October 21, 2024 5:15 am
RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. (AP) — The presidential campaign in North Carolina is playing out in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane and a tumultuous governor’s race. Both sides are ramping up their activity here again after Hurricane Helene. And Donald Trump’s endorsed GOP candidate for governor, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, has seen his campaign collapse amid multiple controversies, potentially splintering GOP unity. Trump, the Republican nominee, has three North Carolina stops Monday, including a visit to see storm damage in Asheville. With 15 days until Election Day, North Carolina is critical to the Electoral College math for both Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
October 21, 2024 5:13 am
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel’s military says it is now taking aim at the Lebanon-based Hezbollah’s financial arm and plans to attack a “large number of targets” in Beirut and elsewhere. Explosions have begun in Beirut’s southern suburbs, about an hour after the announcement Sunday. A senior Israeli intelligence official says the strikes target al-Qard al-Hassan. The registered nonprofit is sanctioned by both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and provides financial services. It is also used by ordinary Lebanese. Israel says it is a Hezbollah unit and is used to pay operatives of the Iran-backed militant group.
October 21, 2024 5:08 am
A Washington Woman was killed in a motorcycle crash Sunday night in Donegal Township. The Washington County Coroner’s office says 23 year old Alyssa Hutchison was pronounced dead at UPMC Washington Hospital just before 9 p.m. Officials say she was traveling eastbound on State Route 40 when she was struck by another vehicle just after 7:30 p.m. A cause and manner of death death are pending investigation. Washington County 9-1-1 says the driver of the car was also transported from the scene by ambulance but there is no word on their identity or condition. Donegal Township Police are investigating.
October 21, 2024 5:01 am
Elon Musk is pledging to give away $1 million a day to voters for signing his political action committee’s petition backing the Constitution. The giveaway by the Donald Trump supporter is raising questions and alarms among some election experts who say it’s a violation of the law to link a cash handout to signing a petition that also requires a person to be registered to vote. Musk promised on Saturday that he’d give away that daily amount until the Nov. 5 election for people signing his PAC’s petition supporting the First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech, and the Second Amendment, with its right “to keep and bear arms.”
October 21, 2024 4:59 am
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump attended the NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Jets as the guest of an unidentified suite holder at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh. Trump arrived about midway through the first quarter and was greeted by a small crowd of supporters wearing Steelers jerseys toting a banner that read “Trump Nation.” The former president’s visit capped a weekend in pivotal Pennsylvania for Trump’s campaign with the election a little over two weeks away. He received endorsements from a pair of former Steelers in wide receiver Antonio Brown and running back Le’Veon Bell. Brown and Bell greeted Trump when his plane landed outside Pittsburgh and attended a Trump-backed voter registration drive in the afternoon.
October 21, 2024 4:51 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — (WPXI) – State police are investigating after a 2-year-old girl died in Uniontown on Monday, according to Fayette County Coroner Bob Baker. The coroner’s office was called to Uniontown Hospital just after noon, where the toddler was pronounced dead. Baker identified the toddler as Margaret Nunn, 2, of Uniontown. The Pennsylvania State Police and Fayette County Coroner’s Office are both investigating the death. Baker said the cause and manner of her death are not being released at this time.
October 20, 2024 6:23 am
ATLANTA (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris says Republican former President Donald Trump was “cruel” for how he talked about the grieving family of a Georgia mother who died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat her complications from an abortion pill. Harris on Saturday put combating restrictions on reproductive care at the center of her pitch to voters at a rally in Atlanta. Harris blamed Amber Thurman’s death on Georgia’s abortion restrictions that took effect after the Supreme Court in 2022, with three Trump-appointed justices, overturned Roe v. Wade. Harris said: “Donald Trump still refuses to take accountability, to take any accountability, for the pain and the suffering he has caused.”
October 20, 2024 6:17 am
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say at least seven people were killed Saturday after part of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia’s Sapelo Island. Tyler Jones is a spokesman for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. He says the dock collapsed and sent people plunging into the water. Multiple people were taken to hospitals. Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard, the McIntosh County Fire Department, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and others were searching for any other survivors. The collapse happened as crowds gathered on the island for a celebration of its tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.
October 20, 2024 6:13 am
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s Health Ministry says 87 people are dead or missing after Israeli strikes on multiple homes in northern Gaza. It says another 40 people were wounded in the strikes on the town of Beit Lahiya overnight and into Sunday. Beit Lahiya, on the northern edge of Gaza, was among the first targets of Israel’s ground invasion nearly a year ago. There was no immediate comment on the strikes from the Israeli military, which said it was “continuing to operate across Gaza in both aerial strikes and ground operations.”
October 20, 2024 6:09 am
CLEVELAND (AP) — Hollywood stars Julia Roberts and Zendaya bookended Saturday’s inductions into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, giving a little stardust to an eclectic lineup that included pop icon Cher, heavy metal’s Ozzy Osbourne, hip-hop soul queen Mary J. Blige, soft rockers Foreigner and 83-year-old soul icon Dionne Warwick. It was a five-hour-plus show that also honored hip-hop trailblazers A Tribe Called Quest, punk pioneers the MC5, the hip-hop soul of Mary J. Blige, the effortless dance music of Kool & the Gang, the soft rock of Foreigner, the beach bum tunes of Jimmy Buffett and the jam band fusion of Dave Matthews Band.
