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Victim advocacy groups urge timely budget

Domestic violence and sexual assault survivor advocates gathered in the Pennsylvania Capitol rotunda on Tuesday, calling on legislators to pass the state budget on time with survivors’ needs at the forefront and warning of the consequences of last year’s stalemate. The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence is advocating for an increase in the Department of Human Services domestic violence line item of $8 million to bring the total to $31 million. The Pennsylvania Coalition to Advance Respect is calling for an increase in the DHS rape crisis line item of $12.5 million to ...

Summer solstice

This is the sun’s time to shine: Sunday is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Sunday is the solstice, marking the start of astronomical summer north of the equator. It’s the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the shortest day of the year and winter will ...

Lake Altoona, Impounding Dam rubber dams in good shape

A recent inspection of the inflatable rubber dams installed seven years ago atop the spillways for Lake Altoona and the Impounding Dam near Horseshoe Curve showed the rubber dams are in fundamentally good condition and could last another 25 or 30 years, according to authority General Manager Mark Perry. That “good news” assuages authority fears that the rubber dams would need replaced far sooner than would normally be expected, due to recent cracking and leakage of air, as reported at a meeting in May. The cracking of the rubber atop the Impounding Dam, however, is only ...

Rural King seeks dismissal of suit filed by Clearfield County woman

The parent corporation of a Clearfield firearms store has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the mother of a murder victim, who claims the company and the store had a duty to prevent the alleged “straw purchase” of the gun used in the killing. The lawsuit was filed ...

Mangione reverses course on psychiatric defense

In a stunning reversal, Luigi Mangione’s lawyers told a judge Thursday that he will no longer be asserting a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The retraction came just a day after Mangione’s lawyers told Judge Gregory ...