A man opened fire and killed four people at a car wash early Sunday morning in Pennsylvania
Another woman suffered only minor injuries after she hid in the back seat of a truck during the shooting, state police said.
Police said suspected shooter Tim Smith was on life support at a hospital after the shooting at Ed’s Car Wash around 3 a.m. in the Melcroft community of Saltlick Township, about 55 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
They said he killed 27-year-old William Porterfield, 25-year-old Chelsie Cline, 23-year-old Courtney Snyder and 21-year-old Seth Cline.
A Republican senator urged party candidates to return monetary contributions from embattled casino mogul Steve Wynn on Sunday, while a second GOP senator encouraged Republican officials to be open to refunding the cash.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said that if Republicans “have accepted contributions recently from him that have not been spent,” they should give those back.
Wynn stepped down as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee Saturday amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
“I don’t even think it’s a close call to return the money,” Collins said. She said she was “very pleased” that Wynn stepped down from his RNC position and called the allegations he is facing “very serious.”
In a brief written statement Saturday saying she had accepted Wynn’s resignation, RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel did not address what she would do with the money he had helped the committee raise.
“We should do of ourselves what we ask of the Democratic Party, if these allegations have merit,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in an interview on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. “I don’t think we should have a double standard for ourselves.”
Home-schooling advocates say they are bracing for calls for stricter oversight of the practice following reports that 13 malnourished siblings who were allegedly held captive by their parents in California were being home-schooled.
The advocates said they were horrified by the case and some support mandatory medical visits or regular academic assessments to ensure home-schooled children are seen by someone outside the home.
But others contend moves to step up home-schooling controls in the name of exposing child abuse earlier could lead to overregulation and intrusion that punishes parents.
In the absence of federal guidelines, levels of oversight vary widely by state. Alaska and Idaho have virtually no regulations, while New York and Pennsylvania require annual instruction plans and standardized tests.
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He further concluded that this led to actions that “amounted to threats to withhold employment benefits.”
The Florida senator said he had “taken steps to ensure that those impacted by this conduct have access to any services they may require now or in the future.”
— Wire reports