AP Headlines 10/27/18
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and his Republican challenger, U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, dueled over guns, immigration and the economy in their second and final debate. Friday’s hour-long debate taped at KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh featured several sharp exchanges. It was to be broadcast Friday night and made available to other stations. The 58-year-old Casey, of Scranton, is seeking a third six-year term in Nov. 6’s election. The 62-year-old Barletta is a fourth-term congressman from Hazelton. Barletta has badly lagged Casey in fundraising and polls, making it a low-profile race in a state President Trump won in 2016. Casey is a critic of Trump’s tax-cutting law and immigration policies, and opposed Trump’s Supreme Court nominees. Barletta is one of Trump’s biggest allies on Capitol Hill, and is endorsed by the president.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A panel that considers allegations of misconduct against Pennsylvania lawyers is clearing Penn State’s former general counsel for how she represented university officials during the child sexual abuse investigation of Jerry Sandusky. A disciplinary board hearing committee said Friday the Office of Disciplinary Counsel didn’t prove Cynthia Baldwin committed professional misconduct or that her work was incompetent. The board says she properly disclosed potential conflicts and the Penn State officials “effectively consented” to being represented jointly. It says she didn’t violate attorney-client privilege when she accompanied athletic director Tim Curley, vice president Gary Schultz and president Graham Spanier to grand jury appearances in 2011, before Sandusky was charged with child molestation. Her lawyer says Baldwin fulfilled her ethical responsibilities and hopes the decision ends any professional criticism of her.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal prosecutor in Pennsylvania investigating priest-abuse complaints has asked a national bishops group and Roman Catholic dioceses across the U.S. to preserve their files related to sexual abuse complaints. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops confirms it received the letter from U.S. Attorney William McSwain this month and forwarded it to member dioceses at his request. The group’s general counsel, Anthony Picarello, says in a statement Friday that the conference distributed the letter “in the spirit of cooperation with law enforcement.” The letter is dated Oct. 9, the same day McSwain sent criminal grand jury subpoenas asking dioceses in Pennsylvania to turn over their sex-abuse files dating back to 2001. The other U.S. dioceses are being asked not to destroy files, but they don’t yet have to turn them over.
STEELTON, Pa. (AP) — Police in Pennsylvania have charged four adults after an officer spotted a toddler running across the street carrying an open beer. WHP-TV reports an officer in the borough of Steelton was on patrol earlier this month when he saw two children under the age of two running across a street without shoes on. The officer then noticed one of the children was also carrying a full, open beer. Four people have been charged with endangering the welfare of children in the borough just south of Harrisburg.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Robert De Niro is calling on people to vote in light of the series of bombs addressed to targets of right-wing anger. In a statement released by his publicist on Friday, the actor says “There’s something more powerful than bombs, and that’s your vote. People must vote!” A suspicious package containing what authorities described as a crude pipe bomb was discovered at De Niro’s New York City office on Thursday. De Niro says he is thankful no one was hurt. He also thanked “the brave and resourceful security and law enforcement people for protecting us.” The Oscar-winner has been one of Trump’s most vocal critics, dropping an expletive insult at Trump at this year’s Tony Awards and also apologizing to Canadians for the “idiotic behavior of my president.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News Channel personality who made a rocky transition to softer news at NBC, was fired from her morning show Friday after triggering a furor by suggesting it was OK for white people to wear blackface at Halloween. “‘Megyn Kelly Today’ is not returning,” NBC News said in a statement. The show occupied the fourth hour of NBC’s “Today” program, a time slot that will be hosted by other co-anchors next week, the network said. NBC didn’t address Kelly’s future at the network. But negotiations over her exit from NBC are underway, according to a person familiar with the talks who wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Bryan Freedman, an attorney for Kelly, said in a statement that she “remains an employee of NBC News and discussions about next steps are continuing.” He did not elaborate.
