November 22, 2023 5:11 am
DALLAS (AP) — Some of the last surviving witnesses to the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are among those sharing their stories as the nation marks the 60th anniversary. Kennedy was killed as his motorcade passed through downtown Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Associated Press reporter Peggy Simpson said she rushed to the scene that day, staying with police as they converged on the Texas School Book Depository, the building from which shots had rung out. Simpson, former U.S. Secret Service Agent Clint Hill and others who were there are featured in “JFK: One Day in America,” a limited series from National Geographic released this month that pairs their recollections with archival footage.
January 1, 2023 8:03 am
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania prosecutor has ruled that state troopers were justified in shooting and killing a driver after a high-speed pursuit through three counties ended in an exchange of gunfire last month. Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli said she reviewed videos, reports, witness interviews and evidence from the scene before making her determination in the Nov. 3 death of 35-year-old Krysten Pretlor of Johnstown. Authorities said Pretlor was wanted in a domestic case but fled when police in Cambria County’s Richland Township tried to serve a warrant, and he then led them on a 45-mile chase into Indiana and Westmoreland counties that reached speeds topping 100 mph.
February 19, 2022 3:44 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – A statewide court that declared that Pennsylvania’s expansive 2-year-old mail-in voting law violates the state constitution is following that up by saying its ruling can take effect in mid-March. That’s a week after the state Supreme Court hears arguments on the appeal. Commonwealth Court Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt, in siding again with Republican officeholders who challenged the law, said Wednesday they are likely to prevail at the state Supreme Court. The case is throwing Pennsylvania’s voting laws into doubt as the presidential battleground state’s voters prepare to elect a new governor and a new U.S. senator in 2022. The state Supreme Court scheduled the case for oral arguments on March 8.
March 26, 2021 4:18 am
ATLANTA (AP) – Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has drawn protests as he signed into law a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections. The law passed Thursday places new restrictions on voting by mail and greater legislative oversight of elections. Democrats and voting rights groups say the law will disproportionately disenfranchise voters of color. It’s one of a wave of GOP-backed state election bills introduced after former President Donald Trump stoked false claims that fraud led to his 2020 election defeat. President Joe Biden called the GOP efforts “un-American” Thursday. Separately, Georgia authorities said one Black House representative was arrested while she was protesting outside the governor’s bill-signing ceremony and jailed. She has since been released.
May 27, 2020 12:33 pm
ORLANDO (AP) – The Orange County Reopening Task Force has approved the plans for both SeaWorld and Walt Disney World. Next the plans go to Mayor Jerry Demings and then Gov. Ron DeSantis. Disney guests, along with employees, will be required to wear facemasks, have their temperatures checked and will see a reduction of capacity at the theme parks with signs encouraging the practice of social distancing. Walt Disney World will reopen in two waves. Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom will reopen on July 11. EPCOT and Hollywood Studios will open on July 15. SeaWorld Orlando is looking to reopen on June 11.
August 8, 2019 9:32 am
POCAHONTAS COUNTY, W.Va. (AP) – Authorities say a West Virginia state trooper is in stable condition after being shot in a gunfight where he killed a suspect. The West Virginia State Police on Wednesday released details on Trooper First Class J.M. Tallman’s condition. The department has also identified the suspect as 43-year-old William Biggs. Officials say Biggs first fired a rifle at a Pocahontas County sheriff after a car crash on Monday. Biggs then shot Tallman in the abdomen as officers searched the woods. Tallman returned fire, killing Biggs. Tallman was airlifted to a hospital after the shooting.
September 20, 2024 4:51 am
Washington County Commissioners approved the sale of a large parcel of land associated with the Starpointe Industrial Park Development in Hanover and Smith Townships. The property is overseen by the non-profit Washington County Council on Economic Development. A 1997 contract calls for any sale of property there to be approved by County Commissioners, even though they have no ownership or authority over the development. The property, that has been threatened by Sheriff’s Sale, will be sold to ALTIAN Development LLC of Pennsylvania. Commissioner Chairman Nick Sherman is pleased that the sale of the 1200 acre parcel is being completed and is looking forward to its development. He hopes that it becomes part of the development boom that is occurring along the Turnpike 576 corridor. In other business, commissioners approved a 3 year, $650,000 per year contract to have Mission Critical Partners monitor the implementation of the proposed 9-1-1 emergency radio system. The motion passed 2-1 with Commissioner Larry Maggi dissenting. Maggi questions the spending of the money on the radio project and wished more negotiation would have been done on the price. Sherman also announced that a Special Meeting will be held Monday September 23 at 9:00 AM to finalize the contract with Motorola for the radio system. (PHOTO: WCCED)
November 22, 2023 5:10 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Close to half of the U.S. public thinks the country is spending too much on aid to Ukraine. That’s according to new polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, and it comes as Congress weighs sending billions more in federal support to Ukraine. Yet opposition to aid is down slightly from where it was a month ago. Now, 45% say the U.S. government is spending too much on aid to Ukraine in the war against Russia, down slightly from 52% in October. More than one-third of U.S. adults say the current spending level for Ukraine is “about right.”
January 1, 2023 1:51 am
A woman who alleges Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 has sued the comedian-actor, NBCUniversal and other companies in New York, where five other women filed a similar lawsuit earlier this month. Stacey Pinkerton says she was a 21-year-old flight attendant and model that year when she claims Cosby drugged her at a restaurant in Illinois and sexually assaulted her in a hotel room in Chicago. Pinkerton filed her lawsuit Friday. A spokesperson for Cosby denied the allegations and says the accusers are out for money. The lawsuit comes more than a year after Cosby left prison after his 2018 sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania was overturned.
February 18, 2022 3:17 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – Major League Baseball has canceled the first week of spring training games through March 4 in the first public acknowledgement of the disruption caused by the lockout. The work stoppage was in its 79th day Friday, a day after economic talks between the management and the Major League Baseball Players Association lasted just 15 minutes. Negotiators are set to resume talks on core economics on Monday, and MLB said members of the owners’ negotiating committee will attend the session, just the seventh on the central issues of the dispute since the lockout began Dec. 2. Exhibition games had been set to start Feb. 26 in Florida and Arizona.
