Pittsburgh, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), Pennsylvania State Police (PSP), and Moon Township Police Department hosted an aggressive driving enforcement event today to remind motorists of the dangers that result from aggressive behavior behind the wheel.

The partners teamed up along Business Loop 376 in Moon Township, Allegheny County to conduct aggressive driving enforcement. The corridor is one of many where police often find aggressive motorists behind the wheel.

Aggressive driving is one of the leading factors of highway crashes and fatalities in Pennsylvania. Police will target drivers demonstrating unsafe behaviors such as speeding, texting, careless driving, work zone safety violations and any other aggressive driving actions.
This mobilization also comes in time for motorists to prepare for the upcoming school year. By practicing safe behaviors now, drivers can get into the habit of being especially cautious in residential areas and school zones.

According to PennDOT data, in 2022 there were 7,248 aggressive driving related crashes statewide. Also last year, there were 3,688 speed-related crashes, which is the top offense law enforcement sees in aggressive driving citations.

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), speeding fatalities have continued to increase, rising 17 percent from 2019 to 2020 and another estimated 5 percent from 2020 to 2021. Additionally, NHTSA reports in 2020, there were 11,258 people killed in speeding-related traffic crashes, and speeding was a contributing factor in 29 percent of all fatal crashes nationally.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressman Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17) and Senator Bob Casey joined with colleagues in the House and Senate to introduce a bipartisan concurrent resolution calling for the immediate release of Marc Fogel. Fogel is a U.S. citizen and career educator who Russia has imprisoned since August 2021 for carrying roughly half an ounce of medical marijuana, for which he had a medical prescription. The resolution urges the Biden Administration to prioritize securing the release of Mr. Fogel—an Oakmont resident and constituent of Rep. Deluzio’s—as well as all other U.S. citizens and permanent residents who Russia has wrongfully detained.

Other bipartisan co-sponsors of the House and Senate include, Representatives Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA-14), Dwight Evans (D-PA-03), Brendan Boyle (D-PA-02), Mike Kelly (R-PA-16), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), Madeleine Dean (D-PA-04), Susan Wild (D-PA-07), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-05), Dan Meuser (R-PA-09), Mike Thompson (R-PA-15), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-06), Matt Cartwright (D-PA-08), Summer Lee (D-PA-12), Ryan Zinke (R-MT-01), and Senators Steve Daines (R-MT), Jon Tester (D-MT), and John Fetterman (D-PA).

“We cannot sit by while Putin’s Russia plays political games with the lives of Americans like my Western Pennsylvania constituent Marc Fogel,” said Representative Deluzio. “Marc faces unjust and disproportionate charges for possession of his legally prescribed medical marijuana. Further, I am concerned that he is living in abysmal and harsh conditions that could threaten his health. We have got to bring Marc home. I am proud to join with Senator Casey and my colleagues to introduce this resolution to both amplify Marc’s story and grow support on Capitol Hill for his safe and speedy release.”

“Marc Fogel has devoted his life to educating students around the world, from Pittsburgh to Oman to Venezuela to Moscow. Because of what can only be understood as a political ploy by Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime, he was unjustly sentenced to 14 years in a Russian maximum-security penal colony,” said Senator Casey. “Marc is a loving father and dedicated teacher whose life is in danger. I urge President Biden and his administration to do everything possible to bring Marc home.”

“This week marks another year Marc Fogel will spend his birthday unjustly imprisoned in a Russian penal colony instead of with his loving family in the Pittsburgh area,” said Representative Reschenthaler. “It’s past time for the Biden administration to bring Marc home and reunite him with his loved ones.”

In his first term in Congress, Representative Deluzio has been pushing the Biden Administration to prioritize Marc Fogel’s case. He has called for the State Department to designate Mr. Fogel as “wrongfully detained” and introduced the bipartisan Marc Fogel Act alongside other House members in the Pennsylvania delegation. Congressman Deluzio and his staff have also met with members of the Fogel family. He will keep fighting to bring attention to Mr. Fogel’s case and to build public and political support to bring him home.

 (Beaver Falls, PA) The American Red Cross will be holding a blood drive in Beaver Falls at Broadhead Apartments located at 712 12th Street. The drive will take place on Tuesday, August 8 from 11:00 AM – 04:30 PM. People can sign up by going to redcrossblood.org and searching for BROADHEAD or calling 1-800 RED CROSS. Those who come to give are eligible for a $20 egift card while supplies last as long as a valid email is on file in the Red Cross system.

