Month: May 2023

FRANKLIN PARK, Pa. — A multi-vehicle car crash was causing major traffic delays on a busy local interstate. According to PennDOT, the crash was located on I-79 southbound at exit 72 (I-279). Allegheny County 911 told Channel 11 the crash happened at 10:21 a.m. Authorities said no one was taken to the hospital as a result of the crash at this time. Traffic cameras showed both left lanes with heavy emergency crew activity and traffic directed to one lane. Traffic cameras also show traffic backed up to mile marker 73.9 on Mingo Road. The accident has since been deleted. This…

PROGRAMMING ALERT: Sheriff Mark Lamb will be speaking on “Lawrence Jones Cross Country” on Saturday, May 20 at 9pm ET. Sheriff Mark Lamb of Pinal County, Arizona, claimed Saturday that after he was asked to speak at a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) event this summer, he was not invited on Friday because of his conservative politics. “We are quite disappointed by a call we received yesterday,” Lamb said in a Twitter video on his “Mark Lamb for United States Senate” handle. “For those of you who don’t know, we lost our 22-year-old son, 11-month-old granddaughter and future daughter-in-law in…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Robert Marion Berry, an Arkansas Democrat who served seven terms in Congress and is known for his tough rhetoric and advocacy for farmers and senior citizens , died. He was 80 years old. Berry, who was known as “Marion,” died Friday, his family confirmed in a statement Saturday. The cause of death was not provided. “With his quick wit and way of speaking, he lived his life in service to others,” said Berry’s son, Mitch. “He truly believed that the role of government was to help people, and it was a position…

Executives at The Messenger, a news startup, had big ambitions in the months leading up to its public debut. They said they would start with 175 journalists covering entertainment and politics, change journalism for the better and even make their audience “fall back in love” with the media. But less than a week after it began, tensions are escalating. Journalists have rejected demands to mass-produce articles based on competitor stories. Senior editors met with staff on Thursday to address criticism of the site, which was coming Columbia Journalism Journalfrom Harvard Nieman Laboratory i The Wrap, a Hollywood trade publication. And…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon has long been seen as a quirky state, whose main city was satirized in a TV sitcom, where country folk and urban hipsters could get along and political differences were they could solve with a pint or two of craftsmanship. beer But with a Republican march on the Democratic-controlled Oregon Senate in its third week, Oregonians these days are wistfully recalling “The Oregon Way,” when politicians of different stripes forged deals for the common good. Famous examples include establishing the nation’s first recycling program, guaranteeing public beach access for the entire coast, and limiting urban…

For Ron DeSantis, Sunday, February 19, was the start of another busy week of not officially running for president. That night, he left Tallahassee on the private jet of a Florida hotelier, heading to Newark before a meeting with police officers in Staten Island on Monday morning. He then boarded a twin-jet Bombardier to attend a speech in suburban Philadelphia, before flying to a Knights of Columbus hall outside Chicago, then home to his job as governor of Florida. The tour and others like it were made possible by the convenience of private air travel and the large number of…

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To receive it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to make his presidential campaign official next week. After a strong re-election run in 2022 and using Florida as a proving ground for conservative priorities, his entry into the 2024 primary race seemed a foregone conclusion. While DeSantis remains former President Donald Trump’s top challenger, at least according to opinion polls, he has slipped in some polls in recent weeks. I spoke with CNN’s Steve Contorno, who is based in…

The leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the United States issue a statement calling for stability in the Indo-Pacific region. The leaders of the Quad group (Australia, India, Japan and the United States) have taken a look at Beijing’s behavior at a summit in Hiroshima. US President Joe Biden and his three partners in the group did not mention China by name on Saturday, but the superpower was clearly the target of language in a joint statement calling for “peace and stability in the maritime domain of the “Indo-Pacific”. “We strongly oppose destabilizing or unilateral actions that seek to change…