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Wolf’s DEP secretary resigns
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By MARC LEVY and MARK SCOLFORO
both Republican and Democrat, in the GOP-controlled Legislature. Those complaints had targeted Quigley’s unwillingness to discuss issues, accept feedback and strike compromises, including on a slate of new oil and gas industry regulations, said Yudichak, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. Quigley, he said, had lost the ability to advance the governor’s agenda and had harbored a personal political agenda outside of the Wolf administration. “There was a pattern of behavior ... that clearly indicated to the governor that John Quigley wasn’t the best person to be the secretary of the DEP,” Yudichak said. “The governor has made that decision, I applaud that decision, he made the right decision and he made it quickly.” Yudichak said he had not seen the Quigley email in question, sent in April. Continued on Page 10
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SANDY COLE, left, and her daughter, Shannon Cole, looked for purple bee balm flowers to attract hummingbirds Friday at May Mart at the White Township Recreation Complex. They are both from Indiana. The annual May Mart event, sponsored by the Indiana Garden Club, offers a variety of plants, vendors, food and more. It continues today until 5 p.m.
Welcome to Indiana group seeks new leaders to carry on mission By CASEY KELLY
ckelly@indianagazette.net
In 1989, Indiana resident Frank Moore noticed “four nice trees” planted along the sidewalk on Philadelphia Street where Rite Aid now sits. And they gave him an idea. “And I thought, ‘Boy wouldn’t that be nice if we had trees like that the entire length of Philadelphia Street — from First to 16th,” he said. “And so, with that, we decided we would put a group together.”
Eventually, the group became known as W.E.L.C.O.M.E. to Indiana, which stands for We Endorse Logical Community and Orderly Main Entrances. Spearheaded by Moore and Nancy Bierwerth, the organization is responsible for various beautification projects throughout Indiana borough, and perhaps most notably, the establishment and maintenance of the six “Welcome to Indiana” signs located at the main entrances to the community: Old Route 119 North, Route 286 at First Street, Route 954/South Sixth
Street, Wayne Avenue/Jimmy Stewart Boulevard, PennDOT at Route 286 and Old Route 422 West. James Struzzi, Indiana County Chamber of Commerce president, stressed the importance and value the Welcome to Indiana signs bring to the community. “When you come into Indiana for the first time, and you see a big sign that says ‘Welcome to Indiana,’ you feel like you’re entering a community — a place where people care,” he said. Continued on Page 10
Secret Service shoots armed man close to White House
Officials: Smoke detected on plane
By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press
By HAMZA HENDAWI and RAPHAEL SATTER Associated Press
CAIRO — Smoke was detected in multiple places on EgyptAir flight 804 moments before it plummeted into the Mediterranean, but the cause of the crash that killed all 66 on board remains unclear, the French air accident investigation agency said today. Agency spokesman Sebastien Barthe told The Associated Press in Paris that the plane’s automatic detection system sent messages indicating smoke a few minutes before the plane disappeared from radar while flying over the east Mediterranean early on Thursday morning. The messages, he ex-
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THE IMAM of al Thawrah Mosque, Samir Abdel Bary, gave condolences to Tarek Abu Laban, who lost four relatives in Thursday’s EgyptAir plane crash, following prayers for the dead Friday in Cairo. plained, “generally mean the start of a fire,” but he added: “We are drawing no conclusions from this. Everything else is pure conjecture.” Looking for clues to whether terrorists may have brought down the Airbus A320, investigators have been poring over the passenger list and questioned ground crew members at Charles de Gaulle
Airport in Paris, from which the plane took off. The aircraft had been cruising normally in clear skies on a nighttime flight to Cairo early Thursday when it suddenly lurched left, then right, spun all the way around and plummeted 38,000 feet into the sea, never issuing a distress signal. Continued on Page 10
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HARRISBURG — Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s environmental protection secretary resigned Friday after Wolf’s office began looking into an email the official sent to environmental advocacy groups from a private email address. Wolf confirmed John Quigley’s resignation in a brief interview with The Associated Press, but he did not explain the reasons behind it. The governor said Quigley did a “fine job” and that an acting secretary, Patrick McDonnell, had been named to the Department of Environmental Protection. The resignation came hours after the governor’s office disclosed its inquiry into the email. Quigley did not return a telephone message Friday. Sen. John Yudichak, DLuzerne, said the email inquiry and Wolf’s removal of Quigley was the culmination of growing complaints about Quigley from state lawmakers,
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Secret Service officer shot a man with a gun who approached a checkpoint outside the White House and refused to drop his weapon, the Secret Service said. The White House was briefly placed on a security alert after the Friday afternoon shooting, which happened within view of sightseers as sidewalks were crowded with families, school groups and government workers. The armed man approached the check-
Man charged in sex assaults By The Indiana Gazette An Indiana man faces felony charges of sexual assault in connection with two cases involving young girls. State police in Indiana filed their cases in Clymer district court on April 14 against Kevin J. Latimer Jr., 42.
Troopers interviewed the first victim, an 8-year-old girl, in November and again in February. She told police that Latimer touched her sexually on multiple occasions and also had inappropriate contact with her and one of her friends. Police interviewed another young female victim
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point on E Street shortly after 3 p.m., and ignored repeated orders from the officer to drop his gun, according to a statement from David Iacovetti, a Secret Service deputy assistant director. The officer fired one shot at the man and the gun was recovered at the scene, Iacovetti said. The man was transported in critical condition to a nearby hospital, an emergency medical services spokesman said. President Barack Obama was away playing golf, but Vice President Joe Biden was in the White House complex and was Continued on Page 10
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in November, who told police that Latimer performed several sexual acts with her over a period ending in 2007. Police said the two victims didn’t know each other, and Latimer disputed the timeline of the first victim’s story, but did not give officers a reason that Continued on Page 10
Inside ZIKA SPIKE The number of women in the United States infected with the Zika virus is suddenly tripling due to a new counting method by the government. Page 7
EXTRADITION RULING Mexico on Friday allowed the extradition of convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the United States to move forward. Page 7
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