February 18, 2022 4:15 am
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) – Hundreds of truckers clogging Canada’s capital stood their ground and defiantly blasted their horns Thursday, even as police arrested two protest leaders and threatened to break up the nearly three-week protest against the country’s COVID-19 restriction The faceoff in Ottawa seems to be escalating as busloads of officers arrived Thursday near Parliament Hill. The city’s interim police chief says action is imminent. Protesters have besieged Ottawa for nearly three weeks in a demonstration that shaken Canada’s reputation for civility and rule-following. Police arrested two of the organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, but officers were not moving in force on the demonstrators.
March 25, 2021 4:41 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Jessica Walter, who played a scheming matriarch in TV’s “Arrested Development,” has died. She was 80. Walter’s death was confirmed Thursday by her daughter, Brooke Bowman. The actor’s best-known film roles included playing the stalker in Clint Eastwood’s 1971 thriller, “Play Misty for Me.” “Arrested Development” represented a second act for Walter, and earned her admiration from a new generation of fans. Walter’s daughter says the actor will be remembered for her work and for her wit, class and love of life. Walter’s feature debut was in the 1964 film “Lilith,” with Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg and Gene Hackman, who was also on his first film.
May 27, 2020 4:44 am
Peters Township Council was updated by Township Manager Paul Lauer on what could be expected when Governor Tom Wolf allows Washington County to enter the Green Phase of his economic reopening plan. Lauer updated council on revenues coming into the township. He indicated that earned income revenues are down but that could be because of the delayed filing date for income taxes approved earlier this year by the IRS. Deed transfer taxes were down as well. Lauer feels that Wolf’s shut down of the real estate industry had a great deal to do with those revenues falling. Lauer said he hopes to have a better understanding of revenues in the next month or so. Fire Chief Mike McLaughlin updated council on what is occurring with his department as Peters Township approached green. He is tracking day care centers and advising businesses regarding their legal occupancy once the green phase is achieved. Businesses will only be allowed to have 50% of their current approved occupancy of customers inside their establishments. McLaughlin complimented business owners in their efforts to comply with regulations going forward.
August 8, 2019 4:16 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – More than 200 mayors, including the mayors of El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, are urging Senate leaders to call senators back to the Capitol to act on bipartisan gun safety legislation. The mayors say weekend shootings in El Paso and Dayton that left 31 people dead are “just the latest reminders that our nation can no longer wait for our federal government to take the actions necessary to prevent people who should not have access to firearms from being able to purchase them.” They urged the Senate to pass two bills expanding background checks for gun sales that passed the House earlier this year. The letter is signed by El Paso Mayor Dee Margo, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley and other mayors where mass shootings have occurred.
September 19, 2024 5:13 am
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris was looking for a boost with persuadable and less-motivated voters as she participated in a livestream Thursday evening with former talk show host Oprah Winfrey. The event, billed as “Unite for America,” is being hosted by Winfrey from suburban Michigan, one of this election’s key battlegrounds. More than 250,000 people were watching on the Harris campaign livestream on YouTube alone as Winfrey introduced the vice president. “We each have those moments in our lives when it’s time to step up,” Harris responded when Winfrey asked about her overnight transformation as she went from President Joe Biden’s running mate to being the Democratic nominee.
November 21, 2023 4:52 pm
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro says he’ll appeal a court ruling that blocked a state regulation to make Pennsylvania’s power plant owners pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. Still, the Democrat on Tuesday urged lawmakers to get to work on a better alternative. In a statement, Shapiro didn’t pledge to enforce the regulation, should his administration win the appeal at the state Supreme Court. His administration says his appeal rests on the need to preserve executive authority. The court case revolves around the centerpiece of former Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight global warming and make Pennsylvania the first major fossil fuel-producing state to adopt a carbon-pricing program.
December 31, 2022 4:20 am
NEW YORK (AP) – Barbara Walters was that rarest of TV personalities: a cultural fixture. For more than a half-century, she was on the air, placing in front of her audience world figures, big shots and celebrities whose names and faces might have changed from year to year. But hers never did. She first found her way to prominence in a visually oriented business where, typically, women were adornments or otherwise secondary. Walters death at age 93 was announced Friday. Late in her career, she gave infotainment a new twist with “The View,” which she considered the “dessert’ of her career. (Photo: ABC News)
February 18, 2022 4:13 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – A lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign who was charged by special counsel John Durham with lying to the FBI during a 2016 meeting has asked a judge to dismiss the indictment, calling it a case of “extraordinary prosecutorial overreach.” Lawyers for Michael Sussmann say that if the indictment is allowed to proceed, it would “risk criminalizing ordinary conduct, raise First Amendment concerns, dissuade honest citizens from coming forward with tips, and chill the advocacy of lawyers who interact with the government.” Durham is investigating potential government misconduct during the early days of the investigation into potential coordination between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.
March 25, 2021 2:55 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden has opened his first formal news conference with a nod toward the improving picture on battling the coronavirus, but he was immediately pressed on thorny issues, like immigration and voting rights, now testing his administration. Biden doubled his original goal on COVID-19 vaccines by pledging that the nation will administer 200 million doses by the end of his first 100 days in office. The administration had met Biden’s initial goal of 100 million doses earlier this month – before even his 60th day in office – as the president pushes to defeat a pandemic that has killed more than 545,000 Americans and devastated the nation’s economy.
May 27, 2020 4:13 am
HARRISBURG, Pa — A new children’s health condition linked to COVID-19 has now popped up in Pennsylvania, health officials said. The illness is called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, or MIS-C, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The condition’s symptoms include a persistent fever that is often relatively high temperature, rash, change in skin color, swollen lymph nodes, red eyes and abdominal pain. Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine said Tuesday at a news conference that the Department of Health was aware of 17 reports of the disease in the state. Nine of those have been confirmed, two were determined to not be cases of MIS-C and the remaining six are still being investigated. New York City reported the first cases in the country in April. They now have more than 100 cases and three children have died. Researchers said early treatment leads to a full recovery in most cases.zvj
