March 28, 2023 2:40 am
A Greene County man was sentenced on Tuesday to 3,000 years in prison for sex crimes against children. Greene County District Attorney David Russo announced on Tuesday that Matthew Perry was convicted of 13,143 felony counts of sex crimes against children, including 2,190 counts of rape of a child under age 13. Perry was found guilty after a four day long trial in November. He will not be eligible for parole until the year 3523. “I am proud to announce Matthew Perry would have to live for 3000 years in order to pay his debt to society,” said Greene County District Attorney David Russo.
March 27, 2023 5:49 pm
CLEVELAND (AP) — Two men accused of stuffing fish with lead weights and fish fillets in an attempt to win an Ohio fishing tournament last fall have pleaded guilty to charges including cheating. The two men have also agreed to three-year suspensions of their fishing licenses. Both are scheduled to be sentenced May 11. Prosecutors plan to recommend a sentence of six months’ probation. The cheating allegations surfaced in September. A walleye fishing tournament director became suspicious when their fish were significantly heavier than typical walleye. They would have won a little over $28,000 in prizes for winning the tournament.
March 27, 2023 12:56 pm
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say they believe the 28-year-old female shooter who killed three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville was a former student. The female suspect was killed by police during a confrontation. The shooting occurred Monday at The Covenant School. Police said the shooter was armed with two “assault-type” rifles and a pistol. The Covenant School has had an enrollment of about 200 students from preschool to sixth grade in recent years. The killings come as communities around the nation are reeling from a spate of school violence. (Photo: AP)
March 27, 2023 5:38 am
Multiple fire crews were called to a structure fire early Monday morning in the City of Washington. The call came in just before 4:30 a.m for a fire with possible entrapment in the 3-hundred block of Locust Avenue near Murtland Avenue. Police reported flames showing from the second floor of the two-and-a-half story, wood frame home. Crews were able to bring the fire under control about forty-five minutes later. City of Washington Fire Chief Chris Richer says one half of the duplex is a total loss. There were three people inside at the time of the fire. Richer says the person transported to the hospital suffered minor injuries. There is no word on the cause of the fire. Fire crews were called out again just before 10 a.m. for a small rekindle.
March 27, 2023 4:27 am
PARIS (AP) — Protesting is a rite of passage in France and again the rage. The country that taught the world about people power with its revolution of 1789 is seething. French President Emmanuel Macron has ignited a firestorm of anger with unpopular pension reforms that he rammed through parliament. Young people are joining protests against him. Some of them are first-time demonstrators. Violence is also picking up. Freshly spray-painted slogans in Paris streets reference the 1789 French Revolution. Regular strikes and demonstrations are threatening to make Macron’s second and final term as president even more difficult than his first. Macron’s predecessor says anger and resentment are at levels he’s rarely seen.
March 27, 2023 4:24 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s government has called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to “counter the Kremlin’s nuclear blackmail” after Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed plans to station tactical atomic weapons in Belarus. One Ukrainian official said Sunday that Russia “took Belarus as a nuclear hostage.” But Moscow said it was making the move in response to the West’s increasing military support for Ukraine. Putin announced the plan in a television interview that aired on Saturday. He said it was triggered by a U.K. decision this past week to provide Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium.
March 27, 2023 4:23 am
ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Poverty is adding to the challenges of recovering from a massive tornado that pushed through Mississippi. Two of the counties hit by the Friday storm are Sharkey and Humphreys. They are among the most sparsely populated in the state. They have only a few thousand residents in communities scattered across wide expanses of cotton, corn and soybean fields in the flatlands of the Delta. Many people live paycheck to paycheck working jobs in agriculture. Sharkey’s poverty rate is 35%, and Humphreys is 33%. That compares to about 19% for Mississippi and under 12% for the entire U.S.
March 27, 2023 4:21 am
NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says it has agreed on the sale of troubled Silicon Valley Bank to North Carolina-based First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co. The sale involves the sale of all deposits and loans of SVB to First-Citizens. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank rattled the banking industry and led the FDIC and other regulators to act to protect depositors to prevent wider financial turmoil. The bank, based in Santa Clara, California, failed on March 10 after depositors rushed to withdraw money amid fears about the bank’s health. It was the second-largest bank collapse in U.S. history.
March 27, 2023 4:19 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia residents are being told that they may want to drink only bottled water following a chemical spill into the Delaware River in neighboring Bucks County. Officials said Sunday that a leak late Friday evening at the Trinseo Altuglas chemical facility in Bristol Township spilled between 8,100 and 12,000 gallons of a non-toxic water-based latex finishing solution into the river. Officials said there had been no sign of contaminants in Philadelphia water and there is very low if any risk to health but officials wanted people to be aware so they could consider using bottled water to drink or cook with to further minimize any risk.
March 27, 2023 4:16 am
INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a dozen people were injured in the collapse of a second-story floor inside an apartment complex near a western Pennsylvania over the weekend. State police told the Tribune-Review that seven people were taken to hospitals and five others were treated at the scene after the 11:50 p.m. Saturday collapse at Elm by Traverse Commons about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Trooper Cliff Greenfield said the victims had injuries ranging from serious to minor. He said it’s unclear how many people were inside the three-story building and how many of the victims were students or their guests.
