August 9, 2019 4:13 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Jerry Sandusky will be taken from prison to a central Pennsylvania courtroom next month for resentencing on his 45-count child sexual abuse conviction, six months after a state appeals court ruled mandatory minimums had been improperly applied. Judge John Foradora filed an order Wednesday scheduling the proceeding for Sept. 23 in the Centre County Courthouse. Foradora also directed the county sheriff to arrange for the 75-year-old former Penn State assistant football coach to be transported to the hearing from his cell in the State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands. Sandusky had been sentenced to 30 to 60 years for child molestation. The state Supreme Court last month declined to grant him a chance to argue he deserves a new trial. Sandusky was convicted of the sexual abuse of 10 boys.
September 22, 2024 1:27 am
Employees, retirees, and community members showed up at a rally on Friday in support of Corelle Glass plant workers who have been notified that their jobs are being moved to Lancaster, Ohio. On hand also to lend his support was Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick who said he stood in solidarity with the plant workers. During the rally, Union vice president Daniele Byrne called for a Federal Trade Commission investigation into the transaction that saw the plant acquired by Anchor Hocking and investors Centre Lane Partners. Workers at the rally related how the plant is just like a family. They told of how their parents and grandparents worked at the 118 year old plant. Charleroi Borough Councilman Larry Celaschi pointed out the economic toll the closing of the Corelle plant and the Quality Pasta plant will have on residents. Borough Manager Joe Manning states that even though negotiations are still going on to save the plant, he and other officials are actively seeking other companies to invest in those plants and the workforce of Charleroi.
November 23, 2023 11:13 am
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused in a legal filing of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993. The three-page summons filed Wednesday does not contain details of the alleged assault but names Adams, the transit bureau of the New York Police Department and the New York Police Department Guardians Association as defendants. In a statement, a City Hall spokesman said the mayor does not know the person making the accusation and denied the claim. The filing comes as Adams has been dogged by an FBI investigation into his 2021 campaign that prompted agents to seize his phones and raid the home of his chief campaign fundraiser.
January 2, 2023 3:39 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say Russia deployed multiple drones overnight to attack parts of Ukraine and dozens were shot down. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Monday that 40 exploding drones had “headed for Kyiv” overnight according to air defense forces. He said all of them were destroyed. Energy infrastructure facilities in the capital were damaged and an explosion occurred in one district. But the causes were not clear. An official said a “critical infrastructure object” and residential buildings were hit in the outlying Kyiv region. Seven drones were shot down over the southern Mykolaiv region and three more were shot down in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region.
February 20, 2022 8:09 am
TORONTO (AP) — Most of the streets around the Canadian Parliament are quiet now. The Ottawa protesters who vowed never to give up are largely gone, chased away by policemen in riot gear. The relentless blare of truckers’ horns has gone silent. But the trucker protest, which grew until it closed a handful of Canada-U.S. border posts and shut down key parts of the capital city for weeks, could echo for years in Canadian politics and perhaps south of the border. The protest, which was first aimed at a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers also encompassed fury over the range of COVID-19 restrictions and hatred of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “I think we’ve started something here,” said Mark Suitor, a 33-year-old protester from Hamilton, Ontario, speaking as police retook control of the streets around Parliament. Protesters had essentially occupied those streets for more than three weeks, embarrassing Trudeau. Suitor believes the protests will divide the country, something he welcomes.
March 27, 2021 4:23 am
DALLAS (AP) – Federal officials are investigating a Southwest Airlines pilot whose R-rated rant about liberals in Northern California was captured on air traffic control transmissions. A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the investigation Friday. He says FAA rules prohibit pilots from talking about things other than the flight while taxiing and at low altitudes. It happened earlier this month as a Southwest plane was getting ready to take off from San Jose, California. The pilot makes a profanity-filled tirade, apparently against liberal attitudes in the San Francisco Bay Area. He mixes in a few G-rated words too, like “weirdos.”
May 29, 2020 4:05 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is calling protesters in Minneapolis “thugs” and vowing that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Trump tweeted as violence boiled over Thursday night, with protesters torching a police station. Trump and his allies had taken a very different tone with the in-custody death of a black man in Minneapolis compared with past instances of police brutality involving African Americans, questioning the officers and sympathizing with the man who died. Trump said earlier Thursday that he felt “very, very badly” about George Floyd’s death, calling it “a very shocking sight.”
August 9, 2019 4:12 am
WILLOW GROVE, Pa. (AP) – A small plane has crashed in the backyard of a suburban Philadelphia home, killing a husband and wife and their 19-year-old daughter, who were the only people on board. The plane went down around 6:20 a.m. Thursday in Willow Grove, shortly after taking off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport en route to Columbus, Ohio. Upper Moreland Police Chief Michael Murphy says the plane hit several trees before it came to rest. The victims were identified as 60-year-old Jasvir Khurana, his 54-year-old wife Divya Khurana and their daughter Kiran, all from the Philadelphia suburbs. No one on the ground was injured and no homes were damaged. There is no indication the pilot made a distress call before the crash. The National Transportation Safety is at the scene, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Philadelphia.
September 22, 2024 3:58 am
On Friday U.S. Senator Bob Casey sent a letter to the Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden requesting a confidential briefing from the Federal Trade Commission on questions concerning Anchor Hocking’s assumption of control over the Corelle manufacturing operation in Charleroi. He wants to know about the failed acquisition of Instant Brand’s Houseware division that included the Charleroi plant by Centre Lane Partners during Instant Brand’s bankruptcy proceedings in 2023. After the failed acquisition, Anchor Hocking, a Centre Lane Partners company assumed control of the plant and now plans its closure. In his letter Casey states that the actions now being taken by Anchor Hocking raise serious questions regarding the transaction by Centre Lane Partners.
November 23, 2023 4:28 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the sea but the launch likely failed. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says the launch was made from North Korea’s capital region on Wednesday night. It came a day after North Korea launched a spy satellite and claimed to have put it into orbit. South Korea says it has decided to partially suspend an inter-Korean agreement and restart front-line aerial surveillance of North Korea. U.N. Security Council resolutions prohibit any satellite liftoffs by North Korea, viewing them as covers for testing its long-range missile technology.
