January 13, 2025 5:47 pm
(WPXI) – There are still a lot of questions to answer in Beaver County, but police do believe this was a murder-suicide with the oldest son pulling the trigger and the youngest son making the 911 call from inside the home. “The family, all of them, were avid hunters and in my conversations with them, hunting always comes up. I knew they had a lot of firearms in the house,” said North Sewickley Township Police Chief Jeff Becze. That family is now gone in what Becze is calling a tragedy. “We can’t conclusively determine but it does appear it was a murder and a suicide,” said Beaver County DA Nate Bible. Police believe Clifford Hunt Jr, 19 shot his father Clifford, mother Michelle, and his 16-year-old brother all in the head before turning the gun on himself.
January 13, 2025 4:45 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A growing force of firefighters and equipment moved into the Los Angeles area as another round of powerful winds threatened to trigger new wildfires and set back recent progress in containing blazes that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 24 people. Planes that drop firefighting chemicals and crews ready to pounce on hotspots were positioned across the city and the parched, brush-filled hillsides that surround it. Dozens of water trucks were in place to replenish supplies after hydrants ran dry last week.. LA County’s fire chief says crews are better prepared but warns that everyone in the potential fire zones should be ready to evacuate. The National Weather Service warned that the coming days could become “particularly dangerous.” (Photo: AP)
January 13, 2025 5:26 am
The driver of a sweeper truck was injured in a crash early Monday in Hanover Township. Washington County 9-1-1 says it happened just after 1:30 a.m at the two mile marker along Route 22. The truck went over a hillside and into some trees and ended up on its roof. The driver was entrapped. Dispatchers say the man was then transported by ambulance to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. There is no word on his identity or condition.
January 12, 2025 5:00 am
NORTH SEWICKLEY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – Beaver County dispatchers said emergency crews were called to the 200 block of Shaffer Road in North Sewickley Township at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday. Investigators said two people were dead at that location. Police tell Channel 11 those two people, a husband and wife, were shot. Police say two boys, the couple’s sons, were flown to a hospital. Their conditions remain unknown. The North Sewickley Township Police Department said this is a contained incident and there is no threat to the public.
January 13, 2025 4:58 am
HENRY CLAY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – State police are looking for the person who damaged multiple vehicles belonging to a business in Fayette County with a pellet gun. Troopers said windshields on multiple vehicles had been shot with a pellet gun. The vehicles belonged to The U Company LLC and the incident happened at the 400 block of Mae West Road in Henry Clay Township. Multiple company trucks and a skid steer had been shot. The damage was valued at $3,800. A suspect has not been identified at this time. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact Pennsylvania State Police’s Uniontown barracks by calling 724-439-7111.
January 13, 2025 5:09 am
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will hold off enforcing a requirement laid out in an executive order this month that Nippon Steel abandon its $14.9 billion bid for U.S. Steel. The companies made the announcement over the weekend. President Joe Biden blocked Nippon Steel’s planned acquisition of U.S. Steel on national security grounds on Jan. 3, and his Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said this week that the proposed deal had received a “thorough analysis” by interagency review body, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The delay will give the courts time to review a legal challenge brought by the parties earlier this month against Biden’s order. The parties previously had 30 days to unwind their transaction. In a joint statement the companies said; “We are pleased that CFIUS has granted an extension to June 18, 2025 of the requirement in President Biden’s Executive Order that the parties permanently abandon the transaction.” “We look forward to completing the transaction, which secures the best future for the American steel industry and all our stakeholders,” they said. U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel alleged in a lawsuit that the CFIUS review was prejudiced by Biden’s longstanding opposition to the deal, denying them of a right to a fair review. They asked a federal appeals court to overturn Biden’s decision to allow them a fresh review to secure another shot at closing the merger.
January 12, 2025 5:13 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A surging death toll is accompanying a slight break in the weather as firefighters in Los Angeles cast a wary eye on a forecast for yet more wind. Deaths in the fires that have ravaged Los Angeles-area neighborhoods in the past week rose, reaching 24 with an update in the official count late Sunday. At least 16 people were missing, a number authorities said also was likely to rise. Relatively calmer weather allowed some people to return to previously evacuated areas but forecasters warned of the return of fierce winds and fire weather starting early Tuesday.
January 13, 2025 5:17 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The wildfires that erupted this week across Los Angeles County are far from contained, but they’re already expected to be the costliest in U.S. history and among the worst natural disasters. The devastating blazes have killed at least 11 people and incinerated more than 12,000 structures since Tuesday. While California is no stranger to major wildfires, they have generally been concentrated in inland areas that are not densely populated. That’s far from the case this time, with one of the largest conflagrations destroying thousands of properties across the Pacific Palisades and Malibu, home to many Hollywood stars and executives with multimillion-dollar properties.
January 13, 2025 5:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden prepares to leave office next week, he remains insistent that his one-term presidency has made strides in restoring American credibility on the world stage and has proved that the U.S. remains an indispensable partner around the globe. That’s the message that will be at the center of a capstone address he will deliver on Monday reflecting on his foreign policy legacy. Yet, Biden’s case for his foreign policy achievements will be shadowed and shaped, at least in the near term, by the messy counterfactual that American voters are returning the country’s stewardship to Donald Trump and his protectionist worldview.
January 13, 2025 4:48 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge says the Justice Department can release special counsel Jack Smith’s investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by Trump, is the latest in the back and forth in a court dispute over the report from the special counsel who prosecuted Trump in two cases the Justice Department abandoned in November. Cannon had earlier temporarily blocked the department from releasing the report. Cannon on Monday cleared the way for the release of the volume on Trump’s 2020 election interference case. A temporary injunction barring the immediate release of the report remains in effect until Tuesday. (Photo: AP)
