September 30, 2024 6:54 am
(WPXI) – A man was killed in a car crash in North Fayette Township early Monday morning. The North Fayette Township VFD on Facebook said Noblestown Road was closed in both directions between Margarette Street and Locust Lane at around 2:15 a.m. The victim, identified as Joseph Earl Cooper Jr., 57, was pronounced dead at the scene. Dispatchers said another person was taken to the hospital from the scene. There is currently no word on their condition.
September 30, 2024 5:05 am
NASH COUNTY, NC — (WPXI) – The man accused of stealing a local veteran’s car while his dog was still inside has been arrested after a police chase in North Carolina Saturday night. Kenneth Crider has been found and apprehended by Nash County sheriff’s deputies nearly a week after Pennsylvania State Police said he took off in 87-year-old Willard Martz’s car with Lucky still inside. Police said Lucky remains missing. Lucky, a 10-year-old Airedale-terrier mix, has been missing for a week. He’s been a loyal sidekick to the retired marine after he lost his son to a rare form of muscular dystrophy in 2020 and while he fights cancer. The pair were last together on Monday, Sept. 23. They were in the parking lot of the Tractor Supply store in Mount Pleasant when state police said fugitive Kenneth Crider stole Martz’s car keys from his pocket and sped off in his car with Lucky still inside. A sliver of hope came Saturday night. Police say they received reports of a suspicious car and Crider was behind the wheel. When police tried to pull him over, he led them on a high-speed chase through two counties and eventually crashed. Police say Crider reached speeds of up to 120 miles per hour and hit a deputy’s car during the chase. Crider faces charges out of North Carolina and will eventually be extradited back to Pennsylvania. Deputies said Crider told detectives he let Lucky go at a rest stop off I-95 in North Carolina before the high-speed chase. The dog was wearing a red leash.
September 29, 2024 5:15 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – A Pittsburgh Police vehicle was involved in a crash near the Smithfield Street Bridge. The Pittsburgh Police K9 officer was responding to a call at around 4:40 p.m. on Sunday when the crash occurred. Police say the officer was t-boned at the intersection of Smithfield Street and Fort Pitt Boulevard. The other vehicle involved in the crash had four people inside of it. All of them were unharmed. Medics evaluated the officer as a precaution but he did not suffer any injuries. The K9 was also not hurt. The officer will undergo a mandatory drug and alcohol test, per Pittsburgh Police protocol. Police say the cruiser had its lights and sirens on when the crash happened.
September 30, 2024 5:18 am
PERRY, Fla. (AP) — North Carolina officials are pledging to get more water and other supplies to storm-damaged areas by Monday after Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction across the U.S. Southeast. Authorities have struggled to get supplies to isolated areas including the city of Asheville. Massive rains brought by Helene left many people stranded or homeless around the region. The death toll from the storm topped 90 people across several states. Forecasters say a new tropical depression in the eastern Atlantic Ocean could become a hurricane by mid-week.
September 30, 2024 5:21 am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has used her appearances in Los Angeles and Las Vegas on Sunday to poke at Republican Donald Trump over crowd sizes, his refusal to debate again and his privileged background. During a fancy fundraiser in Los Angeles, she told donors that as she campaigns around the country her “crowds are pretty big.” In Las Vegas, she talked about her middle class background and compared it to Trump’s “silver platter” pedigree that nonetheless produced six bankruptcies. Harris also moved into what Trump considers his terrain — immigration — with a Friday visit to the border town of Douglas, Arizona.
September 30, 2024 5:25 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are pointing to newly released immigration enforcement data to bolster their argument that the Biden administration is letting migrants who have committed serious crimes go free in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released data to Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales in response to a request he made for information about people under ICE supervision either convicted of crimes or facing criminal charges. Gonzales posted the numbers online and they immediately became a flashpoint in the presidential campaign. But the numbers have been misconstrued, with the Department of Homeland Security clarifying that the numbers span decades and those not in its custody may be held by a state or local agency.
September 29, 2024 5:13 am
MONROEVILLE, Pa. — (WPXI) – Republican Vice President Nominee JD Vance visited Allegheny County to speak at a town hall event. Vance was the featured guest during the Lance Wallnau Show’s Courage Tour stop at the Monroeville Convention Center. A crowd of hundreds attended the event. One of his main talking points was about drug addiction and recovery. He says fighting the fentanyl crisis is key to lowering the number of overdose deaths. “Something that takes away these second chances is all the fentanyl that’s coming into our country,” Vance said. He also said cracking down on illegal immigration would reduce the amount of illegal drugs in the country. Vance will debate Governor Tim Walz on Tuesday.
September 30, 2024 12:58 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — John Ashton, the veteran character actor who memorably played the gruff but lovable police detective John Taggart in the “Beverly Hills Cop” films, has died. He was 76. Ashton died Thursday in Fort Collins, Colorado, his family announced in a statement released by Ashton’s manager, Alan Somers, on Sunday. No cause of death was immediately available. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Ashton was a regular face across TV series and films, including “Midnight Run,” “Little Big League” and “Gone Baby Gone.” But in the “Beverly Hills Cop” films, Ashton played an essential part of an indelible trio. (Photo: AP)
September 30, 2024 5:09 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar who became a superstar songwriter, singer and actor, has died. A family spokeswoman says Kristofferson died at his home in Hawaii on Saturday. He was 88. Kristofferson brought a gritty realism to country music with compositions like “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” “Help Me Make it Through the Night” and and “Me and Bobby McGee.” As an actor, he played the leading man opposite Barbra Streisand and Ellen Burstyn, but also did shoot-out Westerns and cowboy dramas. With his long hair and bell-bottomed slacks, he represented a new breed of country songwriters with his peers like Willie Nelson, John Prine and Tom T. Hall.
September 29, 2024 7:44 am
PERRY, Fla. (AP) — Massive rains brought by Hurricane Helene have left many people stranded or homeless as the cleanup begins from the monster tempest that killed at least 64 people. Helene has caused billions of dollars in destruction across a wide swath of the southeast U.S. More than 3 million customers were without power Saturday, and some face a continued threat of floods. Helene blew ashore in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday and then quickly moved through Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee, uprooting trees, splintering homes and sending creeks and rivers over their banks and straining dams. Deaths from the storm have occurred in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. (Photo: AP)
