March 17, 2025 5:03 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he was ending “immediately” the Secret Service protection details assigned to Joe Biden’s adult children, which the former president had extended for six months shortly before leaving office in January. Trump on a social media objected to what he said were 18 agents assigned to Hunter Biden’s protective detail while he is in South Africa this week. He said Ashley Biden has 13 agents assigned to her detail and that she too “will be taken off the list.” Former presidents and their spouses receive life-long Secret Service protection under federal law, but the protection afforded to their immediate families over the age of 16 ends when they leave office.
March 17, 2025 2:41 am
(WPXI) – The National Weather Service confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down near Josephine in Indiana County on Sunday. This is the third tornado confirmed to have touched down in that area. The National Weather Service also confirmed two more tornadoes, an EF-1 near Ligonier (from the same part of the line that produced the tornado in Donegal), and an EF-1 near Josephine in Indiana County. Two of those tornadoes spun up in Westmoreland County. Officials say the first tornado traveled from Bear Rocks to Acme to Donegal. A second tornado touched down just southwest of Ligonier.
March 16, 2025 8:37 am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts. The new crew pulled up Sunday, just 29 hours after blasting off. The four newcomers will spend the next few days learning the station’s ins and outs from Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Then it will be time for those two to end their nine-month stay and head home. They expected to be gone just a week when they launched on Boeing’s first astronaut flight last June. The Starliner capsule had so many problems that NASA insisted it come back empty. Wilmore and Williams will come back via SpaceX. (Photo: AP)
March 16, 2025 8:31 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge barred the Trump administration Saturday from carrying out deportations under a sweeping 18th century law that the president invoked just hours earlier to speed removal of Venezuelan gang members from the United States. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg said he needed to issue his order immediately because the government already was flying migrants it claimed were newly deportable under Trump’s proclamation to be incarcerated in El Salvador and Honduras. Earlier, Trump claimed the Tren de Aragua gang was invading the United States and invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping wartime authority.
March 16, 2025 8:30 am
PIEDMONT, Mo. (AP) — Violent tornadoes and high winds have decimated homes, wiped out schools and toppled semitractor-trailers as a monster storm that killed at least 32 people ripped its way across the central and southern U.S. Some of the initial storm deaths were reported Friday night in Missouri. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves announced six people died in three counties and three more people were missing late Saturday as storms moved further east into Alabama, where damaged homes and impassable roads have been reported. Officials confirmed three deaths in Arkansas, where Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has declared a state of emergency. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has declared an emergency in anticipation of the storm’s shift eastward. (Photo: AP)
March 16, 2025 8:29 am
KOCANI, North Macedonia (AP) — A massive fire in a nightclub in North Macedonia’s eastern town of Kocani has killed 59 people and injured more than 150 others, interior minister Panche Toshkovski said. The blaze began around 2:35 a.m. during a concert by a local pop group at Club Pulse, according to Toshkovski. He said the young clubgoers used pyrotechnics that caused the roof to catch fire. Video on social media shows chaos inside. Family members gathered in front of hospitals and Kocani’s city offices begging authorities for more information. Officials said the injured have been taken to hospitals around the country, including the capital, Skopje, many with severe burns. The effort was being assisted by multiple volunteer organizations.
March 16, 2025 8:27 am
(WPXI) – Police are looking for a missing Pittsburgh woman who they say may need medical assistance. Leta Pittman, 68, was last seen leaving Mayflower Street in Larimer on Friday at 11 a.m. She is believed to have been wearing a purple ballcap that reads, “Melbourne, Florida,” gray sweatpants and a black puffy coat. Pittman often also carries a black and red backpack. Police even shared photos of the last known sighting of Pittman, showing the clothes she may still be wearing. Pittman is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs around 200 pounds. She has brown eyes and gray hair. She drives a black Hyundai Tucson with a Florida license plate reading KYG-X49. That license plate was last picked up on a reader in the area of Harmar Township just after 6:30 p.m. on Saturday Anyone with information on her location is asked to call 412-323-7141 or 911.
March 16, 2025 8:24 am
(WPXI) – A large party had to be broken up by police in Oakland in the same area where a porch roof collapsed just a day earlier. Pittsburgh Police were called to the 300 block of Semple Street to help Pitt Police with a large crowd of people. That was the same location where a porch roof collapsed and injured 16 people on Friday. A permit had been issued for an event there but police said they revoked it because the crowd size was significantly higher than what was allowed. One person was taken to a hospital with a minor face injury after falling on the sidewalk. No arrests were made and no citations were issued. The crowd was broken up without incident.
March 16, 2025 8:20 am
(WPXI) – The Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade was held in Downtown Pittsburgh on Saturday. The parade is billed as one of the largest in the country. Virginia Tech’s Military Band was one of the newest features in this year’s parade. The Oscar Meyer Weinermobile also rode through the streets of Pittsburgh. This year also featured the first-ever Pittsburgh Parade Day Dash. More than 2,500 participants chose to walk or run a 1-mile or 5K course along the parade route. Runners were encouraged to wear green. Organizers said the race was sold out. The St. Patrick’s Day Parade started in the Steel City more than 150 years ago.
March 16, 2025 5:16 am
President Donald Trump’s supporters are echoing some of the rhetoric and actions that elsewhere have preceded attacks on the judiciary as the courts deliver a series of setbacks to his dramatic attempt to change the federal government without congressional approval. Trump’s supporters in Congress have raised the specter of impeaching judges who have ruled against the administration. Elon Musk, the billionaire Trump backer whose Department of Government Efficiency has ended up in the crosshairs of much of the litigation, has regularly called for removing judges on his social media site, X. Despite the rhetoric, the Trump administration has so far not openly defied a court order and is appealing decisions it doesn’t like.
