STONECREST, Ga. (AP) — Hundreds of Air Force members in dress blues joined Roger Fortson's family, friends and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch on Friday to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month by a sheriff's deputy.
People lined up well before the start of the service at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest to file past the open coffin and say their goodbyes to Fortson, who was shot six times by a deputy responding to a May 3 call about a possible domestic violence situation at Fortson's apartment complex in the Florida Panhandle. Read More...
SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — New year, new wages.
The Somerset County Commissioners held their annual salary board meeting Tuesday morning to approve the 2023 salaries for county workers.
Somerset County Treasurer Tony DeLuca says those financial decisions were made without him.
"Everything is behind closed doors. Everything is private. They do not include me," he told 6 News.
Deluca says he's entitled to be the secretary of the salary board and be involved in the decision making process. Read More...