November 1, 2024 2:27 am
The Mon Valley is looking to increase its footprint in the world of filmmaking and potential tourism. The 2nd annual Mid-Mon Valley Business symposium held Thursday morning, focused on business opportunities for the area. The group invited the Pennsylvania Film Commissioner, Hollywood actor, writer and director Gino Pesi to speak to the crowd. Pesi, a Charleroi and Belle Vernon native, said his interest in bringing film and opportunities to the area focuses on the dollars behind film-making and tourism. He also says it’s important for local kids like himself to be able to follow their dreams and not have to move thousands of miles away from their families. Pesi said any aspiring filmmakers can reach out to the PA film office to get more information on resources available.
November 1, 2024 5:02 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans on Friday will get their last major look at the state of the U.S. economy — the October jobs report — just four days before Election Day. The view, though, is likely to be obscured by the effects of strikes and hurricanes that left many workers temporarily off payrolls. The government is expected to report that employers added just under 118,000 jobs last month, which would be a decent if hardly spectacular gain. But it would mark a sharp drop from the unexpectedly strong 254,000 jobs the economy added in September. Economists have cautioned, though, that Hurricanes Helene and Milton, combined with ongoing strikes, including at Boeing, had the effect of pushing down net job growth in October.
November 1, 2024 4:52 am
Israel’s air force pounded Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh overnight, though casualty numbers are not yet known. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says the attack early Friday morning destroyed dozens of buildings in several neighborhoods. Recently, Israel has intensified its airstrikes on the northeastern city of Baalbek and nearby villages, as well as different parts of southern Lebanon. International mediators are ramping up efforts to halt the wars in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, circulating new proposals to wind down the regional conflict. Lebanon’s Heath Ministry said more than 2,800 people have been killed and 13,000 wounded since Oct. 8, 2023. That’s when Hezbollah began firing rockets almost daily into Israel, drawing retaliation.
November 1, 2024 5:01 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is boasting that its new intercontinental ballistic missile is “the world’s strongest,” a claim seen as pure propaganda after experts assessed it as being too big to be useful in a war situation. The ICBM launched Thursday flew higher and for a longer duration than any other weapon North Korea has tested. But foreign experts still doubt North Korea has functional missiles that can carry warheads to the U.S. mainland. North Korea on Friday identified the missile as a Hwasong-19 and called it “the world’s strongest strategic missile” and “the perfected weapon system.” But experts say the ICBM and its launch vehicle are oversized. That would make them harder to move and easier for enemies to see.
October 31, 2024 5:58 pm
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge in Philadelphia has put a state challenge of Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes on hold while lawyers for the billionaire and his political action committee try to move the lawsuit to federal court. The giveaways aim to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign through Election Day. Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner calls the America PAC sweepstakes an illegal lottery under Pennsylvania law. Experts on election law question whether it violates federal law against vote-buying. Judge Angelo Foglietta heard motions from both sides on Thursday in a City Hall courtroom. (Photo: AP)
October 30, 2024 2:56 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A divided Pennsylvania appeals court says the envelopes voters use to send in mail ballots don’t need to have been accurately hand-dated. The Commonwealth Court’s 3-2 decision Wednesday comes after the state Supreme Court sidestepped the issue. The latest decision upholds a Philadelphia judge’s ruling that 69 mail ballots should be counted in a pair of single-candidate state House of Representatives special elections held in September. Republican groups who lost the case say they plan an appeal in the coming days. (Photo: AP)
October 30, 2024 4:43 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia judge is set to hold a hearing in the city prosecutor’s bid to shut down Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day sweepstakes in battleground states. The giveaways come from Musk’s political organization, which aims to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign through Election Day. Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner hopes to stop the America PAC sweepstakes. Judge Angelo Foglietta will hear motions Thursday on the issue in a City Hall courtroom. Lawyer Matthew Haverstick wouldn’t say late Wednesday if Musk will attend the hearing.
October 31, 2024 4:46 am
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump climbed into a white garbage truck that carried his name as he tried to draw attention to a comment made by President Joe Biden a day earlier. Speaking to reporters on the tarmac in Green Bay, Wisconsin, he asked, “How do you like my garbage truck?” Trump wore an orange and yellow safety vest over his white dress shirt and red tie. He said his appearance in the truck was, quote, “in honor of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.” Trump and other Republicans have tried to change the narrative after a comedian at a weekend Trump rally disparaged Puerto Rico as a floating island of garbage.
October 31, 2024 4:44 am
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Kamala Harris is calling for Americans to “stop pointing fingers at each other” as she tries to push past comments made by President Joe Biden about Donald Trump’s supporters and “garbage.” Harris made her pitch in Raleigh, North Carolina, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Madison, Wisconsin, as part of a blitz of battleground states in the final week before Election Day. She stressed unity and common ground, expanding on her capstone speech Tuesday in Washington, where she laid out what her team called the “closing argument” of her campaign. Harris told reporters, “I will represent all Americans, including those who don’t vote for me.”
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.
