Pennsylvania Lottery officials warn players about new phone scam
Lottery officials are warning Pennsylvanians of a phone scam that claims commonwealth contestants have won a prize — they just have to pre-pay taxes or processing costs, though the cash never comes. The Pennsylvania Lottery issued a release on Monday morning advising residents that they have received notifications of a...
Colleges become reservoirs of covid-19 threatening to spill over
College administrators and government officials summoned students back to campus. Now, they are presiding over viral reservoirs poised to release a flood of infected undergraduates at Thanksgiving — if they make it that far. Schools have turned into de facto sanitariums: covid-19 infections are sweeping student populations, though health departments...
AG Barr announces $100M more to combat human trafficking
ATLANTA — U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr says the federal government is awarding more than $100 million in grants to target human trafficking. The money will go to task forces combatting human trafficking, to victim services and victim housing. Barr made the announcement Monday in Atlanta with presidential adviser Ivanka...
Pennsylvania sees 2-day increase of 967 in coronavirus cases
In the past two days, there were 967 new coronavirus cases added in the state, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported Monday. On Sunday, the state added 733 new cases, while on Monday it added 234. All but 21 of those cases are confirmed. From Sept. 14-20, the state reported...
UK experts issue stark warning on exponential virus cases
Britain’s top medical advisers warned the public Monday they must make further sacrifices to control the second wave of the covid-19 pandemic, saying new coronavirus infections could increase tenfold to almost 50,000 a day next month if nothing is done now to stem the tide. In a briefing televised live...
Desert homes threatened by enormous California wildfire
JUNIPER HILLS, Calif. — An enormous wildfire that churned through mountains northeast of Los Angeles and into the Mojave Desert was still threatening homes on Monday, but officials said calmer winds could help crews corral the flames. At 165 square miles, the Bobcat Fire is one of the largest ever...
Archaeologists unearth 27 coffins at Egypt’s Saqqara pyramid
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed more than two dozen ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, an official said Monday. The sarcophagi have remained unopened since they were buried more than 2,500 years ago near the famed Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, said Neveine el-Arif, a spokeswomen for...
More Biden, Trump visits this week in fight for Pennsylvania
President Donald Trump will make his fourth and fifth appearances in September in Pennsylvania, flying into and out of rallies at two different airports this week. Tuesday’s event is at Pittsburgh International Airport and Saturday’s event is at Harrisburg International Airport. Trump’s visits underscores the importance of Pennsylvania to the...
Trump’s Ohio suburb slide signals peril in industrial north
Peggy Lehner, a Republican state senator in Ohio, doesn’t sugarcoat what she has seen happen to support for President Donald Trump in her suburban Dayton district. “It hasn’t ebbed. It’s crashed,” said Lehner, who is not seeking reelection in the district of working-class and white-collar communities the president won comfortably...
With cash windfall, Biden adds GOP states to campaign map
Joe Biden is using a campaign cash advantage over President Donald Trump to add Republican-leaning Georgia and Iowa to his paid media footprint, bringing the Democratic challenger’s television and digital battleground map to an even dozen states. The expansion reflects Biden’s newfound status as a fundraising behemoth and his campaign’s...
High court front-runner Barrett hailed by right, feared by leftVideo
CHICAGO — A front-runner to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a federal appellate judge who has established herself as a reliable conservative on hot-button legal issues from abortion to gun control. Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Catholic, is hailed by...
Biggest unknown with Tropical Storm Beta is how much rain it will bringVideo
HOUSTON — As Tropical Storm Beta neared the Texas coast Monday, the biggest unknown was how much rainfall it could produce in areas that have already seen their share of damaging weather during a busy hurricane season. Beta’s winds were weakening as it got closer to making landfall sometime Monday...
Police detain over 400 during Sunday protests in BelarusVideo
KYIV, Ukraine — Police in Belarus said they detained more than 400 protesters who took part in a weekend demonstration demanding the resignation of the nation’s authoritarian president following a disputed vote. With protests rocking the country for more than six weeks, tens of thousands of Belarusians marched through Minsk,...
