January 6, 2022 4:04 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for part of western Pennsylvania. Areas affected include Westmoreland, Fayette and Greene counties in Pennsylvania. Plan for snow travel on Thursday evening into Friday morning. Model updates are bringing snow in faster and moving it farther north which will increase the snowy impacts for the evening commute. Temperatures will be cold enough for snow to stick as it falls and untreated surfaces could become icy. Several hours of steadier snow will be possible for parts of the area on Thursday night with several inches of accumulation possible for Pittsburgh by Friday morning.
January 6, 2022 3:10 am
CLEVELAND (AP) – Police in Ohio have released body camera footage showing an officer firing multiple rounds through a wooden privacy fence without warning at someone shooting gunfire into the air on the other side. Forty-six-year-old James Williams, of Canton, was shot in the chest minutes into the new year and pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. The video was released by the Canton Police Department. Marquetta Williams, James’ wife, told The Canton Repository her husband had been using her AR-15 rifle to fire celebratory rounds that she said were a New Year’s tradition in their neighborhood. Canton Police Chief Jack Angelo has said the officer feared for his life.
January 5, 2022 3:55 pm
A Weirton West Virginia man accused of shooting his girlfriend in the back pleaded guilty on Tuesday morning. Reginald Quick, 49 was charged with felony counts of aggravated assault and strangulation from a July 2021 shooting in Canonsburg. Quick pleaded guilty to those aggravated assault and strangulation charges and received a jail sentence of 11½ to 23 months in jail and 5 years probation to be served once he is released. Quick has been in the Washington County jail since his arrest and will be given credit for time served. He will need to make $1800 in restitution to his girlfriend and $1100 to the victim’s compensation fund.
January 5, 2022 1:19 pm
(WPXI) – At least one person is dead following a house fire in Westmoreland County. Westmoreland County 911 confirmed to a Channel 11 a two-alarm structure fire at 814 Arbor Lane in Mt. Pleasant Township around 10:55 a.m. The victim is a woman in her 60’s. Firefighters say they found her in the back bedroom of the home. She was apparently the only one home at the time.
January 5, 2022 10:14 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Officials say a large house fire in Philadelphia has killed 13 people, including seven children, and sent two people to hospitals. Officials said at a news conference hours after the early morning fire Wednesday that there were four smoke detectors in the building but that none were operating. Firefighters and police responded to the fire at a three-story row house in the city’s Fairmount neighborhood around 6:40 a.m. and found flames coming from the second-floor windows. The fire was brought under control after less than an hour. (Photo: AP)
January 5, 2022 9:39 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – A year after thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, hundreds of people who assaulted officers and committed other crimes still haven’t been caught. The investigation into last January’s insurrection has been a massive undertaking for federal law enforcement officials. More than 700 people have been charged with federal crimes stemming from the Jan. 6 attack. Arrests are still being made regularly. But 250 people seen on video assaulting police at the Capitol still haven’t been fully identified and apprehended by the FBI. Another 100 are being sought for other crimes tied to the riot. For FBI agents working the cases, the job is far from over.
January 5, 2022 9:37 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – As more children are being hospitalized nationwide with COVID-19, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has taken a precautionary step. Trying to stay ahead of coronavirus infections, Children’s Hospital has opened up a second unit for COVID-19 patients so it’s available if needed. Officials said this is not a reason to panic. “UPMC Children’s Hospital has opened up a second unit to expand care capability for COVID-19 patients at the hospital. The hospital is safe, operating normally, and ready to provide care for patients and their families,” a statement from UPMC said. The expansion comes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported an increase in pediatric hospitalizations nationwide as the omicron variant spreads. During the week that ended Sunday, an average of 672 children nationwide were admitted to hospitals every day with COVID-19, according to the CDC, which said that’s the highest number since the pandemic began.
January 5, 2022 8:57 am
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia University is returning to a policy of requiring masks to be worn indoors on campus. The university also has ordered students, faculty and staff to verify their vaccination status due to a surge in coronavirus cases statewide. The university says masks will are required for anyone regardless of vaccination status in all WVU buildings and facilities through at least Feb. 1, when public health conditions will be reevaluated. The spring semester starts next Monday. Students, faculty and staff must verify their vaccine status by Jan. 28. WVU says to be considered fully vaccinated, an individual must have their primary shots and booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
January 5, 2022 4:19 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – The South Korean and Japanese militaries say North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile into the sea, in its first public weapons launch in about two months and a signal that Pyongyang isn’t interested in rejoining denuclearization talks anytime soon and would rather focus on boosting its weapons arsenal. The latest launch Wednesday came after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to further boost his military capability at a high-profile ruling party conference last week. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday morning. It said South Korean and U.S. intelligence authorities were trying to analyze more information about the launch.
January 5, 2022 4:17 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden is urging concern but not alarm as the United States set records for daily reported COVID-19 cases and his administration struggles to ease concerns about testing shortages. Biden spoke from the White House about the omicron variant Tuesday before a meeting with his COVID-19 response team. He wants to convey his administration’s urgency and convince wary Americans that the current situation bears little resemblance to the onset of the pandemic or last year’s deadly winter. Biden is emphasizing that vaccines, booster shots and therapeutic drugs have lessened the danger for the overwhelming majority of Americans who are fully vaccinated.
