October 30, 2024 5:18 pm
(AP_) – PepsiCo says it plans to close four U.S. bottling plants and lay off nearly 400 workers as part of its efforts to streamline its operations. The company said the closures will impact 136 workers in Cincinnati; 131 in Chicago; 127 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and fewer than 50 in Atlanta. The Chicago plant is the only one that will fully close. Sales, delivery and warehouse functions will continue at the other three locations. Earlier this month, PepsiCo said its North American beverage sales fell 3% in the third quarter as consumers pulled back on buying its drinks and snacks.
October 30, 2024 4:59 am
UTIEL, Spain (AP) — Authorities say flash floods in Spain turned village streets into rivers, ruined homes, disrupted transportation and killed at least 95 people. Emergency services in Valencia said Wednesday that at least 92 people have died in the eastern region due to the floods. Another two casualties were reported in neighboring Castilla La Mancha. One death occurred in Andalusia, in the south. Floods of muddy water tumbled vehicles down streets at high speeds. Police and rescue services used helicopters to lift people from their homes and rubber boats to rescue drivers stranded atop their cars.
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 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 2:41 am
(AP) – Philadelphia’s district attorney says he has filed a lawsuit to halt Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaway as part of his political organization’s effort boosting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The lawsuit announced by Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner on Monday is the first legal action to be brought over the America PAC’s sweepstakes offering $1 million every day to a person in a battleground state who has signed a petition supporting the Constitution. A spokesperson for the super PAC who was asked if the cash awards would continue – responded with a link to an X post, which showed the latest $1 million winner holding an over-sized check. (Photo: AP)
October 28, 2024 5:02 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are stepping up their attacks on Donald Trump a day after a comedian opening a Trump rally called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” The comment at Madison Square Garden drew wide condemnation and highlighted the rising power of a key Latino group in the swing state of Pennsylvania. The Trump campaign distanced itself from the remarks on Puerto Rico made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe (pictured). The political fallout underscores the importance of Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes and the last-minute efforts to court growing numbers of Hispanic voters there. Trump did not directly mention the controversy during his appearances in Georgia. At a rally in Atlanta, Trump criticized Harris for calling him a fascist, declaring: “I’m not a Nazi.”
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.
