October 30, 2024 2:56 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A divided Pennsylvania appeals court says the envelopes voters use to send in mail ballots don’t need to have been accurately hand-dated. The Commonwealth Court’s 3-2 decision Wednesday comes after the state Supreme Court sidestepped the issue. The latest decision upholds a Philadelphia judge’s ruling that 69 mail ballots should be counted in a pair of single-candidate state House of Representatives special elections held in September. Republican groups who lost the case say they plan an appeal in the coming days. (Photo: AP)
October 30, 2024 2:52 am
The Main Street Farmer’s Market in downtown Washington will close for the season on Thursday. The market is held at the community pavilion on South Main Street across from the Observer Reporter building on Thursdays from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. through October. Market organizers say 2024 was one of the best years they’ve had, thanks to new vendors filling every open spot under the pavilion. They say they had more people visit the market than ever before and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) may have even doubled the number of people who were able to get fresh fruits and vegetable. The President of the market, Tracee Malik, says the Main Street Farmer’s Market is special in that it not only provides a wide variety of products, but it also offers social time. She says people often come to the market to socialize with friends and family and just enjoy the atmosphere. As for next year, Malik says they have not yet begun to lay out a plan.
October 30, 2024 2:50 am
Forty-nine-year-old Tina Phillips of Morris Township in Greene County has been found guilty in the 2021 death of a mailman. State Attorney General Michelle Henry says Phillips was found guilty of multiple charges including homicide by vehicle. Authorities say Phillips was driving over seventy-miles an hour in a forty-mile an hour zone when she lost control of her vehicle and hit Varner as he was delivering mail to 180 Andrews Road in Morris Township. Phillips is free on ten-thousand-dollars cash bond while she awaits sentencing.
October 29, 2024 4:55 pm
(AP) – Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon has been released from prison after serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Bannon left the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, on Tuesday morning. He later resumed his podcast, saying he was focused on helping Trump win back the presidency. A jury convicted Bannon in 2022 of refusing to sit for a deposition with the Jan. 6 House Committee and refusing to provide documents related to his involvement in Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden. (Photo: AP)
October 29, 2024 1:47 pm
(AP) – Teri Garr, the quirky comedy actor who rose from background dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star of such favorites as “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has died. She was 79. Garr died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer. Garr battled other health problems in recent years, underwent an operation in January 2007 to repair an aneurysm. The actor, who was sometimes credited as Terri, Terry or Terry Ann during her long career, seemed destined for show business from her childhood. Her father was Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comedian; her mother was Phyllis Lind, one of the original high-kicking Rockettes at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Their daughter began dance lessons at 6 and by 14 was dancing with the San Francisco and Los Angeles ballet companies. She was 16 when she joined the road company of “West Side Story” in Los Angeles, and as early as 1963 she began appearing in bit parts in films. She recalled in a 1988 interview how she won the “West Side Story” role. After being dropped from her first audition, she returned a day later in different clothes and was accepted. (Photo: AP)
October 29, 2024 9:16 am
MORGAN TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – A man and a woman were found dead inside of a burning car in Greene County over the weekend. Pennsylvania State Police said troopers were called to Beagle Club Road in Morgan Township on Oct. 26 at 7 a.m. for a report of a vehicle fire. The fire department put out the blaze and found two people inside the car. The victims were identified as James Woods, 52, of Millsboro, and Tara Hall, 42, of Mather. The Troop B Major Case Team and the State Police Fire Marshal are investigating. State police said at this time, the investigation is leading to no foul play.
October 29, 2024 5:06 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris is giving an election speech Tuesday from the same location where Republican Donald Trump helped incite a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Harris chose the spot to draw a contrast between her vision for the country and Trump’s continued lies about the 2020 election and the risks she says his return to the White House would pose for the nation. In 2021, Trump told supporters who gathered at the grassy Ellipse to go to the Capitol, where the presidential election votes were being certified. Rioters there stormed the Senate chamber and ransacked Capitol offices.
October 29, 2024 5:03 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly four years after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, political violence remains a persistent threat heading into another presidential election. But the nature of the danger has changed since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Many far-right groups and movements involved in the riot have dissolved, splintered or receded from public forums. Yet the specter of election-related violence hasn’t vanished with them. Experts in political extremism see plenty of reasons for concern. American University professor Kurt Braddock says many of Donald Trump’s supporters have doubled down on electoral conspiracy theories since the Jan. 6 siege.
October 29, 2024 4:59 am
ATLANTA (AP) — The suspected arson fires of ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington this week is a reminder of how the popular collection devices have been the subject of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election. That has prompted distrust among certain groups of voters and efforts to halt or restrict their use by Republican state lawmakers. They are popular in states that mail ballots to all voters. In all, 27 states and the District of Columbia allow ballot drop boxes, while six others don’t have a specific law but allow local communities to use them. Six states have banned them entirely since 2020.
October 29, 2024 4:56 am
CHARLEROI, Pa. — (WPXI) – A house in Charleroi was damaged in a fire Monday morning. Washington County 911 said units from several companies were called to Crest Avenue at 10:04 a.m. Our crew at the scene saw damage on the upper floor of the building. No one was hurt in the blaze, dispatchers said.
