PITTSBURGH – A grocery store in Pennsylvania has become the first since Prohibition to sell wine in the state.
A Giant Eagle store in Robinson Township began selling wine on Friday. Only state-owned liquor stores had been allowed to sell wine since the nationwide constitutional ban on alcohol that lasted from 1920 to 1933.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports store officials and Republican House Speaker Mike Turzai planned a ceremonial Champagne toast to mark the occasion.
Under a new law, customers can buy up to 3 liters of wine to go from businesses that hold restaurant or hotel liquor licenses.
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board says it has approved 81 supermarkets, restaurants and hotels to sell wine to go.
NEWARK, N.J. – Two commuter buses slammed into each other in the heart of New Jersey’s largest city Friday morning, killing one driver and a passenger and injuring 17 others, including six critically, authorities said.
The driver of a New Jersey Transit bus that had no passengers was killed when the bus slammed into the side of another NJ Transit bus carrying about 20 passengers at around 6 a.m. in Newark. A woman, who was a passenger in that bus and who was among seven people critically injured, died later Friday, said Katherine Carter, a spokeswoman for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.
Investigators were trying to determine if the driver who died ran a red light, Baraka said.
MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee County medical examiner says an autopsy shows that a black man fatally shot by a Milwaukee police officer was hit once in the chest and once in the arm.
The autopsy results for 23-year-old Sylville K. Smith match the account given by police and city leaders.
Sylville’s death Saturday afternoon spurred two nights of violence on the city’s north side.
Police say Sylville had fled a traffic stop, was armed with a handgun and turned toward an officer when he was shot.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – A U.S. Navy sailor has been sentenced to a year in prison for taking photos of classified areas inside a nuclear attack submarine while it was in port in Connecticut.
Kristian Saucier of Arlington, Vermont, was sentenced Friday in federal court in Bridgeport.
Saucier pleaded guilty in May to unauthorized detention of defense information.
He also must serve six months of home confinement.
Saucier compared his case to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.
Associated Press
