An 18-year-old Towanda youth received minor injuries in a
one vehicle accident that occurred on State route 6 in Standing Stone Township
on Sunday. State Police say that Anthony Kipling was driving a 1996 Jeep
Cherokee when he lost control of the vehicle going off the road and struck
several trees. The vehicle had to be towed from the scene. Kipling and a minor
passenger received minor injuries.
A license plate was reported missing to State Police at
North Towanda. 24-year-old Kelsey Marie Corbett reported the theft to State
Police from her 1988 Mercury Marquis. The vehicle was parked at the Kerryview
trailer Court on State Route 14 in Columbia Township at the time of the theft.
State Police at North Towanda are investigating the
discharge of a firearm that caused damages to a home on the Simcoe Road in
Smithfield township, Someone fired a bullet into an unoccupied home owned by 53
year old Mark Leary of Oakford Pennsylvania causing damages to an exterior wall
and 2 interior walls. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to
contact State Police.
A resident at the Red Rock Job Corp Center in Colley
Township, Sullivan County was attacked by 4 thugs who then removed a
playstation portable game from him. State police at Laporte are investigating
the incident.
Sections of Route 287 and Route 1024 in Tioga County will be
resurfaced under a contract starting this week. A 3.2-mile section of Route 287 from Morris to Antrim Road will
be resurfaced. A 3.4-mile section of
Route 1024 through Tioga Township, which includes portions of Mitchell Creek
Road and Button Hill Road (east of Route 15), will be resurfaced. The work
includes roadway base repairs, drainage improvements and several layers of new
blacktop. There will be occasional
short-term delays due to single-lane traffic and changing traffic
patterns. Glenn O. Hawbaker, Inc. is
the primary contractor for this $1,184, 320 project. The work is scheduled to be completed by late September.
A contractor doing work at the NEB School in Orwell Township
has filed an attempted theft complaint with State Police at North Towanda. TRS
Roofing of Williamsburg Pennsylvania told troopers that on Saturday someone
tried to steal a EZ dumper trailer from their work site. A toolbox was damaged
during the incident. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to
contact State Police at North Towanda.
An attempted break-in at the Advance Auto in the Bradford
Towne Center in Wysox Township was brought to the attention of State Police.
Officials from the store found that someone tried to get in the back door and
in the process damaged the door and the lock assembly. Damages were estimated
at just over one hundred and fifty dollars.
There may be a buffalo on the loose in the Town of Erin and
Baldwin area of Chemung County. That's according to the animal's owner, Richard
Bennett of Chapman Road in Erin. Bennett says that two buffalo escaped his
property about a week ago. One returned, but the other is still out there.
Bennett has expressed concern for the animal's safety, because buffalo tend to
travel in packs. State Police based in Horseheads confirm that Bennett did
report the missing buffalo, but there is no open investigation because troopers
lack the means to take down an animal of that size. A spokesman for the barracks said the pair of buffalo was last
seen near Monkey Run Road in Erin before the one returned on Thursday of last
week. There has since been no sighting of the second buffalo. With any
information, you're asked to call State Police based in Horseheads.
Starting Thursday, today, public access to Elmira City Hall
will be limited to the front Church Street entrance as part of a City effort to
improve security procedures for visitors, employees, and members of the media. During
regular business hours – 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday – all
visitors must enter City Hall from the Church Street entrance and pass through
a metal detector. In addition, all personal belongings will pass through an
X-ray scanner, according to Kimberlee
Balok Middaugh, Deputy City Manager. Security officers also will be on hand for
evening meetings.
The
Bradford County boy whose body was discovered in March died of accidental
drowning, according to an announcement Wednesday from the Bradford County Coroner's
Office. State police identified the boy in March as 15-year-old Devon Charles
Marcy of Monroeton. His body was found March 12 on an island in Towanda Creek,
about a half-mile upstream from the South Towanda Bridge in Towanda Township.
The boy was reported missing several days before his body was found. Bradford
County Coroner Thomas Carman ruled the death accidental after reviewing the
autopsy results.
