September 11, 2024 4:45 am
North Franklin Township Supervisors took an unusual step and voted on a non-binding resolution calling on the Trinity Area School District to hold the line on tax raises for the next five years. Supervisors unanimously approved the motion and they are going to be asking the other municipalities in the school district, Canton, Amwell and South Strabane Townships, to follow suit. Supervisor Bob Sabot said that “Enough is enough” stating that municipalities set their budgets and work within those budgets year after year. He pointed out that in the last five consecutive years that Trinity has raised taxes, North Franklin Township has not, in fact, they cut taxes a couple years back. Supervisor Mike Quinn pointed out that the township collects $470,000 in taxes from its residents and Trinity collects $5.5 million from those same residents. He pointed to the school buildings in the township that do not generate revenue. The supervisors want to send a message that they perceive the district to be on an unchecked spending spree that is creating a hardship for residents, especially senior citizens.
September 11, 2024 2:13 am
A Wheeling, West Virginia man was killed in a one vehicle accident on Interstate 70 early Tuesday morning in Donegal Township. Washington County Coroner Tim Warco says 35-year-old Christopher Aaron Clutter lost control of the vehicle he was driving in the westbound lane near the Claysville exit, sometime between four and eight-thirty. Warco says Clutter was the only person in the vehicle and was not wearing a seat-belt. Warco says the accident is under investigation by the State Police and an autopsy is pending to determine the exact cause of death.
September 10, 2024 1:48 pm
(ABC) – Two planes collided on the tarmac at Atlanta s airport. A pilot on board Delta Flight 295 about to take off from Atlanta s Hartsfield-Jackson didn’t immediately know what happened. Turns out the plane clipped the tail of another flight, knocking the tail off. Witnesses say the second plane was on an adjacent runway headed to Louisiana, as the Delta flight was taxiing for takeoff to Tokyo. There were no injuries on board either flight.
September 10, 2024 11:32 am
Supervisors in North Strabane Township are schedule to meet tonight and discuss recent multiple increases in Trinity School District taxes. The board is expected to pass a non-binding resolution that calls for the district to freeze future tax hikes for the next five years. Supervisor Chairman Bob Sabot says Trinity has raised taxes for five years in a row and residents are angry. Although Sabot says the board has no control over the matter, since the tax rate is set by the school district, the resolution will call on Amwell, Canton and South Strabane to pass similar resolutions. Sabot is also disputing comments that the tax increases follow on the heels of large increases in school growth. He says the population in all of the district’s municipalities, except South Strabane, is stagnant. Tonight’s meeting is set for five-thirty in the township building.
September 10, 2024 5:04 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s presidential race is a genuine contest of ideas between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. There are clear differences on taxes, abortion, immigration, global alliances, climate change and democracy itself. Since replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee, Harris has pledged to chart a new way forward even as she has embraced many of his ideas about the middle class and abortion access. Trump wants to accomplish much of what he couldn’t during his past term in the White House. He wants deeper corporate tax cuts, higher tariffs and more support for American fossil fuel development.
September 10, 2024 5:03 am
Officials say over 140 Ukrainian drones targeted multiple Russian regions overnight, including Moscow and surrounding areas, in one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian soil in the 2 1/2-year war. A Russian regional governor says drones hit two multistory residential buildings and started fires in the town of Ramenskoye just outside Moscow. A woman was killed and three people were injured. He says five residential buildings were evacuated due to falling drone debris. The attack also prompted the authorities to temporarily shut down three airports just outside Moscow. A total of 48 flights were diverted.
September 10, 2024 5:01 am
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza has killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others. Israel says it targeted “significant” Hamas militants and disputes the death toll. Gaza’s Civil Defense said it had recovered 40 bodies from the strike in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone known as Muwasi and was still looking for people. It said entire families were killed as they huddled in tents. An Associated Press camera operator saw three large craters at the scene, where first responders and displaced people were sifting through the sand and rubble with garden tools and their bare hands by the light of mobile phones.
September 10, 2024 5:00 am
TASITOLU, East Timor (AP) — The Vatican says some 600,000 people have attended Pope Francis’ Mass in East Timor, or nearly half the country’s population. It’s held Tuesday on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed in 1989 during the nation’s fight for independence from Indonesia. While other papal Masses have drawn millions of people in more populous countries and there were certainly other nationalities attending Tuesday’s Mass, the crowd in small East Timor is believed to represent the biggest turnout for a papal event ever, in terms of the proportion of the population.
September 10, 2024 4:58 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tuesday’s presidential debate will give Americans perhaps their most detailed look at a campaign that’s been dramatically reshaped. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will meet for the first time face-to-face at 9 p.m. in Philadelphia. For both of them, it’s a high-pressure opportunity to showcase their starkly different visions for the country after a tumultuous campaign summer. Trump, a 78-year-old white man, has struggled to adapt to Harris, the first woman, Black person or person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president. Harris, meanwhile, will face a rare round of sustained questioning. She has sat for only a single formal interview in six weeks since taking over the Democratic ticket.
September 10, 2024 4:55 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — When Donald Trump and Kamala Harris meet onstage in Philadelphia, they’ll both know there’s little debate that Pennsylvania is critical to their chances of winning the presidency. The most populous presidential swing state has sided with the winner of the past two elections, each time by just tens of thousands of votes. The stakes may be especially high for Harris because no Democrat has won the White House without Pennsylvania since 1948. The debate Tuesday night takes place before voting starts, in Pennsylvania and everywhere else. The debate is set for the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia
