August 15, 2022 4:23 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Actor Anne Heche has died, nine days after she was injured in a fiery car crash. She was 53. Spokeswoman Holly Baird said Sunday night that Heche “been peacefully taken off life support.” She had been on life support after suffering burns and a major brain injury when her car crashed into a home. Heche first came to prominence on the NBC soap opera “Another World” in the late 1980s before becoming one of the hottest stars in Hollywood in the late 1990s. She was a constant on magazine covers and in big-budget films opposite actors including Johnny Depp and Harrison Ford.
August 15, 2022 4:22 am
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney hail from their states’ most prominent Republican families. They’re also among the GOP’s sharpest critics of former President Donald Trump, and both supported his impeachment. But their political fortunes could diverge after Tuesday’s primaries. Cheney faces daunting prospects in her effort to fend off Trump-supported challenger Harriet Hageman, while Murkowski is expected to advance from her primary. Boosting Murkowski’s prospects is a nonpartisan primary in which the four candidates who get the most votes, regardless of party affiliation, advance to the general election.
August 15, 2022 4:20 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – An Iranian government official is denying that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie. The remarks were the country’s first public comments on the attack. Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a briefing to journalists on Monday. He said that Iran does “not consider that anyone deserves blame and accusations except him and his supporters,” speaking of Rushdie. The spokesman also said that “nobody has right to accuse Iran in this regard.” Iran has denied carrying out other operations abroad targeting dissidents in the years since its 1979 Islamic Revolution, despite prosecutors and Western governments attributing such attacks back to Tehran.
August 15, 2022 4:19 am
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has met with a delegation of U.S. Congress members, in a further sign of support among American lawmakers for the self-governing island that China claims as its own territory. The meeting on Monday comes less than two week after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit, which prompted days of threatening military exercises by China, including the firing of missiles over the island and into the Taiwan Strait. China has also sent warplanes and navy ships across the median line that has long been a buffer between the sides that separated amid civil war in 1949. China regards such contacts with the island as support for its independence from Beijing.
August 15, 2022 4:15 am
OHIOPYLE, Pa. — (WPXI) – A woman died after the raft she was on overturned at Ohiopyle State Park in Fayette County Saturday afternoon. Park Operations Manager Ken Bisbee said that a 51-year-old woman from Ohio fell overboard when her raft overturned in one of the rapids on the Lower Youghiogheny River. She was rescued quickly by river guides, who began CPR on her. Bisbee said medics transported her to Uniontown Hospital, where she was pronounced dead around 6:30 p.m.
August 15, 2022 4:13 am
SALTLICK TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – A 16-year-old boy from Connellsville was killed and two others were taken to the hospital after a crash in Fayette County Saturday afternoon. State police said they were called to reports of an accident at the intersection of Indian Creek Valley Road and Calvary Church Road in Saltlick Township at around 2:58 p.m. Saturday. State police say that a 19-year-old man was driving a 1993 Ford Mustang at a high rate of speed and the 16-year-old boy who died was a passenger in that car. Police say they crashed into a 2016 GMC Sierra operated by a 28-year-old man. Both the driver of the Mustang and the Sierra were taken to the hospital. The 16-year-old Mustang passenger was pronounced dead on scene. The boy’s name has not been released. Charges are pending investigation.
August 15, 2022 4:10 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa. – (WPXI) – One person is dead after being shot outside of a bar in Fayette County early Sunday. Lt. Tom Kolencik with the Uniontown City Police Department told our news partners at Channel 11 officers were called to the VFW in the 300 block of East Main Street in Uniontown around 12:30 a.m. for a fight inside the bar. According to police, the fight then moved outside of the bar. Surveillance video shows an argument between two people when police said one of them brandished a gun. Police said the second person then pulled out a gun and shot the victim, identified as 47-year-old Terrell Poole, multiple times. Poole was flown to a hospital where he died. Police said no arrests have been made. Uniontown police are still investigating.
August 15, 2022 1:12 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. — The Borough of East Washington announced the passing of Mayor Matthew Boice after a medical emergency on Friday. Boice resided in the borough for 34 years, serving on council as the borough president, and sworn in as mayor in 2022. A retired high school teacher, officials say Boice was involved with numerous organizations. He was the Director of Music and Organist at First Presbyterian Church in Washington. He volunteered as the coach of a girls softball team and with the Washington High School Band. Boice was very active in the Masonic Fraternities and the Shriners raising money to benefit Muscular Dystrophy, The Eye Foundation, Special Olympics, and Shriners Hospitals for Children. Officials say he was a prominent member of the borough and his death is a tragic loss to the community. (Photo: Borough of East Washington)
August 14, 2022 7:59 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi oil company Aramco’s half-year profits peaked just shy of $88 billion as oil prices remain high globally. The oil and gas company, which is nearly entirely state-owned, said Sunday it also saw a 90% surge in net profits for the second quarter of 2022 compared to the same time last year. Aramco said the results set a new quarterly earnings record for the company since it floated around 5% of the company on the Saudi stock market in late 2019. Aramco said the profits were driven primarily by higher crude oil prices and volumes sold, and higher refining margins.
August 14, 2022 7:58 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have fired rockets on the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine. At least one person has been killed. And a Russian diplomat has called on Ukraine to offer security assurances so that international inspectors can visit a nuclear power station that has come under fire. The Mykolaiv region is just to the north of the Russian-occupied city of Kherson which Ukrainian forces have vowed to retake. Concern has grown sharply about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as fighting steps up in southern Ukraine. The facility has been held by Russian forces and has been hit by sporadic shelling. Both Ukraine and Russia blame each other for the shelling.
