August 28, 2024 4:56 am
City officials were back to the drawing board for the proposed sale of the Crossroads Parking Garage on North Franklin Street in Washington. City leaders and representatives from the Washington School Board met Tuesday evening to figure out next steps in the ongoing proposed sale of the structure to the county. The closed door executive session netted little public progress, but Washington Mayor – JoJo Burgess says the meeting was needed to get on the same page. Burgess says they will continue to discuss options and work to figure out what is best for the city. The building was completed in 2007 for about 14 million dollars and subsidized by grants for about half that amount.
August 28, 2024 4:59 am
North Strabane Township Supervisors approved a contract to pave McDowell Lane. According to Township Manager Andrew Walz, this is a project that they have been working on for several years. The contract, awarded to Morgan Excavating, comes in at $958,931.50 and will be paid from township funds. There are amenities that will be included that include walking paths to take advantage of Canonsburg Lake as a recreational destination. Those non-traffic upgrades will be paid for by grants from the Pennsylvania Local Share Account and from the Pennsylvania Multimodal Transportation Fund. The project is expected to be completed this year. In other business, supervisors authorized a takeover agreement with Berkley Insurance, to restart construction on the public safety building. In July, the previous contractor, Spartan Construction Services, pulled out of the general contractor and plumbing agreement to construct the building. The bonding company will now acquire a new contractor. According to Walz, a plumbing contract has been finalized. There is no estimated date of completion.
August 28, 2024 4:53 am
PITTSBURGH — Thirty-seven Pittsburgh Public Schools without air conditioning will operate on a half-day schedule on Wednesday due to high temperatures in the forecast. A spokesperson for PPS made the announcement on Monday night. Typically on days with extreme heat, students of schools without AC learn remotely. The change this week is to “address the demands of the new school year,” according to a news release. “Ensuring the health and safety of our students and staff is our top priority,” said Dr. Wayne Walters, Superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools. “By adjusting our schedule, we’re taking proactive steps to manage the heat and maintain a conducive learning environment that supports our students and families during the back-to-school transition.”
August 28, 2024 2:20 am
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Pittsburgh next week. Biden and Harris will make a stop in the Steel City on Sept. 2, Labor Day, for Harris’ campaign, according to the White House. An exact location or time has not yet been announced.
August 28, 2024 5:11 am
CHICAGO (AP) — As a heat wave stretched into a second day this week, residents in more than half a dozen states are looking for ways to beat the heat amid hot soupy temperatures approaching triple digits. The National Weather Service has issued excessive heat warnings and advisories Tuesday in large patches of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Cities in multiple states opened cooling centers in response, including Chicago where temperatures were expected to close in on 100 degrees. Some schools dismissed students early. But relief was expected soon, with cooler temperatures expected starting Wednesday.
August 28, 2024 5:08 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a new indictment against Donald Trump over his efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election. It keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against him following a Supreme Court opinion conferring broad immunity on former presidents. The new indictment removes a section of the indictment that dealt with Trump’s interactions with the Justice Department, an area for which the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 opinion, said Trump was entitled to immunity from prosecution. The stripped-down criminal case represents a first effort by prosecutors to comply with the Supreme Court opinion.
August 28, 2024 5:13 am
Vice President Kamala Harris is sitting down with CNN this week for her first interview since she launched her campaign after President Joe Biden withdrew his bid for reelection. She will be joined by her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in an interview with Dana Bash in Savannah, Georgia. The interview will air at 9 p.m. Thursday Eastern time. Harris has been criticized for not holding news conferences or granting interviews with news outlets since she announced her campaign on July 21. That was the same day Biden stepped aside.
August 28, 2024 5:09 am
NEW YORK (AP) — As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than others who have tried the same. Since 1836, only one sitting vice president, George H.W. Bush in 1988, has been elected to the White House. Among those who tried and failed were Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and Al Gore. All three lost in narrow elections shaped by issues ranging from war and scandal to crime and the subtleties of televised debates. But two other factors proved crucial for each vice president: whether the incumbent president was well-liked and whether the president and vice president enjoyed a productive relationship.
August 28, 2024 5:07 am
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say Israel is carrying out raids across the occupied West Bank, where its forces killed at least nine Palestinians and sealed off the volatile city of Jenin. Israel has carried out near-daily raids across the West Bank since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack out of Gaza triggered the ongoing war there. Over 600 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank since the war in Gaza began over 10 months ago. That’s according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Most have died during such raids, which often trigger gunbattles with militants. Israel says the operations are required to dismantle Hamas and other militant groups and to prevent attacks on Israelis.
August 27, 2024 5:16 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith has asked a federal appeals court to reinstate the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump after it was dismissed by a judge last month. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon threw out the case, one of four prosecutions of Trump, after concluding that Smith’s appointment as special counsel was unconstitutional. Smith’s team then appealed to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeal is the latest salvo in a prosecution that many legal experts consider a straightforward criminal case but has been derailed by delays, months of hearings before Cannon, a Trump-appointed judge, and ultimately a dismissal order that brought the proceedings to at least a temporary halt. (Photo: AP)
