March 23, 2022 2:24 am
(WPXI) – A Sewickley Township woman who was killed when the vehicle she was driving was struck by a train in Westmoreland County on Wednesday morning. According to the Westmoreland County Coroner, 76-year-old Mary Ann Keegan of Sutersville was killed in the crash. Her death has been ruled accidental. Dispatchers said the crash happened at 4th Street Crossing at Sutersville Road in Sutersville around 10:35 a.m. CSX released the following statement: “CSX extends its deepest sympathies to everyone impacted by this tragic incident, and we will work on scene to support local law enforcement as they investigate. There were no reported injuries to the crew.”
March 22, 2022 5:36 pm
(AP) – Scientists worry that a contagious coronavirus variant may soon push cases up in the United States just as it has in Europe and Asia. One reason? After about two months of falling cases in the U.S., COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted across the nation. People are taking off their masks and returning to indoor spaces. At the same time, immunity from vaccines is waning and the amount of the variant called BA.2 is rising in the U.S. Experts are also monitoring another variant: a rare delta-omicron hybrid that they say is not posing much of a threat at this point.
March 22, 2022 4:51 pm
There were reportedly no major injuries this afternoon, when a Fort Cherry School Bus ran off the road in McDonald. Washington County 911 says police, fire and EMS units were called out just after three o’clock to Laurel Hill at Robinson Run Road. There were reportedly five children on the bus but none were injured. The bus driver reportedly suffered a minor injury and was checked at the scene by medics but didn’t need any further medical attention.
March 22, 2022 12:54 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – The show that entertained generations, fueled numerous paternity tests -and launched many “The test results reveal: that was a lie” memes – is leaving TV. Veteran daytime talk show host Maury Povich is hanging up his mic. NBC Universal has announced the last of his original episodes of “Maury” will air in September. Povich is 83 and his show will have been on for 31 years by the time it’s done. Povich says he’s proud of the work he has done and the people he’s worked with on the show. But now he wants to echo the words he often says to his guests: “enough already.”
March 22, 2022 12:36 pm
HARLAN, Ky. (AP) – Officials say crews have recovered the body of a Kentucky coal miner missing after a roof collapsed deep underground. INMET Mining CEO Hunter Hobson told WYMT-TV on Monday night that it was with “deepest sorrow” that he was confirming the death of 33-year-old James D. Brown of Lynch. The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet said crews searched Monday for Brown, who began his shift as a roof bolter operator late Sunday at the D-29 Darby Fork mine in Harlan County. The cabinet said an equipment operator was nearby when the roof collapsed about an hour later, some 14,000 feet from the entrance. An investigation is continuing.
March 22, 2022 4:17 am
DETROIT (AP) – Ford is recalling nearly 215,000 pickup trucks and large SUVs in the U.S. and Canada because brake fluid can leak and cause longer stopping distances. The recall covers the F-150 pickup from 2016 through 2018, as well as Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs from 2016 and 2017. All have 3.5-liter turbocharged six-cylinder engines. U.S. safety regulators say in documents released Tuesday that fluid can leak from the brake master cylinder. That can increase brake pedal travel, requiring greater effort and longer stopping distances. Dealers will replace the master cylinder and front brake booster if needed. Owners are to be notified by letter starting April 25.
March 22, 2022 4:15 am
KUNMING, China (AP) – No survivors have been found as rescuers search the scattered wreckage of a China Eastern plane carrying 132 people that crashed on a wooded mountainside in China’s worst air disaster in more than a decade. State broadcaster CCTV says wreckage has been found but “none of those aboard the plane with whom contact was lost have been found.” The Boeing 737-800 crashed near Wuzhou in the scenic, semitropical Guangxi region, leaving a deep, charred pit on the mountain. The plane was nearing the point when it would begin its descent when it pitched downward in a steep, fast dive. Soldiers and helmeted rescue workers were combing the charred crash site and surrounding heavily dense vegetation.
March 22, 2022 4:13 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson will face senators’ questions for the first time as Democrats push to quickly confirm the only Black female justice in the court’s history. Jackson listened to more than four hours of senators’ opening statements on Monday as the Judiciary Committee hearings on her nomination got underway. As senators begin 30-minute rounds of grilling on Tuesday, Jackson will respond to their specific points. Those include charges by some Republicans that she has been too lenient in sentencing on criminal matters.
March 22, 2022 4:11 am
DETROIT (AP) – General Motors is recalling more than 740,000 small SUVs in the U.S. because the headlight beams can be too bright and cause glare for oncoming drivers. The recall announced Tuesday comes after U.S. safety regulators turned down a request from the Detroit automaker to avoid the recall. The company is recalling GMC Terrain SUVs from 2010 through 2017. Documents posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration say reflections caused by the headlight housings can illuminate some areas with too much light. The agency says this can reduce visibility for other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash. GM hasn’t come up with a repair yet. The company expects to notify owners by letter starting April 23rd.
March 22, 2022 4:10 am
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) – Civilians making the dangerous escape from Ukraine’s embattled southern port of Mariupol describe fleeing through street-to-street gun battles and past unburied corpses as a steady Russian bombardment tries to pound the city into submission. While Russian forces carry on with the siege after Ukraine’s leaders defied their demand to surrender, Russian ground offensive in other parts of the country advanced slowly or not at all. It was knocked back by lethal hit-and-run attacks by the Ukrainians. The Ukrainian army said early Tuesday that it had forced Russian troops out of a strategically important Kyiv suburb after a fierce battle.
