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SEPTA Officer Assaulted, PA Online Voter Registration Rollout Positive, Martian Tops Box Office

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 10/26/15 8:49 am | updated: 10/26/15 8:49 am

A SEPTA police officer is recovering after he was assaulted overnight at a station along the Market-Frankford Line. It happened around 2 a.m. Monday at the Huntington Station along the 2500 block of Kensington Avenue in Kensington.The officer was attacked at street level as he was closing the station after service had ended. He was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.SEPTA says a man is in custody for the assault. Information about that suspect was not immediately released.

The stateâ€™s top elections official says response to Pennsylvaniaâ€™s new online voter registration rollout has been â€œoverwhelmingly positive.â€ Pennsylvania Secretary of State Pedro Cortes told a joint meeting of the state House and Senate State Government Committees that from its launch on August 27th through October 5th, more than 32,000 applications have been submitted through the stateâ€™s new online voter registration system. Members of the committees grilled Cortes about the security of the system. Cortes said some states have been using online voting registration for 13 years without security problems. But the chairmen of the two committees are expressing concerns about whether Pennsylvaniaâ€™s system was launched without full authorization from the legislature.

On a slow weekend at the box office, the holdover hit, The Martian, eked out a first-place victory. The science fiction drama with Matt Damon earned just under $16-million, while last weekendâ€™s leader â€” the horror comedy,Goosebumps, with Jack Black â€” slipped to second place with $15-million. Steven Spielbergâ€™s returning drama, Bridge of Spies, with Tom Hanks, was third with $11-million.
The debuting supernatural action thriller, The Last Witch Hunter, with Vin Diesel, took fourth with just under $11-million. The only other new offering to crack the top ten was the horror-thriller sequel, Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension. It took in $8-million, good for sixth place.

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