February 28, 2023 4:01 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A spokesman for Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman says the Democrat is “on a path to recovery” after checking himself into a hospital for clinical depression earlier this month, and he is still expected to be away from the Senate for several weeks. Fetterman communications director Joe Calvello said in a statement Monday that the senator’s recovery will be a “weeks-long process.” He is at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he checked in Feb. 15 as he was still struggling with the aftereffects of a stroke. His office said then that he had experienced depression before but it had become severe.
February 28, 2023 1:47 am
A Washington County man accused of child rape and other felonies has been sentenced to forty-two and a half to eighty-five-years in prison. Thirty-year-old Logan Hunt of South Strabane Township was convicted on all nine charges against him back in November. Hunt was charged with multiple felonies, including rape of a child, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault of a child, aggravated assault, corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of children. He also faced misdemeanors for indecent assault and simple assault. Police said that Hunt had been living at the Rodeway Inn since December 2020, and often babysat the child. They said that in June, the child’s father noticed bruising on her face and chin and took her to Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh. According to the complaint, hospital staff found that the child had a broken arm, and determined the injuries were consistent with abuse. According to court documents, the child said Hunt would hit her in the face and that the suspect had raped her on more than one occasion. As a result of his conviction, Hunt will be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
February 27, 2023 12:59 pm
(AP) – The distributor of the “Dilbert” comic strip says it will sever ties with creator Scott Adams over his recent racist comments. Andrews McMeel Universal said in a statement issued Sunday that Adams’ comments were not compatible with the company’s core values. The company also operates the popular GoComics website, which scrubbed “Dilbert” from its site by Monday morning. Dozens of newspapers nationwide have said they will no longer run “Dilbert,” which started in 1989. Adams said on his YouTube channel on Monday that he did not consider the moves censorship, but rather a business decision. (Photo: ABC)
February 27, 2023 12:37 pm
(WPXI) – A man was shot in the parking lot of the GetGo at 4924 Baum Blvd in Bloomfield Monday morning. Police responded to reports of a shooting just after nine o’clock and found a man outside of a vehicle, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety. EMS transported him to a local hospital in stable condition. Authorities say there is no one in custody at this time and the investigation is continuing.
February 27, 2023 4:17 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – A majority of the nation’s business economists expect a U.S. recession to begin later this year than they had previously forecast, after a series of reports have pointed to a surprisingly resilient economy despite steadily higher interest rates. Fifty-eight percent of 48 economists who responded to a survey by the National Association for Business Economics envision a recession sometime this year, the same proportion who said so in the NABE’s survey in December. But only a quarter think a recession will have begun by the end of March, just half the proportion who had thought so in December.
February 27, 2023 4:15 am
NEW YORK (AP) – Ron DeSantis has emerged as a political star early in the 2024 presidential election season even as he ignores many conventions of modern politics. The Florida governor often avoids gatherings of fellow Republican governors and party leaders. He is the only top-tier presidential prospect yet to court voters in Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina. And he is often at odds with the press. It is becoming increasingly clear that the Florida governor will manage his presidential aspirations in his own way and on his own timeline. DeSantis has quietly begun to expand his political coalition on his terms just as he releases a book, “The Courage to be Free,” which comes out Tuesday.
February 27, 2023 4:13 am
STECCATO DI CUTRO, Italy (AP) – Rescue crews are searching by sea and air for the dozens of people believed still missing from a migrant shipwreck off Italy’s southern coast. They found a 60th corpse Monday morning.At least eighty people survived Sunday’s shipwreck off the Calabrian coast, but dozens more were feared dead given survivor reports that the ship, which set off from Turkey last week, had carried some 170 people.The beach of Steccato di Cutro, on Calabria’s Ionian coast, was littered with the splintered remains of the ship that broke up on the reefs offshore. The Italian government is doubling down on the need to block migrant operations at their source.
February 27, 2023 4:11 am
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Federal environmental authorities say shipment of contaminated waste from the site of a fiery train derailment will resume Monday to two Ohio sites. An Environmental Protection Agency administrator said Sunday that some liquid waste will be taken to an underground injection well in Vickery, while solid waste will go to an incinerator in East Liverpool. The agency had ordered a ‘pause’ in shipments a day earlier after material was taken to sites in Michigan and Texas. A state official said all rail cars except for those held by federal transportation officials had been removed, allowing collection of more contaminated soil and installation of monitoring wells.
February 27, 2023 4:07 am
A vigil will be held Monday night for a six-year-old girl who was struck and killed by a vehicle last week in North Belle Vernon. The vigil for Aria Woznick begins at six-thirty and will be held at the site of the deadly crash near Fayette and Vernon Street. On Sunday, the North Belle Vernon Fire Department, who was first to the scene that morning, held a bingo fundraiser for the Woznick family, raising roughly $11,000. A GoFundMe has been set up to help the family as well. Authorities say Aria was walking with a group of children to their bus stop Friday morning when she apparently stepped into the road and into the path of a vehicle. Police have said the driver stopped and is cooperating with their investigation. Funeral services have been set for Wednesday morning at ten a.m. at the Belle Vernon Area High School auditorium in Rostraver. Families and friends will be received from 2 to 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Ferguson Funeral Home and Crematory, 700 Broad Ave., in North Belle Vernon.
February 27, 2023 2:09 am
CARROLL TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Fire companies were called to the scene of a fire with possible entrapment at a home in Carroll Township Saturday afternoon. The fire spread between the home and garage. Carroll Township crews were assisted by Charleroi, Monongahela, Donora and Monessen Fire companies. No word on any injuries. (Photo Credit: Charleroi Fire Department Facebook Page)
