October 6, 2024 6:02 am
PennDot is announcing overnight single lane restrictions on Interstate 70. The restrictions will occur in both directions between Exit 18 (North Junction-Pittsburgh) and Exit 20 (Beau Street). They will begin on Monday October 7 and run through Thursday October 10. The single lane restrictions will be as follows:
October 7 from midnight to 8:00 AM westbound.
October 8 from midnight to 8:00 AM eastbound.
October 9 from midnight to 8:00 AM eastbound.
October 10 from midnight to 8:00 AM eastbound.
Motorists are cautioned to stay alert, use caution and follow signage while driving through the construction zone.
October 5, 2024 4:33 am
REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The International Association of Firefighters has declined to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, meaning her trip to Michigan on Friday came without the national group’s official backing. Harris and Donald Trump are trying to get the upper hand with working-class voters in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign. Harris visited a firehouse outside Detroit. Organized labor has been a bedrock of Democratic support, but Trump is eager to make inroads with unions in the election and visited Michigan on Thursday. He appeared Friday in Georgia with Gov. Brian Kemp and near a military base in North Carolina.
October 5, 2024 4:30 am
EVANS, Ga. (AP) — After making up privately, former President Donald Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp used the aftermath of Hurricane Helene to put their detente on public display with a month to go before Election Day. Trump is the 2024 Republican presidential nominee. Kemp is a popular second-term governor. They appeared together Friday afternoon outside Augusta, Georgia, to tout recovery efforts after Helene made landfall in Florida and wrought widespread damage as it moved inland through Georgia and other states. The appearance was the latest turn in their contentious relationship that traces back to Kemp refusing to help Trump overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
October 5, 2024 4:27 am
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Helene severely damaged drinking water utilities in the Southeast. Western North Carolina was especially hard hit. Flooding tore through the city of Asheville’s water system, destroying so much infrastructure that officials said repairs could take weeks. The Environmental Protection Agency said that, as of Thursday, about 136,000 people in the Southeast were served by a nonoperational water provider and more than 1.8 million were living under a boil water advisory. Officials in North Carolina are facing a difficult rebuilding task made harder by the steep, narrow valleys of the Blue Ridge Mountains that during a more typical October would attract throngs of fall tourists.
October 5, 2024 4:23 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is under suspicion of trying to hack figures associated with the upcoming U.S. presidential election and plotting the assassination of former President Donald Trump. The claims come after decades of cyberwarfare both attributed to and targeting the Islamic Republic, as well as other campaigns abroad targeting opponents of its theocracy. Starting with the Stuxnet virus believed to have been deployed by Israel and the United States to destroy uranium-enriching centrifuges in Iran’s nuclear program, Tehran has seen both the value and the danger of hacking. Meanwhile, Iran has carried out assassinations abroad targeting its perceived enemies in the years since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and it has abducted others to bring back to Tehran.
October 5, 2024 4:21 am
Hamas official Saeed Atallah Ali has been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in Lebanon. The early morning strike came a day after another attack cut off a main highway linking Lebanon with Syria. Israel has launched a ground incursion into Lebanon against the Hezbollah militant group. Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since the day after Hamas’ cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 others hostage. As the war in Gaza reaches the one-year mark, more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza.
October 5, 2024 1:21 am
The members of Teamsters Local 585 and the Washington County Housing Authority have come to a resolution regarding their strike. According to a joint statement issued by the parties the agreement allows for “well-deserved wage increases” and will get employees back to work. According to the statement, over the past several days “the Authority administration, Board of Directors, Union representatives and Leadership, and the County Commissioners were able to come together to reach a resolution that ensures the Authority, and the County can continue to provide the safe, reliable, and affordable housing to its residents across the County.” Workers will report back to work at midnight on October 7th.
October 5, 2024 1:25 am
A Charleroi man who stands accused of multiple possession with intent to deliver felonies asked Common Pleas Court Judge Traci McDonald for a Stipulated Trial. John Beebe, 50 asked for that type of trial so that a quick verdict may be reached and appeals could be made if necessary. In this type of trial, attorneys will present agreed upon written facts and present no witnesses. The judge will review those facts and render their decision. Appeals to the decision may be made by either side. Beebe faces 8 felony possession with intent to deliver charges along with seven other misdemeanor charges. He was arrested in March of 2022 when police raided his home and found drugs, multiple guns and more than $40,000 in cash. He has been incarcerated in the Washington County Jail without bond. It is unclear when the judge will render a decision.
October 5, 2024 4:15 am
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump is setting aside what are now near-constant worries for his physical safety in order to fulfill “really an obligation.” The Republican presidential nominee plans to return Saturday to the site where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July. He’ll be joined by running mate JD Vance, Elon Musk and others on the grounds of the Butler Farm Show. The campaign is working to maximize the event’s headline-grabbing potential with just 30 days to go before voters decide between Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
October 4, 2024 8:56 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added a surprisingly strong 254,000 jobs in September, the latest evidence that the U.S. labor market is still solid enough to support steady hiring and a growing economy. Last month’s hiring gain was up sharply from the 159,000 jobs that were added in August, and the unemployment dropped from 4.2% to 4.1%. The latest figures suggest that many companies are still confident enough to fill jobs despite the continued pressure of high interest rates. Few employers are laying off workers, though many have grown more cautious about hiring.
