Lawyers fight for everyday women bringing #MeToo complaints
Jaribu Hill didn’t opt for law school until her early 40s. She’d been a singer, actress, teacher and labor organizer before learning a college classmate had become head of a group for black female judges. “I can do that, too,” she thought. Hill has since become a leading civil rights...
Giuliani says he’d only help impeachment probe with Trump OK
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer says he’d only cooperate with the House impeachment inquiry if his client agreed. Central to the investigation is the effort by lawyer Rudy Giuliani to have Ukraine conduct a corruption probe into Joe Biden and his son’s dealings with a Ukrainian energy...
New chapter opens in Pennsylvania in fight over suing church
HARRISBURG — When post offices close Monday, the last victim compensation funds at Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses will also close, hours before lawmakers plunge back into a years-old fight over whether to let long-ago victims of child sexual abuse sue perpetrators and institutions that may have covered it up. It...
3 hurt in Pennsylvania helicopter crash at fair
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. — Authorities in Pennsylvania say three people have been hurt in a helicopter crash at a state fair. WNEP-TV reports a pilot and two passengers were in the helicopter when it crashed Saturday about 7:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the fairground in the town of Bloomsburg....
Musk unveils SpaceX rocket designed to get to Mars and back
BOCA CHICA VILLAGE, Texas — Elon Musk has unveiled a SpaceX spacecraft designed to carry a crew and cargo to the moon, Mars or anywhere else in the solar system and land back on Earth perpendicularly. In a livestreamed speech from SpaceX’s launch facility near the southern tip of Texas,...
Snowstorm slams northern Rocky Mountains; Montana gets brunt
HELENA, Mont. — Areas of the northern Rocky Mountains looked more like mid-winter rather than early fall on Sunday as a snowstorm dumped record amounts of wind-driven snow that caused hazardous travel conditions and scattered power outages. Winter storm warnings were posted for parts of western Montana, northern Idaho and...
Student journalist scores big scoop in Trump-Ukraine story
PHOENIX — A 20-year-old student at Arizona State University broke the news that a key State Department official who was involved in talks between President Trump and the Ukrainian government had stepped down from his post. Andrew Howard, a managing editor of The State Press student newspaper, reported Friday evening...
Family called former volunteer fireman ‘Mr. Latrobe’
Lane Mullen’s family referred to him as “Mr. Latrobe.” A lifelong resident of the city, “he just seemed to know everyone because of the fire hall,” said his sister-in-law Mary Lou Myers, referencing his 36 years as a volunteer firefighter with Latrobe’s Good Friends Hose Company No. 5. “He decided...
Head of U.N. nuclear test ban group: Teach your children well
UNITED NATIONS — The head of the U.N.’s nuclear test ban treaty organization says that in his “wild dreams,” very young children around the world will be taught that nuclear testing isn’t good — and that the world should be free of nuclear weapons. In an interview on the sidelines...
Trump blurs lines between personal lawyer, attorney general
WASHINGTON — As Washington plunges into impeachment, Attorney General William Barr finds himself engulfed in the political firestorm, facing questions about his role in President Trump’s outreach to Ukraine and the administration’s attempts to keep a whistleblower complaint from Congress. Trump repeatedly told Ukraine’s president in a telephone call that...
Florida city commissioner chastises cop at his own honors ceremonyVideo
Talk about irony. A Broward County, Fla. police officer who was expecting to be honored as “Officer of the Month” during a ceremony earlier this week was unexpectedly met with criticism when he got up to receive his award. According to the Sun Sentinel, sheriff’s Deputy Joshua Gallardo was headed...
Police: 5 hurt, knife-wielding suspect dead at Maryland mall
COCKEYSVILLE, Md. — Four people at an outdoor shopping mall were stabbed and a fifth person was beaten before officers shot and killed a suspect, police in Maryland said. The victims were rushed from the Hunt Valley Towne Centre north of Baltimore to hospitals Saturday afternoon but didn’t appear to...
