June 3, 2022 4:12 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano, has offered to sit for a voluntary interview with the congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection. Mastriano’s lawyer said Thursday that Mastriano already was interviewed by FBI agents last year about the Capitol attack. Mastriano was seen outside the Capitol on the day of the insurrection and was in regular communication with then-President Donald Trump as Trump sought to reverse his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Mastriano’s lawyer says Mastriano told the FBI he didn’t know about any coordination behind the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Mastriano is a state senator and won the GOP nomination for governor last month.
June 3, 2022 4:08 am
North Franklin Township held a community event on Thursday to allow residents to see just what is in store for them when a 90 acre park is developed. North Franklin Township Supervisor Chairman Bob Sabot says that there will be many things for township residents to take advantage of around the park. The main focus of the park is the two former water company reservoirs that will allow people to enjoy the beauty of nature. The new Municipal Building with its community meeting room will be on one end of the park. Several walking trails will be developed along with an adventure playground. Fishing and kayaking will be allowed on the lakes also. Resident Eleanor Miller is looking forward to the opening of the park and calls it a win-win for the community at large. The property runs from Sylvan Drive to Park Avenue.
June 3, 2022 4:07 am
Washington County Commissioners met Thursday and tabled four spending items with allocations to Children and Youth Services and Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. Commissioner Nick Sherman made the motion to table the items that totaled more than $6.5 million. One allocation was priced at over $5.2 million alone. Sherman stated that the items were presented to him at the agenda meeting on Wednesday and he did not have the time to do his due diligence to study the items. He wants to go over each item individually to make sure that there are no duplicate services and to make sure the most qualified contractors are being hired. The tabling passed 2-0 with Commissioner Chairwoman Diana Irey-Vaughn absent due to a personal issue that occurred just prior to the meeting.
June 3, 2022 2:48 am
Longtime, local State Representative Pete Daley has died at the age of 71. Reports are that he died Wednesday, but there is no word on a cause of death. Daley was a native of Brownsville and graduated from California High School and California University of Pa. The Democrat was elected to the State House of Representatives in 1982 and served 17 terms for the 49th legislative district. He retired from office in 2016. Most recently he was practicing law out of his office in Brownsville. Washington County Commissioner Larry Maggi tells WJPA News he was saddened to learn of Daley’s passing. Maggi says he met Daley while attending classes at “Cal State”. He says Daley could ‘light up a room’ when he walked in and will be missed by many. At this time, there is no word on funeral arrangements. In honor of former Pennsylvania State Representative Peter J. Daley II, Governor Tom Wolf ordered the commonwealth flag on all commonwealth facilities, public buildings and grounds to fly at half-staff immediately. The commonwealth flag will be flown at half-staff until sunset on the day of Rep. Daley’s interment, which has not yet been determined.(Photo: Facebook)
June 2, 2022 4:53 pm
Emergency responders were called out just after four o’clock Thursday afternoon for reports of a collision between an SUV and a school bus in Donegal Township. According to reports, the accident happened in the area of 437 Dry Ridge Road. There were no reported injuries of the occupants in the SUV, but we’ve not heard anything regarding the status of the school bus or whether there were any children in the vehicle
June 2, 2022 4:49 pm
UVALDE, Texas (AP) – A Texas state senator says the commander at the scene of a school shooting in Texas was not informed of panicked 911 calls from inside the school building. Sen. Roland Gutierrez said during a news conference Thursday that the pleas for help from people inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde did not make their way to school district police Chief Pete Arredondo. The Democratic senator called it a “system failure” that the calls were going to the city police but not communicated to Arredondo. The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety has said police didn’t confront gunman more quickly because the Arredondo believed the situation had morphed from an active shooting to a hostage situation. Nineteen children and two teachers died. (Photo: AP)
June 2, 2022 4:48 pm
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – The white gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket has pleaded not guilty to hate-motivated domestic terrorism and other charges as a prosecutor called the evidence against him overwhelming. A lawyer entered the plea for Payton Gendron on Thursday. The 18-year-old didn’t speak during the brief hearing. Witnesses, police and his own video and writings incriminated him as the shooter who used an AR-15-style assault rifle to target shoppers and employees of a Tops Friendly Market, and he surrendered at the crime scene. All 10 people killed in the May 14 assault were Black. (Photo: ABC News)
June 2, 2022 7:45 am
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. — (WPXI) – Washington City police arrested a man for driving under the influence and hitting an 8-year-old boy on a bicycle. Nolan Thomas was riding his bicycle Friday evening in front of his home when he was hit. The driver, David Garcia, was driving without a license and under the influence, according to the police report. Neighbors say he briefly got out of his car, but then fled the scene. Nolan had to be flown my medical helicopter to Children’s Hospital. Nolan, who is going into third grade next year in Washington, spent the weekend at Children’s Hospital, where doctors kept an eye on his concussion. He has multiple broken bones in his leg and foot. Garcia told police he was driving down the road and the child appeared in front of him, and that he could not stop. He said he did stop to check on him, but saw he was OK and left because he was afraid. Neighbors say Garcia only exited the car for a few moments before speeding away. One neighbor got his license plate, and Nolan’s father chased the car on foot while police arrived from the opposite direction. Garcia was arrested and taken to the Washington County Jail.
June 2, 2022 4:23 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden will deliver an address to the nation Thursday night about the latest round of mass shootings. He is attempting to increase the pressure on Congress to pass stricter gun limits after such efforts failed in the wake of past violence. The speech follows recent mass shootings in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York. The White House said Biden will speak at 7:30 EDT about the “tragic mass shootings, and the need for Congress to act to pass commonsense laws to combat the epidemic of gun violence that is taking lives every day.”
June 2, 2022 4:23 am
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) – A friend of a woman suing Bill Cosby alleging he sexually abused her as a teen testified that Judy Huth was distraught and in tears at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 after the alleged molestation. Donna Samuelson testified in Los Angeles County court on the first day of a civil trial that Huth told her minutes afterward that Cosby had forced her to commit a sex act in a bedroom next to a game room where the three had been playing pool and arcade games. Cosby’s attorney called the story a “fabrication” based on an attempt to cash in on pictures Samuelson took that day.
