August 5, 2024 5:12 am
GREENE COUNTY, Pa. — (WPXI) – A boil advisory in a Greene County community has been lifted. The East Dunkard Water Authority issued a boil advisory for the Davistown area after a power failure caused the Donley water tank to drain on July 27. The water company is now lifting the advisory since water samples collected on Aug. 2 and 3 came back with acceptable results. Davistown residents no longer need to boil water or take other precautions before use.
August 5, 2024 5:19 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have unified with remarkable speed behind Vice President Kamala Harris as she has taken over the top of the party’s ticket heading into the November presidential election. It may be another story when it comes to a running mate. Sources are saying that Harris has narrowed the field for her choice for a vice presidential running mate to two men, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. An announcement is expected before a rally Tuesday evening in Philadelphia.
August 5, 2024 5:01 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Facing the need to win Pennsylvania, Vice President Kamala Harris has sworn off any prior assertion that she opposed fracking. But that hasn’t stopped Republican Donald Trump from wielding her now-abandoned position to win over working-class voters in the key battleground state where the industry means jobs. Last week, in his first appearance in Pennsylvania since Harris became the Democrats’ presumptive nominee, Trump repeatedly warned that Harris would ban fracking and devastate the economy in the nation’s No. 2 natural gas state. Harris called to ban fracking as a presidential primary candidate in 2019.
August 5, 2024 5:02 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is launching “Republicans for Harris” as she tries to win over Republican voters put off by Donald Trump’s candidacy. Harris’ team says the program will aim to use well-known Republicans to activate their networks, with a particular emphasis on primary voters who backed former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. The program will kick off with dedicated events this coming week in Arizona, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Also, Republicans backing Harris will appear at rallies with the vice president and her soon-to-be-named running mate this coming week. The Harris campaign shared the details of the program first with The Associated Press before the official announcement Sunday.
August 4, 2024 7:55 am
CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump says he’s pulling out of a scheduled September debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on ABC and wants them to face off on Fox News. That seems to make it increasingly unlikely that the candidates will confront each other on stage before the November election. In social media posts late Friday, Trump said his agreement to a Sept. 10 debate on ABC “has been terminated” because he’ll no longer face President Joe Biden. Trump says he’ll appear on Fox News on Sept. 4. Harris’ campaign says Trump “is running scared and trying to back out of the debate he already agreed to and running straight to Fox News to bail him out.” (Photo: AP)
August 4, 2024 7:56 am
MIAMI (AP) — A tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico has strengthened into Tropical Storm Debby. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center say the storm has maximum sustained winds of 50 mph as it moves toward Florida. They predict it will become a hurricane before coming ashore. Debby is likely to bring drenching rain and coastal flooding to much of Florida’s Gulf Coast by Sunday night. Forecasters warn it also could drop heavy rains over north Florida and the Atlantic coasts of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina early next week. Debby is the fourth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season.
August 4, 2024 8:02 am
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Officials and media reports say a new round of violence in Bangladesh has left more than 20 people dead and hundreds of others injured as student protesters clashed with police and ruling party activists. Protesters are demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The initial protests in July began with students calling for an end to a quota system for government jobs but escalated into violence that left more than 200 dead. Authorities in response closed schools and universities across the country, blocked internet access and imposed a shoot-on-sight curfew. At least 11,000 people have been arrested in recent weeks. (Photo: AP)
August 4, 2024 7:00 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa. – A man is dead after an early Saturday morning shooting at a Uniontown club. The Uniontown City Police Department says the shooting happened a little before 5 a.m. on Morgantown Street at Club Lux. A man was shot multiple times in “vital areas of his body,” according to Lt. Tom Kolencik. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.The Fayette County Coroner identifies the man killed as Timothy Brooks, 24, of Uniontown. No arrests have been made, and no suspects have been identified yet. Lt. Kolencik says it’s still early in the investigation, and they are still interviewing witnesses. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Uniontown City Police Department.
August 3, 2024 7:27 am
ZEITA, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli army and Palestinian media say an airstrike on a vehicle in the occupied West Bank killed five Palestinians as violence flares in the Israeli-occupied territory. The army said its forces struck a vehicle carrying five militants in a rural area northwest of the city of Tulkarem in the northwest West Bank early Saturday morning, as the occupants were on their way to carry out an attack. The Palestinian Health Ministry says over 590 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in Gaza in October. The strike comes just days after the consecutive assassinations of Hamas’ leader and a top Hezbollah commander.
August 3, 2024 5:26 am
Governor Josh Shapiro and the Pennsylvania Department of Education Secretary Dr. Khalid N. Mumin were joined by state and local legislators, higher education leader and students at Cheyney University for a ceremonial bill signing of the higher education reforms that the governor signed into law as part of the 2024-25 budget. The budget for 2024-25 makes for the first significant progress on higher education in three decades and helps give Pennsylvanians the freedom to chart their own course and success that Governor Shapiro hold as his key priorities. This budget creates a new State Board of Higher Education that will coordinate every sector of higher education in Pennsylvania and utilize student-level data to make decisions on what works and what does not. The budget will also invest in public higher education institutions including a $15.7 million increase for community colleges and $35.1 million for schools in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Also, it will make higher education more affordable to students with over $120 million in increased funding for scholarships and grants. The budget also looks to double funding for student teacher stipends for a total of $20 million to ensure student teachers are compensated for their work.
