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The crash happened about 12:20 a.m. Tuesday, when 25-year-old Krista M. Rambeau of Altoona drove across the oncoming lane while driving on Valley Avenue, drove off the road and crashed into a fence before coming to a stop on a property at 900 Edison Ave., according to Logan Township police.
Police said Rambeau smelled of alcohol and was arrested for suspected DUI after attempting field sobriety tests.
Rambeau was wearing a seat belt and was not injured in the one-vehicle crash.
The Bedford Joint Municipal Authority soon will select an engineering firm for its proposed plan to extend the Bedford Heritage Trail from Fort Bedford Park to Old Bedford Village and Friendship Village.
The selected firm will prepare necessary trail easements along Davidson Street and Clearfield Avenue, create detailed construction design drawings and obtain required construction permits.
The authority will apply for construction funds to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and PennDOT to build the trail in two or three phases.
The first phase will be to construct the segment between Fort Bedford Park to Davidson Street. The next phases will be for construction on Clearfield Avenue and the north end of properties owned by Dave Fulton and the Williams Family Partnership.
Representatives of the 43 Mexican students who disappeared in Sept. 2014 after being attacked by masked individuals and being arrested by municipal police visited Austin to ask for the community's support.
Mario Gonzalez Contreras has been desperately searching for his son for two years.
Cesar Manuel Gonzalez Hernandez was among the 43 students that disappeared from the southern Mexican city of Iguala in September 2014 after being attacked by masked men and arrested by municipal police officers who are suspected of being linked with local drug gangs. The case of the missing students, who were social ac...
But two years after the disappearances, the students are still missing and their parents are no closer to answers than they were when investigations began. On top of that, the Mexican government’s version of events – that drug gangs had killed and burned the bodies of the 43 students in a trash heap – has been disprove...
Gonzalez Contreras, who was on a three-day stop in Austin, is part of three groups representing the parents of the missing students who are touring the United States to urge people on this side of the border to call for justice in the case.
During a 90-minute event at UT, the parents denounced the Mexican government for botching the investigation into the missing students and blamed media outlets for protecting government interests – the two biggest television stations in the country, Televisa and TV Azteca, are largely seen as pro-government and tend to ...
Without the backing of its government, the parents have turned to the international community, relying on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the United Nations and activists across the world that continue to advocate for the Mexican government to investigate and provide answers for the disappearance of the ...
On Tuesday, the group will hold another talk at the Jones Auditorium in St. Edward’s University before departing to Dallas.
It looks like Sony is on a roll with discontinuing legacy recording formats. First it killed the cassette Walkman last year, a few weeks ago it stopped producing MiniDisc Walkmans and now the company announced that it will no longer support the 8mm video format. The video cassette format that was popular way back in th...
Face it – not everyone has a “modern” cellphone in this day and age, and people still use regular telephones to make phone calls – if rates are cheaper and connections are more stable, why not right? But what if you had an out of date phone and had to record a phone conversation say for the purpose of an interview?
WALSH, Bridget (Bridie) (nee McHugh). Native of Dunmore Co.Galway, Eire. Formally of Mt Albert. Passed peacefully on 11 September 2018, surrounded by loving family. Loved wife of the late Jim. Cherished and respected mother of Richard, Martin, Eugene, Mary and Carmel. Mother-in-law of Kay, Tim and the late Josephine. T...
"Deepest sympathy. Bridie was such an amazing woman who looked after all us backpackers from the northern hemisphere,..."
The Central Americans will play Netherlands in the quarter-finals after beating Greece 5-3 despite their red card.
Costa Rica secured a place in the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time on after beating Greece 5-3 on penalties after the teams finished level at 1-1 after extra time, the Central Americans playing for almost an hour with 10 men.
Costa Rica keeper Keylor Navas dived to superbly save Theofanis Gekas's fourth penalty for the Greeks, leaving Michael Umana to stroke home the decisive kick.
After a dire first half the game came to life in the 52nd minute when an unmarked Bryan Ruiz placed a low sidefooted shot beyond Greek keeper Orestis Karnezis and into the corner, but Costa Rica then had defender Oscar Duarte sent off for a second booking in the 66th minute.
Greece, who made it into the last 16 after an injury-time winner against Ivory Coast, again struck in added time when Gekas unleashed a shot that Navas parried straight into the path of Sokratis Papasthathopoulos who gleefully rammed into an empty net.
Greece almost snatched a 2-1 win moments later when Kostas Mitroglou had a header tipped over but though they had the best of extra time they were unable to press home their advantage and paid the price in their first shootout.
Costa Rica's only previous appearance in the last 16 came 24 years ago. They now face the Netherlands with a place in the semi-finals at stake.
Play suspended because of darkness with 60 players still to finish their round.
Andy Sullivan took the clubhouse lead at the Abu Dhabi Championship on 10 under as bad light cut short the second round with 60 players still to finish.
