High court could halt move toward leniency for kids who kill
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is suggesting it could halt what has been a gradual move toward more leniency for children who are convicted of murder. In cases over more than a decade, the court has concluded that children should be treated differently from adults, in part because of their lack of maturity. But the court, which has become more conservative over the last few years, could decide not to go any further. The justices on Tuesday were hearing a case about sentencing juveniles to life without parole. The court has previously said that should be rare, and the question before the justices has to do with what courts must do before deciding to impose a life without parole sentence on a juvenile.

Justice Barrett joins Supreme Court arguments for first time
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — She didn’t have to wear a black robe or even be in Washington, but Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined her new colleagues at the Supreme Court on Monday to hear arguments for the first time. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the high court began hearing cases by phone in May. That meant the public didn’t see the new justice Monday, but at the beginning of the day’s arguments Chief Justice John Roberts welcomed her publicly to her new role with the traditional greeting. He wished her “a long and happy career in our common calling.”

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered U.S. Postal Service inspectors to sweep more than two dozen mail processing facilities for lingering mail-in ballots and for those ballots to be sent out immediately.

The order, which includes centers in central Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, south Florida and parts of Wisconsin, comes after national delivery delays leading up to the election and concerns the agency wouldn’t be able to deliver ballots on time.

The Postal Service’s ability to handle the surge of mail-in ballots became a concern after its new leader, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major GOP donor, implemented a series of policy changes that delayed mail nationwide this summer. Delivery times have since rebounded but have consistently remained below the agency’s internal goals of having more than 95% of first-class mail delivered within five days, with service in some battleground areas severely lagging, according to postal data.

Long lines, enthusiasm but no major problems as US votes
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press
Voters in the U.S. are marking the end of a fraught U.S. election season at the polls. They’re casting the last of what will likely be a record-setting number of ballots. At least 101.9 million people voted early, meaning turnout is expected to reach record levels despite a global pandemic that has upended long-established election procedures and triggered hundreds of lawsuits. Problems occur every election, and this one is no different. There were long lines early in the day and sporadic reports of polling places opening late and equipment issues in counties in Georgia and Ohio. This was all expected given past experience and the issues created by the pandemic.

(Hopewell Twp. Pa.) The Hopewell Township Municipal Building saw 61% of their voters by noon today.  A few voters came out and said there was no waiting in line.

(Aliquippa, Pa.) Main Street hill off of Franklin Avenue is closed, and Superior Avenue off of Sheffield Avenue are closed to traffic due to work being done in those areas.

More Americans on diets from a decade ago, report finds
By CANDICE CHOI Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — More Americans said they’re on diets to lose weight or for other health reasons compared with a decade ago. That’s according to a report Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found 17% of American adults surveyed during 2017 and 2018 said they were on special diets, compared with 14% a decade earlier. Experts say the increase isn’t surprising given the prevalence and increase of obesity and obesity related diseases. The report notes that about half of American adults have diet-related chronic conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease.

Turkish rescuers pull girl from rubble 4 days after quake
By MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press
IZMIR, TURKEY (AP) — Rescuers in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir have pulled a young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece. The girl was identified by officials as 3-year-old Ayda Gezgin. She was seen being taken into an ambulance on Tuesday, wrapped in a thermal blanket, amid the sounds of cheers and applause from rescue workers. The death toll in the earthquake reached 112, after rescuers retrieved more bodies elsewhere. The U.S. Geological Survey registered the quake’s magnitude at 7.0, though other agencies recorded it as less severe.

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Pittsburgh, PA – PennDOT District 11 is announcing slide repair work on a third slide on Bradys Run Road (Route 4012) in Brighton Township, Beaver County, will begin Wednesday, November 4 weather permitting.

Slide repair work will begin at 7 a.m. Wednesday requiring the closure of Bradys Run Road between Route 51 (Constitution Boulevard) and Achortown Road. Crews from A. Folino Construction, Inc. will conduct work on the nearly $1.50 million slide remediation project which also includes pavement restoration, guiderail updates, drainagae upgrades, sign and pavement marking installation, and other miscellaneous construction activities. To allow the work to occur, Bradys Run Road will close to traffic in the slide area continuously through late February 2021.

All traffic will be detoured.

Posted Detour

West of the Slide

• From Bradys Run Road, turn left onto Park Road (Route 4018)
• Park Road becomes Dutch Ridge Road
• Turn left onto Wildwood Road (Route 4033)
• Turn left onto Route 51
• Follow Route 51 back to Bradys Run Road
• End detour

East of the Slide

• Same detour in the opposite direction

Motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras.

511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional Twitter alerts accessible on the 511PA website.