May 28, 2020 4:01 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The nation’s capital will begin a gradual reopening Friday, even as Mayor Muriel Bowser warns it probably will result in more coronavirus infections. Restaurants will be permitted to seat guests outdoors. Barbers and hair salons will open. But nail parlors and public playgrounds will remain closed. Nonessential businesses will be allowed to offer curbside or front-door pickup services. Golf courses and tennis courts will reopen and gatherings of up to 10 people will be permitted. Bowser says the public health emergency she declared in March will remain in place.
August 8, 2019 3:44 pm
HAMBURG, Pa. (AP) – Investigators in Pennsylvania have exhumed the body of an unidentified man who was found frozen in a cave along the Appalachian Trail about four decades ago. Officials in Berks County say the man’s dental records recently were matched to missing men from Florida and Illinois. Berks County Coroner Dennis Hess tells WFMZ-TV the only way to conclusively identify the man is to exhume his remains and test his DNA. The test results could take about three weeks. The man’s body was found in January 1977 by two hikers in a cave near an area called The Pinnacle, not far from Hamburg. Authorities at the time said there was no sign of foul play and the man was buried in a potter’s field in Berks County.
September 21, 2024 4:12 am
An Israeli airstrike in Beirut has killed at least 14 people and wounded more than 60, according to Lebanese health officials. The strike Friday was the first such Israeli attack on Lebanon’s capital in months. The Israeli military says the airstrike killed Ibrahim Akil, a senior Hezbollah military official. It came shortly after Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets. In Gaza, Palestinian authorities said 15 people were killed overnight in multiple Israeli attacks. Gaza’s Civil Defense said an airstrike early Friday in Gaza City hit a family home, killing six people including an unknown number of children.
November 23, 2023 4:01 am
South Strabane Township Manager Jeffrey Ziegler told WJPA News on Wednesday that the rumors surrounding the resignation of long-time board member Bracken Burns were true – he has resigned. Ziegler says Burns submitted a letter of resignation to the board of Supervisors, dated November 7th, the day of the general election. Burns, a Democrat, lost his bid for re-election. Ziegler says the board has forty-five days to accept the resignation. In the meantime, Ziegler says the board has reached out to Burns, asking him to reconsider, however they have received no response. The supervisors next voting meeting will take place on December 12 because of the Christmas holiday. WJPA News also reached out to Burns for comment, but have received no response.
January 1, 2023 8:16 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts is praising programs that protect judges, saying that “we must support judges by ensuring their safety.” Roberts’ comments in an annual, year-end report about the federal judiciary follow recent security threats to the justices. Roberts and other conservative Supreme Court justices were the subject of protests, some at their homes, after the May leak of the court’s decision that ultimately stripped away constitutional protections for abortion. Justice Samuel Alito has said that the leak made conservative justices “targets for assassination.” Polls following the abortion decision show public trust in the court is at historic lows.
February 19, 2022 12:26 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – Former President Donald Trump faced one legal setback after another this week. The National Archives and Records Administration confirmed Friday that classified information was found in 15 boxes of White House records that Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago and that the matter had been sent to the Department of Justice. Also Friday, a federal judge rejected Trump’s efforts to dismiss conspiracy lawsuits filed by lawmakers and two Capitol police officers over the Jan. 6 insurrection. And on Thursday, a judge in New York ruled that he must answer questions under oath in the state’s civil investigation into his business practices.
March 26, 2021 4:28 pm
DALLAS (AP) – Larry McMurtry, the prolific and popular author who took readers back to the old American West in his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Lonesome Dove” and returned them to modern-day landscapes in works such as his emotional tale of a mother-daughter relationship in “Terms of Endearment,” has died. He was 84. McMurtry died Thursday night of heart failure, according to a family statement issued through a publicist on Friday. The statement did not say where he died but noted that he’ll be buried “in his cherished home state of Texas.” Several of McMurtry’s books became feature films, including the Oscar-winners “The Last Picture Show” and “Terms of Endearment.” His epic 1986 Pulitzer winner “Lonesome Dove,” about a cattle drive from Texas across the Great Plains during the 1870s, was made into a popular television miniseries that starred Robert Duvall, who has often cited the project as a personal favorite and likened his role as retired Texas Ranger Augustus McCrae to acting in “Hamlet.”
May 28, 2020 3:58 am
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Connecticut State Police say a college student wanted for two slayings in Connecticut has been captured in Maryland. Peter Manfredonia had been the subject of a six-day search involving several police agencies and the FBI. Connecticut State Police say the University of Connecticut senior killed a 62-year-old man and wounded another in northeastern Connecticut on Friday and killed a high school classmate in Derby on Sunday before abducting the man’s girlfriend and driving to New Jersey. Police say Manfredonia was found in the area of a truck stop in Hagerstown, Maryland. A lawyer for the suspect’s family, Michael Dolan, said they were relieved the search had ended peacefully.
August 8, 2019 3:39 pm
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – An attorney says a Montana man charged with assaulting a 13-year-old boy who refused to remove his hat during the national anthem believed he was doing what President Donald Trump wanted him to do. Attorney Lance Jasper tells the Missoulian he will seek a mental health evaluation for Curt Brockway, a U.S. Army veteran who suffered a traumatic brain injury and was convinced he was following his commander in chief’s orders. Jasper’s comments Wednesday came as prosecutors formally charged Brockway with assault on a minor.
Prosecutors say Brockway asked the boy to remove his hat during the anthem ahead of a rodeo. They say the boy cursed at Brockway, and the man grabbed him by the throat, “lifted him into the air and slammed the boy into the ground.”
September 21, 2024 4:03 am
The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has awarded nearly $4 million in Cultural and Historical Support Grants to 173 eligible museums and county historical societies statewide. Locally four agencies were included in that group. They include the Senator John Heinz History Center that received $14,200, The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum with $26,800, The National Duncan Glass Society with $4000 and the Washington County Historical Society, Inc. received $8000. The grants help museums and historical societies that are not supported by other state agency funding programs with their general operations expenditures.