Sullivan began with three birdies in a row and ended the same way for a 67.
First-round leader Bryson DeChambeau only made it to the turn, while Rory McIlroy, Ricky Fowler and Jordan Spieth reached the 13th.
DeChambeau is one off the pace, McIlroy and Fowler are five back and Speith is seven in arrears.
The start of play was delayed by two hours and 45 minutes because of thick fog, and the second round will be completed on Saturday, when the third round will also be played.
It was a frustrating day for Northern Ireland's McIlroy, who carded 12 pars and a bogey, with the latter coming at the ninth when he pushed his drive into rocks on the edge of a lake.
World number one Spieth bogeyed the fourth and fifth, but birdied the 10th to ease concerns about missing the cut in his first regular European Tour event.
Sullivan, a former shelf-stacker from Nuneaton, is looking to play himself into Darren Clarke's Europe team for the Ryder Cup later this year.
The 29-year-old won all three of the matches he played under Clarke's captaincy in Malaysia last week, as Europe beat Asia to win the EurAsia Cup.
He is fourth in the European qualification standings, which will be enough for a Ryder Cup place if he stays there.
He said: "I got off to a flying start but to dig deep and finish the way I did after struggling for four or five holes puts me in good stead for the rest of the tournament.
"I've used that momentum from last week and that was just a little taster of what the Ryder Cup would be like. That's going to be 10-fold. Last week gave me more desire to put my name in the mix."
And up. And up. And up more.
The Turnbull government has confirmed that from 2018 university fees will increase, and students will be forced to pay their Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) debts sooner, with current and former students being impacted by the changes.
Meanwhile, the idea of fee deregulation has been scrapped, as has a long mooted 20% cut to the sector.
Instead universities will suffer a 2.5% cut in funding in 2018 and 2019.
The cost of university degrees is going up.
Under the Turnbull government's changes, by 2021 university course fees will have risen by 7.5% based on today's fees.
Next year, fees will increase by 1.8%. That means the total cost of a four-year degree will increase by $2,000-$3,600.
The maximum any student will pay for a four-year HELP-supported degree is $50,000.
The most expensive qualifications under the changes will be a six-year medical degree, and the maximum a university could charge a student for this course is $75,000, with the taxpayer funding the remaining $137,300.
Students will have to pay their debts back sooner after they graduate.
Currently students have to start paying back their HELP loans when their annual income after graduating reaches just under $55,000. The percentage they pay back then rises as their income rises.
The government will lower the repayment threshold to $42,000 from July 2018, with a 1% repayment rate.
There will also be a new maximum threshold of $119,882, with a repayment rate of 10%.
Then from July 2019, the indexation of those thresholds will be linked to the consumer price index, instead of average weekly earnings.
Students will have to pay for a larger share of their HELP debt and taxpayers will fork out for a smaller share.
Currently the cost of every degree is shared between students and taxpayers.
The share that students will pay on their fees will increase from 42% to 46% and the share paid by taxpayers will drop from 58% to 54%.
From 2019 federal funding to universities will be tied to "performance requirements".
Next year 7.5% of a university's funding from the federal government will be contingent on universities hitting "performance requirements" for admissions and financial transparency.
From 2019 further hurdles will be introduced in relation to student retention and success.
Universities will be forced to release the employment and income statistics for graduates of each degree.
It will be a real time survey released by the Education Department and Australian Tax Office about graduates from every university around the country.
Fifteen million dollars will be spent over four years to set up eight community owned regional study hubs.
Two regional study hubs are already underway, in Geraldton and Cooma, and a feasibility study is looking at a third, in the Pilbara.
Kiwis will get access to HELP loans when they study at Aussie universities from next year.
Most permanent residents and New Zealand citizens living in Australia will gain access to HELP loans from January next year.
Currently they can study at Australian universities but face upfront fees and can't access loans.
From the Fool Them Once file: If the Rangers trade Chris Kreider to a Western Conference team, then general manager Jeff Gorton must attach a clause to the deal through which the Blueshirts would receive additional value — say, in the form of a first-round draft choice — should Kid K be sent back east within three year...
It is impossible to recall a trade of a support player backfiring as badly on a team as the Carl Hagelin deal has blown up in the Blueshirts’ faces. Not only did the Rangers lose a unique, and thus far irreplaceable, piece of the puzzle who personified a large part of their identity as a speed team under coach Alain Vi...
This turn of events has to make the Rangers sick. All of it: the negligible return from Anaheim in the trade, which materialized out of thin air at last year’s entry draft and was completed within about five minutes; the switcheroo to Pittsburgh in mid-January after Hagelin had failed to adapt to Anaheim (or the Ducks ...
There is no doubt the Rangers knew they had lost something important when they sent Hagelin away under the duress of attempting to manage a sticky cap situation. But it is not clear they understood how vital a cog Hagelin was to their success, and it certainly is not clear that they worked at maximizing the return for ...
