Army to recognize Flynn’s Tire Group

Army to recognize Flynn’s Tire Group

west middlesex, pa

The Cleveland Recruiting Battalion & New Castle Recruiting Company will recognize Flynn’s Tire Group in a ceremony Tuesday at Flynn’s corporate headquarters, 2908 Mercer-West Middlesex Road.

The event is part of the Partnership for Youth Success program, which is a partnership between the U.S. Army and companies that help soldiers returning to civilian life find employment.

“We are always seeking trained and talented employees, and we feel that those who have experience with the U.S. Army have had some of the finest training that can be offered,” Joe Flynn III, president of Flynn’s Tire Group, said in a press release. “[We] want to be there for them when they return to the community with job opportunities for them.”

Cops: Vendor shot woman at gun show

BLOOMSBURG, Pa.

Police say a vendor accidentally shot a woman in the leg while demonstrating a gun and holster at a gun show in central Pennsylvania.

Bloomsburg police say the Columbia County district attorney’s office will determine whether the vendor, 44-year-old Geoffrey Hawk of Warminster, will face any criminal charges in Saturday’s incident at the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds.

Hawk didn’t immediately return calls to his cellphone and business Sunday.

Police say Hawk told them he thought the gun was unloaded when he demonstrated a concealed-carry wallet holster to the woman. Police say the woman was treated and released for a wound to her thigh at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.

Ukrainian president talks to Putin, Merkel, Hollande

KIEV, Ukraine

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko tried to keep his peace plan to settle the conflict with pro-Russia separatists on track in a four-way phone call Sunday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of France and Germany.

The two-hour conversation came ahead of a deadline today that European Union leaders set for Russia and the separatists to take steps to ease the violence, warning that otherwise they were ready “at any time” to impose further punitive measures.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande encouraged the Ukrainian and Russian presidents to work on meeting the EU conditions, Hollande’s office said in a statement. The EU’s demands included the return of three border checkpoints to Ukrainian control, verification of the cease-fire by monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and talks to put Poroshenko’s peace plan in place.

Police: 9 shot on Bourbon Street

NEW ORLEANS

Two men exchanged gunfire early Sunday on the city’s always-crowded Bourbon Street in the celebrated French Quarter, and nine people were shot in the crossfire, including two who were critically wounded, police said.

Images captured from a surveillance camera above a bar showed people running down the famous street in the chaos of the shooting at 2:45 a.m., The Times-Picayune reported. Police and emergency workers responded immediately and attended to victims as other revelers looked on.

New Orleans Police Chief Ronal Serpas said six victims were hospitalized in stable condition. The other victim’s condition was not available. Some of them were tourists. Their names have not been released.

Associated Press