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.
October 29, 2024 4:50 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are asking the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency order in Pennsylvania that could result in thousands of votes not being counted in this year’s election in the battleground state. Just over a week before the election, the court was asked Monday to step into a dispute over provisional ballots cast by Pennsylvania voters whose mail ballots are rejected for not following technical procedures in state law. The state’s high court ruled 4-3 last week that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots were voided because they arrived without mandatory secrecy envelopes. The election fight arrived at the Supreme Court the same day Virginia sought the justices’ intervention in a dispute over purging voter registrations.
October 29, 2024 2:56 am
State Police say puppies that were found in a Washington County trash can have died. Troopers say four Pitt-bull style puppies were found tied in grocery bags in a trash can in Canton Township on Oct. 20th. One of the puppies had already died when they were found by neighbors who heard them crying. The three other puppies were taken for veterinary care and were awaiting surgery to deal with serious injuries to their legs. Police though, say all three died before they could have the surgery. police say Franklin Donley and Jessica Vanderlee are now facing multiple charges of aggravated animal cruelty. Police allege that Donley thought his dog attacked and partially maimed the puppies after giving birth and he didn’t want his 10-year-old daughter to see what happened. Authorities claim Donley and Vanderlee mutually disposed of the puppies. (Photo: WPXI)
