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PSU student admitted to having child porn during polygraph test for internship: Police

Posted on April 29, 2024 | 1 minutes | 148 words | Merlyn Hunt

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (WJAC) — University police say a former Penn State student is facing child pornography charges. According to a criminal complaint, the Federal Bureau of Investigation served a search warrant June 4, 2020 at Atherton Hall, a dormitory-style residency hall on the Penn State University campus. Authorities say the investigation involved now 21-year-old Terry Faber although he was not living at the dorm at the time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [Read More]

Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92

Posted on April 28, 2024 | 9 minutes | 1915 words | Christie Applegate

Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history's most honored short story writers, has died at age 92. A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary prize in 2013, died Monday at home in Port Hope, Ontario. Munro had been in frail health for years and often spoke of retirement, a decision that proved final after the author's 2012 collection, " [Read More]

Families urge acceptance of Biden's Gaza cease-fire proposal as Israel demands conditions

Posted on April 28, 2024 | 5 minutes | 960 words | Christie Applegate

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's prime minister on Saturday called a permanent cease-fire in Gaza a "nonstarter" until long-standing conditions for ending the war are met, appearing to undermine a proposal that U.S. President Joe Bidenhad announced as an Israeli one. The statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office came a day after Biden outlined the plan, and as families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas called for all parties to immediately accept the proposal. [Read More]

Johns Hopkins doctor placed on leave as alleged anti-Palestinian posts surface

Posted on April 28, 2024 | 3 minutes | 515 words | Delta Gatti

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — The director of pediatric cardiac critical care with Johns Hopkins Medicine is on leave after he allegedly posted hate-filled messages on social media. Maryland’s Council on American-Islamic Relations said the posts were made by Dr. Darren Klugman. “We were asked by staff employees at the hospital – physicians who work there – to take action,” said Zainab Chaudry, director for Maryland CAIR. The alleged anti-Palestinian posts surfaced from the beginning of theIsrael-Hamas war in the Middle East. [Read More]

Johnstown Watch | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News

Posted on April 28, 2024 | 1 minutes | 27 words | Barrett Giampaolo

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Meet the first Black female pit crew member for Nascar

Posted on April 28, 2024 | 2 minutes | 250 words | Christie Applegate

ABC7 continues to celebrate Black History Month with yet another story of living black history. Brehanna Daniels broke a major barrier back in 2017. That’s when the Norfolk State University grad became the first black female pit crew member for NASCAR. Daniels, who was a basketball player at Norfolk State, says she was at lunch one day when she got a random heads-up from a friend that NASCAR was holding tryouts at the school. [Read More]

PFBC warns of potential price increase for fishing licenses

Posted on April 28, 2024 | 2 minutes | 377 words | Brenda Moya

Johnstown, PA — The price of fishing licenses could increase in the next year. Channel 6 spoke with an official from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission about the potential price hike and were told the price of a fishing license might increase, for the same reason the price of almost everything else seems to have increased – inflation. At the 152nd Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission meeting Wednesday, the idea of increasing the price of fishing licenses was discussed. [Read More]

4 homicide victims in Clearfield County in 2017

Posted on April 27, 2024 | 2 minutes | 302 words | Barrett Giampaolo

CLEARFIELD - Officials said there were four homicide victims in Clearfield County in 2017. "We ended 2017 with a higher than normal number of intentional deaths," Clearfield County District Attorney Bill Shaw said. According to statistics from the Clearfield County Coroner, there were only two active homicides from 2000-2011, two in 2012, three in 2013, zero in 2014, three in 2015 and one in 2016. “It’s a trend that we don’t like to see," [Read More]

Coroner called to scene of RT 36 crash in Jefferson County

Posted on April 27, 2024 | 1 minutes | 101 words | Barrett Giampaolo

ROSE TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WJAC) — Authorities say a Punxsutawney man is dead after a one-vehicle crash in Jefferson County Tuesday morning. According to state police, the crash happened along State Route 36 just after 11 a.m. when 77-year-old Robert Steel's vehicle failed to negotiate a downhill turn in Rose Township. Troopers say Steel was ejected from his vehicle when it overturned and was pronounced dead at the scene by Jefferson County Coroner Brenda Shumaker. [Read More]

Increased bear sightings in Maryland point to potential permanent habitat

Posted on April 27, 2024 | 3 minutes | 621 words | Christie Applegate

SILVER SPRING, Md. (WJLA) — There has been an uptick of bear sightings in parts of Maryland, according to wildlife officials. Last week, Montgomery Parks shared a photo of a recent bear sighting, captured on a Ring doorbell camera walking through a front yard in Germantown. It came with a warning: bear season. In the past week, at least three bear sightings have been reported in the county -- in the Sligo Creek area of Silver Spring, another near the Northwest Golf course off of Layhill Road, and in Boyds. [Read More]