Hour 1 of The Dawn Stensland Show:
- Local News Headlines/News Rundown
- The trial of Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian has concluded. Bostian had been charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment for his role in a 2015 train crash. After roughly one hour of deliberation, jurors found Bostian not guilty on all counts.
- A 12-year-old boy was shot and killed by police on Wednesday evening—police say the boy was carrying a handgun and is believed to have fired the weapon at an unmarked police vehicle. Investigators now wonder if the boy threw the gun several moments before being shot.
- Michael Lebiedzinski, the father of a student at Spring-Ford Area School District, checks in to update us on what’s happening in neighboring Perkiomen Valley School District—which has refused to lift its in-school mask mandate despite new C.D.C. guidelines suggesting they’re no longer necessary. A lawsuit has been filed to keep the mandate in place, citing the American's with Disabilities Act.
- Scientists have decided to rename an invasive species of moth—claiming its original name was offensive.
- The U.S. Supreme Court has decided it will not review Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case, meaning the Cosby will go free.
