October 27, 2022 2:12 am
A Washington man faced his preliminary hearing on an aggravated assault charge and decided to make a plea deal. West Jones, 52 will enter a fast track plea to felony aggravated assault and three other misdemeanors for his actions during an altercation on October 15. Police were called to a residence on E. Hallam Avenue where Jones allegedly threatened Avery Turner with a golf club and attempted to kick down a door. No injuries were reported. Jones’ plea court hearing is scheduled for December 20.
October 26, 2022 1:54 pm
CLEVELAND (AP) – Two men accused of stuffing five walleye with lead weights and fish fillets during a lucrative fishing tournament on Lake Erie have pleaded not guilty to cheating and other charges. Forty-two-year-old Jacob Runyan, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, and 35-year-old Chase Cominsky, of Hermitage, Pennsylvania, were arraigned Wednesday in common pleas court in Cleveland. Their attorneys declined to comment after the hearing. The cheating allegations surfaced Sept. 30 when Lake Erie Walleye Trail tournament director Jason Fischer became suspicious because Runyan and Cominsky’s fish were significantly heavier than walleye of that length normally are. A crowd watched Fischer cut open the walleye and announce there were weights and walleye fillets stuffed inside them.
October 26, 2022 12:51 pm
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A jury has convicted a Wisconsin man of killing six people when he drove his SUV into a Christmas parade last year. Darrell Brooks was found guilty Wednesday of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide. He drove into the parade in Waukesha on Nov. 21 after fleeing a domestic disturbance with an ex-girlfriend. Dozens of other people were hurt. Brooks dismissed his public defenders days before his trial began in early October and defended himself throughout the proceedings. He was removed from the courtroom at times for his erratic outbursts and confrontational exchanges with the judge.
October 26, 2022 4:22 am
A new report from doctors and other health experts says the world’s fossil fuel addiction is making the world sicker and is killing people. Tuesday’s report in the prestigious medical journal Lancet says extreme weather from climate change triggered hunger in nearly 100 million people. It also says that heat deaths are up 68% among vulnerable groups and that each year pollution from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas kills 1.2 million people worldwide. The Lancet report looks at 43 different health indicators. Report authors say global health problems from global warming are getting worse.
October 26, 2022 4:21 am
UMM AL FAHM, Israel (AP) – The voices of Israel’s Palestinian citizens are often drowned out or delegitimized in the country’s noisy politics. Yet in the upcoming general election, they could hold the key to breaking an entrenched political deadlock. Israelis vote Tuesday for the fifth time in less than four years. The country remains as divided as ever over former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fitness to serve while on trial for corruption. Polls show those numbers haven’t budged. What could tip the scales is the vote of the one-fifth of Israelis who are of Palestinian descent. High turnout could swing the elections in favor of Netanyahu’s opponents, while a drop could pave the way for Netanyahu’s return.
October 26, 2022 4:18 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s nuclear energy operator says Russian forces have performed secret work at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. The activity could shed light on Russia’s unsubstantiated claims that Kyiv’s forces are preparing a “provocation” involving a radioactive device. Ukrainian nuclear operator Energoatom said Tuesday it “assumes” the Russians are preparing “a terrorist act using nuclear materials and radioactive waste” stored at the plant. It says the destruction of containers of spent nuclear fuel would lead to a radiation accident and the contamination of several hundred square kilometers (miles) of adjacent territory. Ukraine has dismissed Moscow’s claim as an attempt to distract attention from the Kremlin’s own alleged plans to detonate a dirty bomb.
October 26, 2022 4:15 am
BEIJING (AP) – The Chinese city of Shanghai has started administering an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine in what appears to be a world first. The vaccine, a mist that is sucked in through the mouth, is being offered for free as a booster dose for previously vaccinated individuals, according to an announcement posted on an official city social media account. Needle-free vaccines may persuade people who don’t like getting a shot to get vaccinated, as well as help expand vaccination in poor countries because they are easier to administer. China doesn’t have vaccine mandates, but wants more people to get booster shots before it relaxes strict pandemic restrictions that are holding back the economy and increasingly out of synch with the rest of the world.
October 26, 2022 4:14 am
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Police say the 19-year-old gunman who killed a teacher and a 15-year-old girl at a St. Louis high school was armed with an AR-15-style rifle and what appeared to be more than 600 rounds of ammunition. Orlando Harris also left behind a hand-written note offering his explanation for the shooting Monday at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School. Tenth-grader Alexzandria Bell and 61-year-old physical education teacher Jean Kuczka died and seven students were wounded. The attack forced students to barricade doors and huddle in classroom corners, jump from windows and run out of the building to seek safety. Police killed Harris in an exchange of gunfire.
October 26, 2022 4:12 am
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his army mobilization for the war in Ukraine, independent media outlets, human rights activists and draftees themselves have painted a bleak picture. They describe a haphazard, chaotic and ethnically biased effort to round up as many men as possible and push them quickly to the front, regardless of skill or training. The reservists included men without any military experience, some of whom were also unfit for service for medical reasons. There were shortages of gear, with outdated weapons handed out, and squalid living quarters awaited draftees at training camps. One analyst says the hasty call-up will hardly achieve anything other than “slowing down the advances” of Ukrainian troops,
October 26, 2022 4:10 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — More than five months after experiencing a stroke, Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman struggled at times to explain his positions and often spoke haltingly throughout a highly anticipated debate Tuesday against Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz as they vie for a critical Senate seat. In the opening minutes of the debate, Fetterman addressed what he called the “elephant in the room.” “I had a stroke. He’s never let me forget that,” Fetterman said of Oz, who has persistently questioned his ability to serve in the Senate. “And I might miss some words during this debate, mush two words together, but it knocked me down and I’m going to keep coming back up.” When pressed to release his medical records later in the debate, he refused to commit. Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon, ignored his opponent’s health challenges throughout the debate, instead seizing on Fetterman’s policies on immigration and crime and his support for President Joe Biden. At one point, Oz said Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, was “trying to get as many murderers out of jail as possible.” “His extreme positions have made him untenable,” he charged. The forum had many of the trappings of a traditional debate, complete with heated exchanges and interruptions. But the impact of the stroke was apparent as Fetterman used closed-captioning posted above the moderator to help him process the words he heard, leading to occasional awkward pauses.
