Louisville to pay $12M to Breonna Taylor’s mother, reform policeVideo
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The city of Louisville will pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor and reform police practices as part of a lawsuit settlement months after Taylor’s slaying by police thrust the Black woman’s name to the forefront of a national reckoning on race, Mayor Greg Fischer...
Mailed ballots can’t be discarded over signature, Pa. officials tell counties
HARRISBURG — With concerns rising in Pennsylvania that tens of thousands of mail-in ballots will be discarded in the presidential election over technicalities, officials in the battleground state told counties that they aren’t allowed to reject a ballot solely because an election official believes a signature doesn’t match the signature...
Rosa Parks’ home displayed in Italy as U.S. race tensions rise
NAPLES, Italy — The run-down, paint-chipped Detroit house where U.S. civil rights icon Rosa Parks took refuge after her historic bus boycott is going on display in Italy in a setting that couldn’t be more incongruous: the imposing central courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples. It’s the latest stop...
Texas teen charged with murder in shooting of sleeping woman
HOUSTON — Authorities in Texas have arrested an 18-year-old woman on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old woman as she slept in her bed. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Emma Presler, 18, was charged Monday with murder in the death of Sierra Rhodd. Authorities have...
Diplomats: Roadside bombing targets British convoy in Iraq
BAGHDAD — A roadside bombing targeted British diplomatic vehicles in Baghdad on Tuesday, the British Embassy and Iraqi officials said. There were no injuries but the attack is fueling concerns of armed groups outside of the state’s control. The attack targeted an embassy convoy on a Baghdad highway close to...
Trump defies virus rules as ‘peaceful protest’ rallies grow
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is running as the “law and order” candidate. But that hasn’t stopped him and his campaign from openly defying state emergency orders and flouting his own administration’s coronavirus guidelines as he holds ever-growing rallies in battleground states. Democratic governors and local leaders have urged the...
In California, Trump continues to deny climate change is real: ‘It will start getting cooler’Video
WASHINGTON — As wildfires raging through the West force millions of voters to confront the consequences of a warming planet, the presidential race became intensely focused Monday on climate change — an issue that has been overshadowed through much of the campaign. The realities of communities ablaze, mass evacuations and...
Democrats to probe whether political appointees meddled with coronavirus data
WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee is launching an investigation into whether political appointees have meddled with routine government scientific data to better align with President Donald Trump’s public statements about the coronavirus pandemic, following a report that one such appointee claimed scientists were trying to undermine Trump. The Democrat-led subcommittee...
Venezuela: Captured U.S. spy charged in alleged terrorist plot
CARACAS — Venezuela’s chief prosecutor on Monday said a U.S. citizen recently arrested in the country as a suspected spy has been charged in an alleged terrorist plot to sabotage oil refineries and electrical service in order to stir unrest. The man, alleged to have CIA ties, had help from...
Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects Green Party bid for ballot access
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Green Party presidential candidate’s request to be added to the state ballot, ruling that it came too late for any relief “that would not cause confusion and undue damage” just seven weeks before the election. The 4-3 ruling blocks...
Rochester police chief fired in fallout over Prude death
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren fired the police chief and suspended her top lawyer and communications director Monday in the continuing upheaval over the suffocation death of Daniel Prude. Chief Le’Ron Singletary announced his retirement last week as part of a major shakeup of the city’s police leadership...
Sally’s threat: ‘Potentially historic’ floods, fierce windVideo
WAVELAND, Miss. — Hurricane Sally, one of four storms churning simultaneously in the Atlantic, closed in on the Gulf Coast on Monday with rapidly strengthening wind of at least 100 mph and heavy rain as forecasters warned of “potentially historic” flooding and governors declared states of emergency. The slow-moving storm...
Top Pa. GOP lawmaker taps politically connected lobbyist to be chief of staff
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter. HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman has tapped a top lobbyist with a politically connected Harrisburg firm to...