FILE – Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, walks from Marine One upon arrival at Fort McNair, June 25, 2023, in Washington. Hunter Biden is expected to appear before a federal judge Wednesday, July 26 to plead guilty to two tax crimes and admit to possessing a gun as a drug user in a deal with the Justice Department that is likely going to spare him time behind bars. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter is expected to appear before a federal judge in Delaware to plead guilty to two tax crimes and admit possessing a gun as a drug user. The anticipated pleas Wednesday are part of a deal with the Justice Department that’ll likely spare Hunter Biden time behind bars. U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika was appointed by then-President Donald Trump and will preside over the hearing. The judge must sign off on the deal, in which prosecutors will recommend two years of probation. The deal was announced last month and ended a long-running Justice Department investigation into the taxes and foreign business dealings of the president’s second son.

In this image provide by NOAA, the sun shines on coral showing sign of bleaching at Cheeca Rocks off the coast of Islamorada, Fla., on July 23, 2023. Scientists have seen devastating effects from prolonged hot water surrounding Florida — coral bleaching and some death. (Andrew Ibarra/NOAA via AP)

The water temperature on the tip of Florida hit hot tub levels, exceeding 100 degrees two days in a row, which meteorologists say could potentially be the hottest seawater ever measured. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says weather records for sea water temperature are unofficial and there are certain conditions in this reading that could disqualify it for a top mark, but the initial reading on a buoy at Manatee Bay hit 101.1 degrees Monday evening. And just 26 miles away, scientists saw devastating effects from prolonged hot water surrounding Florida — coral bleaching and some death.

FILE – Cars for sale line the road at a used auto dealership in Philadelphia, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. The Federal Reserve’s expected move Wednesday, July 26, 2023, to raise interest rates for the 11th time could once again send ripple effects across the economy. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, FILE)

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s expected move Wednesday to raise interest rates for the 11th time could once again send ripple effects across the economy. Perhaps no one has felt the pain more than car buyers. It’s not just that sticker prices are way up. Or that lenders have tightened credit standards. On top of all that, steadily higher auto loan rates have elbowed many would-be buyers out of the market. A study by the New York Federal Reserve has found that 14% of applicants for auto loans were rejected over the past year — the highest such proportion since the New York Fed began tracking the figure in 2013 — up from 9% in February.

FILE – Students walk through Harvard Yard, April 27, 2022, on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. On Monday, July 24, 2023, the U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into Harvard University’s policies on legacy admissions, which give an edge to applicants with family ties to alumni. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into Harvard University’s policies on legacy admissions, which give an edge to applicants with family ties to alumni. Top colleges’ preferential treatment of children of alumni has been facing new scrutiny since the Supreme Court last month struck down the use of affirmative action as a tool to diversify college campuses. The department notified Lawyers for Civil Rights, a nonprofit based in Boston, on Monday that it was investigating the group’s claim that the university “discriminates on the basis of race by using donor and legacy preferences in its undergraduate admissions process.”

PITTSBURGH, PA (July 26, 2023)…International Big Mac Day is Wednesday, August 2. The annual celebration is held on the birthdate of Jim Delligatii, the world-famous sandwich’s inventor.

 

Delligatti began test-marketing the seven-ingredient sandwich at his restaurant in Uniontown on April 22, 1967.  Customer response was so good, he soon introduced the sandwich at three more of his restaurants in Pittsburgh.  It debuted nationally in 1968.

 

Approximately 550 million Big Mac sandwiches are now sold each year in America alone. The sandwich is currently sold in more than 100 countries around the world.

 

Perhaps Delligatti’s most tasteful addition to the Big Mac was the famous secret sauce.  Having worked in the restaurant business for many years, he was familiar with the typical Russian dressing used for many sandwiches.  However, he knew the sauce for the Big Mac had to be something special.

 

“I would make the sauce in the restaurant by hand, mixing all the ingredients together myself.  It was hard work, but the customers loved it,” Delligatti once explained.

 

Many Americans today can still recite (in under four seconds) the seven-ingredient, tongue-twisting jingle featured in a 1974 Big Mac television ad campaign: Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun.

The sandwich also inspired The Economist Magazine’s “Big Mac Index,” an annual comparison of foreign currency values against the U.S. Dollar.

A Star of David hangs from a fence outside the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood on Thursday, July 13, 2023, the day a federal jury announced they had found Robert Bowers, who in 2018 killed 11 people at the synagogue, eligible for the death penalty. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Lawyers for the gunman who killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue have requested a court order to exhume the body of his long-dead father. Robert Bowers’ lawyers said Tuesday that they want the body exhumed for a DNA test after federal prosecutors raised questions about paternity. Bowers has already been convicted in the 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue. A federal jury now has to decide whether to sentence him to death or life in prison without parole. The defense is trying to show that Bowers has a family history of mental illness and has introduced evidence that his father, Randall Bowers, was diagnosed with schizophrenia.