June 16, 2022 7:23 am
No injuries were reported after a crash early Thursday morning along E. Maiden Street in South Strabane Township. It happened just after 5:30 a.m. Police at the scene say they believe a driver traveling westbound fell asleep and struck a vehicle parked near the home at 1949 E. Maiden. That parked vehicle then went into the home. Police, Fire and E.M.S all responded. At this time, no identities have been released and no other information is available.
June 16, 2022 4:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation, now raging at a four-decade high and defying the Fed’s efforts so far to tame it. Increasingly, it seems, doing so might require the one painful thing the Fed has sought to avoid: A recession. A worse-than-expected inflation report for May helped spur the Fed to raise its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of point Wednesday and to signal that more large rate hikes are likely coming. Economic history suggests that aggressive, growth-killing rate hikes could be necessary to finally control inflation. And typically, that is a prescription for a recession.
June 16, 2022 4:13 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Jan. 6 committee is plunging into Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to salvage the 2020 election by pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to reject the electoral count. Thursday’s hearing will likely focus on how Trump latched onto a highly unusual strategy from conservative law professor John Eastman in the days before the U.S. Capitol riot. The House panel has said the “illegality” was obvious. Pence was to preside over the Jan. 6 session of Congress to certify Joe Biden’s election victory. Testimony is expected from the vice president’s counsel, Greg Jacob, and a retired federal judge, Michael Luttig, who called the plan “incorrect at every turn.”
June 16, 2022 4:11 am
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – Montana’s largest city has restarted its water plant after shutting it down amid record flooding that’s caused widespread damage in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding communities. The city of Billings had asked residents to conserve water because it was down to a limited supply after shutting its treatment plant when the Yellowstone River hit record high levels. City officials said Thursday the plant was back to full capacity. But the slug of floodwater from rain and melting snow continued to move downstream. By Friday morning it was expected to reach Miles City in eastern Montana. Local authorities said there was no immediate risk to the city of more than 8,000 people.
June 16, 2022 4:09 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Premier Mario Draghi have arrived in Kyiv. áThe Europeans leaders are expected to meet with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday as they prepare for a key European Union leaders’ summit in Brussels next week and a June 29-30 NATO summit in Madrid. France currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency. Romanian President Klaus Iohannis is also expected to join them.
June 16, 2022 4:07 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – The Pennsylvania Senate is advancing two competing plans to slash the state’s corporate net income tax rate. Democrats warn the bills are premature because there’s no agreement with Gov. Tom Wolf. The bills passed Wednesday on a nearly party-line basis in twin votes in the Republican-controlled chamber. The Democratic governor has said he is optimistic about coming to an agreement with Republicans on a plan to cut taxes for corporations that pay Pennsylvania’s 9.99% tax rate. That’s one of the nation’s highest. Wolf has yet to agree to a plan as part of this month’s budget negotiations. The state House in April passed yet another plan.
June 16, 2022 4:06 am
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – Atlantic City casino workers have authorized their leaders to call a strike against the gambling houses if new contracts are not reached by the beginning of July. Members of Local 54 of the Unite Here union on Wednesday authorized their leaders to call a July 1 strike against the Borgata, Caesars, Harrah’s and Tropicana, and a July 3 strike against Hard Rock if new deals are not in place by then. Union president Bob McDevitt said 96% of the “several thousand” union members who cast ballots did so in favor of authorizing a strike.
June 16, 2022 4:04 am
The Ringgold School Board tied up loose ends for the current school year and adopted their budget for the 2022-2023 academic year. As presented in May, the board unanimously approved the $51,537,045 budget. The budget is a balanced budget. According to Kimberly Moore, Director of Finance the budget does include a tax hike of four tenths of a mill. The average home in the Ringgold School District is assessed at $111,250 so that tax increase will be $44.50. The new tax rate for taxpayers will be 15.1705 mills.
June 16, 2022 2:54 am
Interstate 70 westbound near the Taylorstown Exit was closed for hours Thursday, after a multi-vehicle accident reportedly involving an SUV and a tractor-trailer. The crash happened around eleven-thirty a.m. State Police say the lanes were reopened around four o’clock. The closure snarled traffic on the interstate and on Route 40. There’s been no word on what may have caused the crash or the extent of injuries, although unconfirmed reports are that one person was ejected from a vehicle.
June 15, 2022 5:37 pm
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) – John Hinckley Jr. has been freed from court oversight. The development Wednesday ended decades of supervision by legal and mental health professionals after Hinckley shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981. U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman had announced Hinckley’s pending released earlier this month, saying that he had shown no signs of active mental illness since the mid-1980s and had not exhibited any violent behavior or interest in weapons. Hinckley has lived in a community in Virginia since 2016.
