Tropical Storm Bertha crawled into southern Louisiana on Wednesday, making landfall and packing strong winds far from its center after closing beaches from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi. The National Hurricane Center said Bertha made landfall in the afternoon in St. Bernard Parish, ...
WASHINGTON — The House adopted a Republican-only $95 billion budget proposal Wednesday, a long-shot effort to fund the Iran war and other White House priorities over objections from Democrats and a few GOP holdouts in a final push before the midterm elections. House Republicans were divided over the plan, with conservatives wary because there are no offsetting budget cuts. But Speaker Mike Johnson plunged ahead, viewing the go-it-alone process as the best chance to usher President Donald Trump’s priorities through the split Congress, despite skepticism in the Senate. The vote ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday forged a new agreement that could potentially provide the kingdom with uranium enrichment capability for its civilian nuclear program. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Saudi Minister of Energy Abdulaziz bin Salman formally signed the nuclear cooperation agreement, known as a “123 agreement,” alongside what the Trump administration described as a “bilateral safeguards agreement.” The U.S. administration released scant details of the deal, but the framework paves the way for the building of a uranium enrichment ...
A federal district judge in Pittsburgh held a hearing Wednesday on a proposal to drop the death penalty against an Altoona man who has been in prison since 2004 for the stabbing death of his estranged girlfriend. Andre Staton, 63, was tried by a Blair County jury and sentenced to death for ...
JOHNSTOWN — Two Clearfield County men convicted in a 2019 bombing that killed 34-year-old Shawna Carlson of Clearfield were sentenced in federal court on Wednesday to life in prison. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines handed down the sentences to Clint Addleman, 49, and Kris Nevling, ...
EBENSBURG — The family of an Altoona man brutally killed in May 2023 told convicted killer Austin Louis Kline, 26, that he was a monster who should “rot in hell.” Kline showed no emotion during Wednesday’s proceedings, in which Judge Tamara Bernstein handed down a sentence of life in ...
