November 13, 2021 1:45 am
A Washington County man pleaded guilty to a felony count of homicide by vehicle in plea court on Friday. Joshua Scott, 30 of Washington will receive jail time for his role in a single car crash in Amwell Township that took the life of his father 63-year-old James Scott in March of 2020. Scott also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of driving under the influence. In all, Scott will receive a jail term of 11 ½ months to 23 months in jail and serve three years probation for the homicide by vehicle charge. He will also serve up to six months in jail for the DUI charge. That sentence will run concurrently to the first. Scott will pay a $1000 fine and will have his driver’s license suspended for four years. Scott will report to the Washington County Jail on December 27th.
November 13, 2021 1:14 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Steve Bannon, a longtime ally to former President Donald Trump, has been indicted on two counts of contempt of Congress after he defied a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The Justice Department said Friday that Bannon was indicted on one count for refusing to appear for a deposition and the other for refusing to provide documents in response to the committee’s subpoena. It wasn’t immediately clear when he would be due in court. A second witness, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, defied a similar subpoena from the committee on Friday.
November 12, 2021 11:50 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Graeme Edge, a drummer and co-founder of The Moody Blues, has died. He was 80. The band’s frontman Justin Hayward confirmed Edge’s death Thursday on the group’s website. The cause of his death has not been revealed. Hayward called Edge the backbone of the British rock band, which was inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. In 1964, Edge co-founded the group in Birmingham, England. His drumming expertise was a key ingredient for the band’s massive prog-rock hits between the 1960s-70s including “Nights in White Satin,” “Tuesday Afternoon,” and “I’m Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band).” (Photo: Pinterest)
November 12, 2021 9:54 am
(AP) – Johnson & Johnson is splitting into two companies, separating the division that sells Band-Aids and Listerine, from its medical device and prescription drug business. The company said Friday that the division selling prescription drugs and medical devices will keep Johnson & Johnson as its name. The new consumer health company will house brands including Neutrogena, Aveeno, Tylenol, Listerine, Johnson’s, and Band-Aid. A name was not disclosed for the new company. Details are sparse, but the company expect the split to occur in the next two years.
November 12, 2021 7:04 am
No classes Friday in the McGuffey School District. Officials initially called for a two-hour delay because of a power outage near the high school in Claysville. West Penn Power crews were dispatched. A short time later, the district announced that they would be cancelling classes because repairs and the restoration of power in that area was going to take some time. A West Penn Power spokesman tells WJPA News that there was extensive damage in an area near the high school. It was the result of storms and strong winds that rolled through the region overnight. A power line was brought down and the cross-arm to at least one utility pole was damaged. Additional crews were called to the scene to make repairs but it is unclear when power may be restored.
November 12, 2021 4:24 am
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) – A prosthetic-tailed dolphin named Winter that starred in the “Dolphin Tale” movies has died at a Florida aquarium despite life-saving efforts by animal care experts. The Clearwater Marine Aquarium said the 16-year-old female bottlenose dolphin died Thursday evening while being treated for a gastrointestinal abnormality. It says staffers are heartbroken by Winter’s death and the aquarium will be closed Friday to give them time to grieve. Winter was two months old when her tail became entangled in a crab trap near Cape Canaveral, forcing its amputation. “Dolphin Tale” was released in 2011 and chronicled Winter’s recovery and the unprecedented effort to fit her with a prosthetic tail. A sequel followed three years later.
November 12, 2021 4:19 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the release of White House records sought by a U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, granting – for now – a request from former President Donald Trump. The administrative injunction issued Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit effectively bars until the end of this month the release of records that were to be turned over Friday. The appeals court set oral arguments in the case for Nov. 30. The case is likely to end up in the U.S. Supreme Court.
November 12, 2021 4:17 am
The contagious delta variant is driving up COVID-19 hospitalizations in the Mountain West and fueling disruptive outbreaks in the North. It’s a worrisome sign of what could be ahead this winter in the U.S. Meanwhile, trends are improving in Florida, Texas and other Southern states that bore the worst of the summer surge. But it’s clear that delta isn’t done with the United States. COVID-19 is moving north and west for the winter as people head indoors, close their windows and breathe stagnant air. A Vermont college recently suspended social gatherings after a spike in cases tied to Halloween parties. Hospitals in New Mexico and Colorado are overwhelmed.
November 12, 2021 4:15 am
HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) – State police say a man who traveled to space with William Shatner last month was killed along with another person when a small plane crashed in northern New Jersey. One-time space tourist Glen de Vries, of New York City, and Thomas Fischer, of Hopatcong, were aboard the plane that went down Thursday in a wooded area. It isn’t clear who was the pilot. De Vries took a 10-minute flight to the edge of space Oct. 13 aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft. Blue Origin tweeted of de Vries that “he brought so much life and energy to the entire Blue Origin team and to his fellow crewmates.” (Photo courtesy of cmu.edu)
November 12, 2021 4:11 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – An application to overturn a pause in the state’s school mask mandate court proceedings was filed late Thursday afternoon. Commonwealth Court Judge Christine Fizzano Cannon ruled that Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam did not have the authority to enact such a requirement and that it was “void and unenforceable.” That meant the mask mandate was dead. Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration immediately filed an appeal, which put everything on pause. That meant the mask mandate was still in place. Confirmed by Attorney Thomas King III, Thursday’s application seeks to revert back to Cannon’s filing, which would overturn the mask requirement. “Within mere hours of this Court’s order, the Acting Secretary appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court with complete disregard to the ongoing violation of Pennsylvania law,” the filing said. “The Masking Order has been declared to be illegal and void; and, thus, robs Petitioners of the ability to make decisions for themselves.”
