Month: June 2023

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A police standoff that lasted several hours ended Monday evening in Scranton with one man injured as Scranton police say he is in the hospital recovering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. It was a potentially dangerous day in a North Scranton neighborhood Monday after Scranton police detectives say they are investigating an incident involving a man who shot himself outside his home after an hours-long standoff. Police swarmed a normally quiet neighborhood in the 1900 block of Clearview Street in Scranton Monday morning. The street was closed after investigators received a call around 8:30 a.m….

Many questions remain afterwards an unresponsive plane crashed in Virginia after flying over restricted airspace in Washington, DC on Sunday. The plane, a Cessna 560 Citation V, was a private jet registered to a Florida-based company owned by John and Barbara Rumpel. John Rumpel said her daughter, 2-year-old granddaughter and a babysitter were on board. All three passengers and the pilot, who remained unresponsive during the ordeal, were killed and the plane crashed near the George Washington National Forest in Virginia. The cause of the incident is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board….

Breaking news, Lionel Messi says not to Barcelona for this reason, instead he would sign for Al Hilal Barcelona received great news this morning with a view to joining Lionel Messi. After a long wait, the club got the green light The league to be able to implement his economic plan and, thus, incorporate the highest Ballon d’Or winner (7) without breaching Financial Fair Play. After the approval of the highest body of Spanish football, John Laporta met with Jorge Messi. However, to everyone’s surprise, the Barcelona president made a decision that upset everyone: he did not present the formal…

Your own decisions and actions often determine your financial strategies. But external events can also affect your choices. And this may be the case with the recent passage of the SECURE 2.0 Act. This law covers many areas. But here are some changes that might be of interest to you, depending on your situation: If you are retired… Higher age for RMDs: The age at which you must take withdrawals, known as required minimum distributions, or RMDs, from your traditional IRA and 401(k) has increased from age 72 to age 73, effective this year. (If you turned 72 in 2022…

Some new University of Virginia trustees are pushing for the university to collect information on the political views of faculty and students. Daily progress reported At a Board of Visitors meeting Friday, Douglas Wetmore, who was appointed to the board by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, last year, asked why the university’s diversity panel does not include an assessment of the ideologies of students or teachers. “How come we don’t have dashboards that track, say, faculty political ideology?” Wetmore asked. “Why wouldn’t we do that to try to convince ourselves that we have a balance and that we are serving…

CHICAGO (WLS) — Forty-six people have been shot, nine dead, in shootings across the city over the weekend, police said. One of the victims of the shooting was Terry’a Adams. She was one of seven people shot during a gathering Saturday night in the Austin neighborhood for her boyfriend, who was killed in a car crash. A vigil was held in his honor on Monday evening. Those who loved Terry remembered her for her kindness. “He loved being around everybody. He’s a people person,” said Pinkie McBride, Adams’ mother. “Terry’a had love for everybody. She was always like a peacemaker,…

The 27th annual Kids Golf Classic, which benefits the Boys and Girls Club of Parkersburg, was held Monday at the Parkersburg Country Club. The event generated a record $297,000. All funds raised directly benefit the 1,000 children throughout the Mid-Ohio Valley that the Boys and Girls Club serves each year. Present for the check presentation are, front row from left: Ryan Kent (Bowles Rice); Adam Reynolds (Chapman Printing Company); Three Ross (The Ross Foundation); Lynn Reins (CEO, Boys & Girls Club of Parkersburg) Mary Anne Ketelsen (Mary M. Welch Advised Fund – in memory of Mickey Welch / Mary Anne…

MARSHFIELD, Mass. – Two of three good Samaritans who helped a Marshfield police officer arrest a defiant and combative OUI suspect are describing the tense ordeal. It started around 5pm on Saturday in the area of ​​Ferry Street and Clay Pit Road. That’s when police say 37-year-old James Shields ran a red light and crashed into another car. Several witnesses saw his SUV drive away from the scene moments after the impact. They called police with a description of the vehicle and a partial license plate and proceeded to follow the SUV. “What we were seeing him do and the…