October 1, 2025 4:42 am
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nicole Kidman has filed to divorce Keith Urban after 19 years of marriage. The Oscar-winning actor petitioned in a court in Nashville, Tennessee, to end her marriage to the Grammy-winning country singer. The entertainers who were both raised in Australia. They met in Los Angeles in 2005 and married in Sydney in 2006. They have two teenage daughters together. This was Urban’s first marriage and Kidman’s second, following her marriage to Tom Cruise from 1990 to 2001. Kidman has two older children with Cruise. Kidman is known for films like “The Hours” and TV series like “Big Little Lies.” Urban has been a major country star since the 1990s.
October 1, 2025 4:41 am
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Chunk, a 1,200-pound behemoth with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after finishing in second place three previous years. The annual online competition allows viewers to follow 12 bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve on live webcams as they fish for salmon, and then cast ballots in a bracket-style tournament that lasts a week. Chunk — known officially as Bear 32 — beat out Bear 856 for the crown. A glut of sockeye salmon fueled a memorable feast this summer for the contest, and more than 1.5 million people voted.
October 1, 2025 2:42 am
Pennsylvania American Water today announced that several improvement projects have started and more are on the way to replace more than two miles of water main in Washington County. The projects, totaling $3.5 million, will improve reliability for customers, reduce service disruptions and increase water flows for firefighting. “Providing reliable service to our customers means making continuous investments in our infrastructure,” said Tiffany Reed, senior manager of operations, Pennsylvania American Water. “We prioritize projects based on several criteria, including the need for larger mains to handle system demands, age of existing pipe and history of main breaks or service interruptions.” During the projects, company contractors will install new eight- and 16-inch ductile iron pipes, replacing aged water mains that were installed in the 1950s in the following municipalities:
Cecil Township on Ridgeway Drive (from Muse Bishop Road to dead end); Mount Pleasant Township on Cherry Valley Road (from house number 155 to 114); Peters Township on Route 19 (from Old Oak Road to Center Church Road); Center Church Road (from Route 19 to Wilhaven Road); Canterbury Lane (Lakeview Drive to Squire Lane); Robinhood Lane (King Richard Drive to Lakeview Drive); High Street (Pleasant Avenue to dead end); Spring Street (Pleasant Avenue to dead end); South Fayette Township on Wheatland Circle (from Meeting House Road to Meeting House Road), and in the city of Washington on G Alley (from Beech Street to dead end). Crews will work on weekdays between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. with the exception of the Peters Township project on Route 19, which will take place from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., Monday through Thursday. Traffic restrictions will be in place during construction. The company expects to complete the main installation, including connecting all customer service lines to the new mains, along with final street restoration and paving, later this fall.
September 30, 2025 5:42 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Drug-maker Pfizer has agreed to lower drug costs under a deal struck with President Donald Trump’s administration. Trump made the announcement Tuesday with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla at the White House. Under the agreement, New York-based Pfizer will charge most-favored-nation pricing to Medicaid and guarantee the same pricing on newly launched drugs. That involves matching the lowest price offered in other developed nations. The agreement by Pfizer builds on an executive order Trump signed in May setting a deadline for drug-makers to electively lower prices or face new limits on what the government will pay. (Photo: AP)
September 30, 2025 8:59 am
QUANTICO, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump is proposing using American cities as training grounds for the armed forces. He’s suggesting U.S. military might be deployed against what he describes as the “invasion from within.” Addressing military brass abruptly summoned to Virginia on Tuesday, Trump outlined a muscular and at times norm-shattering view of the military’s role in domestic affairs. He was joined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who declared an end to “woke” culture and announced new directives for troops that include “gender-neutral” or “male-level” standards for physical fitness. The messages underscored the Trump administration’s efforts not only to reshape contemporary Pentagon culture but to enlist military resources in the president’s priorities and in everyday American civic life. (Photo: AP)
September 30, 2025 5:04 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says Republicans are trying to “bully” Democrats by refusing to negotiate as a standoff over health care and spending threatens to trigger the first U.S. government shutdown in almost seven years. Schumer says President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans have until midnight Tuesday “to get serious.” Trump is threatening retribution, saying that a shutdown could include “cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like.” The government will shut down at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday if the Senate does not pass a House measure that would extend federal funding for seven weeks. Senate Democrats say they won’t vote for it unless Republicans include an extension of expiring health care benefits.
September 30, 2025 5:02 am
CHICAGO (AP) — The sight of armed, camouflaged and masked Border Patrol agents making arrests near famous downtown Chicago landmarks has amplified concerns about the Trump administration growing federal intervention across U.S. cities. Illinois leaders warned Monday of a National Guard deployment. Memphis, Tennessee and Portland, Oregon have also braced for a surge of federal law enforcement, residents in the nation’s third-largest city met a brazen weekend escalation of immigration enforcement tactics with anger, fear and fresh claims of discrimination. But Trump has called the expansion of federal immigration agents and National Guard troops into American cities necessary, blasting Democrats for crime and lax immigration policies.
September 30, 2025 4:57 am
Check your freezers. More than 59 million pounds of corn dogs and sausages-on-a-stick have been recalled because they may have wood in the batter. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that the Hillshire Brands Company issued the recall. The items were packaged from March 17 to Sept. 26, 2025, and have establishment number EST-582 or P-894 on the packaging. They were sold online, shipped to retail and food service locations nationwide and sold to school districts and Department of Defense locations nationwide. The issue was discovered after the company received customer complaints. There were five incidents that caused injuries, the FSIS said. An investigation discovered that the wooden sticks entered the production process before the items were dipped in the batter. If you have the recalled items, you should throw them away or return them to the place of purchase. For more information, call Hillshire Brands at 888-747-7611.
September 30, 2025 4:53 am
CANONSBURG, Pa. — Canonsburg officials have a mystery on their hands. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of tiny rubber ducks appeared in Canonsburg. They’re lining store windows, sitting on statues, and hanging out on benches. No one seems to know where they came from or why they were left in the community. “I think it grabs somebody’s attention. You stop and you look at it and you’re like ‘Oh, what a cute rubber duck,’” said Canonsburg Borough Manager Angela Senay. The ducks are perched on East Pike Street lining store windows, sitting on light poles and covering the borough building. “We’re always about doing something different and great and you know, someone anonymously put ducks up and down Pike Street here in Canonsburg, all over the municipal building area,” said Canonsburg Mayor David Rhome. “Whenever we first arrived this morning, it couldn’t do anything but bring smiles to your face.” People are spreading the fun on Facebook. Canonsburg United Presbyterian Church called them “little bright ducks of joy.” So, what’s next for the ducks and whoever placed them? “For me, I want to leave them. They bring smiles to not only our faces but the residents’ faces,” Senay said. “As long as they’re not bothering anybody and their business, I think they’re fine to stay.” “Someone did a wonderful job to bring laughter once again back to Canonsburg,” said Rhome. So far, no one has come forward to take responsibility for the little rubber ducks.
September 30, 2025 4:46 am
QUANTICO, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump is proposing using American cities as training grounds for the armed forces. He’s suggesting U.S. military might be deployed against what he describes as the “invasion from within.” Addressing military brass abruptly summoned to Virginia on Tuesday, Trump outlined a muscular and at times norm-shattering view of the military’s role in domestic affairs. He was joined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who declared an end to “woke” culture and announced new directives for troops that include “gender-neutral” or “male-level” standards for physical fitness. The messages underscored the Trump administration’s efforts not only to reshape contemporary Pentagon culture but to enlist military resources in the president’s priorities and in everyday American civic life.
