March 29, 2025 3:46 am
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A man is accused of beating and robbing another man before taking off in a stolen vehicle in Butler County. According to our news partners at Channel 11, Pennsylvania State Troopers were called to the 300 block of Stewart Road in Washington Township early Friday morning for a reported robbery and assault. That’s where a 42-year-old man was found severely injured. He was taken to Grove City Hospital but later had to be flown to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. He was last listed in critical condition. Dylan Hinchberger, 31, was identified as a suspect. Police said he forced his way into the victim’s house and took several guns. He then allegedly sat outside the house and waited for the victim to return home. Police say Hinchberger then ambushed the victim. During the attack, Hinchberger allegedly fired a gun in the victim’s house. After the attack, Hinchberger took off in the victim’s vehicle, but police said he crashed it into a tree five miles away and then ran away. He was found at a Quality Inn Hotel in Grove City but troopers said he jumped out of the second-story window and ran into the woods before they got to him. Pennsylvania State Police Aviation tracked Hinchberger and he was eventually found and arrested.
March 29, 2025 3:34 am
HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. —There was a good update for a woman who was missing Friday afternoon. According to our news partners at Channel 11, Pennsylvania State Police said a 77-year-old woman who was reported missing out of Westmoreland County has been found and is safe. Joann Lovell, 77, was initially reported missing out of Redmont Place in Hempfield Township in Westmoreland County on Friday afternoon. Her 2006 Gold Lincoln Town Car was spotted on Route 30 in North Versailles later in the afternoon. Police had thought she may be at risk of harm.
March 29, 2025 3:33 am
A longtime fixture in the Washington community is going to be demolished. John Celani, the executive director of the Brownson House, says deciding to tear down the building was the most difficult decision of his life. He says the youth sports facility has been serving kids for nearly one-hundred years. In fact, he says his ties to the Brownson House go back to when he was five-years-old. He says he grew up there, he wrestled there, played football and basketball there, and when he graduated from college, he went to work there. Celani says he’s been working there for some thirty-six-years, but it’s time to make way for something new and more profitable. He says there is too much wrong with the building to invest in repairing it. Celani says the roof is bad; the facade of the building is breaking down, allowing water to get in between the walls; there were cracks in the walls and the boiler went bad. Celani says it made more sense to apply for grant money for a new building, rather than to repair the old one. He says the demolition will only be the red brick building. The gymnasium will not be torn down and the various teams who use it will continue to do so. Celani says they don’t know yet when demolition will begin. He says the bidding process is currently underway and he has no estimate at this time on how much the demolition will cost. Once it’s finished and they move on to the construction of a new building, Celani says that space will likely be used for a parking lot and the new facility will be built across the street. (Photo: Facebook)
March 28, 2025 5:44 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Another wipeout slammed Wall Street as worries built about a potentially toxic mix of worsening inflation and a U.S. economy slowing because of households afraid to spend due to the global trade war. The S&P 500 dropped 2% Friday for one of its worst days of the last two years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 715 points, and the Nasdaq composite tumbled 2.7%. Lululemon Athletica led the market lower after warning that its revenue growth may slow, in part because shoppers are spending less due to concerns about inflation and the economy. Treasury yields fell, even after a worse-than-expected inflation report.
March 28, 2025 10:47 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law, while a court fight continues. The emergency appeal to the high court Friday follows a rejection of the Republican administration’s plea to the federal appeals court in Washington. By a 2-1 vote, a panel of appellate judges left in place an order temporarily prohibiting deportations of the migrants under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act. President Donald Trump invoked the law for the first time since World War II to justify the deportation of hundreds of people under a presidential proclamation calling the Tren de Aragua gang an invading force.
March 28, 2025 7:50 am
SCHOENEICHE, Germany (AP) — The U.S. government is on a global egg hunt. It’s seeking exports from countries in Europe and elsewhere to ease a severe shortage that has caused egg prices at grocery stores to hit record highs. European industry groups say Denmark, Germany, Italy and Poland are among the nations the U.S. Department of Agriculture approached. Many officials in Europe say the import tariffs President Donald Trump has imposed or threatened to impose on his nation’s top trading partners wouldn’t preclude their sharing eggs. A bigger obstacle is U.S. food safety regulations that require fresh eggs to be sanitized before they reach shoppers. In the European Union, the standards call for Grade A eggs to be sold unwashed.
March 28, 2025 7:48 am
After decades of partnership with the U.S. government, American colleges are facing new doubts about the future of their federal funding. President Donald Trump’s administration has been using the funding spigot as a tool to seek compliance with his agenda. And universities across the country are navigating cuts to grants for research institutions. The squeeze on higher education underscores how much American colleges depend on the federal government. In fact, an Associated Press analysis found the government provides grants and contracts worth close to half the total revenue of some research universities.
March 28, 2025 7:46 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new AP-NORC poll finds that as America’s longtime allies reel over President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariffs, his hostility and — in some cases — open threats of invasion, his actions and his rhetoric may be shaping perceptions of which countries are viewed as friends and foes. Americans are now less likely to see Canada and the U.S. as close allies than they were less than two years ago, according to a new AP-NORC poll. Although most still see the countries’ relationship as at least “friendly,” slightly fewer than half of U.S. adults — just 45% — now consider the U.S. to be “close allies” with its neighbor to the north. That’s down from about 6 in 10 in a poll conducted in September 2023.
March 28, 2025 7:45 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee are requesting an investigation into how Trump national security officials used the Signal app to discuss military strikes. A federal judge also says he will order the preservation of the messages. Thursday’s action ensures some scrutiny on an episode President Donald Trump has dismissed as frivolous. Republican Sen. Roger Wicker and Democratic Sen. Jack Reed signed onto a letter to the acting inspector general at the Defense Department for an inquiry into the potential use of unclassified networks to discuss classified information. Contents of the Signal chat published by The Atlantic show Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listed weapons systems and a timeline for an attack on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
March 28, 2025 7:45 am
BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful earthquake has rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand, destroying buildings and bridges and killing at least 150 people, mostly in Myanmar. Officials in Bangkok say 10 people were killed and 101 were missing from three construction sites, including a high-rise that crumbled. Footage from two hard-hit cities in Myanmar, one of the world’s poorest countries, showed many collapsed buildings, and authorities said the death toll was likely to rise. The 7.7 magnitude quake was centered near Myanmar’s second-largest city of Mandalay. It struck Friday at midday and was followed by a strong aftershock. Amid images of buckled roads and reports of collapsed bridges in Myanmar, there were concerns about how rescuers would even reach some affected areas.
