July 26, 2025 5:30 am
Beaver County (WPXI)–Police in Beaver County are looking for three men who allegedly stole more than $13,000 from skills games machines. According to our news partners at Channel 11, on Wednesday night, surveillance video captures the three men playing the machines at a convenience store in North Sewickley township. That’s when authorities say they somehow got into the machines and took the cash. Video shows the three black men leaving the store and getting into a car parked outside a neighboring store. Because the machines weren’t damaged, the theft wasn’t discovered until the following morning. If anyone has any information about the crime, they are asked to contact the North Sewickley Police Department.
July 26, 2025 4:04 am
Florida, (AP)–Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says deportation flights from the remote Everglades immigration lockup known as Alligator Alcatraz began in the past few days. DeSantis said Friday that the flights operated by the Department of Homeland Security have transferred about 100 detainees from the immigration detention center to other countries. He expects that number to increase soon. Officials say two or three flights have happened, though they didn’t say which countries those flights headed to. Critics have condemned the facility as cruel and inhumane, but DeSantis and other Republicans have defended it as part of the state’s aggressive push to support President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
July 26, 2025 3:57 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy has been killed and a 19-year-old has been wounded after in overnight shooting at a University of New Mexico dormitory. Authorities have arrested an 18-year-old suspect. University officials lifted a shelter in place order late Friday afternoon, saying the main campus in Albuquerque would still remain closed. Campus police said four people, including the suspect, were playing video games inside a dorm room belonging to one of them when the shooting began. State police said they are investigating why the suspect fired. The fall semester is scheduled to begin in about three weeks.
July 26, 2025 3:29 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump faces ongoing questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case, overshadowing his administration’s achievements. On Friday, reporters pressed the Republican president about pardoning Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, but he deflected, emphasizing his administration’s successes. Despite enacting significant policies, Trump’s past ties to Epstein continue to stir controversy. Supporters demand transparency, believing Epstein’s death in a New York jail cell six years ago hides a larger conspiracy. Administration officials who previously fueled theories now claim there’s nothing more to reveal. Trump denies prior knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and urges supporters to move on. But the Epstein case remains a challenging distraction.
July 25, 2025 4:45 am
CHARLEROI, Pa. — Looks like the shuttered Charleroi glass plant may have new life. Reports say a company is in the process of buying the former Corelle Brands Glass Plant, with plans to reopen it as an industrial glass facility by the end of the year. “Everybody said, ‘Oh, it’s dead now. Charleroi’s dead. They lost Corelle, they’re dead.’ Well, guess what…we are still alive,” said Mayor of Charleroi, Gregg Doerfler. “That’s all we’ve ever been known for is glass. So for it to continue, even though it’s not Pyrex or whatever, to know it’s still a glass factory is an amazing thing.” According to our news partners at Channel-11, sources said the new owners plan on investing 10’s of millions of dollars into renovating the plant. The news comes just over three months after the plant closed its doors after 132 years, leaving hundreds out of work. Daniele Byrne, the vice president of Local Union 53G, said she’s still waiting for details on the potential sale. “We took our little severance that we got, but…nobody has contacted anybody from the union,” said Byrne. “I talked to the president today, and she said no one contacted her either about the plant opening up.” Byrne and her husband both lost their jobs due to the closing. She said the plant workers were like family and that she would go back in a heartbeat. “If they called me tomorrow, I would go back,” said Byrne. Sources tell Channel 11 they are currently doing soil and environmental checks at the plant and will be looking to rehire over 250 workers soon.
July 24, 2025 4:50 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – Hot, humid weather sticks around Friday, along with scattered showers and storms that could bring heavy downpours and localized flooding. A few scattered showers will be possible early in the day, with a better chance for storms developing after lunch and into the evening. Some areas could see several rounds of storms, which could increase the threat of flash flooding. Scattered showers and storms stick around Saturday and Sunday, mainly during the afternoon and evening. Any thunderstorm through the weekend could bring heavy rain from time to time.
July 25, 2025 2:13 am
DUNBAR TOWNSHIP, Pa. — One of the survivors of a Fayette County house fire is speaking out after the harrowing incident. He hopes that, by sharing his story, he can encourage others to be prepared and have a plan. “I’m going to go on. I was there for a reason and I’m still here for a reason,” said Anthony Masterbray. Masterbray is the caretaker for a paralyzed man. He’s lived alongside the man, his father and his mother for 15 years. “They are my family,” said Masterbray. The fire began around 2 a.m. July 16 on Miles Road in Dunbar Township. Masterbray says that, when he and the father realized he physically could not carry the son out of the home, Masterbray told the father to get help and that he would stay inside the burning home with his son, sharing the son’s oxygen tank to stay alive. All four were taken to the hospital. The mother died in the days following the fire. State police say the fire is under investigation, but said it was accidental.
July 25, 2025 2:04 am
(WPXI) CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A second worker has been charged with abusing children at a local daycare. Charges were filed against Richa Gupte, 38, an assistant group supervisor at Allie Alligator Learning Center off Commerce Park Drive in Cranberry Township. Investigators say she broke a 2-year-old’s elbow in early June. According to the police report, the child was reaching for a toy when Gupte forcefully pulled on the child’s arm. About a month earlier, police arrested 26-year-old Joshua Branstetter. They said he pushed a 3-year-old’s face into a bed frame during nap time, causing swelling to the child’s head. Gupte is set to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on August 29, and Branstetter’s hearing is set for August 15.
July 25, 2025 11:31 pm
(WPXI) EAST MCKEESPORT, Pa. — A man is dead and another man is injured after a crash in East McKeesport. Emergency crews were called to the area where 5th Avenue and Penn Avenue meet at 6:49 p.m. on Friday. Allegheny County Police said the drivers of each vehicle, two men, were taken to hospitals from the scene. One of the men was later pronounced dead. There were no other passengers in either vehicle. The preliminary investigation shows that the vehicles were traveling toward each other when the crash happened. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Allegheny County Police Tip Line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS.
July 25, 2025 4:57 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of criticizing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump took the fight to the Fed’s front door on Thursday, publicly scorning the central bank chief over the ballooning costs of a long-planned building project. Powell pushed back, challenging the president’s latest price tag as incorrect. The visit represented a significant ratcheting up of the president’s pressure on Powell to lower borrowing costs, which Trump says would accelerate economic growth and reduce the government’s borrowing costs. Presidents rarely visit the Fed’s offices, though they are just a few blocks from the White House, an example of the central bank’s long-standing independence from day-to-day politics.
