August 22, 2024 2:58 am
Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh announced Wednesday that following an investigation by his office, concerning the arrest of a man on Trinity Point Drive in South Strabane Township Tuesday night, that was captured on a video that is now circulating on social media, he is clearing the officer involved. Walsh says after reviewing the video showing the attempted arrest of Trendon Mobley, he has determined the officer followed all policies, procedures and laws of Pennsylvania in the arrest of a dangerous offender. Walsh says Mobley is classified as a wanted person with caution for violent tendencies and has warrants for his arrest, not only in Washington County, also out of state. The video shows Mobley running away from the arresting officer, the officer getting into his truck and pursuing him. During the pursuit, Mobley is seen colliding with the officer’s vehicle and falling to the ground, but quickly getting back up. Walsh says his investigation shows Mobley purposefully ran into the officer’s truck to evade arrest. Mobley, who was treated for minor injuries, is being held in the Washington County Jail on multiple charges.
August 21, 2024 5:06 am
CHICAGO (AP) — The Democratic National Convention’s third night showcased a familiar former president in Bill Clinton and introduced more Americans to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. He was little known outside his state until Vice President Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate. Walz used his background as a former teacher and football coach to put a home-town spin on the Democrats’ agenda of protecting individual freedoms and rejecting what they paint as the intrusive policies of Republican Donald Trump. Wednesday’s program also highlighted plenty of up-and-coming Democratic politicians and media mogul Oprah Winfrey, who gave an energetic speech in support of the party’s ticket.
August 21, 2024 5:06 am
PHOENIX (AP) — Voters in Arizona and Montana will be able to decide whether they want to protect the right to an abortion in their state constitutions. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 200-word summary that advocates used to collect signatures is valid, clearing the way for the issue to remain on the ballot. Montana’s secretary of state on Tuesday certified its abortion measure to appear on the November ballot. Both measures protect the right to an abortion until the fetus could survive outside the womb and allow later-term abortions to protect the mother’s life or health.
August 21, 2024 5:04 am
CHICAGO (AP) — Warning of a difficult fight ahead, former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have called on the nation to embrace Kamala Harris in urgent messages to the Democratic National Convention that were at times both hopeful and ominous. “America, hope is making a comeback,” the former first lady declared. She then tore into Republican Donald Trump, a sharp shift from the 2016 convention speech in which she told her party, “When they go low, we go high.” Barack Obama, the first Black president in U.S. history, insisted the nation is ready to elect Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian heritage and would be the nation’s first female president.
August 21, 2024 5:03 am
TORONTO (AP) — Both of Canada’s major freight railroads have come to a full stop because of a contract dispute with their workers, an impasse that could bring significant economic harm to businesses and consumers in Canada and the U.S. if the trains don’t resume running soon. Canadian National and CPKC railroads both locked out their employees after the deadline of 12:01 a.m. Eastern Thursday passed without new agreements with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference that represents some 10,000 engineers, conductors and dispatchers. Business groups had urged the government to intervene, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has declined to force both sides into arbitration yet. The railroads offered binding arbitration and said the shutdown would end if the union accepts it.
August 21, 2024 4:49 am
North Strabane Township Supervisors set their agenda for their Legislative Meeting next week. Supervisors anticipate awarding two contracts, for parks and recreation and road construction. Supervisors will open bids on Friday for the reconstruction of McDowell Lane. According to Township Manager Andrew Walz, if there is an acceptable bid, the goal is to award the contract for that construction next week. Supervisors will also look to approve a contract to replace the synthetic field in North Strabane Park. That contract is just under $550,000. Supervisors will also look to approve a takeover agreement with an insurance agency to restart construction on the Public Safety building. The project has been stalled because of the inability of the contractor of record, Spartan Construction, to be able to complete the project. Supervisors will meet on August 27 at 7:00 pm.
August 21, 2024 2:56 am
CONSOL Energy and Arch Resources, in a conference call with investors Wednesday morning, announced plans to merge, creating an energy company valued at more than five-billion-dollars. The new company will be called Core Natural Resources, and will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under a new ticker symbol that the companies have not yet disclosed, Once the merger is complete, the new company will own eleven mines across six states that produce thermal and metallurgical coal that will be used for heat generation at power plants and in steel-making. Core Natural Resources will be headquartered in Canonsburg, at their Southpointe location, while still maintaining a presence in St. Louis, where Arch is based. The use of coal in the United States has fallen almost every year since 2005 as energy plants switch over to natural gas and that has led to mine closures and job cuts across the sector. Coal companies that have survived need to lower costs and that can be achieved both through new technology, and mergers like the one announced by CONSOL and Arch.
August 21, 2024 2:47 am
(ABC) – Sources say Robert Kennedy Jr. is planning to drop out of the race for President and may endorse former President Trump. Robert F. Kennedy Jr, – the Independent candidate for president struggled to gain momentum on the national stage, and now sources say he’s calling it quits. Kennedy’s team is teasing a speech where he will address the nation on Friday from Phoenix, Arizona. The latest poll showed Kennedy polling at 5 percent – down from 10 percent a month ago, before Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket.
August 21, 2024 2:10 am
ASHEBORO, N.C. (AP) — Donald Trump held his first outdoor rally since an attempted assassination last month in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump’s podium at the North Carolina Aviation Museum & Hall of Fame is surrounded by panes of bulletproof glass that form a protective wall across the stage. Storage containers have also been stacked around the perimeter of the space to create additional walls and block sight lines at the venue, where old aircraft have been positioned behind the podium and a large American flag is suspended from cranes. He is set to deliver remarks on national security Wednesday afternoon as part of his counter-programming efforts during the Democratic National Convention. (Photo: AP)
August 20, 2024 5:32 pm
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois will soon become just the fifth state in the nation to prohibit corporal punishment in all schools. Legislation that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law this month bans physical punishment in private schools while reiterating a prohibition on the practice in public schools, first implemented 30 years ago. The law takes effect in January. Illinois will join New Jersey, Iowa, Maryland and New York in prohibiting paddling, spanking or hitting in all its schools. Chicago Democratic Rep. Margaret Croke was inspired to take up the issue after the American Association of Pediatrics’ updated call to end the practice. Seventeen U.S. states allow some sort of corporal punishment in all schools.
