FAWN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a dispute between two teenage boys on a school bus in western Pennsylvania ended in a street brawl involving a crowbar that left one teen critically injured. The two Highlands School District students, ages 14 and 17, were arguing on the bus Tuesday when the older teen opened the emergency exit and ran out when the bus stopped on a road in Fawn. Authorities say the younger boy followed, grabbing a crowbar that was mounted near the bus driver. The older teen eventually got control of the crowbar and repeatedly hit the younger boy in the stomach and head, causing several skull fractures and other injuries.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4TH, 2020

 

 

TODAY – CLOUDY WITH PERIODS OF RAIN THIS
AFTERNOON. HIGH NEAR 50.

TONIGHT – A FEW CLOUDS. A FEW FLURRIES OR SNOW
SHOWERS POSSIBLE. LOW – 27.

THURSDAY – PARTLY SUNNY SKIES. HIGH – 51.

DENVER (AP) — Today is Super Tuesday, the biggest day of the primary calendar. Fourteen states vote in primaries from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including the two most populous states, California and Texas. There are some key questions ahead of Tuesday’s vote. Can Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders put it away? Super Tuesday represents his biggest chance to prove his case. Does former Vice President Joe Biden emerge as the clear alternative, now that former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar have dropped out? And does former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s billions in ad spending move votes? It will be his first time on the ballot in the 2020 race.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Deadly storms left treacherous conditions in at least two of the 14 states where residents were going to vote on Super Tuesday. Some polling sites in Nashville were relocated at the last minute and sites across Nashville and in Davidson and Wilson counties opened an hour late. In rural central Alabama, high winds howled and the National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for at least five counties. The storms knocked out the power at at least one polling site, leaving voters to make their selections by flashlight.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tornadoes ripped across Tennessee overnight, shredding at least 40 buildings in the Nashville area and 100 more east of the city as it killed at least 22 people. One twister damaged damaged a 10-mile stretch of Nashville early Tuesday, leaving blown-down walls and roofs, snapped power lines, huge broken trees, and city streets in gridlock. Another wiped out much of a subdivision in Putnam County, where the sheriff says more survivors could be trapped in the rubble of their homes. Damaged polling stations have been closed, forcing Super Tuesday voters to wait in long lines at other sites. President Donald Trump said he’d visit the area Friday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal appeals court judges in New Orleans have questioned whether they can rule that the United States’ men-only military draft registration is unconstitutional. Members of a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel noted a 1981 Supreme Court ruling upholding male-only draft registration. A men’s rights organization argued Tuesday ‘before the three-judge panel that the circumstances on which that ruling was based changed drastically in 2015 when women were allowed combat roles. The appeals court panel is considering whether to uphold a lower court ruling that said excluding women from draft registration is unconstitutional.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Some lawmakers in South Carolina are pushing a bill that would give death row inmates no choice but to be executed in the electric chair. The state has allowed lethal injection since 1995 and 36 of the 39 inmates put to death since then have chosen that method. But South Carolina hasn’t had an execution since 2011. Its supply of lethal injection drugs expired and pharmaceutical companies won’t sell the state any more. Opponents of the bill in the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday say the electric chair is barbaric and changing the method after a prisoner is sent to death row could open the state up to lawsuits.

(Photos of Karma Jackson in the AJSHS office, taken by Sandy Giordano)

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