A date for the murder trial of Steven C. Colegrove will
likely be set at a court hearing next week. Prosecutors
and defense lawyers are scheduled to appear before Bradford County Judge
Jeffrey Smith in Common Pleas Count at 9:15 a.m. July 29. One
purpose of the hearing is to set a date for a jury trial. Another is to allow
defense lawyers to waive Colegrove's right to a speedy trial, to allow more
time for trial preparations. The 32 year old Colegrove, of Deposit, east of
Binghamton, faces trial on three counts of criminal homicide stemming from the
Aug. 8 2007 shooting deaths of his parents, longtime Laceyville Fire Chief
Joseph Colegrove, and Marlene
Colegrove, a bus driver for the
Wyalusing Area School District, and a brother, Michael Colegrove, who lived with his parents. All three
died in their bedrooms of shotgun wounds to the head. Steven
Colegrove pleaded innocent to the charges last September, and his defense
lawyers, Bradford County Public Defender Helen Stolinas and William Miele of
Williamsport, asked for a jury trial.
Pennsylvania Game Commission
Executive Director Carl G. Roe offered support for Senate Bill 1527, sponsored
by state Sen. Charles T. McIlhinney Jr. (R-Bucks), Senate Game and Fisheries
Committee chair, which proposes to increase certain license fees beginning with
the 2009-10 license year. Roe said that “If approved, this license fee increase
will enable the agency to restore pheasant production and stocking to 200,000
birds for small game hunting, move forward with planned habitat improvement
projects stalled due to sky-rocketing fuel and fertilizer costs, and fill
vacancies throughout the agency so that we can fulfill our wildlife protection,
research and habitat improvement mission.”
DOLLY
SLAMS TEXAS… Hurricane
Dolly slammed into the South Texas coast yesterday with winds of up to 100 MPH
and heavy rains. Officials had been
worried that the storm would dump up to 20 inches of rain in the Rio Grande
Valley, possibly breaching aging levees in the area. But the storm veered 35 miles north of the border shortly before
coming ashore, sparing the levees from the brunt of the storm. The resort town of South Padre Island took
the brunt of the storm.
MORTGAGE RESCUE PASSES HOUSE… The
mortgage rescue bill sailed through the House of Representatives yesterday,
just hours after President Bush dropped his opposition to it. The bill passed 272-151 and now heads to the
Senate were it is expected to pass this week.
The bill provides $3.9 billion in grants to hard hit urban communities,
$15 billion in tax credits for home buyers and up to $25 billion in bailout
funds for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
MINIMUM WAGE UP TODAY… About 2 million Americans will get a raise today when the
federal minimum wage goes up from $5.85 to $6.55. The Labor and Commerce Departments say the .70 cent raise will
not even cover the 5% increase in food prices last month along with a 25%
increase in fuel prices. The federal
minimum wage will go up to $7.25 next year.
CELL PHONES AND CANCER?… The head of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
has issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff to limit their
cell phone use because of a possible cancer risk. Dr. Ronald Herberman’s warning is contrary to previous studies
that found no link between cell phone use and cancer. But Dr. Herberman said he based his warning on early results from
a new studies. He says children should
only use cell phones in emergencies because their brains are still developing
and that adults who use them often should use a speakerphone rather than hold
the phone next to their heads.
GATES/BLOOMBERG FIGHT SMOKING… Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg have decided to
pool some of their considerable resources to help fight smoking in developing
countries. The billionaire
philanthropists have donated $375 million to support projects that raise
tobacco taxes, help smokers quit, ban tobacco advertising and protect
nonsmokers from exposure to smoke.
MORTGAGE CRISIS TURNS DEADLY… The mortgage crisis turned deadly this week when a
Massachusetts woman killed herself on the day her home was to be auction in a
foreclosure sale. 53-year-old Carlene
Balderrama faxed her mortgage company a letter, which read in pat, “By the time
you foreclose on my house I’ll be dead.”
The mortgage company called police who arrived at the house to find
Balderrama dead of a single gunshot wound.
A suicide note near the body told her husband and son to use her life
insurance to pay off the house. A
family friend said that Balderrama handled the family finances and the husband
had no idea the house was set to be auctioned.