Greece: Storm death toll rises to 3, flood damage extensive
ATHENS, Greece — A third person has been found dead in central Greece following extensive damage caused by a tropical-like storm over the weekend. Authorities said the body of a missing 62-year-old man was found Monday outside the central city of Karditsa, while Fire Service drones were being used to...
Europe scrambles to contain rise in coronavirus casesVideo
BERLIN — Political pressure grew Monday in Europe for governments to tackle the rising number of coronavirus case without resorting to a spring-style lockdown that would hit the continent’s struggling economies. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez met Monday with the president of the Madrid region, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to coordinate...
Small plane crash lands on street in Pennsylvania, 2 injured
MOOSIC — A small plane traveling from Vermont crash landed on a residential street in Pennsylvania, injuring the pilot and a passenger. The single-engine aircraft was trying to land at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport on Sunday night when the pilot apparently had engine trouble and brought the plane down on Stone...
Iran: Nuclear deal with world powers worth preservingVideo
BERLIN — The head of Iran’s nuclear agency said Monday that the landmark 2015 deal between Tehran and world powers on his country’s atomic program is struggling since the unilateral U.S. withdrawal, but is still worth preserving. Ali Akbar Salehi told delegates at a conference of the International Atomic Energy...
4 people killed in single-engine airplane crash in Texas
HILLTOP LAKES, Texas — Four people from Louisiana were killed when their single-engine airplane crashed in a Texas pasture while attempting an emergency landing, authorities said. The crash happened Sunday morning near the airport in Hilltop Lakes, about 120 miles northwest of Houston. The Texas Department of Public Safety said...
Whale swims free of Australian river as 270 are stranded
CANBERRA, Australia — A humpback whale has found its way back to sea weeks after getting lost in a murky, crocodile-infested river in northern Australia, while an estimated 270 pilot whales became stranded in the country’s south. There have been no previous recorded sightings of whales in remote East Alligator...
Nebraska man charged in protester’s death dies by suicide
OMAHA, Neb. — A white business owner charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting a Black man during protests in Nebraska has died by suicide days after his indictment, his attorney said Sunday. Jacob Gardner, of Omaha, Neb., was found dead Sunday outside a medical clinic in Hillsboro, Ore., the Hillsboro...
AP sources: Woman accused of sending ricin letter to White House arrestedVideo
WASHINGTON — A woman suspected of sending an envelope containing the poison ricin, which was addressed to White House, has been arrested at New York-Canada border, three law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Sunday. The letter had been intercepted earlier this week before it reached the White House....
Poll: Most Americans say next election winner should pick Ginsburg’s replacementVideo
The majority of Americans, including many Republicans, said the appointment of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor to the U.S. Supreme Court should be left to the winner of the November presidential election, Reuters reported, citing the Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday. A survey conducted Sept. 19-20 after Ginsburg’s death found that...
N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James moves to expedite release of police body cam footage
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — New York Attorney General Letitia James promised Sunday to expedite the release of body camera footage in cases of alleged police misconduct that her office investigates. Speaking in Rochester, which has been in turmoil since the footage of Daniel Prude’s fatal encounter with police was released more...
Rep. Adam Schiff delays deposition of Homeland Security whistleblower
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says the committee is scheduled to depose a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower on Friday, pushing the closed-door testimony back four days due to a dispute with the Trump administration over his appearance. A subpoena may be necessary, said Rep. Adam...
2nd GOP senator a ‘no’ to filling court seat before election
WASHINGTON — A second Republican senator came out in opposition to filling a vacant Supreme Court seat before the Nov. 3 election while Speaker Nancy Pelosi asserted without details that the Democratic-led House has “options” for stalling or preventing President Donald Trump from quickly installing a successor to the late...
