September 12, 2022 4:28 am
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) – King Charles III and his three siblings marched behind their mother’s coffin in a solemn procession along the Royal Mile in the historic heart of the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. A military bagpiper played the national anthem as the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the royal standard, was carried from the Palace of Holyroodhouse and placed in a hearse. The king, dressed in an army uniform, and Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward walked behind as the hearse rolled to St. Giles’ Cathedral. The hearse was flanked by a bearer party of the Royal Regiment of Scotland and a detachment of The King’s Body Guard in Scotland, the Royal Company of Archers.
September 12, 2022 4:26 am
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine has kept the counteroffensive momentum in its war against Russia going. It says it liberated one village after another amid a claim that in one region it had pushed the invaders back right up to the borders they came from. Kyiv authorities said that electric power and water supplies have been restored to some 80 percent in the embattled Kharkiv region after Sunday’s attacks by Russia on power stations and other infrastructure that knocked out electricity in many place across Ukraine. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that its troops had liberated more than 20 settlements within the last day.
September 12, 2022 4:25 am
DONEGAL TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – Crews battled a fire early Sunday morning at an historic restaurant in Donegal. According to Ligonier Volunteer Hose Company #1 on Facebook, 14 fire companies were called out to the Tall Cedars Restaurant at 108 Main Street around 4 a.m. for a working structure fire. Darlington Volunteer Fire Company – Station 42 on Facebook also said companies from Westmoreland, Fayette and Somerset counties responded to the fire. The scene was cleared around 9 a.m., according to Darlington Volunteer Fire Company – Station 42.
September 12, 2022 4:21 am
SLIPPERY ROCK TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – Two people are dead after a vehicle versus motorcycle crash in Butler County, state police say. Troopers responded to Branchton Road and Route 8 in Slippery Rock Township at around 4 p.m. Friday for reports of a motorcycle and vehicle crash. 68-year-old Gary Redmond from Franklin and 51-year-old Jeannie Summers were both on the motorcycle during the crash and later died from their injuries. Authorities believe the driver of the vehicle did not yield as they were making a left turn onto Route 8 and collided with the motorcycle.
September 12, 2022 1:30 am
Governor Tom Wolf announced his $21.5 million plan to provide universal free school breakfast for 1.7 million students across Pennsylvania this year. The Universal Free Breakfast Program will go into effect on October 1, 2022 and run through the end of the 2022-2023 school year. Students enrolled in public schools, intermediate units, charter schools, career and technology schools and child care institutions that participate in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs will benefit from the state funded program.
September 11, 2022 8:00 am
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II’s flag-draped coffin is passing through the rugged Scottish countryside on a final journey from her beloved summer estate Balmoral Castle to London. The coffin of the late monarch is on a six-hour road journey to Edinburgh on Sunday. Mourners in Scotland are lining roads and some tossing flowers to honor the monarch who died Thursday at Balmoral after 70 years on the throne. Also Sunday, King Charles III will be formally proclaimed king in the other nations of the United Kingdom — Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — after a similar ceremony in Britain a day earlier.
September 11, 2022 7:59 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will mark the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon. Sunday’s somber commemoration comes a little more than a year after the Democratic president ended the war in Afghanistan launched by the U.S. and its allies in response to the terror attacks. Biden upheld a campaign pledge to bring home U.S. troops from the country’s longest conflict. But the war ended in chaotic fashion last August as the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says Biden will recognize the impact the Sept. 11 attacks had on the U.S. and the world and honor the nearly 3,000 people killed that day.
September 11, 2022 7:58 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are remembering 9/11 with moments of silence, readings of victims’ names, volunteer work and other tributes, 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. Victims’ relatives and dignitaries will convene Sunday at the places where hijacked jets crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. President Joe Biden plans to speak and lay a wreath at the Pentagon, while first lady Jill Biden is scheduled to speak in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband are due at the World Trade Center in New York, but by tradition, no political figures speak at the ground zero ceremony. Other communities around the country are holding their own commemorations. Locally, the South Strabane Police and Fire Departments held their annual service in front of the memorial at the Washington Mall parking lot Sunday morning.
September 11, 2022 7:53 am
INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — Frank Cignetti, a Hall of Fame coach who turned Indiana University of Pennsylvania into a Division II power, has died. He was 84. Cignetti starred at IUP in the late-1950s then returned as head coach in 1986. He spent 20 years leading the Crimson Hawks, twice leading them to the Division II national title game. Cignetti won 199 games as a college coach at West Virginia University and IUP. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2013.
September 11, 2022 7:49 am
PITTSBURGH (WPXI) — A man was taken to the hospital after an incident in a Pittsburgh neighborhood. Allegheny County dispatchers said emergency crews were called to the 200 block of Charles Street in Knoxville at around 9:25 p.m. Saturday night. According to Pittsburgh police, responding officers found a male with a grazed gunshot wound who they believe crashed his car into a house during the shooting. The victim was taken to a local hospital. The investigation is ongoing.
