Month: June 2023

BRAINTREE, Mass. — Police spent Monday keeping a close watch on a Braintree neighborhood where two teenagers died over the weekend as they continued to search for the suspect. School officials are making grief counselors available to students during the school holidays after the murders of two teenagers, one of them a 16-year-old Braintree High School student. Jahzier Porter, 16, of Braintree, and Jayden Santos-Andrade, 19, of Dorchester, were shot to death in a car on Alfred Road in Braintree early Sunday morning, the district attorney said. Investigators are looking for the gunman or gunman who killed the teenagers. “We…

PENN TOWNSHIP, Penn. – A box truck crashed into a bar in Penn Township Monday night, seriously injuring the driver. According to Butler County 911 dispatchers, police, fire and EMS crews were called to the McBride station at 340 Pittsburgh Road at 9:38 p.m. for the crash. BREAKING: Emergency crews are here on Pittsburgh Rd in Penn Township where a box truck crashed into a bar. Police say the driver was injured and taken to a hospital. There will be an update over the air in a few minutes. ⁦@WPXI⁩ pic.twitter.com/PJiRMeZ4nw — Antoinette DelBel (@AnnieDelBel) June 27, 2023 This is…

Clemson Trustees OK New Veterinary School Clemson University’s board of trustees approved the creation of a college of veterinary medicine, the first in South Carolina. The inaugural class is scheduled to arrive in the fall of 2026. “The university will leverage the university’s existing animal health programs and infrastructure to build a veterinary medicine workforce to fill a statewide shortage of veterinarians,” Clemson said. The program will use a distributed model of clinical teaching. Chewy improves pet insurance offering Chewy’s online retailer CarePlus pet health insurance includes expanded coverage options and price points from providers Trupanion and Lemonade Pet. CarePlus…

Police are responding to a shooting in the city’s East Hills neighborhood Monday night. Allegheny County 911 confirms the shooting happened in the 2100 block of Wilner Drive. Dispatch says no one has been taken to hospital from this location. The age or identity of the victims is unclear at this time. Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 is on the scene for more information. This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for updates. Download the WTAE mobile app to stay connected with breaking news. PITTSBURGH – Police are responding to a shooting in the city’s East Hills…

It’s the last week of June and that means we’re anxiously awaiting decisions in several high-profile Supreme Court cases. The rest of the cases concern issues such as affirmative action, President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, LGBTQ business services and the power of state legislatures. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, we take a look at what different public opinion polls have found about affirmative action and wonder if it’s a good or bad use of polls. We also explore what to make of RFK Jr.’s relatively strong Democratic primary polls. In addition, the Republican presidential primary field…

CNN — CNN has exclusively obtained the audio recording of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Donald Trump talks about having classified documents that he did not declassify. Listen to the conversation Listen to audio obtained exclusively by CNN of a July 2021 conversation during which former President Donald Trump acknowledges that he has been holding on to a classified Pentagon document about a possible attack on Iran. The recording, which first aired on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” includes new details of the conversation that is critical evidence in Trump’s indictment of special counsel Jack Smith for…

AUSTIN (Nexstar) – When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hosted his first presidential rally on the Rio Grande River on Monday, he promised to follow through on an immigration policy that the state’s top Republicans have sought all legislative session . “States should be able to send people back,” the second-most popular candidate for the Republican nomination told supporters. “As president, we will fully deputize all state and local governments to be able to enforce immigration law. You will be able to have that authority.” In the audience was state Rep. Matt Schaefer, R-Tyler, who brought major legislation that would have…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — Voters in Alabama will head to the polls in just over eight months for primary elections, and state party leaders say they’re gearing up for 2024. Some Republican hopefuls have already visited the state, and ALGOP President John Wahl says that will only continue in the coming months. Among the candidates who have made stops this year are Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, and next August, former President Donald Trump. Wahl hopes the visit by these candidates will help voters make informed decisions. “I love introducing national candidates to the state of…