August 13, 2022 4:33 am
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie’s agent says the writer is on a ventilator after being stabbed in the neck and abdomen on a western New York stage where he was about to give a lecture. The 75-year-old Rushdie was flown to a hospital and underwent surgery after Friday’s stabbing at the Chautauqua Institution. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said the writer had a damaged liver, severed nerves in an arm and an eye he was likely to lose. Rushdie’s novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, Police arrested the man who attacked the writer and identified him as 24-year-old Hadi Matar of Fairview, New Jersey. Matar’s lawyer declined to comment.
August 13, 2022 4:20 am
ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman is acknowledging he is lucky to be alive as he officially returns to the campaign trail. He’s been sidelined for more than 90 days after suffering a stroke that threatened the Democrat’s life and political strength in one of the nation’s premier Senate contests. Fetterman spoke Friday for nearly 11 minutes, haltingly at times, as he addressed several hundred voters packed inside an Erie convention center. The 52-year-old lieutenant governor says: “Tonight for me, it’s about being grateful — just grateful. Three months ago my life could have ended.” Republican opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz has railed against Fetterman’s prolonged absence throughout the summer.
August 13, 2022 1:55 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. — Over the next week, farmers, vendors and patrons will make their way to Arden for the next Washington County Fair, which has been a staple of the community since 1798. The eight-day event kicks off Saturday with exhibits for farming, arts and sciences, and homemaking subjects. 4-H clubs will be on hand with other activities and rides. Officials say the county fair usually draws crowds of over 50,000 throughout the event. The fair itself is not the only event that happens on the grounds during the year, as the exhibit halls and barns are rented to generate money for improvements and to make ends meet to hold the fair each year. The fair opens Saturday at 9:00 AM. A full schedule of fair activities can be found at the new fair website.
August 12, 2022 3:47 pm
Multiple news reports say the FBI has recovered several documents that were labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Meanwhile on Friday afternoon, a federal judge was weighing whether to unseal the warrant that authorized the unprecedented search this week. Attorney General Merrick Garland declared a day earlier that there is “substantial public interest in this matter,” and Trump backed the warrant’s “immediate” release. Trump has been provided at least some of the records the government is seeking to unseal, but he and his lawyers have declined, so far, to make them public.
August 12, 2022 1:16 pm
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) – Author Salman Rushdie has been attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage Friday at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced. The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained. Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. A year later, Iran’s late leader Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death. A more than $3 million bounty has been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie.
August 12, 2022 4:26 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A spokesperson for Anne Heche says the actor is on life support after suffering a brain injury in a fiery crash a week ago and isn’t expected to survive. The statement released on behalf of her family said she is being kept on life support to determine if she is a viable organ donor. Earlier Thursday, police said they are investigating Heche for driving under the influence of drugs. Heche crashed her car into a Los Angeles area house on Aug. 5. A police spokesman said Thursday that detectives with a search warrant took a blood sample from Heche, and it showed narcotics in her system. A spokeswoman for Heche declined comment on the investigation.
August 12, 2022 4:24 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – A flagship Democratic economic bill is perched on the edge of House passage. Friday’s expected vote would mark final congressional approval. That would hand President Joe Biden a back-from-the-dead triumph on his climate, health care and tax goals. Democrats hope that will energize voters ahead of November’s congressional elections. Republicans are solidly opposed, but the same was true last Sunday when Democrats used Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote to power the measure through the 50-50 Senate. The package is much smaller than Biden’s original environment and social program. But it still gives Democrats bragging rights to addressing long-term party goals.
August 12, 2022 4:23 am
WILMINGTON, Ohio (AP) – Authorities are investigating the motives of an armed man who they say tried to breach the FBI’s Cincinnati office, fled, and was shot and died hours later in a rural standoff with law enforcement. The case Thursday unfolded as the FBI warns its agents to take extra precautions amid an increase in social media threats to bureau personnel and facilities following a search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. A law enforcement official briefed on the Cincinnati matter says federal investigators are examining whether the suspect in that case, identified as 42-year-old Ricky Shiffer, may have had ties to far-right extremist groups, including the Proud Boys.
August 12, 2022 4:21 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Former President Donald Trump is calling for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate. In messages posted late Thursday on his Truth Social platform, Trump writes, “Release the documents now!” The Justice Department had asked a court to unseal the warrant earlier Thursday, with Attorney General Merrick Garland (pictured) citing the “substantial public interest in this matter.” Garland said he had personally approved the search warrant, which was part of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into the discovery of classified White House records recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this year.
August 12, 2022 4:16 am
NORTH HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – North Huntingdon Township Police need your help trying to track down a bank robbery suspect who tried to rob the PNC Bank on Norwin Avenue 45 minutes before it closed for the day Wednesday. He told the teller he was armed and demanded money, but ended up walking out empty-handed. “He passed a note to the teller asking for money and she didn’t have any money to give him, and he walked out of the bank with no money at all,” Detective Tom Harris said. Police said the teller did not have much money in her drawer. The man became frustrated, then walked out and got into a black BMW. The suspect is described as a white man, who was wearing what appears to be an Adidas bucket hat, a surgical mask and reflective sunglasses.
