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BLAIRSVILLE BOROUGH, Pa. – A man has died after falling through the roof of a vacant school in Blairsville on Wednesday. According to the Blairsville Police Chief, officers were called to the former high school along South Walnut Street about the collapse at 12:41 p.m. Two men, who were on the roof to assess the collapse, fell three stories from the roof to the basement. One of them died from his injuries. #BREAKING: The man who was taken to UPMC Presby after falling three stories from that former school building while working on the roof has died, according to Blairsville…

A Reuters/Ipsos poll completed Monday showed an overwhelming majority of Republicans, 81 percent, believe the criminal charges against Trump are politically motivated. The poll also showed him well ahead of his closest rival in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. It showed 43 percent of Republicans said Trump was their preferred candidate, while 22 percent chose his closest challenger, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida. The rest of the Republican camp, including Trump’s Vice President Mike Pence, polled in the low single digits. Trump’s Republican rivals face a dilemma over whether to support or criticize him as his…

BEDMINSTER, NJ (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said last week that he hoped federal prosecutors would not file charges against former President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, a day after Trump stood trial on dozens of felony charges related to classified documents, Pence called the allegations “a very serious matter.” “I can’t stand for what’s supposed to happen,” Pence, who is now challenging Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, told CNBC. Later in the day, the former vice president faced pointed questions from a conservative radio host after refusing to say whether he would pardon Trump if given the…

Representation of the project that was planned to replace the Public Security Building. (BizSense file) “Insufficient due diligence,” management turnover and a “do-it-yourself attitude” were among the factors that contributed to VCU Health’s costly exit from a downtown development, according to a review of third parties that was presented today. The boards of the health system and Virginia Commonwealth University received the findings of the review from the national law firm Saul Ewing in a closed meeting that lasted four hours. The review represents the first accounting of the project that ended up costing the health system at least $80…

Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that he “cannot defend what is alleged” in the latest indictment against former President Donald Trump, an apparently tougher stance than he had previously taken on the decision by Department of Justice to indict his former running mate. Still, Pence, who said he read the 49-page document over the weekend, reiterated his accusation that the Justice Department deployed a “two-tier system of justice” against Trump, saying that he would stop to give his final judgment until the first. The president has had his day in court. “This indictment contains serious charges and I…

The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate on hold on Wednesday, halting what has been the most aggressive push to suppress inflation since the 1980s. The Fed’s benchmark interest rate remains in a range between 5% and 5.25%. This rate determines what banks pay to borrow money and influences borrowing costs for consumers and businesses. “Given how far we have come in policy tightening, the uncertain lags with which monetary policy affects the economy, and the potential headwinds of credit tightening, today we decided to leave our political interest unchanged,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said. he told reporters…

BOSTON: Two faces dissected for $600. Human brains for $200. “Head #7” for $1,000. A former Harvard Medical School morgue director, his wife and a Peabody business owner are among six people accused of trafficking these and other stolen human remains that were intended to be used by investigators in a grotesque multi-state scheme, with part of the body stolen. pieces sold through Facebook and PayPal and sent through US Postal Service mail, court documents allege. Cedric Lodge, 55, and his wife, Denise Lodge, 63, both of Goffstown, New Hampshire, and Katrina Maclean, 44, of Salem, owners of Kat’s Creepy…

As widely expected, the Federal Reserve held off on another hike in the federal funds rate for June, keeping it in a target range of 5% to 5.25% after 10 consecutive hikes. However, Federal Open Market Committee projections released Wednesday indicated that two more hikes are on the way and that rates could rise to 5.6% by the end of 2023. “Keeping the target range stable at this meeting allows the Committee to assess additional information and its implications for monetary policy,” according to the FOMC statement. However, the FOMC signaled that it could raise the rate again at its…