August 10, 2024 2:52 am
More money is being made available for trade and vo-tech programs in Pennsylvania. Governor Josh Shapiro visited the Ruff Creek UMWA Career Center in Greene County Thursday to sign a bill earmarking 30 million dollars for the expansion of vocational training and investments in workplace development across the commonwealth. The Governor and Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry Secretary, Nancy Walker, were on hand to roll out the bill that will highlight job training, apprenticeship programs, and vo-tech programs. The bi-partisan deal is part of the 2024-2025 budget signed into law last month. Governor Shapiro says the secured investment will help open doors of economic advancement and give Pennsylvanians the opportunity to chart their own course. The bill is aimed at helping students, and those changing careers, to stay close to home and receive training in specialized fields that may fall outside of a 4 year degree program. The measure is designed to fill trade job openings and allow those who don’t wish to attend college to use their skills in other ways and make a fair living wage. Shapiro also addressed his heightened visibility over the past few weeks as a potential VP pick. He says although he is no longer in the running he is all in supporting the democratic ticket.
August 9, 2024 3:39 pm
VINHEDO, Brazil (AP) — A Brazilian airliner says one of its passenger planes with 61 people aboard has crashed into a gated residential community in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, killing all who were aboard. The airline earlier had reported that 62 people were aboard the flight that crashed in Vinhedo, about 80 kilometers northwest of Sao Paulo, but later updated the number to 61. “The company regrets to inform that all 61 people on board flight 2283 died at the site,” VOEPASS said in a statement. “At this time, VOEPASS is prioritizing provision of unrestricted assistance to the victims’ families and effectively collaborating with authorities to determine the causes of the accident.” (Photo: AP)
August 9, 2024 4:34 am
PHOENIX (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate are campaigning in Arizona as the latest stop on their tour of battleground states. The Arizona swing is especially significant because Harris passed over the state’s junior senator, Mark Kelly, in favor of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate. That may cost her a handful of votes in a state that President Joe Biden won by less than 11,000 votes in 2020. But the state is also chock full of Midwesterners who may warm to Walz. And Democrats say the same energy that’s greeted Harris at earlier stops on her battleground tour is present in Arizona.
August 9, 2024 4:31 am
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump has recommitted to debating Vice President Kamala Harris after recently backing out. The Republican presidential nominee held a lengthy news conference Thursday in which he taunted his new rival, boasted of his crowd on Jan. 6, 2021, and lashed out at questions about the enthusiasm her campaign has been generating. As he addressed reporters at his Palm Beach, Florida, estate, ABC announced that Trump and Harris have agreed to a Sept. 10 presidential debate. In taking questions from reporters for more than an hour, Trump tried to draw a contrast with Harris, who has not held a news conference since she became the likely Democratic nominee following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race.
August 9, 2024 4:19 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A newly filed legal challenge seeks to have third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. kept off Pennsylvania’s fall ballot. It is an effort with ramifications for the hotly contested swing-state battle between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris. The petition argues, among other things, that the nominating papers filed by Kennedy and his running mate “demonstrate, at best, a fundamental disregard” of state law and the process by which signatures are gathered. Kennedy faces legal challenges over ballot access in several states. Kennedy’s lawyer says he’s confident he will be on the Pennsylvania ballot.
August 8, 2024 4:25 am
LUCAMA, N.C. (AP) — Debby’s final chapter involves moving north and northeast from the Carolinas at a faster clip with soaking rains, flash flooding and the threat of tornadoes into the weekend. Accuweather’s chief meteorologist Jon Porter said the Mid-Atlantic states and parts of New York and New England will see significant rainfall that could cause dangerous flooding into the weekend, such as on parts of Interstate 95 near bigger cities. From eastern Virginia up to Vermont, an active stretch of tornadoes was also possible on Friday. Tornadoes spawned by Debby have leveled homes, damaged a school and killed one person. The tropical storm was downgraded to a tropical depression Thursday afternoon.
August 8, 2024 4:28 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of the United States, Egypt and Qatar are jointly demanding that Israel and Hamas return to stalled talks on the war in Gaza. The three leaders issued a statement Thursday saying “only the details” remain to get a cease-fire deal and hostage release. President Joe Biden, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt and Emir Tamim al-Thani of Qatar are signaling growing frustration, saying they would accept “no excuses from any party for further delay.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Thursday that it had agreed to attend the Aug. 15 talks. There was no immediate word from Hamas. Hamas’ top representative to the talks was killed July 31 in an assassination widely blamed on Israel.
August 9, 2024 3:40 am
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. — Kennywood Park will be closed on Friday, Aug. 9, due to remnants of Tropical Storm Debby that are expected to move through the area. In a social media post, the park said all tickets dated for Aug. 9 will be valid for any operating day through Sept. 14. “We will see you on Saturday!” the post said.
August 9, 2024 3:45 am
PITTSBURGH —(WPXI)-Several people are facing charges after detectives executed search warrants on encampments in Downtown Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh police said Narcotics, Violence Prevention Unit, and Downtown Public Safety Center detectives executed search warrants on two tents located on Grant Street between First Avenue and Fort Pitt Boulevard on Aug. 7. Detectives seized quantities of crack cocaine and lorazepam pills believed to be intended for distribution from this location, police said. Two people were removed from the tents and were interviewed at police headquarters. David Brown and Daidra Lomax were arrested and charged with narcotics violations. Tracy Smith was arrested on an outstanding warrant and William Mazon and Lamar Williams were arrested via summons for possession of a controlled substance. Each person who was arrested provided police with a valid home address, officials said. The area surrounding the tents is a public health and fire hazard, police said. Piles of trash, crack pipes/needles, rotten food, human feces and urine bottles are strewn throughout, and several propane tanks are located around and inside tents. Any obvious health/bio hazards and trash will be removed from the area, police said.
August 8, 2024 5:46 pm
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump has recommitted to debating Vice President Kamala Harris after recently backing out. The Republican presidential nominee held a lengthy news conference Thursday in which he taunted his new rival, boasted of his crowd on Jan. 6, 2021, and lashed out at questions about the enthusiasm her campaign has been generating. As he addressed reporters at his Palm Beach, Florida, estate, ABC announced that Trump and Harris have agreed to a Sept. 10 presidential debate. In taking questions from reporters for more than an hour, Trump tried to draw a contrast with Harris, who has not held a news conference since she became the likely Democratic nominee following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race. (Photo: AP)