TOYOTA
TOPS GM… Toyota topped longtime champion General Motors in
worldwide auto sales in the first half of 2008. Toyota sold 4,817,941 vehicles in the first half of the year,
277,532 more than GM. Toyota’s
worldwide sales rose 2% over last year, while GM’s fell 3%. Toyota also beat GM in the first half of
last year, but GM battled back to win the annual sales race for the 77th
straight year.
Nascar News
In
what has become an annual tradition, NASCAR changed the rules in midseason
yesterday to try to even out the competition.
This time the order came for all teams in the Nationwide series using
Toyota engines to knock 15 horsepower off their engines. Toyota has won 14 of the 21 Nationwide races
so far this season.
Sam
Hornish Jr. said Tuesday that nobody has spoken to him about moving from Penske
Racing's #77 Dodge to replace the departing #12-Ryan Newman next season, and
that he has no idea who will ultimately end up in the ride. Sources close to
the situation continue to tell Sirius Speedway that David Stremme is the leading
candidate for the ride, but whether or not those sources are correct, it seems
likely that Stremme will find his way back to the Sprint Cup ranks next season,
one way or another. Stremme has turned down a number of offers to return to the
Sprint Cup Series this season -- holding out for a ride that he feels is
capable of running up front -- while serving as a test driver for Penske
Racing.
Yet
another option for career advancement landed on Stremme's doorstep Tuesday,
when an executive for ABC/ESPN confirmed that Rusty Wallace could continue as a
network analyst if he moves his race team to the Sprint Cup Series. ESPN Vice
President of Motorsports Rich Feinberg said that while the network did not
allow Wallace to own a Cup team when he was first hired in 2006, the addition
of team owners Ray Evernham and Brad Daugherty to the lineup has prompted a
change in policy. Feinberg said, "The choice for Rusty to go into Cup
racing is Rusty's, and we have relayed our position to him on that." Wallace
has not yet commented publically on the possibility of RWI jumping to Cup in
the near future. But if he does, Stremme will obviously be at the top of his
list of potential drivers.(Motorsports
Soapbox)
Tony
Stewart is donating bulletproof, stab-proof vests to police dogs in Indiana and
four other states. Stewart, a Columbus native, donated the money to provide 30
vests for the Indiana State Police K-9 unit and 10 for police dogs waiting for
vests in Georgia, New Mexico, North Carolina and Minnesota. Susie Jean of
Socorro, N.M., requested a grant from the Tony Stewart Foundation for vests for
the 14 dogs currently in the Indiana State Police unit. Stewart upped the amount
to cover more vests upon learning the state police unit was expanding to 30
dogs. The vests cost $695 each, according to Jean's Web site, meaning 40 vests
would total nearly $28,000. Stewart will present the vests to state police
Thursday at O'Reilly Raceway Park in Clermont.(Associated
Press/Indianapolis Star
This
weeks Brickyard 400 will be heard Sunday afternoon at 1pm on Wiggle 100.
Live coverage of the Power Stroke Diesel 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race
at O’Reilly Raceway Park will begin
at 7:30 p.m Friday. (ET).
MRN Radio’s live coverage of the Kroger 200 NASCAR Nationwide
Series race at O’Reilly Raceway
Park will start at 7:30 p.m Saturday. (ET).
The Friday Night Craftsman Truck
Series and the Saturday Night Nationwide Series Races will be heard on Am 1310
WTZN & AM 1550 WTTC.
ON THIS DAY... 206th day of the year… 160 days left…
In 1996, Virginia
Christine, Mrs. Olson on the Folgers coffee commercials, dies.
In 1984,
Terry Bradshaw retires from the NFL after 14 years and four Super Bowl
championships with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
In 1974,
the Supreme Court voted unanimously that President Nixon should turn over his
White House audiotapes to the Watergate special prosecutor…
In 1969,
Apollo 11 returned to Earth after making the first successful moon landing…
In 1969,
Muhammad Ali was convicted for refusing induction into the U.S. Army...
In 1959, Vice President Richard M.
Nixon engaged in a “Kitchen Debate” in Moscow with Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev on the merits of their countries’ political-economic systems…
In 1938, Instant coffee is invented.
In 1862, Martin Van Buren, 8th president, dies.
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