Month: July 2022

PROMISE LAND, Pa. — It’s not exactly flowing with milk and honey, just ask the area’s struggling black bears, but the Promised Land offered respite Sunday to people in the northeastern city trying to escape a nearly one-year heat spell week that only threatened to intensify. Those with the resources fled to pools, beaches and higher elevations such as Promised Land State Park, 1,800 feet (550 meters) in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains and about 2 1/2 hours from the city of New York and Philadelphia. From the Pacific Northwest to the southern Great Plains to the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor,…

CHURCHILL, Pa. — UPDATE 12/7/22: The Allegheny County Medical Examiner has identified the man killed in the crash as 47-year-old Thomas Linwood Ligon. Ligon was from Monroeville. One person was killed and two others were injured in an overnight crash on Interstate 376 East. According to Pennsylvania State Police, the crash happened around 2:33 a.m. on the Parkway near mile marker 79.8. A 2019 Chevrolet Silverado was traveling westbound in the eastbound lane and collided with a 2016 Honda HR-V, which spun and overturned, police said. The Honda’s passenger was pronounced dead at the scene. Download the FREE WPXI News…

We’ve all been there, after a long hot day at a Disney park, all you can think about is limping back to your car and turning on the A/C when panic sets in – you forgot where you parked!!!! !! It’s one of the most frustrating ways to end a day at Disney. Those days will soon be behind us, but with the Car Locator feature coming to the My Disney Experience app and the Disneyland app! The new free feature will save your car’s location and works best if you have location services and Bluetooth enabled on your mobile….

WDSU News has been honored with a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. WDSU News received this national award for its breaking news coverage of Hurricane Ida in the “Breaking Television News – Large Market” category. The Society of Professional Journalists describes the Sigma Delta Chi award as “among the premiere awards given to the profession: a recognition of achievements in professional journalism in its many forms.” This is the second year in a row that WDSU has received the top honors for the “Breaking News – Large Market” category.This year, the honor went to WDSU…

The new local leadership has awakened the company’s efforts to be more visible and involved Amy’s Kitchen plant manager Josh Self greets fairgoers from a booth set up at the Jackson County Fairgrounds on Wednesday. [Andy Atkinson / Mail Tribune] From sponsoring free parking at the Jackson County Fair to helping local nonprofits, Amy’s Kitchen is making its biggest effort in a decade and a half to get to know its Southern Oregon neighbors. The Petaluma, Calif.-based vegetarian convenience food giant has kept a low profile since expanding into southern Oregon in 2006. But Josh Self, who has been managing…

Authorities in Alabama are investigating multiple bomb threats at various colleges across the state, including Auburn University, Jefferson State Community College and Shelton State Community College. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) is aware of the most recent bomb threats against universities and colleges across the country, which includes schools located in Alabama. ALEA’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and the Alabama Fusion Center (AFC), along with local and federal partners, are monitoring the situation to ensure the safety of all students, faculty and staff. All college campuses that received threats in Alabama on Wednesday, July 27 have been cleared…

Reverge Anselmo is now officially a major donor. ” data-medium-file=” data-large-file=” loading=”lazy” class=”size-medium wp-image-133591″ alt=”” width=”420″ height=”334″ srcset=” 420w , 504w” sizes=”(max width: 420px) 100vw, 420px”/> Reverge Anselmo is now officially a major donor. It may have required an investigation by the Fair Political Practices Commission, but the son of a Connecticut billionaire, Reverge Anselmo, has finally come forward as a major campaign donor in Shasta County after giving nearly $1 million dollars to local right-wing causes over the past three years. A News Café first reported that Anselmo did not come forward as a major donor in May after…