Rarely is the presence or absence of one individual determinative in hockey, and pretty much never when that individual is a third-line forward, but the Blueshirts’ penalty killing crashed without Hagelin — 26th this year after being ranked sixth and third in the previous two seasons with Vigneault behind the bench — a...
Now Hagelin is in Pittsburgh, six victories away from the Stanley Cup, playing on perhaps the tournament’s most dynamic line, and with three years remaining on his contract, through which he can torment the Rangers.
Now Hagelin is in Pittsburgh, where the Rangers never would have chosen to send him, while Ryan Gropp may or may not be on the way to New York at some point in the next few years.
Which is fair warning to Gorton why, if the Rangers move Kreider this summer, the GM had best protect the franchise in case No. 20 winds up some place like Philadelphia or Brooklyn next winter.
Regardless of where this winds up for the Blues, could GM Doug Armstrong realistically expect David Backes to even approximate his level of excellence in this tournament going forward on a new five- or six-year deal?
“Loyalty” comes at a price that tolls under the cap, with teams, rather than players, who wind up paying for it. (Players merely pay up to 18 percent escrow.) Hence, it does not seem realistic for the Blues to sign their captain to an extension in lieu of allowing him to hit the market on July 1.
Does anyone imagine Armstrong or Ken Hitchcock reviewing their team and identifying Rick Nash as the missing link? Didn’t think so.
It is not quite Glenn Healy replacing Mike Richter, but Jake Allen for Brian Elliott, now?
Indeed, it has become the goaltender controversy round. Mike Sullivan didn’t ask me (shocking, isn’t it?), but after Friday night, it is Marc-Andre Fleury’s world and Matt Murray is just living in it.
The tougher call would belong to Jon Cooper, who has Andrei Vasilevskiy playing at top form while Ben Bishop attempts to return from a leg injury — the third straight year Tampa Bay’s No. 1 has dealt with an injury during the playoffs.
And who waives his no-move first? Bishop, with one year to go before free agency, or Fleury, who has four years remaining on his contract, and what happens with the Penguins down the line if Fleury just says no?
Quiet July 1 Alert: Even at this early date, there are just six difference-makers currently in line to hit free agency over the next three summers, as follows: 2016: Steven Stamkos; 2017: Victor Hedman, Brent Burns, Jamie Benn; 2018: John Tavares, Carey Price.
So with their season on the line in Game 6 vs. the Penguins, the Capitals — who had the best power play in the East during the regular season — had the man-advantage for 6:02 with a span of 8:42 in the third period from 10:32 to 19:14. And that included 1:21 of five-on-three.
The Caps scored 2:29 into their protracted power play to tie the match, but could not get another one. Thus, Game 6 went to overtime, in which the Presidents’ Trophy winners lost rather quickly. And thus were the Caps eliminated.
Alex Ovechkin, the league’s singular and signature power-play weapon, had six shot attempts over that extended stretch. Two tries were on net, from 30 and 35 feet, respectively, as recorded on the official game sheet, both turned aside by Murray. Three went wide, from 27, 33 and 46 feet. One was blocked.
Not much. Not his fault alone, obviously, but not much.
So you bet, the captain and best player deserves part of the blame for the ouster. Only those in either a state of denial or willful ignorance would suggest otherwise.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The African Union says it plans to withdraw its forces from Somalia by the end of 2020 after years of trying to secure the Horn of Africa country against extremist group al-Shabab.
The AU's Peace and Security Council statement issued this week comes after a series of challenges for the 22,000-strong multinational peacekeeping force, including funding issues that left some troops without pay for the past few months.
The statement says that under its exit strategy, security responsibilities will be transferred to Somalia's military gradually between 2018 and December 2020.
The decision comes after the council met June 29 on the force known as AMISOM.
The council also said the European Union, the force's largest funder, has decided to accelerate the payment of AMISOM's troop allowance.
Six men accused over the gangrape and robbery of a Swiss cyclist holidaying in India will appear in court in a central Indian state today, police said.
Six men accused over the gangrape and robbery of a Swiss cyclist holidaying in India will appear in court in a central Indian state on Monday, police said.
"We have detained all the six persons and they will be produced before the magistrate after lunch today. We will ask for a police remand for five days for all of them," local police official ML Dhody said.
Out of the six arrested men, four will be charged with gangrape, Dhody said, since the other two were "only present at the crime scene".
All the men face robbery charges as police say they stole a laptop, a mobile phone and Rs 10,000 from the couple as they pitched their tent in a remote forested area of Madhya Pradesh state late on Friday.
Late Sunday, police paraded the men at a police station in Datia district.
The men, believed to be farmers aged between 20 and 25, were wearing jeans and shirts and had their faces covered with black cloth.
They hail from a village near the scene of the assault, which took place about 40 miles (70 kilometres) from the nearest town of Gwalior.

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