November 25, 2021 4:19 am
GROVE CITY, Pa. (WPXI) — A single-engine plane crashed near a landfill in Grove City Wednesday night. According to officials with the Federal Aviation Administration, the Cessna 210 crashed around 5:45 p.m. and caught fire after going down. Two people were on board at the time. The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating what happened. According to reports, one person was killed in the plane crash.
November 25, 2021 1:44 am
Washington County Sheriff’s Deputies were forced to place Washington County Clerk of Courts Brenda Davis in handcuffs Wednesday morning after she refused a court order to hand over juvenile case filings that were housed in her office. Peter Marcoline is the soliciator for the Washington County Sheriff’s Office who told WJPA that deputies were called after Davis refused to comply with the order. Davis was then placed in handcuffs but the cuffs were removed after she complained of back pain. Davis was escorted to Judge John DiSalle’s courtroom for a hearing but she refused to go inside. Davis was eventually allowed to leave the courthouse after medics checked her for injuries. DiSalle held a hearing to place on the record, the days events, but Davis did not attend. Judge DiSalle ordered the Deputy Clerk of Courts to continue with the transfer of the juvenile case files but declined to say whether he would start contempt proceedings against Davis.
November 25, 2021 1:10 am
An 8-year-old boy is the sixth person to die as a result of a man driving his SUV into a suburban Milwaukee Christmas parade. A criminal complaint filed Tuesday alleges that the driver steered side-to-side with the intent of striking marchers and spectators in Waukesha. Darrell Brooks Jr., 39, was charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide, a charge that carries a mandatory life sentence if convicted. The complaint says 62 people were injured, up from the previous count of 48. Many of them, including children, remain in critical condition. Eight-year-old Jackson Sparks was the first child to die from the crash.
November 25, 2021 1:04 am
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) – Jurors have convicted the three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery. He was the Black man who was chased and fatally shot while running through their neighborhood in an attack that became part of the larger national reckoning on racial injustice. The convictions for Greg McMichael, son Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan came after jurors deliberated for about 10 hours. The men face minimum sentences of life in prison. The judge will decide whether that comes with or without the possibility of parole. Moments after the verdicts were announced, Arbery’s father, Marcus Arbery Sr., was seen crying and hugging supporters outside the courtroom.
November 24, 2021 10:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits plummeted last week to the lowest level in more than half a century, another sign that the U.S. job market is rebounding rapidly from last year’s coronavirus recession. Jobless claims dropped by 71,000 to 199,000, the lowest since mid-November 1969. The drop was much bigger than economists expected. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out weekly ups and downs, also dropped – by 21,000 to just over 252,000, the lowest since mid-March 2020 when the pandemic slammed the economy. Seasonal adjustments around the Thanksgiving holiday contributed significantly to the bigger-than-expected drop.
November 24, 2021 4:13 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas to three extremist organizations, including the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers as well as their leaders. It’s an attempt by lawmakers to uncover the plotting and execution of the deadly attack. The subpoenas are the latest in a wide net the House panel has cast in an effort to investigate the riot, when supporters of former President Donald Trump, fueled by his false claims of a stolen election, assaulted police and smashed their way into the Capitol to interrupt the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory.
November 24, 2021 4:07 am
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) – A jury has ordered 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay $26 million in damages over violence that erupted during the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. After a nearly month-long civil trial, the jury deadlocked on two key claims but found the white nationalists liable on four other counts in the lawsuit filed by nine people who suffered physical or emotional injuries during the two days of demonstrations. The lawsuit accused some of the country’s most well-known white nationalists of plotting the violence, including Jason Kessler, the rally’s main organizer; Richard Spencer, who coined the term “alt-right”; and Christopher Cantwell, a white supremacist who became known as the “crying Nazi.”
November 24, 2021 4:05 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – NASA has launched a spacecraft on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. The spacecraft is called DART, for Double Asteroid Redirection Test. It lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base. If all goes well, in September 2022 it will slam head-on into Dimorphos, an asteroid 525 feet (160 meters) across, at 15,000 mph (24,139 kph). The asteroid is no danger to Earth, just a good target for testing out the potentially planet-saving technology.
November 24, 2021 4:00 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – The Republican candidate trailing in a statewide recount for an open seat on Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court is conceding the race to Democrat Lori Dumas. On Twitter, Drew Crompton congratulated Dumas and the other winners Tuesday in the judicial races that were on the statewide ballot in Pennsylvania’s Nov. 2 election. A statewide recount was mandated after Dumas’ finished within a half-percentage point ahead of Crompton. That’s according to unofficial returns posted online by the state Department of State. With counties wrapping up their recount Tuesday, Dumas led Crompton by about 21,000 votes. Republicans won three of four statewide judicial races on the Nov. 2 ballot.
November 24, 2021 3:59 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Many questions remain unanswered as to what Republicans in Pennsylvania’s Senate can accomplish from what they call a “forensic investigation” into last year’s presidential election now that they have hired a contractor that has not pointed to any experience in elections. Senate Republicans hired the Iowa-based Envoy Sage onto a $270,000 contract to help carry out the undertaking. In a brief conference call with reporters Tuesday, Steve Lahr, Envoy Sage’s president, said the company could hire people or subcontractors with expertise, if necessary. Republican-controlled committees in both the House and Senate have already held hearings throughout last spring and produced reports, as well as legislation that Democrats opposed.
