June 10, 2022 4:20 pm
GREENVILLE, Ohio (AP) – Authorities say a woman was killed and her husband was critically injured in the fiery crash Tuesday of a helicopter at their southwest Ohio home. The crash occurred around 9:40 a.m. near Greenville, roughly 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of Dayton near the Indiana border. The Darke County sheriff’s office says 34-year-old Charles Zimmer was flown to Miami Valley Hospital with life-threatening injuries. His wife, 35-year-old Krista Zimmer, was pronounced dead at the scene, he said. Officials said it’s unclear whether the Enstrom F-28F was trying to land or take off at the time of the crash. The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.
June 10, 2022 3:49 pm
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Officials say the Saturday night melee in Philadelphia that left three people dead began with a fistfight and was followed by random gunfire a block or more away. The remarks come as officials say a pair of 18-year-olds suspected of killing two bystanders have been arrested in Virginia on Thursday. They say the initial fistfight turned deadly when two men fired at each other. They say the two teenagers then opened fire at random down the street, killing a youth counselor and a home health aide on Philadelphia’s popular South Street. They say 11 other people were injured.
June 10, 2022 3:48 pm
(AP) – Four people were being treated for wounds that were not life-threatening after a shooting Friday at a mall in North Carolina, police said. Rick Goodale, a spokesman for the Gastonia Police Department, said the shooting happened around noon Friday in the food court of the Eastridge Mall in Gastonia. The city of about 77,000 people is west of Charlotte, not far from the state line with South Carolina. Goodale said by phone that there is no active threat to the public. He said the four people shot are being treated for their wounds. He said two people of interest are being questioned.
June 10, 2022 12:21 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights, easing one of the last remaining government mandates meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus. A senior administration official says the mandate expires Sunday. The official says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has determined the mandate is no longer necessary. The official said Friday the CDC will reevaluate the need for the testing requirement every 90 days and it could be reinstated if a troubling new variant emerges. Airline and tourism groups had been pressing the administration to eliminate the testing requirement.
June 10, 2022 8:54 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The costs of gas, food and other necessities jumped in May, raising inflation to a new four-decade high and giving American households no respite from rising costs. Consumer prices surged 8.6% last month from 12 months earlier, faster than April’s year-over-year surge of 8.3%. On a month-to-month basis, prices jumped 1% from April to May, a steep rise from the 0.3% increase from March to April. Much higher gas prices were to blame for most of that increase. America’s rampant inflation is imposing severe pressures on families, forcing them to pay much more for food, gas and rent and reducing their ability to afford discretionary items, from haircuts to electronics.
June 10, 2022 4:25 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Britney Spears has married her longtime partner Sam Asghari months after the pop superstar won her freedom from a court conservatorship. Asghari’s representative Brandon Cohen confirmed the couple’s nuptials, saying he was ecstatic that Spears and Asghari had fulfilled their dream of getting married. The wedding happened nine months after the pair were engaged and nearly seven months after Spears’ conservatorship ended. While seeking an end to the court case that controlled many aspects of her life, Spears expressed her desire to marry Asghari and have children. The wedding day was not without unexpected drama – Spears’ first husband, a childhood friend, was arrested after attempting to crash their wedding. (Photo: ABC)
June 10, 2022 4:22 am
SMITHSBURG, Md. (AP) – Authorities say a West Virginia man accused of fatally shooting three co-workers at a western Maryland machine shop remains under police guard at a hospital, but a Maryland state trooper injured in a shootout with the shooting suspect has been treated and released. Police say the 25-year Maryland State Police veteran was shot when the fleeing suspect fired at troopers who tracked him down. Police say at least one trooper returned fire, striking the suspect. Police say charges are pending consultation with the state’s attorney’s office. The Washington County sheriff says three men were found dead at Columbia Machine and a fourth was critically injured. He says the victims and suspect were all employees.
June 10, 2022 4:20 am
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history says in his first extensive published comments that he didn’t consider himself the incident commander as the massacre unfolded. Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo told the Texas Tribune that he assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School. An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers behind a locked classroom door that the chief said was reinforced with a steel jamb and could not be kicked in. Officers did not confront the gunman for more than an hour as they waited on a key that would unlock the door.
June 10, 2022 4:19 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – A House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has firmly laid blame on Donald Trump. In Thursday’s prime-time hearing, lawmakers said the siege was no accident but an “attempted coup” and a direct result of the defeated president’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democrat from Mississippi, said the attack put America’s “constitutional democracy at risk.” Thursday’s hearing showed new video and other evidence from the deadly Capitol assault. The panel also detailed the chilling backstory as defeated President Donald Trump tried to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. Live testimony included a police officer who was pummeled in the riot and a documentary filmmaker tracking extremist Proud Boys leading the melee.
June 10, 2022 4:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court is allowing elections officials to count mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that lack a handwritten date but were received in time. The unsigned order Thursday applies to a Lehigh County judicial election from 2021. But Justice Samuel Alito warned in a dissent that the issue could affect the November elections. Last week, Alito had imposed a temporary hold on counting the ballots to give the justices more time to consider the matter. At the time, former hedge fund CEO David McCormick was locked in a tight contest with celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination. McCormick has since conceded to Oz.
