December 9, 2024 12:50 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s police commissioner says police have arrested a 26-year-old with a weapon “consistent with” the gun used in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Thompson died in a dawn ambush Wednesday as he walked to the company’s annual investor conference from his hotel to the company’s annual investor conference across the street. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Luigi Nicholas Mangione was taken into custody Monday. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said said at a news conference that Mangione was taken into custody after police got a tip that he had been spotted at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.
December 9, 2024 4:26 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — A Marine veteran who put an agitated subway rider in a choke-hold on a New York subway has been acquitted in the man’s death. A Manhattan jury cleared Daniel Penny on Monday of a criminally negligent homicide charge. The verdict came after a more serious manslaughter charge was dismissed because the jury deadlocked on that count. The case arose from Jordan Neely’s May 2023 death and became a prism for differing views about public safety, valor and vigilantism. The 26-year-old Penny gripped Neely around the neck for about six minutes. Penny’s defense said he was protecting fellow subway passengers.
December 9, 2024 5:07 am
A man and a woman are dead after a crash in West Bethlehem Township. The Washington County Coroners office say it happened in the 100-block of Clarksville Road in Marianna. 36 year old Brittany Crile was the driver of the vehicle that left the roadway and traveled down an embankment. She was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected. Officials say the crash occurred between 4:15 p.m. Saturday and 9:20 a.m. Sunday when the crash was first reported. 46 year old Joseph Crile was believed to have been the front seat passenger in the vehicle. Evidence showed that he was ejected but was able to leave the scene. Marianna firefighters conducted a search with State Police and discovered his body in an empty home along that same roadway around 2:30 p.m. A cause and manner of death for both is pending. State Police are handling the investigation.
December 9, 2024 5:15 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – One person was hurt after a tractor-trailer crashed in Downtown Pittsburgh. Allegheny County dispatchers say the crash happened at the intersection of Stanwix Street and Fort Pitt Boulevard at 8:26 p.m. One person was taken to a hospital from the scene. The vehicle had crashed on top of a barrier, causing the trailer to be at risk of rolling over. Channel 11 has reached out to Pittsburgh Police for more information and is waiting to hear back.
December 9, 2024 5:11 am
CANONSBURG, Pa. — A local borough is bringing back “old-fashioned Christmas.” It’s the seventh year Canonsburg has held the event. It began as a community tree lighting and has since grown into a holiday spectacle that draws thousands of visitors. “It takes over 200 volunteers to pull this together. We have people from all walks of life — I have elves here dancing around, we have all the characters, everyone’s done a great job to pull it together for us — we’re just thrilled with the attendance, and everyone just had a great time here tonight,” organizer Gloria Dunkle said. Despite the chilly weather, Dunkle estimates up to 20,000 people came out to enjoy the festivities. On top of the main event — the tree lighting ceremony — Canonsburg’s Old Fashioned Christmas featured a holiday market, kids games, food trucks, photos with Santa, stories with Mrs. Claus and visits from the Grinch. The event wrapped up with a holiday drone light show.
December 8, 2024 5:19 am
NEW YORK (AP) — The search for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killer has stretched into a fifth day — and beyond New York City. Police say it appears the man left the city on a bus soon after Wednesday’s shooting outside the New York Hilton Midtown. The suspect is seen on video at an uptown bus station about 45 minutes later. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Police believe that words found written on ammunition at the shooting scene, including “deny,” “defend” and “depose,” suggest a motive driven by anger toward the healthcare company. The words mimic a phrase used by insurance industry critics.
December 9, 2024 5:17 am
MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says Russia has granted political asylum to former Syrian President Bashar Assad. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally made the decision to offer asylum to Assad. Peskov wouldn’t comment on Assad’s specific whereabouts. He said that Putin wasn’t planning to meet with Assad.
December 9, 2024 5:20 am
A new report says Earth just experienced its second-warmest November on record — second only to 2023 — making it all but certain that 2024 will end as the hottest year ever measured. A report Monday by the European climate service Copernicus says 2024 also is expected to be the first calendar year in which the average temperature was more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times. The world’s goal is to limit human-caused warming below that threshold. Scientists say the main driver is burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas.
December 9, 2024 4:29 pm
(AP) – Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical “Emilia Pérez,” about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirming surgery, led nominations to the 82nd Golden Globes on Monday, scoring a leading 10 nods. That put it ahead of other contenders like the musical smash “Wicked,” the papal thriller “Conclave” and the post-war epic “The Brutalist.” The nominations for Globes, which will be televised by CBS and streamed on Paramount+ on Jan. 5, were announced on Monday morning by Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut. The young Donald Trump drama “The Apprentice” also landed nominations for its two central performances, by Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn.
December 9, 2024 5:21 am
Depending on who you ask, the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election rattled the country or were cause for celebration. Is it any surprise the Merriam-Webster word of the year is “polarization”? In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Merriam-Webster editor at large Peter Sokolowski says “polarization means division, but it’s a very specific kind of division.” Originating in the 1800s, the word is now most commonly used to mean “causing strong disagreement between opposing factions or groupings.” Merriam-Webster chooses its word of the year based on data, tracking a rise in search and usage.
