September 11, 2022 1:30 am
Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh announced that Joshua Otey, 41, of North Strabane has been sentenced to prison for his open plea of guilty to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and aggravated indecent assault. Judge Brandon Neuman sentenced Otey to 12 1/2 to 25 years in state prison. Otey had an intimate relationship with his minor stepchild in North Strabane that lasted for several years before he was captured on camera engaging in sexual acts with the minor. All of the incidents occurred in the family’s home.
September 10, 2022 3:48 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department and Donald Trump’s legal team have proposed candidates to serve as an independent arbiter in the investigation into top-secret information found in an FBI search of the former president’s Florida home. Lawyers for Trump say the so-called special master should review all documents seized by the FBI, but the Justice Department says it does not believe the arbiter should be permitted to inspect classified records or to take into account potential claims of executive privilege. The Justice Department submitted the names of two retired judges, Barbara Jones and Thomas Griffith. The Trump team proposed one retired judge, Raymond Dearie, and prominent Florida lawyer Paul Huck Jr.
September 10, 2022 3:47 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian forces are claiming new success in their counteroffensive against Russian forces in the east, taking control of a sizeable village and pushing toward an important transport junction. The United States’ top diplomat and the head of NATO noted the advances, but cautioned that the war is likely to drag on for months. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy commended the military for its gains, saying that more than 30 settlements in the Kharkiv region have been reclaimed. The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog, meanwhile, says conditions at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant are increasingly precarious. He says a safety zone needs to be established immediately around the plant to prevent a nuclear accident.
September 10, 2022 3:46 am
LONDON (AP) – Mourners streamed to the gates of Buckingham Palace in London to mourn a queen they lost this week after she spent 70 years on the throne. But beyond its size, the pilgrimage was remarkable for what it underscored – the many roles that visitors said the monarch occupied in the lives of those she could never know. Flowers, notes and tributes dotted the landscape around the palace on the day that Queen Elizabeth’s son, Charles, first addressed the nation as king. And those who brought the memorials in miniature each told a different story about their relationship with their queen. They called her a role model, a dutiful leader and – in recent years – a national grandmother.
September 10, 2022 3:39 am
Daily bridge washing in Allegheny County is requiring lane restrictions today between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. The restrictions will be on I-79 around the Ewing Road bridge in Collier Township; on Route 22/30 at Oakdale Road in North Fayette Township; Steubenville Pike between Enlow Road and Montour Church Road, also in North Fayette; and on Kelso Road, between Old Steubenville Pike and the eastbound Route 22 exit ramps. Be aware of delays and use caution.
September 10, 2022 3:34 am
PennDOT announced that utility work will cause 15-minute traffic stoppages on I-70 in each direction in the Bentleyville area on Sunday, between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. Comcast crews will be installing cables.
September 9, 2022 4:21 am
LAS VEGAS (AP) – Investigative reporter Jeff German took on the powerful in four decades of writing about the Las Vegas underworld and government corruption. But police say it was one of his latest targets, a county administrator, who fatally stabbed German last weekend. The killing came months after German had written about bullying, favoritism and an inappropriate relationship within an obscure public office. Authorities said Thursday that DNA at the crime scene linked Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles to the killing. Police arrested him Wednesday after a brief standoff at his home. Telles was the focus of German’s reporting in the Las Vegas Review-Journal as he sought reelection.
September 9, 2022 4:20 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden wants to put the spotlight on a rare bipartisan down payment on U.S. manufacturing. He visits Ohio on Friday for the groundbreaking of a new Intel computer chip facility. Biden heads to suburban Columbus just as voters in the state are starting to tune in to a closely contested Senate race between Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan and Republican author and venture capital executive JD Vance. They’re competing in a former swing state that has trended Republican over the last decade. Intel had delayed groundbreaking on the $20 billion plant until Congress passed the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act.
September 9, 2022 4:19 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Joe Biden has the distinction of being the 13th and final American president to meet with Queen Elizabeth II. Biden first met the queen in 1982. He was a U.S. senator and visiting the United Kingdom with a congressional delegation. Their third and final meeting happened in 2021. Biden, as president, was in southwestern England for a summit of world leaders. He and his wife, Jill, later had a private audience with the queen at Windsor Castle near London. The queen had met every U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower, except Lyndon Johnson, since ascending to the throne in 1952. Johnson did not visit Britain when he was president.
September 9, 2022 4:17 am
LONDON (AP) – Prince Charles has been preparing to be king his entire life. Now his moment has arrived. Following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, Charles is now the oldest person to take the British throne. No date has been set for the coronation of King Charles III. But Charles faces the enormous challenge of building the same sort of affection that characterized the relationship between his mother and the British public. Will Charles be loved by his subjects, like his mother was? It’s a question that has overshadowed his entire life.
