November 3, 2022 3:47 pm
WEIRTON, W.Va. (AP) – A 15-year-old West Virginia boy has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the shootings of his mother and sister. More than two years later, prosecutors said they still don’t know why he did it. The Weirton Daily Times reported that Connor Crowe entered the plea Tuesday in Hancock County Circuit Court. Prosecuting Attorney Steven Dragisich said Crowe was 13 in 2020 when he killed his mother and his 15-year-old sister. He said he’ll seek the maximum 40 years in prison on each count. Because of his youth at the time of the killings, he could be eligible for parole in 15 years.
November 3, 2022 12:54 pm
DETROIT (AP) – Stellantis and the U.S. government are warning owners of 276,000 older vehicles to stop driving them after Takata air bags apparently exploded in three more vehicles, killing the driver. The company, formerly Fiat Chrysler, is telling people to stop driving Dodge Magnum wagons, Dodge Challenger and Charger muscle cars and Chrysler 300 sedans from the 2005 through 2010 model years. Stellantis says that it confirmed the air bag inflators blew apart in two cases, killing two people. The company suspects an inflator rupture in another case that also killed a driver.
November 3, 2022 12:42 pm
Authorities say no one was hurt in a fire in the city of Washington Thursday morning. Washington County 911 says the blaze broke out just after one-thirty in a home in the one-hundred block of Gibson Avenue. Initial reports were that two people were inside but everyone got out okay. There’s been no word on what may have caused the blaze. Several fire departments assisted the city, including North and South Strabane, Canton, North Franklin and Peters Township.
November 3, 2022 4:19 am
JERUSALEM (AP) – Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears set to return to power as head of Israel’s most right-wing government ever after winning this week’s national election. The current caretaker prime minister, Yair Lapid, conceded defeat on Thursday. Final results showed Netanyahu’s Likud Party and its ultra-nationalist and religious partners capturing a solid majority in Israel’s Knesset, or parliament. The strong showing promised to end the political gridlock that has paralyzed Israel for the past three and a half years. But the planned agenda of the new government expected to take office promises to further polarize a deeply divided nation and risks antagonizing Israel’s closest allies abroad. (Photo: AP)
November 3, 2022 4:15 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – As Russians seized parts of eastern and southern Ukraine in the opening stages of the war, mayors, civilian administrators and others, including nuclear power plant workers, say they have been abducted, threatened or beaten to force their cooperation. In some instances, they have been killed. Human rights activists say these actions could constitute a war crime. Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov said he was abducted from his office and “the bullying and threats did not stop for a minute. They tried to force me to continue leading the city under the Russian flag, but I refused.” After six days in detention and an intervention from Ukraine’s president, he was exchanged for nine Russian prisoners of war and expelled from the occupied city.
November 3, 2022 4:14 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea has added to its barrage of recent weapons tests, firing at least three missiles including an intercontinental ballistic missile that forced the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and temporarily halt trains. The launches on Thursday were the latest in a series of North Korean weapons tests in recent months that have raised tensions in the region. They came a day after Pyongyang fired more than 20 missiles, the most it has fired in a single day ever. The Japanese government initially said at least one of the missiles flew over its northern territory but later revised its assessment, saying there were no overflies.
November 3, 2022 4:14 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Six days before major midterm elections, President Joe Biden is imploring voters to save American democracy from Trump supporters’ election-denying lies and the violence that he says they have inspired. Biden shined a spotlight on “ultra MAGA” Republicans – a reference to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan – and mounting concerns over political violence. Wednesday night’s speech came a few days after a man seeking to kidnap House Speaker Nancy Pelosi severely injured her husband, Paul Pelosi, in their San Francisco home, and as physical threats have rattled members of Congress and election workers. Biden said this is no time to ignore what’s going on. He declared that “silence is complicity.”
November 3, 2022 4:11 am
A Carroll Township man whose house was raided by Pennsylvania State Police in May of 2021 has chosen to face a jury trial. Markeiz Johnson, 27 is facing fire arm and drug possession felonies in two unrelated cases. Police raided his home in 2021 finding suspected crack, cocaine, marijuana and a hand gun with ammunition. In a second 2022 incident Johnson was charged with similar felonies. In the 2021 case an accomplice, Jeremiah Johnson of Pittsburgh was also charged. He pleaded guilty to drug and firearm possession felonies earlier this year. He is currently serving a 3-8 year sentence in state prison. Markeiz Johnson is scheduled for a February 2023 trial. It is undetermined which of the two cases will be brought to trial. Johnson remains in the Washington County Jail.
November 3, 2022 4:09 am
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The bad news is that no one won Wednesday night’s huge $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot. The good news is that means the prize has grown even larger to $1.5 billion ahead of the next drawing Saturday night. That is the third-largest lottery prize in U.S. history. The numbers drawn Wednesday night were: 2, 11, 22, 35, 60 and the red powerball 23. No one has won the top Powerball prize since Aug. 3, making for 39 consecutive drawings without anyone matching all six numbers. What’s behind three months of lottery futility? It’s simple math. The odds of winning the jackpot are an abysmal 1 in 292.2 million.
November 3, 2022 2:47 am
A Washington man was killed in a traffic accident Thursday morning in East Finley Township. The Washington County Coroner’s Office say 43-year-old Matthew Rafferty died in the emergency room of Washington Hospital, shortly after the vehicle he was driving slammed into a tree around six-thirty on Cracraft Road. State Police are investigating.
