September 11, 2023 5:13 am
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Charlie Robison, the Texas singer-songwriter whose rootsy anthems made the country charts until he was forced to retire after complications from a medical procedure left him unable to sing, died Sunday. He was 59. Robison died at a hospital in San Antonio after suffering cardiac arrest and other complications, according to a family representative. When he was approached by Sony in 1998, Robison signed with its Lucky Dog imprint, which was devoted to rawer country. His 2001 album “Step Right Up” produced his only Top 40 country song, “I Want You Bad.” In 2018, Robison announced that he had permanently lost the ability to sing following a surgical procedure on his throat. “Therefore, with a very heavy heart I am officially retiring from the stage and studio,” he wrote on Facebook.
September 11, 2023 5:12 am
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — President Joe Biden wrapped up a visit to Vietnam by calling on the two countries to improve their collaboration. Biden met Monday in Hanoi with Vietnamese government officials and business leaders. Both sides spotlighted new deals and partnerships between the U.S. and Vietnam. Biden also paid his respects at a memorial to his friend and former colleague John McCain. The late U.S. senator from Arizona was held for more than five years as a prisoner during the Vietnam War. Biden and McCain were colleagues in the U.S. Senate. Biden will observe the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in Alaska before he returns to the White House.
September 11, 2023 5:08 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Bells tolled at ground zero and solemn tributes unfolded around the country as Americans looked back on the horror and legacy of 9/11. People gathered Monday at memorials, firehouses, city halls, campuses and elsewhere to observe the 22nd anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijacked planes crashed at New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Vice President Kamala Harris is joining the ceremony at the trade center. President Joe Biden is due to join service members and their families at a ceremony on a military base in Anchorage, Alaska. His visit is a reminder that the impact of 9/11 was felt in every corner of the nation, however remote.
September 11, 2023 5:05 am
AMIZMIZ, Morocco (AP) — People in Morocco are sleeping in the streets of Marrakech for a third straight night as soldiers and international aid teams in trucks and helicopters begin to fan into remote mountain towns hit hardest by a historic earthquake. The disaster killed more than 2,100 people — a number that is expected to rise — and the United Nations estimated that 300,000 people were affected the magnitude 6.8 quake. Amid offers from several countries, Moroccan officials said they are accepting international aid from just four countries: Spain, Qatar, Britain and the United Arab Emirates. Some foreign search-and-rescue teams arrived on Sunday as an aftershock rattled Moroccans already in mourning and shock.
September 11, 2023 5:03 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans trying to recapture the U.S. Senate majority have the candidate they want in Pennsylvania. Now they just need David McCormick to run. Almost since he lost last year’s Senate GOP primary, McCormick has floated the possibility that he’d again run for the U.S. Senate, this time to challenge Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. Republicans have tried to entice McCormick to join the 2024 ticket, but the ex-hedge fund CEO might be circumspect because he spent $14 million of his own money just to lose a crowded and bruising primary election. A state party meeting is approaching, and GOP circles are alive with chatter that McCormick will seek an endorsement vote there.
September 11, 2023 5:00 am
PHOENIXVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say an escaped murderer who has eluded capture since breaking out of a southeastern Pennsylvania prison a week and a half ago slipped out of the search area, changed his appearance and stole a dairy delivery van, abandoning it miles away. He remains at large. Lt. Col. George Bivens said Sunday that 34-year-old Danelo Souza Cavalcante stole the van Saturday night and then sought help from people he knew in East Pikeland Township and Phoenixville more than 20 miles to the northeast. He later abandoned the van. Cavalcante escaped from Chester County Prison on Aug. 31 after being sentenced to life for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in 2021.
September 11, 2023 4:57 am
ROBINSON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A man is dead after a motorcycle crash in on Route 22 Sunday afternoon. According to PennDOT, the crash happened in the eastbound lanes between the Bavington exit and the McDonald Midway exit in Robinson Township. Emergency crews said the call came in at around 3:45 p.m. The Washington County coroner’s office says Martin Cowden, 52, of Midway, lost control of his motorcycle and crashed into a guard rail. All eastbound lanes in the area were closed but reopened at around 7:50 p.m. Fort Cherry medics and the Midway Fire Department also helped respond to the scene. State Police continue to investigate.
September 10, 2023 7:53 am
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — A rare, powerful earthquake has struck Morocco, sending people racing from their beds into the darkened streets and toppling buildings in mountainous villages and ancient cities not built to withstand such force. More than 2,000 people were killed. The toll is expected to rise as rescuers struggle to get through boulder-strewn roads to remote areas hit hardest. State television showed people clustered in the streets of Marrakech late at night, afraid to go back inside buildings that might still be unstable. Morocco’s Interior Ministry said late Saturday that at least 2,012 people died in the quake, mostly in Marrakech and five provinces near the epicenter. At least 2,059 more people were injured, 1,404 critically.
September 10, 2023 7:52 am
PHOENIX (AP) — How hot is Phoenix? Amid the hottest summer ever measured, the sizzling desert city set yet another record Saturday when temperatures topped 110 degrees. It was the 54th day this year that the official reading at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport made the mark. The previous record of 53 days was set in 2020. The National Weather Service says the streak could reach 55 days with temperatures forecast at 111 degrees on Sunday. It’s expected to reach just 106 on Monday. Meteorologist Matt Salerno says Phoenix has experienced its hottest three months since record-keeping began in 1895. That’s included the hottest July on record and the second-hottest August.
September 10, 2023 7:50 am
