TODAY'S NEWS - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2011

LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

POTTSVILLE 27
TWIN VALLEY 0

SHENANDOAH VALLEY 39
MAHANOY AREA 34

LINE MOUNTAIN 34
PINE GROVE 28

MIFFLIN COUNTY 32
BLUE MOUNTAIN 27

MINERSVILLE 56
PANTHER VALLEY 33

TAMAQUA 21
MARIAN 13

STEEL HIGH 36
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN 28

NORTH SCHUYLKILL 37
MILLERSBURG 14

LEHIGHTON 55
JIM THORPE 6

TRI VALLEY 27
UPPER DAUPHIN 20

WILLIAMS VALLEY 25
ANNVILLE CLEONA 0

MT CARMEL 20
SHAMOKIN 7

SOUTHERN COLUMBIA 42
SELINSGROVE 0

LOCAL NEWS

FEMA Extends Registration

The registration process for Individual Assistance for Tropical Storm Lee has been extended until December 14, 2011. To registration for assistance please call FEMA at 1-800-621-FEMA (3362), or go to www.DisasterAssistance.gov. The new DRC hours will be:

Monday through Friday – 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Saturday – 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Sunday – Closed
All DRCs will be open Veterans’ Day, Friday, November 11. The deadline for registering for disaster assistance is November 14.

Zoning Hearing Scheduled For Adult Club In Washington Township

A Schuylkill County judge ruled he will decide whether to allow an adult entertainment business to continue to operate in Washington Township. In an 11-page opinion and order filed Thursday, Judge John E. Domalakes wrote that Dutchmen MX Park LLC, Pine Grove, the owner of the Strip Mine Cabaret, provided no reason why he should not hear the county's lawsuit asking that it be shut down as a violation of its zoning ordinance. As reported by the Republican and Herald, Domalakes will hold a hearing at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday to determine whether to enjoin the operation of the cabaret at 670 Rock Road, Route 895. County officials filed the lawsuit July 5, alleging the cabaret is located in an area zoned agricultural, where an adult entertainment business is not permitted without a variance. Domalakes already has held a hearing Aug. 30 on whether to grant the injunction; Wednesday's scheduled hearing actually is a continuation of that one. Dutchmen had asked Domalakes to dismiss the lawsuit. It alleged that the county should have filed an enforcement notice that would be handled by the county Zoning Hearing Board, and that Domalakes should allow the matter to be decided by a federal court.

State News

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lawyers for a former Pennsylvania senator convicted of defrauding the state Senate and two nonprofits of more than $2 million say his prison emails show only the normal emotions that inmates experience — and not the revenge plots suggested by prosecutors. Philadelphia Democrat Vincent Fumo is being re-sentenced this coming week in his sweeping corruption case.

READING, Pa. (AP) — Authorities have arrested two Reading (REHD'-ing) women who they say kidnapped a 14-year-old girl and later released her unharmed after receiving $1,000 in ransom. Police say the kidnapping was drug-related. Grace Perez-Jimenez and Samantha Conrad have been charged with kidnapping and related offenses.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Department of Justice says a former major at the Allegheny County jail has been indicted by a grand jury. Authorities say in a statement Friday that 47-year-old James Donis has been charged with a felony civil rights violation, falsifying documents, and making false statements.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State football assistant Jerry Sandusky is facing charges that he sexually abused minors. The state attorney general's office had been investigating Sandusky since 2009. Sandusky has maintained that he is innocent.

National News

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's next step to secure continued rescue funds for the near-bankrupt eurozone country begins today. Embattled Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou meets with Greece's president to try to strike a four-month deal where he steps aside and forms a cross-party caretaker government.

CANNES, France (AP) — Developing nations are stepping up to press their concerns with the G-20 which just concluded a summit in France. As Mexico succeeds France as leader of the G-20, developing countries want the grouping of major economies to refocus on a bigger global agenda that includes creating jobs, improving farming and fighting climate change.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaves are swirling, an autumn chill in the air and that means it must be time to turn back the clock. Officially, the change to standard time occurs at 2 a.m. Sunday. Most folks will set their clocks Saturday night. Hawaii, most of Arizona and some U.S. territories don't observe daylight saving time.

ABILENE, Texas (AP) — Authorities say an Abilene Christian University bus veered off a Texas highway, killing one student and critically injuring four other people. Authorities say the bus, which was taking people to do mission work, overturned, ejecting several people onboard.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's defense minister says FARC rebel leader Alfonso Cano was killed in combat with soldiers and police hours after his camp was bombed. Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon says the 63-year-old guerrilla commander known for his trademark beard was clean-shaven when he died in yesterday's firefight.