June 17, 2022 1:40 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. — Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh has confirmed that authorities were searching for a wanted man Thursday afternoon. Walsh confirmed to WJPA News that the search was for Javarr Thomas. No further information was released. The search was reportedly narrowed down to an area in the 400 block of Hancock Street near the Woodland Apartments complex in Washington. Washington City Police along with the Washington County Sheriff’s Department and K9 units were on the scene. The search was reportedly called off before nightfall. Thomas is currently wanted on multiple drug charges, fleeing police and illegal possession of a firearm.
June 16, 2022 4:45 pm
(WPXI) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that Allegheny County and several other counties in southwestern Pennsylvania have reached the “low” community transmission level of COVID-19. The only county still at the “medium” level is Greene County. Washington, Butler, Beaver, Lawrence, Armstrong, Indiana, Westmoreland and Fayette Counties were some of the areas that have been dropped to the “low” level. Allegheny County has seen around 164 cases of COVID-19 in the last seven days. The county reached “high” community transmission levels on May 27.
June 16, 2022 4:20 pm
PennDot along with the Highway Safety Network and the PA DUI Association brought the DUI Victims Moving Memorial Wall to Washington. The wall is a replica of the one on display in Harrisburg. It contains 3000 names of people who have been killed by drivers that were driving under the influence. In a ceremony commemorating the loss of those people, local officials were on hand to ask that now that summer is here and celebrations become more frequent, people consider alternatives to getting behind the wheel after celebrating with alcohol or other substances. District Attorney Jason Walsh says that even those with marijuana cards are subject to DUI criminal charges if found to be impaired. Washington County Commissioner Larry Maggi said that the most difficult task he ever had as a state trooper or county sheriff was to tell someone in the middle of the night that they lost a loved one due to a DUI driver. Pennsylvania State Trooper Forrest Allison said that people should consider alternatives to driving impaired such as Uber or designated drivers or just call someone to come and get you. According to PennDot, 450 people were killed in 2021 due to DUI, 10 in Washington County.
June 16, 2022 1:40 pm
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has declared a state of emergency for a northern West Virginia county hit by high winds and flash flooding from severe storms that caused one death. The declaration that will remain in effect for 30 days allows emergency responders to mobilize personnel and resources in Ohio County. Nearly 7,000 customers in the county remained without electricity Wednesday from the storms on Monday night and early Tuesday. The governor’s office says the body of a 20-year-old woman was found Tuesday evening after she was swept away from a bridge in floodwaters in the Wileyville area.
June 16, 2022 12:54 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – Revlon, the 90-year-old multinational cosmetics company, is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, weighed down by debt load, disruptions to its supply chain network and surging costs. With household names like Almay to Elizabeth Arden, Revlon has been a mainstay on store shelves for decades. And it’s a company that broke race barriers and put supermodels like Iman, Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington front and center. It has struggled in recent years, however, with mounting debt, rising competition and failure to keep pace with changing beauty standards. (ABC News)
June 16, 2022 7:23 am
No injuries were reported after a crash early Thursday morning along E. Maiden Street in South Strabane Township. It happened just after 5:30 a.m. Police at the scene say they believe a driver traveling westbound fell asleep and struck a vehicle parked near the home at 1949 E. Maiden. That parked vehicle then went into the home. Police, Fire and E.M.S all responded. At this time, no identities have been released and no other information is available.
June 16, 2022 4:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation, now raging at a four-decade high and defying the Fed’s efforts so far to tame it. Increasingly, it seems, doing so might require the one painful thing the Fed has sought to avoid: A recession. A worse-than-expected inflation report for May helped spur the Fed to raise its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of point Wednesday and to signal that more large rate hikes are likely coming. Economic history suggests that aggressive, growth-killing rate hikes could be necessary to finally control inflation. And typically, that is a prescription for a recession.
June 16, 2022 4:13 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Jan. 6 committee is plunging into Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to salvage the 2020 election by pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to reject the electoral count. Thursday’s hearing will likely focus on how Trump latched onto a highly unusual strategy from conservative law professor John Eastman in the days before the U.S. Capitol riot. The House panel has said the “illegality” was obvious. Pence was to preside over the Jan. 6 session of Congress to certify Joe Biden’s election victory. Testimony is expected from the vice president’s counsel, Greg Jacob, and a retired federal judge, Michael Luttig, who called the plan “incorrect at every turn.”
June 16, 2022 4:11 am
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – Montana’s largest city has restarted its water plant after shutting it down amid record flooding that’s caused widespread damage in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding communities. The city of Billings had asked residents to conserve water because it was down to a limited supply after shutting its treatment plant when the Yellowstone River hit record high levels. City officials said Thursday the plant was back to full capacity. But the slug of floodwater from rain and melting snow continued to move downstream. By Friday morning it was expected to reach Miles City in eastern Montana. Local authorities said there was no immediate risk to the city of more than 8,000 people.
June 16, 2022 4:09 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Premier Mario Draghi have arrived in Kyiv. áThe Europeans leaders are expected to meet with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday as they prepare for a key European Union leaders’ summit in Brussels next week and a June 29-30 NATO summit in Madrid. France currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency. Romanian President Klaus Iohannis is also expected to join them.
