March 2018

I’M JUST SAYIN’

Isat in the stands watching the group of pre-teens and very young teens playing in a basketball game. The team I was rooting for was struggling on the court but that’s the nature of the game: Someone’s gotta win and someone’s gotta lose.

I never take winning or losing too seriously when I attend youth athletic events. I see the adults who take it way too seriously and I would rather not have much in common with them.

MIAMI (AP) — Authorities said Friday that cables supporting a pedestrian bridge under construction in Florida were being tightened following a “stress test” when the 950-ton concrete span collapsed over traffic, killing at least six people, injuring 10 others and flattening an untold number of cars.

Officials expected to find more bodies in the rubble. People who haven’t heard from their loved ones congregated near the scene Friday.

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — A Pennsylvania official said no “legitimate claims or complaints” of voter fraud have come up since Tuesday’s closely contested U.S. House race in the state, countering several false stories that cited invalid votes and a court decision throwing the election results out.

The website Daily World Update said in a story circulating on social media that a judge identified as Marshawn Little of the 45th Federal Appeals Court of Westmoreland County cancelled the results because they were “tainted beyond reproach.”