CLEVELAND (AP) — A passenger says a Greyhound bus driver on a trip to New York City got lost in Cleveland and drove in circles for several hours before returning to the city’s terminal. WOIO-TV reports Arin Choo says he and other passengers began asking the driver questions Tuesday night when they noticed seeing the same sights over and over again. Choo says the driver eventually conceded he was lost and returned to the Cleveland bus terminal where he dropped off two passengers he claimed were disruptive. Choo says the passengers were just trying to be helpful and wondered why the driver didn’t have GPS. The bus arrived in New York City around noon Wednesday, 4 ½ hours late. A Greyhound spokeswoman told The Associated Press the company is looking into the matter.
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Just in time for Halloween, a rare “corpse flower” that gets its nickname from its putrid smell is expected to bloom next week at Dartmouth College’s greenhouse. Named Morphy, the titan arum is native to Sumatra’s equatorial rainforests and has a long, pointy stalk with a skirt-like covering and tiny yellow flowers at its base. It blooms just for several days. When it does, it has an odor described as rotting flesh, a decaying animal or even soiled baby diapers. The plant is decorated with bats, spiders and an arm reaching out of the soil, holding a sign that says, “Help me!”
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Scores & Skeds
Friday’s high school football scores
Berwick 55, Wilkes-Barre Coughlin 7
Halifax 20, Pine Grove 16
High School of the Future 52, Prep Charter 0
Jersey Shore 40, Central Mountain 14
Juniata 28, Newport 19
Lewisburg 56, Mifflinburg 18
Loyalsock 48, South Williamsport 12
Midd-West 31, Tunkhannock 20
Milton 23, Shikellamy 7
Montgomery 40, Bucktail 0
Montoursville 10, Selinsgrove 7
Mount Carmel 28, Shamokin 7
Muncy 13, Hughesville 10
Penns Valley 56, Philipsburg-Osceola 7
Southern Columbia 49, Danville 7
Upper Dauphin 37, Line Mountain 22
Warrior Run 22, Columbia-Montour 6
Williams Valley 28, Millersburg 7
Wyoming Valley West 46, Williamsport 21
UNDATED (AP) — No. 17 Penn State will have a say in who plays for the Big Ten championship even if it is unlikely to be the Nittany Lions. No. 18 Iowa comes to State College, Pennsylvania, on Saturday in the first of three straight games for Penn State against division contenders. The Hawkeyes are part of a logjam near the top of the Big Ten West standings, with four teams having one loss halfway through the season. Penn State gets Iowa then No. 6 Michigan and No. 20 Wisconsin over the next three weeks. Penn State plays on WKOK and WKOK.com at 2pm today.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Max Muncy’s blast ended the longest World Series game in major league history. Muncy launched a home run to left-center in the bottom of the 18th to give the Dodgers a 3-2 win over the Red Sox. The blast gets the Dodgers within two games to one in the Fall Classic. The game lasted a-record 7 hours and 20 minutes and blew away the previous mark for innings. Game 4 is Saturday in Los Angeles.
Muncy’s walk-off homer came off Nathan Eovaldi (eh-VAHL’-dee), who threw six stellar innings of relief. Eovaldi allowed just one earned run and three hits over six-plus innings. The Red Sox could have won it in 13 innings. Dodgers reliever Scott Alexander threw away an infield single by Eduardo Nunez, allowing Brock Holt to score the tiebreaking run. But Ian Kinsler returned the favor by making a wide throw to first on Yasiel Puig’s (YAH’-see-ul pweegz) infield single in the bottom half, sending Max Muncy home with the tying run. The first two runs came courtesy of the longball. Joc Pederson opened the scoring with a third-inning homer, and the Dodgers retained the lead until Jackie Bradley Jr. went deep in the eighth. Lost in the marathon was the work of Dodgers starter Walker Buehler (BYOO’-lur), who gave up two hits in seven scoreless innings.
