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Push on to name Highland Park disc golf course for volunteer

The Central Blair Recreation and Park Commission will consider whether to name the disc golf course at Highland Park after an Altoona man who died unexpectedly in October 2024 at age 32. As a youth, Mason Ingram was a leader among a group of friends who called themselves the Cool Aid Kids — individuals who remain friends today as a “found family,” according to Tracy Lynn and Alice Oswald, who came before the commission board bearing a petition with 26 signatures. “The Cool Aid Kids follow in Mason’s mission to be the kind of adults that he needed when he was young,” Lynn ...

House energy chair drafts data center bill

The House energy committee chair is drafting legislation to give statutory teeth to some recent state actions to regulate data centers. A proposal by Majority Chair Elizabeth Fiedler, D-Philadelphia, addresses Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Aug. 18 executive order on data centers and actions by the state Public Utility Commission (PUC). “If a data center requires new generation, transmission, distribution or other grid infrastructure, the costs should be borne by the companies creating that demand — not spread across Pennsylvania’s existing electricity customers,” said Fiedler in a ...

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Nation Florida Polo intensifies to hurricane MIAMI — Hurricane Polo will rapidly intensify in the Pacific Ocean and become a major hurricane later this week, forecasters said Monday. Polo could bring heavy rain, rough surf and tropical-storm-force winds to parts of Mexico late Tuesday into early Wednesday, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. Missouri Appeals court favors Trump map JEFFERSON CITY — A long-running legal fight over Missouri’s congressional map took another turn Monday when a federal appeals panel ruled in favor of new districts backed by ...

Strikes kill 28 Afghan militants, three civilians

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani fighter jets on Monday struck sites in eastern Afghanistan that Pakistani officials described as suspected militant hideouts. Pakistan said 28 militants were killed, while authorities in Kabul reported at least three civilian deaths. The strikes near the countries’ ...

Man shot, detained by ICE has bullet in back

AUSTIN, Texas — A Venezuelan man shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was in custody Monday at an ICE detention center in Texas after he was released from a hospital with a bullet still lodged in his back, the man’s attorney said. Speaking by phone during a news ...