Lancaster police shoot, kill knife-wielding man, setting off protestsVideo
LANCASTER — A police officer fatally shot a man with a knife after his sister said she called police to get him involuntarily committed, leading to street protests and vandalism in what the mayor of the small Pennsylvania city of Lancaster called a “heartbreaking day.” Police posted the officer’s body...
Former Greensburg Bishop Edward Malesic installed in Cleveland’s Catholic Diocese
CLEVELAND — Cleveland’s nearly 700,000 Roman Catholics on Monday were welcoming a new bishop from Pennsylvania during an installation Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. Bishop Edward Malesic, 60, served five years as bishop of Greensburg until Pope Francis in July named him to succeed Nelson Perez,...
Nearly $81M for eviction relief coming to Pennsylvania
Editor’s note: This story was updated to reflect that $81 million is coming to Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is set to receive nearly $81 million in federal funding aimed at eviction relief, according to officials with U.S. Sen. Bob Casey. Pittsburgh will get about $3 million, Allegheny County is set to receive...
Macy’s Thanksgiving parade altered for pandemic
NEW YORK — This year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving parade has been reimagined for the coronavirus pandemic. Macy’s officials said Monday that the parade will feature floats, performers and giant balloons parading along a one-block stretch of 34th Street in front of the retailer’s flagship Manhattan store. The spectacle will be broadcast...
Cal U, Edinboro, Clarion plot 3-way higher education partnership
California, Clarion and Edinboro universities — three state-owned schools that have suffered significant enrollment losses over the last decade — are forming a partnership they hope will create a powerhouse in the state’s public university system. In a joint announcement Monday, the presidents of the three universities said the partnership...
Trump, Biden facing off on wildfires, climate change
WILMINGTON, Del. — President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden are focusing the presidential campaign on the wildfire-scorched West Coast, with Trump meeting fire officials in California on Monday while Biden declares the fires underscore an urgent need to address climate change. The dueling events just seven weeks before Election...
Astronomers see possible hints of life in Venus’ clouds
Astronomers have found a potential sign of life high in the atmosphere of neighboring Venus: hints there may be bizarre microbes living in the sulfuric acid-laden clouds of the hothouse planet. Two telescopes in Hawaii and Chile spotted in the thick Venutian clouds the chemical signature of phosphine, a noxious...
‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero charged with terrorism in Rwanda court
KIGALI, Rwanda — A Rwandan court on Monday charged Paul Rusesabagina, whose story inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda,” with terrorism, complicity in murder, and forming an armed rebel group. Rusesabagina declined to respond to all 13 charges, saying some did not qualify as criminal offenses and saying that he denied...
Pennsylvania posts 1,258 new coronavirus cases over past 2 days, 7 more deaths
The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced a two-day total of 1,258 new coronavirus cases Monday — with 638 coming on Sunday, 620 on Monday. This was the first weekend in which the state did not release a Sunday covid update, choosing instead to release both numbers on Monday. From Sept....
Couple beat, starved and imprisoned Pa. boy, 12, and let him die caked in his own feces, detectives say
A central Pennsylvania couple was behind bars Monday, charged with killing a 12-year-old boy by starving and beating him and keeping the child imprisoned in a feces-caked and darkened and locked room for years. The boy, Maxwell Schollenberger, never received medical care, wasn’t enrolled in school and was rarely seen...
American could face fine over local virus spike in Germany
BERLIN — Officials in southern Germany are considering imposing hefty fines against a 26-year-old American woman linked to a cluster of coronavirus cases in the Alpine resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, including at a hotel that caters to U.S. military personnel. German media report that the woman, who lives locally and...
U.K. tests if covid-19 vaccines might work better inhaledVideo
LONDON — British scientists are beginning a small study comparing how two experimental coronavirus vaccines might work when they are inhaled by people instead of being injected. In a statement on Monday, researchers at Imperial College London and Oxford University said a trial involving 30 people would test vaccines developed...
