November 29, 2022 5:25 pm
(WPXI) – Police are investigating after three people were shot in McKeesport. According to Allegheny County 911, police and EMS units were called to the 500 block of Pirl Street at 1:42 p.m. McKeesport police said all three victims’ injuries are considered to be non-life-threatening. McKeesport police detectives are working this investigation.
November 29, 2022 1:10 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – Clarence Gilyard Jr., a popular supporting actor whose credits include the blockbuster films “Die Hard” and “Top Gun” and the hit television series “Matlock” and “Walker, Texas Ranger,” has died at age 66. He had a prolific career, starting in the 1980s with appearances in “Diff’rent Strokes,” “The Facts of Life” and other television shows. Gilyard was then in two of the biggest movies of the decade: “Top Gun,” in which he played a radar intercept officer, and “Die Hard,” when he was featured as a villainous computer maven whose one liners included “You didn’t bring me along for my charming personality.” (Photo: ABC)
November 29, 2022 12:55 pm
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) – A Walmart employee who survived the mass shooting at a store in Virginia has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the company. Employee Donya Prioleau claims in her lawsuit that Walmart continued to employ the shooter “who had known propensities for violence, threats and strange behavior.” The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Chesapeake Circuit Court. Walmart, áwhich is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, didn’t immediately respond to a request seeking comment. Prioleau’s suit alleges that she has experienced post-traumatic stress disorder from witnessing the rampage in the store’s breakroom. Police said that store supervisor Andre Bing fatally shot six employees and wounded several others. Police said he died at the scene from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
November 29, 2022 12:43 pm
A domestic violence call to Peters Township Police escalated into a SWAT team event on Tuesday morning. Police were called to the Residences on McMurray, an apartment complex situated just off West McMurray Road. Peters Township Police Chief Douglas Grimes indicated that the victim escaped the apartment with minor injuries and was taken to a local hospital for treatment. Police say she told them that the suspect, Brandon Osborne, may have had firearms in the apartment. Police called for assistance from the South Hills Area Council Of Governments’ Community Emergency Response Team. The Washington County SWAT team, Allegheny Bomb Squad along with police from North Strabane, South Strabane and Baldwin also assisted. Police spent several hours trying to coax Osborne from the apartment before they were issued a search warrant. Upon entering the apartment police found Osborne had fled the scene sometime between the initial call from the victim and the initial arrival of police. A rifle and hand gun were found in the apartment. Osborne is still at large. Police are in contact with him asking him to turn himself in. Police anticipate charges to be filed against Osborne once he is in custody.
November 29, 2022 4:24 am
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian authorities are investigating sites where torture allegedly took place in the city of Kherson. More than two weeks after Russians retreated from the southern city, investigators say five torture rooms have been found in the city and at least four more in the wider Kherson region. Ukrainians allege that they were confined, beaten, shocked with electricity, interrogated and threatened with death. Human rights experts warn that the allegations made so far are only the beginning. The Ukrainian national police say more than 460 war crimes have been committed by Russian soldiers in recently occupied areas of Kherson.
November 29, 2022 4:22 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court is taking up a dispute over a blocked Biden administration policy that would prioritize deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk. Republican-led states sued and won a nationwide court order that is meant to limit immigration officers’ discretion in deciding whom to deport. The justices are hearing arguments in the case Tuesday. At the center of the legal fight is a September 2021 directive from the Homeland Security Department that paused deportation unless individuals had committed acts of terrorism, espionage or “egregious threats to public safety.”
November 29, 2022 4:21 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Republicans are promising aggressive oversight of the Biden administration once they assume the majority next year. They are planning to take particular focus on the business dealings of presidential son Hunter Biden, illegal immigration at the U.S-Mexico border and the originations of COVID-19. The House members expected to lead those investigations include Ohio’s Jim Jordan (pictured), a favorite of former President Donald Trump. Jordan is likely to lead the House Judiciary Committee. Another is Kentucky’s James Comer, who is expected to lead the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
November 29, 2022 4:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron will be the guest for the first state visit of Joe Biden’s presidency. The event this week is a revival of diplomatic pageantry that had been put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Biden-Macron relationship has turned around from its choppy start. Macron briefly recalled France’s ambassador to the United States last year after the White House announced a deal to sell nuclear submarines to Australia that undermined a contract that France had to sell diesel-powered submarines. Today, Macron has become one of Biden’s most forward-facing European allies in the Western response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
November 29, 2022 4:17 am
BEIJING (AP) – Chinese universities are sending students home as the ruling Communist Party tightens anti-virus controls and tries to prevent more protests after crowds angered by its severe “zero COVID” restrictions called for President Xi Jinping to resign in the biggest show of public dissent in decades. With police out in force, there was no word of new protests in Beijing, Shanghai or other major cities. Some anti-virus restrictions were eased in a possible effort to defuse public anger following weekend protests in at least eight cities. But the ruling party affirmed its “zero COVID” strategy, which has confined millions to their homes. Universities cited the need to protect students from COVID-19. But dispersing them to far-flung hometowns also reduces the likelihood of more activism.
November 29, 2022 4:14 am
PENN HILLS, Pa. — (WPXI) – It was an accident that stole the life of a young paramedic whose community is already feeling his loss. “He’s probably the youngest old man I’ve ever met,” said Mame Saltzman. At just 23 years old, Nick Theofilis left a mark.“Wherever he went, he made friends. That’s how he was — old, young, always looking out for everyone. If you ever needed anyone, he was there for you,” Dani Scott said. “I don’t know if you’d find one person in the area that has ever met Nick that didn’t love Nick,” Saltzman said. On Sunday night, Nick was driving a Penn Hills ambulance when it struck another vehicle in Shadyside. When Pittsburgh police got there, Nick was in cardiac arrest and died at the hospital. “I think if Nick had to pick a way for him to go, this would be the scenario he wanted because that was his motto — giving in to others,” said Mary Chirdon. There were two other people injured in the accident. Both are expected to survive.
