December 28, 2025 8:09 am
(WPXI) – A man was taken to an area hospital after he was shot in a busy part of Downtown Pittsburgh overnight. A Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesperson says police were sent to Market Square around 12:15 a.m. Saturday for a reported shooting. Once on scene, officers found a man shot in the leg. Bystanders and officers rendered aid, including applying a tourniquet, before medics arrived. He was then taken to the hospital and was last said to be stable. The spokesperson says witnesses told police that the injured man was in “some kind of altercation” with another man before he was shot. The suspect then ran from the scene. The Mobile Crime Unit responded to Market Square to process the scene, recovering shell casings and reviewing all available camera footage. The investigation into the shooting is ongoing.
December 28, 2025 8:21 am
A Westmoreland County church may be down, but is not out, after a vehicles slammed into its porch last last week. Officials with Real Life Church (AG) in Arnold say no one was injured in the two-vehicle crash along Freeport Road, but he church building sustained damage to its front railings and a column. But that same day, temporary supports were installed at the porch to help keep it up. Church officials say the crash won’t affect services. In fact, a special Christmas service was scheduled for Sunday. Real Life Church’s pastor, the Rev. Bill Richardson, said the community’s prayers are appreciated while the church is being repaired. Anyone who wants to help financially can call the church at (724) 337-3889 or Richardson at (724) 980-2287. “We’re a small church, but God’s doing good things here,” Richardson said.
December 28, 2025 7:55 am
BOSTON (AP) — More than a thousand flights have been canceled or delayed across the Northeast and Great Lakes as a winter storm disrupted one of the busiest travel weekends of the year between Christmas and New Year’s. As of Saturday morning, New York City had received around 4 inches of snow. That was less than what some forecasts predicted. But at least 1,500 flights were canceled from according to flight-tracking service FlightAware. Major New York-area airports warned of disruptions. And the National Weather Service cautioned about hazardous travel conditions, possible power outages and tree damage. States of emergency were declared for New Jersey and parts of New York. (Photo: AP)
December 28, 2025 7:52 am
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — President Donald Trump will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to try to close out a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia that would end nearly four years of war. The two men will meet Sunday in Florida, where the U.S. president is spending the holidays. In announcing the meeting, Zelenskyy said he will raise “territorial issues” as Moscow and Kyiv remain fiercely at odds over the fate of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. Trump has been working to end the war for much of his first year back in office, showing irritation with both Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
December 28, 2025 7:51 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia struck Ukraine’s capital with missiles and drones in an attack that killed at least one person. The barrage came a day before the leaders of Ukraine and the United States meet. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack “really shows that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin doesn’t want peace.” Authorities said that Saturday’s assault hit residential buildings and energy infrastructure in Kyiv. Moscow said the strike was in response to Ukraine’s attacks on “civilian objects” in Russia. Poland scrambled fighter jets and closed airports in Lublin and Rzeszow near the border with Ukraine for several hours during the Russian attacks but there was no violation of Polish airspace.
December 28, 2025 7:47 am
PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist, has died. She was 91. Bardot rocketed to international stardom in the 1956 movie “And God Created Woman.” Directed by her then-husband, Roger Vadim, it triggered a scandal with scenes of the long-legged beauty dancing on tables naked. As an animal rights activist, she earned her compatriots’ respect and was awarded the nation’s highest honor. Later, however, she fell from public grace as her animal protection diatribes took on a decidedly extremist tone and her far-right political views sounded racist. (Photo: AP)
December 27, 2025 8:26 am
An accident along Interstate 79 occurred Saturday morning leading to an unresponsive female patient. According to Washington County 911, the vehicle ran off the road into a ditch just after 8 a.m. on the northbound ramp at the Marianna exit in Amwell Township. No word on the woman’s identity or cause of that incident.
December 27, 2025 5:27 am
BANGKOK (AP) — Cambodia says that Thailand hit a site in the country’s northwest with an airstrike on Saturday even as the two sides pursue talks to end clashes. Cambodia’s Defense Ministry said that Thailand deployed fighter jets to bomb targets in its Banteay Meanchey province on Friday and Saturday. Thailand confirmed the Friday attack and cited defense needs. Each country blames the other for breaching a ceasefire that ended a previous round of fighting in July. The two sides are holding talks this week that defense ministers were expected to join on Saturday to possibly formalize an end to the fighting. The combat has caused numerous casualties and mass displacements.
December 27, 2025 5:26 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the Kennedy Center is criticizing musician Chuck Redd for canceling a Christmas Eve performance. Redd withdrew days after the White House announced President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the venue. On Friday, the center’s president, Richard Grenell, called the decision “classic intolerance” and threatened to seek $1 million in damages. Redd, a drummer and vibraphone player, has led holiday “Jazz Jams” at the center since 2006. The renaming, approved by Trump’s board, reportedly violates a law prohibiting changes to the center’s dedication to President John F. Kennedy.
December 27, 2025 5:20 am
JABO, Nigeria (AP) — A U.S. airstrike that targeted an alleged camp of the Islamic State group in Nigeria has caused panic in the village of Jabo, close to where the strike hit. The residents witnessed the sky glowing red from the attack late on Thursday night. U.S. President Donald Trump announced the strike. The Nigerian government has since confirmed that it cooperated with the U.S government in its strike but didn’t disclose details about the militants targeted. Jabo’s residents say the village had never been attacked by armed gangs as part of the violence the U.S. says is widespread, though such attacks regularly occur in neighboring villages. Locals remain anxious, fearing further attacks and uncertainty.
