December 17, 2021 4:21 am
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) – Authorities say the body of a Kentucky teenager has been found after a tornado ravaged her neighborhood. Nyssa Brown was the seventh member of her family to die in the tornado that hit Bowling Green last week. A coroner says the 13-year-old’s body was found Thursday in a wooded area near her subdivision. The girl’s parents, three siblings ranging in age from 4 to 16, and a grandmother also died in the tornado. Kirby says eight children were among the 12 victims who died on a single street. The teen’s death pushes the total of storm-related casualties in five states to 90, including 76 in Kentucky.
December 17, 2021 4:19 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Sex and the City” actor Chris Noth has been accused of sexually assaulting two women, who shared their accounts with the trade publication The Hollywood Reporter. Noth denies the allegations, saying his interactions with the women in 2004 and 2015 were “consensual.” The actor isn’t under criminal investigation over the allegations. Noth questioned the timing of the allegations, which come days after he reprised his Mr. Big character in the “Sex and the City” sequel “And Just Like That.” One of the women said the new show prompted her to go public.
December 17, 2021 4:17 am
LONDON (AP) – Four children have died after fire ripped through a building in south London. About 60 firefighters descended on the home in a residential area and brought the children out of the home as intense fire ripped through the building Thursday night. The four children are believed to be related. They were treated at the scene and taken to the hospital where they were pronounced dead. Their ages weren’t immediately available.
December 17, 2021 4:16 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate parliamentarian says a Democratic effort to let millions of immigrants remain temporarily in the U.S. should be dropped from an expansive social and environment bill. It deals another blow to a longtime priority of the party, migrant advocates and progressives. The ruling by Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate’s nonpartisan arbiter of its rules, all but certainly means Democrats will have to drop the proposal from their 10-year, $2 trillion package of health care, family services and climate change initiatives championed by President Joe Biden.
December 17, 2021 4:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – A judge says that a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems can go forward. In a ruling released Thursday, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis denied the cable news giant’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Dominion filed the lawsuit against Fox earlier this year alleging that some of its employees elevated false charges that Dominion had changed votes in the 2020 election and spread Donald Trump allies claims of fraud by the voting machine company. There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election, a fact that a range of officials across the country and Trump’s own attorney general confirmed.
December 17, 2021 4:14 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden has all but acknowledged negotiations over his sweeping domestic policy package will have to be pushed into the new year. It was a setback Thursday as Senate Democrats rushed to try to send the roughly $2 trillion bill to his desk by Christmas. But Biden does not yet have the votes, in large part because of opposition from one holdout: Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Biden’s discussions with Manchin will continue. He says he is confident the package will eventually pass. Biden also says Democrats must press forward on voting rights legislation.
December 17, 2021 4:12 am
RICES LANDING, Pa. — (WPXI) – Three people are in Pennsylvania State Police custody after being involved in a lengthy standoff in Greene County in Rices Landing. State police surrounded a home on Bayard Avenue after trying serve an arrest warrant. After some confrontation, police entered into a standoff with the person. After some time, police were able to place them in custody Two other people are in custody for questioning, according to police sources. State police wouldn’t say what the suspect was wanted for. “I’ve never witnessed anything like it in this small town,” Jacob Broadwater said. Broadwater lives across the street from the home police were focused on. He said a member of the SWAT team used his house to keep eyes on the other. “We have a gentleman from the SWAT team come in and sit in our window,” he said.
December 17, 2021 4:09 am
Washington County Commissioners approved the 2022 county budget on Thursday. The budget calls for nearly $148.98 million in spending with no tax increase for residents. That is about $45 million more than the 2021 budget. Those budget figures are inflated by $40 million in American Rescue Plan funds that the county has been allotted. According to county Finance Director Joshua Hatfield, the two biggest projects being considered for those funds are the expansion of broadband capabilities to make sure the underserved communities are provided access and a needs/space assessment at the jail. Hatfield described the budget as anything but typical. The expanded Human Services Department is new to the spending plan. Hatfield states that the county is always making adjustments to spending and searching for new revenue streams. Hatfield also stated that this is the twelfth year that Washington County Residents have not seen a raise in their taxes.
December 17, 2021 2:34 am
There will be no in-person classes in the Charleroi Area School District on Friday, December 17th. District Superintendent Dr. Edward Zelich announced on Thursday that classes would be held remotely after the district was alerted to a potential threat to the middle/high school that was to happen on Friday. Zelich says the threat was rumored to have been posted on the the Tik/Tok social media platform. Zelich says police were notified and after an investigation, determined that the threat was not posted and after interviewing the student twice, investigators found the threat not to be credible.
December 16, 2021 5:50 pm
(WPXI) – There was a police standoff in Rices Landing in Greene County Thursday afternoon. State police have surrounded a home. Check back for more information.
