July 24, 2024 2:23 am
Police are searching for a Houston Borough man now charged in connection with a drug overdose death back in April. Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh has announced that Chartiers Township Police have charged 20 year old Matthew Rozanc with felony counts of drug delivery resulting in death, delivery of a controlled substance and criminal use of a communications facility. Rozanc is accused of arranging by cell phone to supply a fatal dose of fentanyl called “blue’ in the form of counterfeit prescription pills to Joshua Kinser at his home along Ridge Avenue in the Township. Kinser was discovered dead inside his residence that same day. An arrest warrant has been issued for Rozanc. Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is asked to contact Chartiers Township Police at 724-745-8030.
July 24, 2024 2:36 am
Authorities are investigating the cause of a mobile home fire early Wednesday morning in Union Township. Washington County 911 said units were called to Hidden Valley Drive just before six o’clock. Firefighters say the two-alarm fire broke out in the South Park Mobile Estates and neighbors said the smoke was so thick that they couldn’t even tell for sure where it was coming from at first. Firefighters said flames were shooting out of the sides of the house and were also coming out underneath, compromising the floors. And that, they say, was just one of the issues they faced putting out the fire. Fire officials said there were extreme hoarding conditions and crews had a hard time getting in to make entry. They said they had to cut holes in the house from the outside to get inside. A woman inside the home was able to safely escape, but some cats were killed.
July 24, 2024 1:27 am
WJPA News has learned of the death of a longtime and well-known Washington County businessman. Word has been received that Michael “Mickey” Flynn, the longtime owner of the Union Grill Restaurant in downtown Washington has died after a lengthy illness. The “Grill” as it is known, quickly became a hub for local businessmen to gather and for families to enjoy a night out. There has been no word on funeral arrangements.
July 25, 2024 5:07 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has delivered a solemn call to voters to defend the country’s democracy. In an address Wednesday he laid out his decision to drop his bid for reelection and throw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden insisted “the defense of democracy is more important than any title.” He did not directly call out former President Donald Trump, whom he has called an existential threat to democracy. “Nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy,” Biden said in his 10-minute address from the Oval Office. “And that includes personal ambition.”
July 25, 2024 5:17 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is beginning to vet about a dozen possible candidates to be her running mate as she approaches one of most consequential decisions of her new presidential candidacy. That’s according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. Harris launched her campaign Sunday after President Joe Biden bowed to pressure from his own party to step aside. That leaves her with a historically compressed timeline to make a selection before next month’s Democratic National Convention. Her party could make her its nominee as soon as Aug. 1 in a virtual vote, and could formalize the nomination of her running mate soon after.
July 25, 2024 5:07 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to make a long-awaited White House visit to meet with President Joe Biden and likely Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at an important moment for all three politicians. Netanyahu’s White House visit on Thursday comes at a time of growing pressure on all three leaders to find an endgame to the nine-month war and to engineer the return of dozens of Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Biden, who is not seeking reelection, is aiming to get Israel and Hamas to seal his proposal to release remaining hostages in Gaza over three phases as a legacy-affirming achievement. White House officials say that the negotiations are in the closing stages, but there are still issues that need to be resolved.
July 25, 2024 5:11 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police deployed tear spray and demonstrators were taken into custody as thousands of protesters against the war in Gaza converged on Washington to condemn Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit. Demonstrators filled several blocks as they weaved through the streets of the nation’s capital carrying Palestinian flags and signs with messages such as “arrest Netanyahu” and “end all U.S. aid to Israel.” Outside Washington’s Union Station, protesters removed American flags and hoisted Palestinian ones in their place to massive cheers in the crowd.
July 24, 2024 5:08 am
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Donald Trump has unleashed a barrage of attack lines against his likely new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. At a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday he called her his “new victim to defeat” and accused Harris of deceiving the public about President Joe Biden’s ability to run for a second term before he withdrew his reelection bid. The rally was Trump’s first public campaign event since Biden dropped out of the 2024 matchup that both major parties had spent months preparing for. It signaled the next phase of the campaign may be especially brutal and personal. Harris’ campaign called the speech “unhinged” and “rambling.”
July 25, 2024 5:13 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The gunman in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is believed to have done a Google search one week before the shooting of “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?” That word comes from FBI Director Christopher Wray during testimony Wednesday before Congress. He’s revealing new details about a suspect who seems to have taken a keen interest in public figures but had otherwise not left behind clear clues of an ideological motive. The online search was recovered from a laptop tied to 20-year-old gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks. It’s a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, the shooter who killed President John F. Kennedy from a sniper’s perch in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
July 24, 2024 4:07 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The gunman in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is believed to have done a Google search one week before the shooting of “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?” That word comes from FBI Director Christopher Wray during testimony Wednesday before Congress. He’s revealing new details about a suspect who seems to have taken a keen interest in public figures but had otherwise not left behind clear clues of an ideological motive. The online search was recovered from a laptop tied to 20-year-old gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks. It’s a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, the shooter who killed President John F. Kennedy from a sniper’s perch in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
