Local theater to participate in National Cinema Day
Johnstown, PA (WJAC) — Movie theaters all across the country, and right here in our area, are getting ready to celebrate National Cinema Day on Saturday September 3rd. Last year, movie theaters celebrated Cinema Week as a way to get people back into the theaters, which featured exclusive content and events. This year, for the first time, theaters are celebrating National Cinema Day.
"Cinema day is a new one where they got all of the film companies to agree that we could charge only $3 per ticket on Saturday for all of the new movies,"
2nd escaped inmate captured after breaking out of Philadelphia prison
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal marshals fugitive task force has recaptured the second of two inmates who escaped from a Philadelphia prison earlier this month, a man who had been held on charges in four slayings, authorities said.
Ameen Hurst, 18, was taken into custody at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in west Philadelphia, according to Robert Clark, supervisory deputy of the U.S. Marshals Service in the eastern district of Pennsylvania. Authorities had been working with the family since Tuesday evening to have Hurst surrender, but several deadlines for that to happen had come and gone, Clark said.
All charges dropped against former Westmont teacher accused of raping student
CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — Cambria County District Attorney Greg Neugebauer confirmed to 6 News that the second, and only remaining, criminal charge against former Westmont elementary school teacher Shawn Miller was dropped at the end of last year.
The charge for Victim 2 was filed in May 2022, and accused Miller of another count of Indecent Assault of a child under 13 years old.
As 6 News reported in July of last year, the charges against Miller for Victim 1 were dismissed.
Chabad at Penn State lights up State College with 'Menorah Parade'
Chabad at Penn State hosts weekly dinners and events all year long for Jewish students. rabbi Hershy Guorarie says they that started doing the menorah parade back in 2020.
He tells me that they have given out hundreds of menorahs this year to students so that they can light the candles as if they were at home.
“There’s something powerful about light, it brings back memories of home and it brings hope, it brings a lot of hope where Jews are going through a tough time now, and the message of Hanukkah is the best way to fight darkness is by adding light,” said Rabbi Hershy.
Huntingdon Commissioner candidate charged in domestic dispute
HUNTINGDON COUNTY, Pa. — A woman running for Huntingdon County commissioner is accused of strangling her daughter during an argument on Friday, authorities say.
According to a criminal complaint, Andrea Speck, 41, became angry with her daughter for an unknown reason when her daughter got home from work.
The criminal complaint states that Speck began yelling at her daughter after leading her into her bedroom before striking her in the head from behind.
Rafah strike kills dozens of Palestinians, Netanyahu acknowledges 'tragic mistake'
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged Monday that a “tragic mistake” had been made after an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah set fire to a tent camp housing displaced Palestinians and killed at least 45 people, according to local officials.
Israel has faced surging international criticism over its war with Hamas, with even some of its closest allies, particularly the United States, expressing outrage at civilian deaths.
TikTok offered US deal in 2022, federal officials said no. Why?
WASHINGTON (TND) — As a possible U.S. ban inches closer for the popular video app TikTok, a deal that the app sent to the U.S. Government back in 2022 is now resurfacing. Included in the deal, known as "Project Texas," TikTok would have given the Biden Administration control over its U.S. operations. But the administration said no. "Basically it gave the U.S. certain kinds of safeguards as to TikTok's business practices,"
California Senate passes bill that could threaten anonymity, free speech online
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (The Center Square) — The California Senate passed a bill requiring social media age verification that experts warn threatens anonymity and free speech online for all Americans.
SB 976 would ban social media notifications to minors during school hours and between 12:00 AM and 6:00 AM without parental consent, require chronological, not algorithmic social media feed presented to minors without parental consent, and only allow these features if a social media company has "
DuBois woman supplied meth to 12-year-old, child attended school under influence: Police
CLEARFIELD COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — Police say a DuBois woman provided methamphetamine to a 12-year-old child.
According to the City of DuBois Police Department, 37-year-old Amanda Coder faces charges related to endangering the welfare of children along with corruption of minors.
Police say they were called in Sept. for reports of Coder possibly providing or smoking meth with the child at her Quarry Ave. Apartment.
They say Children and Youth Services were contacted and found traces of meth in the child’s urine but neither the child, nor Coder disclosed why the drug would have been present.
Gwyneth Paltrow standing trial in Utah following skiing lawsuit in 2019
PARK CITY, Utah (KUTV) — Gwyneth Paltrow is standing trial on Tuesday for an incident at a Utah ski resort that prompted a skier's lawsuit.
The trial is happening in Third District Court in Park City at 9 a.m. and is expected to last about a week.
The $3.9 million hit-and-run lawsuit was filed in 2019 by a Utah man who claimed he sustained a brain injury, in addition to multiple broken bones, after Paltrow crashed into him on the Deer Valley Resort slopes in 2016.