September 27, 2023 4:54 am
North Franklin Township Supervisors held a special meeting Tuesday to appoint an interim supervisor. The appointment was necessary due to the untimely death of 42 year old Josh Polan on September 6. Supervisors appointed Ben Johnson to serve until January 1, 2024. Johnson is serving until the end of the year and has entered his name on the Republican ballot for supervisor in this year’s November election. Whoever wins the seat in November, they will serve the remaining four years of Polan’s term. According to Chairman Bob Sabot, that is the procedure spelled out by state law for a township identified as a second class township. Sabot calls the appointment a “generational change” in the board with Johnson being in his late twenties. Johnson says he is honored to be selected and looks forward to serving his community that he has served since he became a fireman at age 16. Johnson’s first official meeting will be on October 10.
September 27, 2023 2:49 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s 2023 tour will be postponed until 2024, citing doctor’s advice. The Boss, who last week celebrated his 74th birthday, is “steadily recovering” from peptic ulcer disease, a press release read. “Out of an abundance of caution,” the remainder of this year’s tour has been pushed to next year. Earlier this month, Springsteen announced he would be postponing all September 2023 dates while he was treated for symptoms related to the disease, which causes ulcers to form in the stomach or small intestine that can cause heartburn, nausea and stomach pain. Newly postponed shows include Canadian dates and a West Coast run of Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. (Photo: AP)
September 27, 2023 2:48 am
If your pets need a little “Heavenly Help,” you can bring them to the Blessing of Animals on Saturday, September 30th in Eighty Four. St. James Parish is holding the Blessing of Pets for the Feast Day of Saint Francis, the Patron Saint of Animals. It will be held from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Wendy’s Pavilion at 1360, Route 519. You can register by visiting the St. James Parish website at catholicpartnerparishes.org. You can also register by calling the parish office at 724-225-1425. All pets are welcome, not just dogs and cats. Father Ed Yuhas, who is the Pastor at St. James and Katherine Drexel Parishes, says in his many years of blessing pets, he’s seen just about everything, from dogs and cats, to birds, cattle and horses. Father Yuhas says the Blessing of the Pets is not just for Catholics, but for all denominations and for everyone who has a pet and loves them. In addition to the Blessing of the Pets, there will also be a food truck and a pet vendor. (Photo: ABC)
September 27, 2023 2:30 am
A Houston man pleaded guilty to an indecent assault charge on Tuesday. Daniel Libert, 68 will serve three years probation for his assault of a fellow patient in May. Libert was a patient at Peters Township Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center when a staff member witnessed him touch another patient inappropriately. The victim told police that Libert exposed himself to her on multiple occasions earlier in the month. In addition to the probation, Libert will have to register with state police as a sex offender for the next 25 years.
September 27, 2023 2:29 am
A Washington man pleaded guilty to aggravated assault charges on Tuesday. Brad Sumner, 39 of Washington will spend the next 4-10 years in state prison. Police were summoned to his Allison Avenue address in May. When police arrived, they found Sumner’s housemate who had been stabbed in the stomach and knee. Another roommate in the house detailed events to police while the victim was transported to a hospital. The victim did survive. In addition to Sumner’s prison sentence he will be subject to a 12 month reentry program once that sentence is complete.
September 26, 2023 1:57 pm
(AP) – The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorney generals filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon on Tuesday, alleging the e-commerce behemoth uses its position in the marketplace to inflate prices on other platforms, overcharge sellers and stifle competition. The complaint is the result of a years-long investigation into Amazon’s businesses and one of the most significant legal challenges brought against the company in its nearly 30-year history. The agency and states that joined the lawsuit are asking the court to issue a permanent injunction court that they say would prohibit Amazon from engaging in its unlawful conduct and pry loose its “monopolistic control to restore competition.”
September 26, 2023 10:24 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden is suing Rudy Giuliani and another attorney, saying the two wrongly accessed and shared his personal data after obtaining it from the owner of a Delaware computer repair shop. The lawsuit is the latest in a new strategy by Hunter Biden to strike back against Republican allies of Donald Trump who have traded and passed around his private data including purported emails and embarrassing images in their effort to discredit his father, President Joe Biden.
September 26, 2023 7:10 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says that it will expel a U.S. soldier who crossed into the country through the heavily armed border between the Koreas in July. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday that authorities have finished their questioning of Pvt. Travis King. It said that he confessed to illegally entering the North and quoted him criticizing the U.S. Verifying the authenticity of the comments attributed to King is impossible. The agency did not say when authorities plan to expel King or to where.
September 26, 2023 5:52 am
A Chartiers Township woman is facing numerous charges after police say she sent three photos of a nude, adult male to a 12 year old victim with that victim’s fathers face superimposed onto the picture. According to the criminal complaint, Courtney Cavanaugh, 44, sent those picture from her cell phone back in May. Police say a search of her Grace Avenue home turned up that phone. She faces charges that include; Dissemination of explicit sexual material, contact with a minor of obscene material, criminal use of a communication facility, unlawful dissemination of an intimate image, tampering with evidence, obstruction of law and harassment. The criminal complaint says Cavanaugh was in a former relationship with the juvenile’s father.
September 26, 2023 5:00 am
SIMI VALLEY, Calf. (AP) — Republicans are meeting for their second presidential debate as top rivals seek to blunt the momentum of Donald Trump. The former president is so confident that he will continue to cruise through the party’s primary that he’s again forgoing sharing a stage with his competitors. Seven GOP White House candidates are squaring off at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California for a debate Wednesday sponsored by Fox Business. Rather than attend, Trump will be in Detroit, delivering a primetime speech that will compete for airtime with the debate and take place before a crowd of current and former union members.
