Health Happenings: Week of Jan. 27
Classes/programs • Excela Health fitness classes for the mind, body and spirit at Westmoreland Hospital,
532 W. Pittsburgh St., Greensburg, unless otherwise noted: — Strength and Tone, 3:30-4:15 p.m. Mondays beginning Feb. 3 — Interval Training, 4:30- 5:30 p.m. Mondays beginning Feb. 3 — Chair Fit, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Mondays beginning...
Grove City College seniors write full-length musical, ‘Antigone & the King’
Grove City College students could be forgiven for not recognizing the name of the musical playing on the Little Theatre of Pew Fine Arts Center at the end of the month. That’s because the full-length musical “Antigone & The King” was written by two Grove City students, Noah Gould and...
Mixed blessing: Social media provides spread of health information, misinformation
Combine the vast power and reach of social media, the unlimited resources of websites and apps, and the unquenchable thirst for health information and motivation. The result is a powerful tool for researchers, health care providers and patients. But like many aspects of the internet, it can be a mixed...
Ben Schmitt: Here’s what I found during my Dry January experience
The concept of Dry January left me a bit wary. I generally savor the post-work beer or cocktail after a long day of juggling breaking news, meetings and headlines. But, like a lot of people, I did my fair share of imbibing over the holiday season. So, after waking Dec....
GOP defends Trump as John Bolton’s book adds pressure for witnessesVideo
WASHINGTON — Senators faced mounting pressure Monday to summon John Bolton to testify at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial even as Trump’s lawyers mostly brushed past extraordinary new allegations from the former national security adviser and focused instead on corruption in Ukraine and historical arguments for acquittal. Outside the Senate...
China reports 25 more virus deaths as U.S. prepares evacuationVideo
BEIJING — China on Tuesday reported 25 more deaths from a new viral disease, raising the total to at least 106, as the U.S. government prepared to fly Americans out of the city at the center of the outbreak. Health authorities in Hubei province, where the coronavirus first was detected...
State Deptartment removes NPR reporter from Pompeo plane
WASHINGTON — The State Department Correspondents’ Association says the State Department has denied a National Public Radio reporter a seat aboard Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s plane for an upcoming trip to Europe and Central Asia. The decision was made a few days after Pompeo lashed out at another NPR...
Ohio police say 15-year-old boy killed while playing video game
PATASKALA, Ohio — An Ohio teen was fatally shot when another teen pointed a gun laser in his eyes to distract him during a video game, and then pulled the trigger, according to authorities. A complaint filed Monday in juvenile court in Licking County in central Ohio charged a 15-year-old...
Trump campaign to deploy Cabinet secretaries, lawmakers, allies to Iowa
The Trump campaign says it will dispatch high-level government appointees to stump in Iowa ahead of the state’s Monday caucuses, setting up potential pitfalls for Cabinet secretaries and other officials bound by ethics restrictions on their politicking. “This goes above and beyond anything I’ve ever seen when it comes to...
Father arrested in killings of 5 of his infant childrenVideo
WOODLAND, Calif. — A California father has been arrested in the decades-old killings of five of his infant children, a case the sheriff said had haunted his agency for years. Paul Perez, 57, was arrested at a state prison in Delano, days before he was expected to be released on...
Remains found in wooded area identified as missing New Jersey womanVideo
OLD BRIDGE, N.J. — Authorities identified remains found in central New Jersey as those of a woman who disappeared from her home last fall, and investigators said Monday that a suicide note left by her ex-boyfriend supported their suspicions that he killed her. The remains of Stephanie Parze, 25, of...
Trump rally on Jersey Shore shows loyalty beyond heartland
WILDWOOD, N.J. — President Donald Trump is holding his next rally in a county with almost no factory jobs to save, a reliance on immigrant workers and an economy built in part by coastal elites who summer there. Cape May County on the southern tip of New Jersey reflects just...
Supreme Court allows enforcement of new green card rule
WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to put in place a policy connecting the use of public benefits with whether immigrants could become permanent residents. The new policy can be used to deny green cards to immigrants over their use of public benefits including...
Nighttime attack on U.S. Embassy in Baghdad injured 1
BAGHDAD — A top U.S. commander said on Monday mortars were used in an attack on the American embassy in Baghdad that injured one person and caused some material damage the previous night, not katyusha rockets as was initially reported by staffers and a statement from the military. Gen. Frank...
Delta Air Lines worker fatally shot in employee parking lot
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. — A Delta Air Lines employee was shot in a company parking lot and later died on the way to a hospital, police said Monday. The shooting happened Sunday night in the lot near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, College Park police said. Officers found 30-year-old Alexis Reed...
Suspect arrested in killing of 1 baby, linked to 4 others
WOODLAND, Calif. — An arrest has been made in the death of an infant whose body was found in 2007 by a fisherman in California, and the person is also suspected in the killings of four other babies, authorities said Monday. The arrest came after the infant found in Woodland-area...
Kobe Bryant’s chopper crashed in fog that grounded other aircraftVideo
CALABASAS, Calif. — The helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others that crashed in the rugged hills outside Los Angeles was flying in foggy weather considered dangerous enough that local police departments had grounded their choppers. The aircraft plunged into a steep hillside Sunday, scattering debris over an area the...
‘I’m being raped’: Harvey Weinstein accuser details alleged assault
NEW YORK — At times sobbing, former production assistant Mimi Haleyi told jurors Monday at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial how she tried to fight off the disgraced movie mogul and told him “no, no, no” while he sexually assaulted her. “I did reject him, but he insisted,” said Haleyi, whose...
Priest in Michigan gets 60 days in jail for bubble wrapping boy
ALLEGAN, Mich. — A Michigan priest accused of wrapping a teenager in bubble wrap was sentenced Monday to 60 days in jail for attempted false imprisonment, prosecutors said. The Rev. Brian Stanley appeared in Allegan County court, two months after pleading guilty in a deal with the attorney general’s office....
Alabama fire chief confirms 8 deaths in boat dock fire
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. — The fire chief in Scottsboro, Ala., says at least eight people were killed in an explosive fire that consumed at least 35 vessels along the Tennessee River. Scottsboro Fire Chief Gene Necklaus said all eight people known to be missing were confirmed dead, and “that number could...
Taliban say mystery crash in Afghanistan was U.S. aircraftVideo
KABUL, Afghanistan — An American military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the U.S. military said, adding that there were no indications so far it’d been brought down by enemy fire. The spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Col. Sonny Leggett, said that the military plane, a Bombardier E-11A,...
GOP defends Trump as Bolton book adds pressure for witnessesVideo
WASHINGTON — Pressure is increasing on senators to call John Bolton to testify at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial after the revelation that a draft of a book by the former national security adviser undercuts a key defense argument — that Trump never tied withholding military aid to Ukraine to...
China virus outbreak rams global tourism, costing billionsVideo
Tourism from China was already weakening even before a new virus forced much of the country into a standstill. With tens of millions of Chinese ordered to stay put and many others opting to avoid travel as the new coronavirus spreads, tourism around the globe is taking a heavy hit...
Pennsylvania watches as Supreme Court considers public support for parochial schools
Pennsylvanians on both sides of the school choice debate watched the U.S. Supreme Court last week for hints of how it could rule in a pivotal case that has implications for the way K-12 education is funded across the nation. Justices heard arguments in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue,...
China extends Lunar New Year holiday as new virus toll risesVideo
BEIJING — China extended its Lunar New Year holiday three more days to discourage people from traveling as it tries to contain the spread of a viral illness that has caused 80 deaths, the government said Monday. There were 2,744 confirmed cases by midnight Sunday, the National Health Commission announced....
