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Early voting begins

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HENRICO, Va. (AP) — In-person voting for this year’s midterm elections began Friday, ushering in the final six weeks for Americans to decide which party they trust to lead Congress through a cost-of-living crisis, a prolonged war in Iran and other pressing issues. Election administrators say they are prepared and confident the vote will be accurate and secure. Friday was the start of early voting in Virginia. Voters in a few other states, including Minnesota and South Dakota, can cast absentee ballots in person, typically at a local election office or voting center. More ...

New Enterprise woman sentenced on theft, firearms charges

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A New Enterprise woman who broke into her former boyfriend’s Clearfield home and took a firearm was sentenced Tuesday to county prison by President Judge Paul E. Cherry, according to a report by The Progress. Danyel Nicole Brallier, 51, pleaded guilty to felony charges of theft by unlawful ...

Border wall going up in west Texas

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COMSTOCK, Texas — The Trump administration has started building the border wall through a west Texas section of the Big Bend region, marking the first major construction in an area of the U.S.-Mexico border where the administration’s plans have met heavy opposition. The start of construction marks an important milestone in the administration’s $46 billion plan to line the border with walls, barriers, roads and technology as it seeks to make good on a key campaign promise by President Donald Trump to finish the wall. And it comes as Customs and Border Protection says it has ...

Trump: All states joining Medicaid drug pricing model

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that all 50 states will join in on a program set to provide Most Favored Nation pricing to some drugs within the Medicaid program, bringing the net price of selected drugs down to prices paid in certain other countries. The Trump administration claims that Medicaid will save billions on prescription drug costs as a result of the plan, dubbed the Medicaid “GENEROUS” model. Experts say the savings are unclear since the content of the deals isn’t public. “This one thing alone should win us the midterms,” Trump told ...

Daily Briefing

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District of columbia Testosterone testing mandatory for troops WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has rolled out formal guidance for mandatory testosterone testing for male service members 30 and older. The policy leaves out women for now and faces questions from medical experts about the need for such a program. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in July that a new program to screen troops for “testosterone deficiency” was necessary to allow them to operate at their “absolute best.” The new clinical guidance was released late Thursday. It clarifies that the mandatory ...

Intergovernmental Stormwater Committee exceeds requirement for sediment reduction

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During the past seven years, the Intergovernmental Stormwater Committee has exceeded its requirement to reduce the amount of sediment that annually flows into area streams by more than 700,000 pounds per year, according to ISC stormwater coordinator Chelsey Weyant. The requirement of the seven-year Department of Environmental Protection permit cycle — initially five years long — was to shrink the amount of sediment washed into area streams in the committee’s nine-municipality urbanized area in central Blair County by 1.4 million pounds per year. That represented a 10% ...