West Penn Power is addressing power outages in two areas of Washington County. Currently there are more than 1800 customers without power in the Smith Township/Burgettstown area. According to the West Penn Power website, crews are assembling to address the outage. In Peters Township, 245 customers are without power in the Venetia area. West Penn Power says that crews are arriving to the scene. We will have updates for you as information becomes available.
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – A Pittsburgh councilman plans to propose a tax he says could bring in millions of much-needed revenue for the city. Councilman Anthony Coghill plans to introduce a bill on Wednesday that would create the Mechanical Amusement Device Tax. The three-tiered tax would be for amusement devices — like pool tables, skill games and jukeboxes. Coghill said he drafted the legislation to align with “taxes on the books in half of the municipalities in Allegheny County and one-fifth of municipalities statewide.” “Given the explosion of these devices across the city over the last few years and with the need for Pittsburgh to generate new revenue sources that don’t further burden our homeowners and renters I believe that now is the time to introduce this much needed legislation,” Councilman Coghill said. Coghill says the tax could generate between $2-3 million a year for the city, which is projecting a budget deficit for the second year in a row. He hopes the legislation will be adopted and implemented quickly.
DONORA, Pa. — Washington County 911 says one person was arrested after police and SWAT were called to a home on McCrae Avenue just before one o’clock Saturday afternoon. According to reports, a man barricaded himself inside the building. The situation impacted public transit. Officials with Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority said the Local 4 could not serve Castner Ave from 1st and McCrea or any of Modisette Avenue. There has been no information released on what prompted the SWAT call or the identity of the person taken into custody.
The pedestrian who was killed early Saturday morning has been identified by police as 21-year-old Phillip Frye of Meadowlands. Authorities say Frye was struck by a vehicle heading south on Pike Street in Chartiers Township just after two o’clock. Washington County 911 says the driver of the vehicle remained at the scene. Washington County officials were assisted by Canonsburg Ambulance, the Chartiers Township Fire Department and the Pennsylvania State Police Crash Reconstruction Unit.
(AP) – Authorities are bracing for the possibility that a damaged chemical tank at a facility in Southern California could leak or explode. An evacuation order has continued into the Memorial Day weekend for 40,000 residents of Garden Grove and several surrounding communities with no timeline on when they can return. No injuries were reported after the pressurized tank began overheating Thursday. Firefighters hope to find a way to cool off the chemical inside the tank so it won’t leak or explode. Experts say a leak would be much better than an explosion. Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in Orange County. Several shelters remain open, including at three schools. (Photo: AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service says a man who opened fire near a White House security checkpoint is dead. It was the third incidence of gunfire in the vicinity of President Donald Trump in the past month. The agency says in a statement Saturday that a preliminary investigation found the man was near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue when he pulled a weapon from his bag and began firing. Its officers returned fire. The suspect died later at a hospital. A bystander also was shot. Trump was at the White House at the time. Secret Service said he was not “impacted.”
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — President Donald Trump says a deal with Iran, including opening the Strait of Hormuz, has been “largely negotiated.” He announced this on social media after talks with Israel and other allies. The deal, described as a “Memorandum of Understanding,” still needs finalization. It aims to end the war and includes two-month negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S. would end its blockade of Iran’s ports. Iran has signaled “narrowing differences” in the talks. Both sides emphasize their key positions and warn of risks if attacks resume. Iran describes the draft as a “framework agreement” for more talks.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot. The department says the information about the prosecutions is “partisan propaganda.” The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, convictions and sentencings is the latest step by the Trump administration to dramatically rewrite the history of the Capitol assault. On that day more than five years ago, hundreds of supporters of Republican President Donald Trump stormed the building in an effort to halt the congressional certification of his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
