September 5, 2022 4:13 am
PITTSBURGH (WPXI) — Pittsburgh emergency crews came together Sunday morning to rescue an elderly man from a hillside in South Side Slopes. Pittsburgh Public Safety said that around 7:40 a.m., police, fire and EMS crews responded to the 3000 block of Oakley Way for reports of an older man who had fallen down a hillside. He was also reported missing overnight. EMS Rescue and Fire performed a rope rescue where they rappelled down the rock wall to get the man to safety on the ground. The man was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
September 5, 2022 4:07 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is beginning his Labor Day celebrations with a trip to one battleground state, Wisconsin, before making his third trip in less than a week to another, Pennsylvania. The White House says Biden will be celebrating “the dignity of American workers.” The unofficial start of fall, Labor Day also traditionally kicks off political crunch time, with campaigns scrambling to excite voters ahead of Election Day on Nov. 8. Biden’s trips on Monday will see him return to a theme that was a centerpiece of his 2020 campaign — that labor unions burnished a middle class that built and strengthened modern American society. Biden will visit the Steelworkers Union Hall on Phillip Murray Road in West Mifflin during his visit. The president is expected to begin speaking at around 5:30 p.m.
September 4, 2022 8:02 am
WEED, Calif. (AP) — The fire-stricken Northern California town of Weed has long been seen by passersby as a whimsical spot to stop and buy an ironic T-shirt, but residents say they’ve grown edgy in recent years due to a new danger: Dark skies, swirling ash and flames that race so quickly they leave little time for escape. Their fears exploded to life again in recent days as California’s latest inferno burned homes and buildings and forced evacuations in the small community. The Mill Fire had spread to more than 6.6 square miles by Saturday evening and was 25% contained. At least two people were injured in the fire.
September 4, 2022 8:01 am
NICE, France (AP) — Eight people go on trial in France on Monday accused of helping the attacker who drove a truck into a crowded beachfront in Nice on Bastille Day, killing 86 people. The attacker was shot dead by police on the same night, July 14, 2016. He had driven a 19-tonne truck through holiday crowds like a snow plow, leaving a two-kilometer trail of crushed and mangled bodies in his wake. During the proceedings in a special terrorist court in Paris, survivors and those mourning loved ones will recount the horrors inflicted that night. The verdict is expected in December.
September 4, 2022 8:00 am
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has beatified one of his predecessors, John Paul I, a briefly serving pontiff who was distinguished for his humility and cheerfulness. The ceremony in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday constitutes the last formal step in the Vatican before possible sainthood for Albino Luciani, an Italian who died in 1978, 33 days after being elected. Last year, Francis approved a miracle attributed to John Paul I — that of the recovery of a critically ill 11-year-old girl in 2011 in Buenos Aires. Seated under a canopy outside St. Peter’s Basilica, Francis led the ceremony, punctuated by thunder and lightning. Francis encouraged the faithful to pray to Luciani to obtain “the smile of the soul.”
September 4, 2022 7:59 am
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials in Pakistan are warning that more flooding is expected as Lake Manchar in southern Pakistan swells from unprecedented monsoon rains that began in mid-June and have killed nearly 1,300 people. Meteorologists predicted more rain in the region in the coming days and authorities urged villagers in the Jamshoro and Dadu districts of Sindh province near the lake to evacuate. They said the rising waters reached dangerous levels and posed a threat to a protective dyke and embankment. The water body, located west of the Indus River, is the largest natural freshwater lake in Pakistan and one of the largest in Asia.
September 4, 2022 7:58 am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has called off a second launch attempt for its new moon rocket because of yet another fuel leak. The test flight is now off for at least a few weeks, if not months. Mission managers decided after Saturday’s scrub to haul the 322-foot rocket back into the hangar for further repairs and system updates. It’s the second delay this week for the most powerful rocket ever built by NASA. The first failed launch attempt on Monday was also troubled by escaping hydrogen. NASA has been waiting years to send the crew capsule atop the rocket around the moon with test dummies before astronauts take the next flight.
September 4, 2022 7:50 am
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — It’s Donald Trump’s first rally of the general election season, a Saturday night event in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with Republican candidates in the pivotal state. While the former president’s endorsed picks won many Republican primaries this summer, many of those he backed were inexperienced and polarizing figures now struggling in their November races. That’s putting Senate control on the line after it was once assumed to be a lock for Republicans. The stakes are particularly high for Trump as he lays the groundwork for an expected 2024 presidential run amid a series of escalating legal challenges. Chief among them is the FBI’s recent seizure of classified documents from his Florida home.
September 4, 2022 7:49 am
DUQUESNE, Pa.(WPXI) — A teen girl is dead after a shooting in the city of Duquesne. Allegheny County dispatchers confirm that police and medics were sent to the 700 block of Priscilla Avenue at around 5:13 p.m. Friday. Authorities found a victim, later identified as 14-year-old Lajaponis Roberts, shot at the scene. She later died at the scene. Police said Roberts was a passenger inside of a burgundy Chevy Cruze when the shooting happened.
September 4, 2022 7:48 am
CORAOPOLIS, Pa. (WPXI) — A local teenager is dead after an ATV accident in Coraopolis. According to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office, 18-year-old Shane Wardropper, from Moon Township, was killed after his ATV hit a fixed object on train tracks in the 4600 block of Elizabeth Street. The accident happened Friday night just before 9 p.m. Wardropper was pronounced dead at the hospital around an hour later.
