April 14, 2022 2:43 am
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. — (WPXI) – A woman was pulled from a burning home today in North Strabane Township after her home caught fire. Firefighter say the fire started in the kitchen of the home on Latimer Avenue. Debra Roach lives less than 100 feet from the home. She told our news partners at Channel-11 that she knows the family who lives in this home and said a prayer when she heard the woman in the home was trapped. Debra says she is thankful that the fire department is just down the road and got to the scene quickly. North Strabane fire chief Mark Grimm says his firefighters “forced the door in and got her out.” Grimm says the woman suffered injuries that included minor burns and was flown to a local hospital, where the woman’s husband told us she was being treated for those burns.
April 14, 2022 2:33 am
The City of Washington Police are looking for a missing juvenile. According to 9-1-1 officials 17 year old Jasmine Gillespie was last seen on April 11. She is described as being 4 feet 9 inches tall, weighing 100 pounds. She has maroon hair and blue eyes and was last seen wearing a black jogging suit. Police also indicate that she could be in the company of a Corey Daley. He is a white male standing six feet tall, weighing 300 pounds. City Police ask that if you do see them, do not approach them but call the police.
April 13, 2022 4:26 am
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – President Joe Biden says Russia’s war in Ukraine amounts to “genocide,” accusing President Vladimir Putin of trying to “wipe out the idea of even being a Ukrainian.” Speaking Tuesday in Iowa shortly before boarding Air Force One to return to Washington, Biden said he meant it when he said at an earlier event that Putin was carrying out genocide against Ukraine. “Yes, I called it genocide,” he told reporters. “It’s become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being a Ukrainian.” Biden added that it would be up to lawyers to decide if Russia’s conduct met the international standard for genocide, but said “it sure seems that way to me.”
April 13, 2022 4:24 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia is vowing to continue its bloody offensive in Ukraine as the war’s sixth week wraps up Wednesday. Vladimir Putin insisted the invasion was going according to plan despite a major withdrawal and significant losses. Thwarted in their push toward Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv, Russian troops focused on the eastern Donbas region. Meantime, Ukraine is investigating a claim that a poisonous substance had been dropped on its troops there. It was not clear what the substance might be, but Western officials warned that any use of chemical weapons by Russia would be a serious escalation of the already devastating war.
April 13, 2022 4:22 am
NEW YORK (AP) – Police say the gunman in the Brooklyn subway shooting fired at least 33 bullets in the rush-hour train, wounding 10 people. Police are looking for a man who rented a van they believe might be connected to Tuesday’s shooting, although they haven’t established a definitive link. Chief of Detectives James Essig identified the man as 62-year-old Frank R. James and says James has addresses in Philadelphia and Wisconsin. Essig says a key to the rental van was found at the scene along with a semi-automatic handgun, a hatchet, smoke grenades and other items. Police have since found the van, empty.
April 13, 2022 4:20 am
UNDATED (AP) – The presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia say they are headed for Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Twitter posts by the leaders on Wednesday showed them standing outside a Ukrainian railroad passenger car, but did not give details about the trip. “We are visiting Ukraine to show strong support to the Ukrainian people, will meet dear friend President Zelenskyy,” Estonian President Alar Karis said in his post. Polish President Andrzej Duda, Lithuania’s Gitanas Nauseda and Egils Levits of Latvia also are on the trip.
April 13, 2022 4:18 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania lawmakers voted after a tense debate to approve a bill designed to prohibit transgender girls from competing in girls’ school sports. All but one Republican and four Democrats voted for the proposal Tuesday. It would restrict players on K-12 school teams, college sports, intramurals and club teams sponsored by school entities to male or female teams based on their reproductive organs, biology or genetics at birth. It would prevent “students of the male sex” from playing on athletic teams designated for women or girls and provide a way for students and schools to sue, including against athletic organizations. It goes to the state Senate for its consideration, and faces a potential veto from Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.
April 13, 2022 4:15 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – Pittsburgh Public Safety announced that firefighters were on the scene for a fire in the U.S. Steel Tower on Grant Street. Pittsburgh police said reports of smoke in the building came in around 7:30 p.m. The high-rise plan was implemented, prompting the three-alarm response to ensure ample equipment and manpower were available. According to police, the fire was located in the ductwork in the kitchen hood of Sullivan’s Steakhouse. The fire was contained to the first floor. The fire chief told our news partners at Channel 11 that the building was evacuated and police said no one was injured. The fire was under control around an hour after it was called in. The Fire Investigation Unit will determine the exact origin and cause.
April 13, 2022 4:11 am
The City Mission dedicated its chapel on Tuesday in honor of the parents of one of their largest benefactors. Dean Gartland, President and CEO of the City Mission called on Dr. Michael Crabtree to offer comments on behalf of his wife Mary Paige Pillow on why they chose her parents for this honor. The chapel will be named the Porter Pillow and Peggie Beaver Pillow Chapel. Mary Pillow remembered her upbringing by her parents with them saying that “you take care of people that can’t help themselves”. It is that spirit that both decided that any honor should be given to the people that taught them to perform the duties that help other people. Gartland was especially grateful for the generosity of Crabtree and Pillow and indicated that it was key in the recovery from a fire that devastated the Mission back in 2015.
April 13, 2022 2:31 am
A police chase that began in North Franklin Township ended in a multi-vehicle crash in downtown Washington Tuesday morning. State Police Trooper Forrest Allison tells WJPA News that troopers attempted to pull over a car driven by Stanley Adler of Washington, on Mineola Avenue, when they recognized him and realized he was wanted on a felony warrant. Adler, however, failed to stop and fled the scene, leading police on a chase into the city. Trooper Allison says the chase ended when the driver hit a Freedom Transit bus and three other cars at the intersection of Beau and North Main streets. Allison says Adler was arrested on the original warrant and then taken for arraignment on multiple other charges, including fleeing or attempting to elude an officer. He was then lodged in the Washington County Jail on fifty-thousand-dollars bond for the original warrant and fifty-thousand-dollars stemming from the charges related to the police chase. A passenger in his vehicle, Austin McConn was also wanted on a warrant and Allison says he was taken straight to the county jail on fifty-thousand-dollars bond. One person was reportedly injured the crash. The Freedom Transit Bus sustained some minor damage to the bumper but is back in service. It’s driver and a passenger were not hurt.
