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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
PITTSBURGH — A dump truck driver from Ohio purposely crashed his vehicle through the security gate of the FBI’s offices in Pittsburgh on July 26, injuring himself but no one else, an agency spokesman said.
The truck was moving erratically and had disregarded stop signs and lights before a city police officer pulled it over about 11 a.m. near the FBI building on the city’s South Side, Special Agent Gregory Heeb said.
The driver then told the officer he intended to ram the FBI gate — but didn’t explain why — before speeding away and doing just that, Heeb said.
The truck was disabled by security barriers that are meant to prevent vehicles from driving into fenced-in office complex. Agents checked the truck for bombs and found nothing.
Heeb said the truck was also registered in Ohio, but the driver’s name and the name of the vehicle’s owner weren’t immediately released.
The FBI was working with police to determine what charges to file. A Pittsburgh police spokeswoman didn’t immediately comment.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in Pittsburgh confirmed it has been contacted. That office would prosecute any federal charges that are filed.
“We don’t know yet how it’s going to play out,” Heeb said. “Obviously the biggest focus for us is going to be his mental state and what was his history.”
The truck driver was the only one injured. He was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital, though authorities didn’t say which one and his condition was not immediately available.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.