March 22, 2022 4:05 am
The Zoning Hearing Board of Chartiers Township met Monday and denied a controversial proposal to erect a 150 foot tall cell phone tower in a residential neighborhood. The board voted unanimously to deny Vogue Towers Partners VII permission to build the tower for Verizon Communications on Ridge Road. Vogue Towers tried to acquire conditional use for the tower on four different scenarios including a substantive validity challenge and special exceptions in the R-2 zoning district. Each one was voted down 5-0. The plan has come under fire for reasons of health, adding to possible landslides on property that is adjacent to the proposed site and residential property devaluation. Roughly a dozen residents turned out for the meeting and all were pleased with the decision. The zoning hearing board had no comment on their decision. Attorneys for Vogue Towers Partners indicated that they will appeal the decision to common pleas court.
March 22, 2022 2:43 am
A Strabane man already facing trial for attempted homicide will face a second trial for aggravated assault. Dee Frazee, 27 waived charges of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, false imprisonment and others to court at his preliminary hearing Tuesday morning. Frazee is accused of confronting a man on December 1 in the Home Depot parking lot in South Strabane Township. Frazee trapped the victim, Mike Tedeschi, by cutting him off from leaving his parking space, leaving his truck and beating on the victim’s truck with his gun. Tedeschi testified that a second man blocked him by standing behind his vehicle not letting him back out of the slot. Frazee ordered the victim out of his truck and held him at gunpoint briefly before both aggressors realized that Tedeschi is not the man that they thought had jumped them at another time. All seven charges were held for court. Frazee is being held in the Washington County Jail on a separate set of charges stemming from a shooting he was allegedly involved in at Frankie I’s Restaurant on New Year’s Eve. Frazee will be arraigned on April 28.
March 22, 2022 2:27 am
A Washington man will face trial for his alleged role in the robbery of a South Strabane Township convenience store in 2017. Darnell Brown, 22 waived felony robbery charges to court at his preliminary hearing Tuesday. Brown is accused of entering the BP store on Murtland Avenue wearing a sweatshirt and Guy Fawkes mask, pointing a gun at the employee behind the counter and demanding money. Police found the mask and sweatshirt outside a nearby hotel. DNA samples taken from the mask and from Brown identified Brown as the alleged robber. Brown is free on bond and will be arraigned on April 28.
March 21, 2022 3:20 pm
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Crews are searching for a Kentucky miner who was working alone when a roof collapsed deep underground. A statement from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet says 33-year-old James D. Brown of Lynch began his shift as a roof bolter operator late Sunday. It says the collapse happened about a half hour later, about 14,000 feet down into the coal mine. The D-29 Darby Fork mine in Harlan County is owned by Inmet Mining LLC, of Knoxville, Tennessee. The statement says the Kentucky Division of Mine Safety sent investigators early Monday to the mine, which has suspended operations while the search continues.
March 21, 2022 1:28 pm
TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) – Continental Mills has issued a recall for a single lot of Great Value Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix, UPC 078742370828, Lot code KX2063, Best By Date of 09/01/2023, due to a potential foreign material contamination. Fragments from a cable used to clear the processing line were discovered in a limited amount of product. The affected product was distributed nationwide where consumers purchased product through retail Walmart stores. No contaminated product or injuries have been reported by consumers to date. If you have recently purchased any of the products noted above, please dispose of the product or please return the product to your store for a replacement or refund. For more information or to receive a refund, please call the Recall Phone Hotline at 1-800-578-7832 Monday – Friday 7 am to 4 pm PT. (Photo: AP)
March 21, 2022 1:17 pm
CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) – Kao USA Inc. is asking consumers to check their Jergens® Ultra Healing Moisturizer 3 oz and 10 oz products to determine if it is part of a voluntary recall of the product. Select units of Jergens® Ultra Healing Moisturizer could show the presence of Pluralibacter gergoviae, a bacterium which typically poses little medical risk to healthy people. However, people who have certain health problems such as weakened immune systems may be more susceptible to infections. Kao USA is urging consumers to discontinue use of the recalled lotion as a precautionary measure. (Photo: ABC)
March 21, 2022 4:23 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. Marine Corps has identified the four Marines who died when their Osprey aircraft crashed Friday night in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise. All four were assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261, Marine Aircraft Group 26, 2d Marine Aircraft Wing stationed on Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina. They are Capt. Matthew J. Tomkiewicz, 27, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Capt. Ross A. Reynolds, 27, of Leominster, Massachusetts; Gunnery Sgt. James W. Speedy, 30, of Cambridge, Ohio; and Cpl. Jacob M. Moore, 24, of Catlettsburg, Kentucky. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
March 21, 2022 4:21 am
BEIJING (AP) – Shanghai Disney has closed as the city tries to control its biggest coronavirus flareup in two years, while the southern business center of Shenzhen allowed shops and offices to reopen after a weeklong closure. Meanwhile, the cities of Changchun and Jilin in the northeast began more citywide virus testing following a surge in infections. Jilin tightened anti-disease curbs, ordering its 2 million residents to stay home. China’s case numbers in its latest infection wave are low compared with other major countries, but authorities are enforcing a “zero tolerance” strategy that has suspended access to some major cities.
March 21, 2022 4:20 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate Judiciary Committee has kicked off Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated for the nation’s highest court. At Monday’s hearing, Democrats sought to preemptively rebut Republican criticism of her record on criminal matters as a judge and before that, as a federal public defender and a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Barring a significant misstep by áJackson, Democrats who control the Senate by the slimmest of margins intend to wrap up her confirmation before Easter. Jackson is expected to answer questions from the committee’s 11 Democrats and 11 Republicans beginning Tuesday.
March 21, 2022 4:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden has added a stop in Poland to his upcoming trip to Europe for urgent talks with NATO and European allies. The trip comes as Russian forces concentrate their fire upon cities and trapped civilians in their nearly month-old invasion of Ukraine. White House officials say Biden will first travel to Brussels, and then travel to Poland, where he will meet with leaders there. Poland neighbors Ukraine and has taken in more than 2 million refugees from the fighting. It’s been one of the most vocal countries in asking fellow NATO members to consider getting more involved to rein in the bloodshed.
