Pennsylvania
Elon Musk speaking at pro-Trump super PAC’s town halls in Pennsylvania ahead of voter registration deadline
Tesla CEO, X owner and billionaire Elon Musk will appear in the Philadelphia area on Thursday for a town hall event to promote absentee voting and early voting in the 2024 election.
Musk, who has publicly backed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, is set to appear around 4 p.m. in Folsom, Delaware County.
On X, Musk said he’s giving a series of talks in the battleground state. America PAC, a pro-Trump super PAC that has backing from Musk, is organizing the event.
The super PAC has spent over $113 million on the 2024 election cycle, according to the nonprofit political finance tracker OpenSecrets.
America PAC is requiring attendees to sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments and be a registered voter in the state. Musk said you must have already voted in Pennsylvania to attend the event.
The “petition in favor of free speech and the right to bear arms” offers supporters $47 for each registered voter in seven battleground states that they can get to sign the petition. The winner of this election will be the nation’s 47th president.
Besides Pennsylvania, the program is open to voters in Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina until Oct. 21.
The super PAC has other town halls with Musk planned in Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, though dates and times for those events are still listed as TBD. Musk says his series of talks is from Thursday through Monday, Oct. 21.
The location of Musk’s Philadelphia-area town hall event was not public as of Thursday morning.
Musk appeared on the campaign trail with Trump at his second rally in Butler, Pennsylvania earlier in October, nearly three months after an assassination attempt on the former president.
Pennsylvania
Funeral arrangements set for Pa. state trooper shot and killed in Chester County
The funeral arrangements for Corporal Timothy O’Connor, who was shot and killed in Chester County on Sunday, have been announced.
The viewing for O’Connor will be Tuesday, March 17, from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Church located at 338 Manor Avenue in Downingtown, Pa., according to the Parkesburg Police Department.
The funeral will be held at the same location on Wednesday, March 18, at 11 a.m., police said.
O’Connor was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Honey Brook on Sunday night. The suspect, Jesse Nathan Elks, took his own life after shooting O’Connor.
O’Connor was a 15-year veteran of the Pennsylvania State Police who leaves behind a wife, Casey, and a 6-year-old daughter, according to police.
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Pennsylvania
Fire crews try moving burning barge to shallow water in Delaware Bay
Crews battle blaze on salvage barge in Delaware bay
Crews battled a blaze on a salvage barge in the Delaware Bay Tuesday morning. No injuries were reported. 3/10/26
Delaware, Pennsylvania, and federal agencies have been responding to a barge fire in the Delaware Bay.
The barge, which is carrying salvage metal, is being moved to shallow water so it can be secured, allowing on-scene responders to extinguish the fire and complete salvage operations, according to a March 10 statement from the Delaware Emergency Management Agency.
No injuries have been reported as of 1:15 p.m.
The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) is on scene to perform air monitoring, the statement said.
Responding agencies include the Wilmington Fire Department, Good Will, Leipsic Volunteer, Bowers and South Bowers fire companies. Also there are Delaware State Police, DNREC, New Castle County Office of Emergency Management, Kent County Department of Public Safety, the Delaware Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay.
The Philadelphia Fire Department was enroute.
This is a developing story. Check back with delawareonline.com for more information.
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