Новости за 04.10.2017

<br /> &lt;p&gt;x&lt;/p&gt; CLEARFIELD – Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub catered to more international visitors last week when a Japanese-based film production company wanted to take on a world-famous pub burger challenge.  The show’s producers “introduce subjects from overseas that are outstanding or simply surprising to see for the Japanese audience.” The new show will be […]

COALPORT – At the Sept. 25 meeting of the Glendale Education Foundation, the board of directors unanimously approved the donation policy that delineates acceptable requests for funding from teachers and students, as well as foundation-created “awards” given for outstanding student attendance.  Tabled at the April meeting, the policy was co-written between the policy subcommittee and […]

CLEARFIELD – The Clearfield Area School District is alerting local business owners about an apparent scam. According to Superintendent Terry Struble, the caller has been contacting businesses and claiming to be a “project coordinator” who is helping to raise funds for the school through advertisements. “We are not in any way affiliated with this person […]

It took about 10 minutes for Stephen Paddock to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. From his position at a Las Vegas hotel, Paddock fired a barrage of bullets at 22,000 concertgoers below at a country music festival — made possible through what appeared to be meticulous planning. The shooter had […]

Spain’s constitutional crisis deepened Wednesday after the nation’s king lashed out at Catalan’s secessionist leaders in a TV address and the region’s President vowed to declare independence within days. The King said Catalan’s leaders had acted “outside the law”, and demanded they respect the country’s constitution. There were reports that the region’s President Carles Puigdemont […]

1. Equifax grilling: Equifax will be on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second day of hearings over its massive security breach. The hack of the credit reporting company compromised some of the most sensitive personal information of up to 145.5 million Americans. “The criminal hack happened on my watch… I take full responsibility,” former […]

The signs that he was spiraling downward were everywhere. They appeared in his scribbles in red marker all over his apartment walls. They materialized when he stripped down to his skivvies at a happy hour, after winning a court case while sporting a new mohawk. And they screamed out as he raced around New York […]

CLEARFIELD – Lawrence Township police Officers Jonathan Walker, Elliott Neeper and Craig Kanour were commended during yesterday’s Lawrence Township Supervisors’ meeting. Walker was especially noted for his response during a fire at Lawrence Park Village last week when he entered the apartment six times in order to rescue the tenant. Supervisor Chairman Randy Powell suggested […]

A GoFundMe account raising funds for the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas had collected nearly $8.4 million as of early Wednesday morning. The GoFundMe page was created by Steve Sisolak, the Clark County Commission chair from Las Vegas, who started the fund-raiser off with a donation of $10,000. “We are raising funds […]

President Donald Trump, hours after visiting Puerto Rico to survey the damage wrought by Hurricane Maria, returns to the role of comforter-in-chief when he visits Las Vegas on Wednesday, days after the deadliest shooting in modern American history. The visit will be Trump’s second trip to soothe national concerns in as many days, with the […]

The girlfriend of the Las Vegas shooter has returned to the United States, a law enforcement source told CNN. Marilou Danley flew from the Philippines and landed at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday evening. She is being accompanied by the FBI in Los Angeles, where Las Vegas police plan to question her, the source […]

It’s not organized military opposition to President Donald Trump. But day by day, generals and admirals are publicly stepping up and directly giving the American public their views in ways that don’t always match the Twitter rhetoric of their commander in chief. Nowhere was that made clearer than in the recent video of Air Force […]

President Trump on Tuesday raised the prospect of wiping out hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico’s crushing debt load. “They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street. We will have to wipe that out,” Trump told Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera in an interview in San Juan, the Puerto Rican capital. The U.S. territory has […]

We know that Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock assembled a small arsenal in room 32135 of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, where investigators found 23 weapons, including multiple rifles and a handgun. What kinds of guns were they? Authorities haven’t told us yet. But the sounds of gunfire from videos of the attacks offer […]

When a gunman started firing into a crowd of concertgoers in Las Vegas on Sunday night, Iraq war veteran Taylor Winston thought on his feet. Bullets were flying. People were injured. Winston saw a truck with the keys still inside in a lot near the venue, and didn’t hesitate to jump into action, he told […]

Uber has stripped power from its founder and former CEO, Travis Kalanick, part of an ongoing struggle to move past a scandal-plagued mess at the company. The ride-hailing behemoth’s directors on Tuesday unanimously approved a host of changes to the way Uber will be run. Among them, the already massive board of 11 will increase […]

If, at any earlier time in his career, anyone had suggested to Jimmy Kimmel that people would someday be citing him as the conscience of the nation, he would surely have done the world’s greatest spit-take. But just a couple of weeks after his emotional stand against the latest Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, […]

A number of Russian-linked Facebook ads specifically targeted Michigan and Wisconsin, two states crucial to Donald Trump’s victory last November, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the situation. Some of the Russian ads appeared highly sophisticated in their targeting of key demographic groups in areas of the states that turned out to be […]

[Breaking news update, published at 9:43 p.m. ET] Authorities on Tuesday released the first body camera footage of police responding to the Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas. Officers were seen hunkering down behind a wall facing Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino after an initial volley of shots fired by the gunman later identified as […]

Semiautomatic assault weapons are not protected by the Second Amendment. The federal government and the states can outlaw them, a point underscored by none other than the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who emphasized that the Second Amendment protects gun ownership of the types of arms that were “in common use” in 1791, when the Second […]

Congressional Democrats are eying unlikely bedfellow President Donald Trump as a potential game changer in the push to combat gun violence, pointing to some of his past statements in favor of gun control and his recent deal-making with Democrats. It’s an idea loaded with skepticism, but some Democrats — desperate for any kind of action […]

The Treasury Department’s inspector general is reviewing yet another trip by a senior Trump administration official. This time it’s for a flight taken by a top aide for Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. On Tuesday, Rich Delmar, the Treasury Department’s inspector general counsel, said his office would investigate a trip to Florida taken by Eli Miller, […]

The Justice Department has released a trove of decades-old internal legal memos concluding the President should be legally barred from appointing a relative to a position in the White House, shedding new light on just how sharp a departure the department’s more recent interpretation of federal law under the Trump administration compares to past practice. […]

In the wake of one of the worst massacres in modern American history, our government’s highest leaders will be silent about why things like this keep happening. “Warmest condolences” will be tweeted to families of those who lost their lives, minutes of mourning will pass and murmurs of mental health issues and lone-wolf actors will […]

The VA’s inspector general is reviewing Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin’s July business trip to London and Denmark, which included meetings with Danish and UK officials as well as a stop at Wimbledon. It’s now the fifth investigation into a member of the Trump administration’s travel by a department inspector general. Shulkin joins Environmental Protection […]