Iran slams U.S. for barring Zarif from New York hospital visit
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran slammed the United States on Saturday for what it called an “inhumane” decision to bar its foreign minister, who was attending the U.N. summit meetings in New York, from visiting a hospitalized Iranian diplomat in the city. U.S. authorities were not allowing Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad...
Large chunk of border wall funding diverted from tiny Guam
HONOLULU— President Trump is raising a large chunk of the money for his border wall with Mexico by deferring several military construction projects slated for Guam, a strategic hub for U.S. forces in the Pacific. This may disrupt plans to move Marines to Guam from Japan and to modernize munitions...
Jindal gone, but not forgotten in Louisiana governor’s race
BATON ROUGE, La. — Bobby Jindal left the Louisiana governor’s office nearly four years ago and evaporated from the state political scene after a failed presidential bid. Still, he’s a permanent fixture in Louisiana’s current governor’s race. Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards keeps his Republican predecessor front and center in...
Judge blocks sole use of databases to detain immigrants
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge Friday blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement from relying solely on flawed databases to target people for being in the country illegally, the Los Angeles Times reported. U.S. District Court Judge Andre Birrote Jr. issued a permanent injunction barring ICE from relying only on the...
A year after Khashoggi’s slaying, Saudi clampdown persists
NEW YORK — Nearly one year has passed since a team of 15 Saudi government agents flew to Turkey and killed Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. His body has still not been found, no one has been convicted and questions linger over the crown prince’s culpability. The Oct. 2 slaying brought...
Dallas cop says she wishes neighbor had killed her instead
DALLAS — A Dallas police officer broke her silence Friday about the night she killed a young accountant who lived in the apartment right above hers, telling jurors that she has to live with the guilt every day and that she wished their roles were reversed. Amber Guyger tearfully told...
Member of secretive church gets probation in benefits scheme
RALEIGH, N.C. — A member of a secretive North Carolina church received 10 months of home confinement for taking part in an unemployment fraud scheme benefiting businesses with ties to the congregation. Diane McKinny, 66, of Rutherfordton, was sentenced by a federal judge in Asheville on Thursday, several months after...
Sheriff’s deputy slain near Houston was first Sikh officer
JERSEY VILLAGE, Texas — A sheriff’s deputy described as “a trailblazer” because he was the first Sikh deputy of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office when he joined the force 10 years ago, was shot and killed while making a traffic stop Friday near Houston. Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal, 42, was pronounced...
Cape Cod brings back limited-edition chips in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month
A popular potato chip company is showing its dedication to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month by returning to a familiar, limited-edition flavor. In a Thursday tweet, Cape Cod Chips reminded us that “October is right around the corner” and the company has brought back the Pink Himalayan Salt & Red...
U.S. ambassador pressed Ukraine corruption fight before ouster
WASHINGTON — Months before the call that set off an impeachment inquiry, many in the diplomatic community were alarmed by the Trump administration’s abrupt removal of a career diplomat from her post as ambassador to Ukraine. The ambassador’s ouster, and the campaign against her that preceded it, are now emerging...
Pennsylvania high court passes on death penalty review
PHILADELPHIA — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined a special petition to review the constitutionality of the death penalty but says it will still consider the fairness of individual cases. The decision Friday comes after the court heard arguments this month from critics who call the punishment cruel and arbitrary...
Riverview shows off STEAM curriculum to Gov. Wolf
Gov. Tom Wolf visited Riverview Junior-Senior High School in Oakmont on Friday to learn about the district’s efforts to prepare students for jobs in fields of STEAM — that’s science, technology, engineering, arts and math — and to tout his own plan for growing the workforce in those fields, PAsmart....
Subpoenas mark first concrete steps for Trump impeachment
WASHINGTON — House Democrats took their first concrete steps in the impeachment investigation of President Trump on Friday, issuing subpoenas demanding documents from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and scheduling legal depositions for other State Department officials. At the end of a stormy week of revelation and recrimination, House Speaker...
