washington County Coroner’s office has identified a man killed in a motorcycle crash in North Strabane Township. 53 year old John Duda of Kettering, Ohio was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident was discovered just before 6:30 a.m. near the intersection of Linden Road and Thomas Eighty-Four Road. Investigators say Duda failed to negotiate a curve and lost control of the motorcycle. It’s believed the accident occurred between 6 p.m. Monday evening and 6:33 a.m Tuesday morning. A cause and manner of death are pending. North Strabane Township police are investigating.
