February 23, 2024 7:18 am
The mother of a Trinity High School student has been charged with aggravated assault and resisting arrest after an incident at the school Thursday. According to the criminal complaint, Kimberly Kingan, who is also known as Kimberly Goodson, was called to the school for a conference after her daughter told the school nurse that she had recorded several faculty members without their knowledge or consent and forwarded it to another student. Trinity police then met with Kingan and her daughter in a conference room and informed them that they would be confiscating the phone as part of their investigation. Police, however, say the student put the phone between her legs and refused to turn it over for some thirty minutes. Police then requested a female officer from the Washington Police Department who arrived and when she tried the get the phone says the mother grabbed the phone and bit the officer on the arm. Police say Kingan then resisted when they arrested her.
February 23, 2024 5:21 am
The Washington County Coroner’s Office has identified the victim of a one-vehicle crash early Friday morning in Independence Township. 21-year old Anthony Georgetti was pronounced dead at the scene in the 700-block of Washington Pike. The coroner’s office say the crash occurred just after 3 a.m when Georgetti’s vehicle struck a tree. He was not wearing a seatbelt. A cause and manner of death are pending. The crash closed Washington Pike between Scenic Drive and Country Road.
February 23, 2024 5:17 am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Defense lawyers say a former FBI informant who claims to have links to Russian intelligence and is charged with lying about a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden’s family has been taken back into the custody of U.S. Marshals. Alexander Smirnov had been released with a GPS monitor ahead of trial. He was arrested during a meeting Thursday morning at his lawyers’ offices in downtown Las Vegas. The arrest came after prosecutors asked a judge in California, where the case originally was filed, to reconsider Smirnov’s custody status while he awaits trial. He is charged with making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record.
February 23, 2024 5:15 am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lander has made the first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years. Intuitive Machines’ lander touched down Thursday, but left flight controllers scrambling before gaining better contact. Tension mounted in the company’s Houston control center when there was no immediate word from the lander following the designated touchdown time. A faint signal finally was acquired. Once communication was improved, the company confirmed the lander was upright and starting to send back data. The landing put the U.S. back on the moon for the first time since NASA’s Apollo moonwalkers.
February 23, 2024 5:14 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department plans to impose more than 500 new sanctions on Russia and its war machine on Friday as the U.S. vows to keep up its financial pressure on Moscow with the war entering its third grueling year. The sanctions represent the largest single tranche of penalties since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. They come on the heels of a series of new arrests and indictments announced by the Justice Department on Thursday that target Russian businessmen and their middlemen in five separate federal cases. The Biden administration is seeking to demonstrate its unwavering support for Ukraine, even though Republican lawmakers allied with former President Donald Trump are blocking vital additional U.S. military aid.
February 23, 2024 5:12 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has filed multiple motions urging a Florida judge to dismiss the criminal case charging him with illegally retaining classified documents. They claim in part that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution — an argument they have already submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in his election interference case. Trump faces dozens of felony counts in federal court in Florida accusing him of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them. The case is currently set for trial on May 20, but that date could be pushed back.
February 23, 2024 5:09 am
Hamas says its top political leader has left Egypt after holding talks with Egyptian officials about a possible cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, and an exchange of hostages held by the militants for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. During Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, militants killed about 1,200 people and took some 250 hostages. Roughly half of the hostages were released during a weeklong cease-fire in November. About 100 hostages remain in captivity, in addition to the bodies of 30 others who were killed in the October incursion or died in captivity. Israel’s subsequent offensive in Gaza has killed more than 29,000 Palestinians and driven some 80% of the territory’s 2.3 million people from their homes.
February 23, 2024 4:59 am
The Canon-McMillan School Board met Thursday and began planning for the next school year. Directors adopted the school calendar for the 2024-2025 school year. The first day of school is slated for August 22. The last day of school will be June 2, 2025. Christmas break will take place from December 23 through January 1. In other board activity, Director Julie Chandler (pictured) was honored by the Pennsylvania School Board Association Trust Initiative. She was chosen as one of fifteen school directors to take part in a one week international study group to tour Germany and study educational practices of German schools and make recommendations to school districts in Pennsylvania. She will travel to Bonn, Cologne and Dortmund. This is the first international study group that has been formed in cooperation with the PSBA. Chandler filled out an application, provided a biography along with a letter of interest and statement of her involvement in education. Chandler announced the honor during the meeting saying she is quite humbled to be selected.
February 22, 2024 4:39 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former talk show host Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with the same form of dementia that actor Bruce Willis has. A statement released on behalf of her caretakers Thursday says the 59-year-old’s diagnoses of primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia “have already presented significant hurdles in Wendy’s life” and have behavioral and cognitive impacts. The announcement came a day after a cover story in People magazine quoted Williams’ family about the nature of her struggles, ahead of a Lifetime documentary set to air Saturday. A representative listed on the release referred questions back to the statement. (Photo: AP)
February 22, 2024 4:34 pm
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors say negligence by a movie weapons supervisor in handling ammunition and weapons during the filming of the Western “Rust” contributed to actor Alec Baldwin fatally shooting a cinematographer during a rehearsal. They delivered an opening statement Thursday as the trial began for Hannah Gutierrez-Reed on charges of involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence in the October 2021 death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Gutierrez-Reed has pleaded not guilty to the charges and maintains she’s not directly to blame for Hutchins’ death. Baldwin also has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. A trial date has not been set for him. (