UNDATED (AP) — Robert Wickens is paralyzed from the chest down from injuries suffered in an August crash at Pocono Raceway. The IndyCar driver has been updating his rehabilitation progress on social media and posted a video Thursday in which he confirmed for the first time he is a paraplegic. The 29-year-old Canadian crashed at Pocono on Aug. 19 and suffered a number of injuries, including a thoracic spinal fracture, spinal cord injury, neck fracture, fractures to both legs and a pulmonary contusion.
SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, England (AP) — Philadelphia Eagles coach Doug Pederson said after the 21-17 loss to the Carolina Panthers that his players would galvanize over the rest of the season and grow closer. What better way to achieve that goal than to have them spend nearly four days together in a foreign country? The Eagles play on 1070AM WKOK Sunday at 9am, and all Eagles games are on our sister station Eagle 107.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers are bracing themselves for Cleveland rookie quarterback Baker Mayfield when the Browns visit Heinz Field. Mayfield will be the eighth different starting quarterback for Cleveland in its past eight trips to Pittsburgh, where the Browns haven’t won since 2003. Cleveland has dropped 24 straight road games, the second-longest streak in NFL history. The teams fought to an ugly 21-all tie in Week 1. The Steelers turned it over six times in the game. The Steelers play on our sister station 100.9 The Valley.
Here are the scores from yesterday’s sports events:
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INTERLEAGUE
Final L-A Dodgers 3 Boston 2, 18 Innings
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NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final Charlotte 135 Chicago 106
Final Toronto 116 Dallas 107
Final Golden State 128 N-Y Knicks 100
Final L.A. Clippers 133 Houston 113
Final Milwaukee 125 Minnesota 95
Final New Orleans 117 Brooklyn 115
Final Sacramento 116 Washington 112
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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final Tampa Bay 3 Vegas 2
Final SO Carolina 4 San Jose 3
Final Winnipeg 2 Detroit 1
Final Colorado 6 Ottawa 3
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TOP-25 COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Final (23) Utah 41 UCLA 10
TODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE
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INTERLEAGUE
Boston at L-A Dodgers 8:09 p.m.
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NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Boston at Detroit 7:00 p.m.
Utah at New Orleans 7:00 p.m.
Charlotte at Philadelphia 7:30 p.m.
Chicago at Atlanta 7:30 p.m.
Indiana at Cleveland 7:30 p.m.
Portland at Miami 8:00 p.m.
Phoenix at Memphis 8:00 p.m.
Orlando at Milwaukee 8:30 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at San Antonio 8:30 p.m.
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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Florida at New Jersey 12:00 p.m.
N-Y Islanders at Philadelphia 1:00 p.m.
Edmonton at Nashville 3:00 p.m.
Washington at Calgary 4:00 p.m.
Buffalo at Columbus 7:00 p.m.
Winnipeg at Toronto 7:00 p.m.
Montreal at Boston 7:00 p.m.
Colorado at Minnesota 8:00 p.m.
Chicago at St. Louis 8:00 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Arizona 9:00 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Vancouver 10:00 p.m.
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TOP-25 COLLEGE FOOTBALL
(2) Clemson at Florida St. 12:00 p.m.
(3) Notre Dame at Navy 8:00 p.m.
(6) Texas at Oklahoma St. 8:00 p.m.
(9) Florida at (7) Georgia 3:30 p.m.
Kansas St. at (8) Oklahoma 3:30 p.m.
(12) Kentucky at Missouri 4:00 p.m.
(14) Washington St. at (24) Stanford 7:00 p.m.
(15) Washington at California 6:30 p.m.
(16) Texas A&M at Mississippi St. 7:00 p.m.
(18) Iowa at (17) Penn St. 3:30 p.m.
(19) Oregon at Arizona 10:30 p.m.
(20) Wisconsin at Northwestern 12:00 p.m.
(21) South Florida at Houston 3:30 p.m.
(22) NC State at Syracuse 7:00 p.m..
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