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Livingston Parish firefighters are responding to a fire at Live Oak Junior High in Watson, Superintendent Joe Murphy confirmed. Photographs of the fire on social media show dark clouds of smoke rising hundreds of feet above the school’s gymnasium near the front of campus. Live Oak Junior High officials also confirmed news of the fire in a Facebook post, saying the school will remain closed until further notice. “Please pray for our school,” the post read. “As many know by now, our front gym is on fire and firefighters are working hard to put it out. “Please stay away and…

The victims of the Northern California fire were all from the Golden State and were between 73 and 82 years old. An undated image of the McKinney fire [Klamath National Forest Photo] The names of four people killed in the McKinney fire were publicly identified Saturday. After next of kin were notified, the US Forest Service – Siskiyou CAL FIRE Unit of the Klamath National Forest and the Siskiyou County Office of Emergency Services released the names. They are: John Cogan, 76, of Klamath River, California; Charles Kays, 79, of Klamath River, Calif.; Judith Kays, 82, of Klamath River, Calif.;…

A woman presented to a Hartford hospital with a gunshot wound while police were responding to reports of a shooting in the city, police said. The woman, in her 20s, arrived at a Hartford hospital around 2 a.m. Saturday as officers responded to the area of ​​673 Maple Ave. for a shooting, according to the Hartford Police Department. The woman was listed in stable condition as of 4:30 a.m. Saturday, police said. The Hartford Police Major Crimes and Crime Scene Divisions were still investigating the shooting. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Hartford Police tip…

PITTSBURGH — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, widely seen as the Republican who poses the biggest threat to Donald J. Trump if both run for president in 2024, stopped by Pennsylvania and Ohio on Friday during a national tour with candidates from the extreme right which was clearly intent on raising its position and gaining political capital with potential future leaders in the battleground states. Before an audience of more than 1,000 people at an event in Pittsburgh nominally intended to help the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano, Mr. DeSantis delivered a 40-minute speech that had the makings…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, often bashes President Joe Biden for high inflation and a looming recession, a popular GOP argument heading into the November election. But inflation is even worse in Texas’ major cities than it is nationwide. Government figures show inflation is 10.2 percent in the Houston area and 9.4 percent around Dallas, higher than the latest national average of 8.5 percent. Abbott and other GOP leaders make a paradoxical argument that the US economy has sunk into a recession, but Republican-led parts of the country are still booming. These officials blame Biden’s policies for skyrocketing…

I laughed the other day when I saw a political spot naming state Rep. Jamie Smith as one of the most liberal members of the Legislature. Well, he’s a Democrat, and I think he’s interested in education and social progress. I guess that makes him a liberal in South Dakota. But in this state, there isn’t much competition for the title of most liberal, especially in the Legislature. It’s loaded with Republicans, and most of them range from fairly conservative to really conservative. I used to report on the Legislature for the newspaper. I did it for 40 years. I…

KENNEDY TOWNSHIP, Pa. – A woman was killed and another person was injured after the car they were traveling in collided head-on with a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus. According to Pittsburgh Regional Transit spokesman Adam Brandolph, the crash happened on McCoy Road at Neville Avenue in Kennedy Township around 4:12 p.m. Friday. Brandolph said the bus, Route 22-McCoy, was traveling inbound when the car hit it head-on. Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. The passenger in the car, identified by the medical examiner’s office as Helen Ringeisen, 54, of Bridgeville, died at a hospital from injuries…