March 6, 2024 12:37 pm
(WPXI) – A Delta flight heading to Dallas diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport Wednesday morning. Delta flight 534 from LaGuardia to Dallas/Ft. Worth reported a mechanical issue and diverted to Pittsburgh at around 10 a.m. Delta Airlines told our news partners at Channel 11 that the plane had a performance issue with one of its jet engines. The plane landed safely and taxied to the gate, officials from PIT said. Two pilots, three flight attendants and 64 passengers were on board. “Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and people and we apologize to our customers for the delay in their travels,” Delta said in a statement to Channel 11. Delta teams worked to get customers to their final destinations as quickly as possible, the airline said.
March 6, 2024 6:41 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Haley will suspend her presidential campaign. That’s according to three people with direct knowledge of her decision. The decision by the former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador on Wednesday will leave Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination. Haley was Trump’s first GOP challenger and the only woman in the race. Haley argued that she was a fresh alternative to the former president and that it was time to move past the “chaos” of the Trump era. Haley’s candidacy was slow to attract support. But Haley ultimately outlasted other high-profile candidates, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence.
March 6, 2024 5:03 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, have dominated coast-to-coast contests on Super Tuesday. They have all but cemented a November rematch and increased pressure on the former president’s last major rival, Nikki Haley, to leave the Republican race. Their victories from coast to coast, including the delegate-rich states of California and Texas, left little doubt about the trajectory of the race. Haley won Vermont, denying Trump a full sweep. But the former president carried other states that might have been favorable to her such as Virginia, Massachusetts and Maine, which have large swaths of moderate voters like those who have backed her in previous primaries.
March 5, 2024 2:25 am
(WPXI) – Two more wrongful death lawsuits have been filed against a local healthcare facility – after a nurse allegedly killed two patients and hurt nearly a dozen more with intentional doses of insulin. Forty-one-year-old Heather Pressdee is facing dozens of charges for allegedly administering lethal doses of insulin to 19 additional patients at five different care facilities over a three year period. The wrongful death lawsuits were filed against Guardian Healthcare and its facility – Belair Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. They were filed on behalf of the families of Jack Allen Rogers and Norman Paul Hendrickson and claim their deaths were directly caused by Pressdee, who was the facility’s former Assistant Director of Nursing.
March 6, 2024 5:01 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jason Palmer, a previously unknown candidate, won the Democratic caucus in American Samoa on Tuesday. Out of 91 ballots cast, Palmer won 51 and President Joe Biden won 40, according to the local party. Palmer told The Associated Press, “I found out that I had won because my phone started blowing up.” He says he never visited the territory before the caucus. The outcome won’t derail Biden’s march toward his party’s nomination. Only six delegates were at stake in the U.S. territory, which is a tiny collection of islands in the South Pacific. Palmer is a Baltimore resident who has worked for various businesses and nonprofits, often on issues involving technology and education.
March 6, 2024 4:54 am
BUTLER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – A woman was attacked by a bear in Butler Township on Tuesday night. Emergency crews were called to the 100 block of Bellefield Drive at 8:30 p.m. Police said the woman was trying to get a mother bear and three cubs away from her dog when she was attacked. The woman was bitten in the back of the head and on both arms. She was taken to a local hospital. The woman’s condition is not known at this time. The Pennsylvania Game Commission was working to tranquilize the bear and her three cubs. During the process, police said the bear “became aggressive” and had to be euthanized. The three cubs were tranquilized and removed from the scene.
March 6, 2024 5:04 am
Over the last five months, Israel has killed thousands of Hamas fighters, destroyed dozens of their tunnels and wreaked unprecedented destruction on the Gaza Strip. But it faces a dilemma that was clear from the start of the war and will determine its outcome: It can either try to annihilate Hamas, which would mean almost certain death for the estimated 100 hostages still held in Gaza, or it can cut a deal that would allow the militants to claim a historic victory. Either outcome would be excruciating for Israelis. Either would likely seal an ignominious end for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long political career. And either might be seen as acceptable by Hamas, which valorizes martyrdom.
March 5, 2024 1:55 am
Former Washington City Councilman Allan Bunner died over the weekend at the age of 91. According to his obituary, he was a 1950 graduate of Washington High School and worked at Fairmont Supply Company for more than thirty years. After that he launched the Bunner Agency and worked there well into his 80’s. He was twice elected to City Council in both 1976 and 2004. He died Saturday. Family and friends will be received from 1 to 3 p.m and 6 to 8 p.m Wednesday at the William Neal Funeral Home along Allison Avenue in Washington.
March 6, 2024 4:56 am
Police investigating the killing of a pregnant Amish woman in her Pennsylvania home last week say they recovered three firearms, bullets and two spent casings. The search warrant inventory released Tuesday says they also took away broken knife parts, a white bonnet and the contents of an ash tray, trash can and dust bin. Police have charged 52-year-old Shawn Cranston of Corry, Pennsylvania, with killing 23-year-old Rebekah Byler and her unborn child in the rural Spartansburg home. Cranston remains in the Crawford County Correctional Facility without bail. No defense attorney has appeared in court records, and the county public defender’s office said Monday it wasn’t representing him.
March 6, 2024 5:06 am
A technical issue had caused widespread login issues for more than an hour across Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms on Tuesday. Andy Stone, Meta’s head communications, acknowledged the issues on X, formerly known as Twitter, and said the company “resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
