Penn State Blue-White Game sees tailgaters party through downpour
Posted on May 14, 2024
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| Christie Applegate
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (WJAC) — Folks flocked to Happy Valley on Saturday to watch the annual Penn State Blue-White Game in Beaver Stadium.
It's been a few months since Nittany Nation has witnessed any football. So, it goes without saying that there was a ton of excitement in the air for the Blue-White Game. But the rain in the air is certainly did not tamping down on the gameday fun.
[Read More]50 more Fine Wine & Good Spirits Stores can begin in-store public access on Friday
Posted on May 13, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
Harrisburg, PA — The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board announced today that 50 additional Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores in counties designated in the yellow phase of the state's COVID-19 reopening plan will resume limited in-store public access. Beginning Friday, May 22, 2020, the additional stores will open while abiding by guidance for businesses issued by the Wolf Administration detailing social distancing requirements and other best practices in the interest of public health and safety.
[Read More]Centre Co. libraries reopen, with new restrictions in place
Posted on May 13, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
CENTRE CO, Pa (WJAC) — The Centre County libraries in Bellefonte, Centre Hall and Philipsburg reopened on Monday, with restrictions and guidelines in place.
They all closed back in March because of the pandemic, then in June they began to offer "lobby service" where customers could order books and pick them up.
Some of the changes you'll see at the facilities include plexi-glass windows at the checkout counters, less tables and chairs to prevent overcrowding, and people wearing masks.
[Read More]Jerry Seinfeld's wife blasts Duke students who protested 'Jewish commencement speaker'
Posted on May 13, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
DURHAM, N.C. (TND) — Jessica Seinfeld, the wife of comedian Jerry Seinfeld, applauded her husband's supporters Sunday following his commencement speech for Duke University.
Dozens of graduates walked out of the ceremony as the comedian took the stage to deliver his address. Other attendees booed, which Jessica Seinfeld said was directed toward the protesters, who she suggested disapproved of her husband’s Jewish identity.
Jessica Seinfeld also claimed the rest of the graduates were responsible for the cheers that followed the walkout.
[Read More]Lange to retire from full-time play-by-play
Posted on May 13, 2024
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| Delta Gatti
PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh Penguins Hall of Fame broadcaster Mike Lange announced today that he will not return to the radio booth for play-by-play duties, but will remain a part of the Penguins Radio Network. Fans will continue to hear Lange’s voice during radio appearances and various Penguins programming.
Lange, 73, missed the majority of the past season out of an abundance of caution during the pandemic while awaiting the COVID-19 vaccine.
[Read More]State College fire company makes history with first all-female attack line response
Posted on May 13, 2024
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| Merlyn Hunt
Three firefighters from Alpha fire company in State College responded to a fire call in College Township last Thursday.
What sounds like normal procedure turned into history as all three firefighters in the attack line were women.
One of the firefighters Talia Chaloch said they have been seeing more women in each class that comes in.
Chaloch told 6 News how every firefighter at Alpha is treated the same way.
[Read More]Trump touts pro-gun owner bona fides, bashes Biden and RFK Jr. at NRA convention
Posted on May 13, 2024
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| Christie Applegate
DALLAS (AP) — Former President Donald Trump urged gun owners to vote in the 2024 election as he addressed thousands of members of the National Rifle Association, which officially endorsed him just before Trump took the stage at their annual meeting in Texas on Saturday.
“We’ve got to get gun owners to vote," Trump said a day after campaigning in Minnesota in the midst of his criminal hush money trial. “I think you’re a rebellious bunch.
[Read More]Centre County YMCA Has Free Milk Saturday, Food Giveaway in Philipsburg
Posted on May 12, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
PHILIPSBURG/CENTRE COUNTY, Pa — The Centre County YMCA held a number of Free Milk Saturday drives in Centre County Saturday morning. They were preceded by their food distribution event that they do biweekly on Saturdays.
The giveaways began at the Moshannon Valley Enterprise Center in Philipsburg, and they gave away jugs of milk at several locations in the area, including a number of fire halls in Philipsburg.
Mel Curtis, the Director of Anti-Hunger Programs at the Centre County YMCA, says as time goes on, each distribution has been getting busier.
[Read More]Judge's order reopens questions about what Paterno knew when
Posted on May 12, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
PHILADELPHIA (AP) A new legal document that claims a boy told Joe Paterno in 1976 that Jerry Sandusky had molested him has dropped like a bombshell and reignited debate about what the Penn State coach knew about his longtime assistant decades before his arrest.
Details of the testimony remain hidden inside a sealed deposition in Penn State's court fight with the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Insurance Company.
Paterno family members immediately dismissed the accusation, and even an attorney for victims of Sandusky cautioned that he did not know of irrefutable evidence supporting the claim.
[Read More]Just 2 witnesses and then Donald Trump's defense rested? Experts say that's not unusual
Posted on May 12, 2024
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| Merlyn Hunt
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal team rested its case Tuesday in his hush money trial after calling just two witnesses and opting not to have the former president take the stand in his own defense.
But despite what Hollywood courtroom dramas might suggest, that isn’t all that unusual, according to criminal defense lawyers and former prosecutors.
The reason is simple: Prosecutors need to prove their case, while the defense only has to show there’s reasonable doubt their client committed a crime.
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