ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A 7-year-old boy injured in a capturing in northwestern Pennsylvania final week died at a Pittsburgh hospital, authorities mentioned.
Antonio Yarger Jr. was taken to UPMC Kids’s Hospital in Pittsburgh after Thursday’s capturing in Erie, the Allegheny County medical expert’s workplace mentioned. Yarger was pronounced lifeless on the hospital Monday morning, officers mentioned.
Erie police mentioned the boy was shot within the head Thursday evening whereas on the sidewalk a few block from his house. No arrests have been introduced.
Deputy Chief Rick Lorah of the Erie police division known as the investigation “extraordinarily energetic.” He informed the Erie Occasions-Information that detectives are reviewing “a whole bunch of hours” of surveillance footage and interviewing witnesses.
POTTSTOWN, Pa. — People gathered to celebrate Arts in the Park in Pottstown.
The event was at Riverfront Park on Saturday and was an opportunity to showcase the wealth and diversity of culture in the community.
There was live music and dance, workshops, and craft and food vendors.
The event was sponsored by the Pottstown Community Arts, the High Street Music Company and the Pottstown Parks and Recreation Department.
This is the hilarious moment an emcee mispronounced a series of common names at a Pennsylvania graduation ceremony.
The unfortunate incident occurred at a graduation ceremony for nursing students at Thomas Jefferson University on Thursday.
Footage of the event posted to social media shows the presenter mispronounced the name ‘Molly Elizabeth Camp’ as ‘Mollina -zabeth- cap’.
In the next moment the presenter trips over another student name, ‘Thomas’, which she inexplicably pronounces ‘Tha-mo-may.’
Some students, dressed up in their cap and gowns for their big moment, appeared to find the mistakes frustrating and one tried to correct the presenter.
An emcee hilariously mispronounced common names during a Pennsylvania graduation
Others offered a wry smile but made their way across the graduation stage to receive their degree.
The unidentified presenter later apologized for the haphazard mistakes, explaining that it was due to the way the phonetic spellings were presented on the prompt cards.
The university also offered their ‘sincerest apologies for the mispronunciations of the names of several of our graduating nursing students.’
‘This ceremony is a celebration of the significant achievements of our students, and each graduate deserves to have their name honored correctly on this pivotal day’ the college said in a statement.
‘We also recognize that commencement is not only a milestone for our students but also a deeply important day for their families and loved ones who have supported them throughout their educational journey, and we are deeply sorry for any disappointment this may have caused.
‘The mispronunciations occurred due to the way phonetic spellings were presented on the speaker’s cards, which was noted when the presenter apologized during the ceremony.
‘This unfortunate error does not reflect the immense respect we have for our graduates and the value we place on their hard-earned accomplishments.’
One video of the event was viewed more than 11 million times and ‘liked’ more than 1.3 million times on TikTok.
The unfortunate incident occurred at a ceremony for nursing students at Thomas Jefferson University on Thursday
Both the presenter and the university have offered their ‘sincere apologies’
‘Please tell me how one can be allowed to speak at college commencement and mess up that badly’ the poster wrote.
Some viewers agreed with one commenting under the video ‘please I need an investigation into what happened here.’
Another expressed frustration on behalf of the graduates: ‘I would be heartbroken if I spent all that money and time for that degree just to have my name mispronounced’ they wrote.
Others saw the more humorous side, with one user commenting ‘wait pronouncing Thomas wrong at Thomas University is crazy.’
Another poster who claimed to be at the ceremony wrote, ‘this was my graduation and it was SO FUNNY we couldn’t stop laughing.’
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth produced stunning displays of color in the skies across parts of the Philadelphia region early Saturday morning.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning when a solar outburst reached Earth on Friday afternoon, hours sooner than anticipated.
This is NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center’s first severe geomagnetic storm watch in nearly 20 years.
The solar flares are associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) directed toward Earth. CMEs are expulsions of plasma and magnetic field from the sun’s corona, the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center.
When these ejections head toward Earth, taking as long as days or as little as 15 hours, they cause geomagnetic storms, which are disturbances in the magnetic field around the planet.
“Then fast-moving particles slam into our thin, high atmosphere, colliding with Earth’s oxygen and nitrogen particles,” according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “As these air particles shed the energy they picked up from the collision, each atom starts to glow in a different color,” giving us the aurora borealis in the northern hemisphere and the aurora australis in the southern hemisphere.
Quicker clearing of skies just before dawn in our region allowed for better chances to see the northern lights Saturday. The celestial show was captured from South Jersey to northeastern Pennsylvania.
The geomagnetic storm is expected to last through the weekend. You can share your photos with Action News here.
The SWPC recommends traveling away from city lights to experience the full brightness of the aurora and to be looking at the skies within two hours of midnight, between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time.
These storms also have the ability to potentially disrupt communications, the electric power grid, radio signals and satellite operations. As of Saturday, there were no immediate reports of disruptions.
Severe geomagnetic storms in October 2003 caused the northern lights to be seen as far south as Texas but it affected more than half of all Earth-orbiting spacecrafts and temporarily disrupted satellite TV and radio services. Additionally, several deep space missions had to be put in safe mode or completely shut down to prevent them from being disrupted.
ABC News and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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