February 14, 2023 2:09 am
(WPXI) – An eleven-year-old boy has died from injuries he suffered in a house fire in Salem Township. David Wayne Becker was one of three people, including his mother and brother, who got out of a burning house along Route 819 just before nine o’clock Friday night. The chief of the Forbes Road Fire Department said a neighbor was able to reach the mother and one of the children at the front deck. The neighbor helped both the mother and the child escape from the deck. Becker was flown to a Pittsburgh-area hospital and died Sunday morning. Becker was a fifth grader at Metzgar Elementary School in the Greensburg Salem School District. Superintendent Kenneth Bissell posted a message that said the school would have safety and counseling staff for any students or staff in need of support.
February 13, 2023 5:37 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – Authorities say a man driving a U-Haul truck struck and injured several people in New York City before police were able to pin the vehicle against a building. It followed a mileslong pursuit through Brooklyn. Two people were in critical condition Monday. Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell described the driver’s actions as a “violent rampage through Brooklyn.” The truck sped through the Bay Ridge neighborhood before police stopped it more than 3 miles away near the entrance to a tunnel leading from Brooklyn to Manhattan. The driver was arrested. He was identified by his son as Weng Sor, who was living in Las Vegas before showing up recently in New York.
February 13, 2023 10:43 am
ATLANTA (AP) – A judge has ordered the release of parts of a report produced by a special grand jury that investigated efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his narrow 2020 election loss in Georgia. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney announced the decision on Monday. It comes three weeks after hearing arguments from prosecutors, who urged the report be kept secret until they decide on charges, and a coalition of media organizations, which pressed for its release. McBurney said the introduction and conclusion of the report, as well as a section in which the grand jurors expressed concerns that some witnesses may have lied under oath, will be released Thursday.
February 13, 2023 10:12 am
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) – Rihanna is pregnant with her second child. A representative for the pop superstar confirmed the pregnancy soon after Rihanna wrapped an epic Super Bowl halftime performance. Rihanna’s outfit prominently showed off her belly, sparking speculation she was pregnant again nine months after giving birth to her first child. She has a 9-month-old son with rapper A$AP Rock. Rihanna spent much of the performance on a platform suspended high above the field where the game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs is being played Sunday.
February 13, 2023 10:10 am
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) – A West Virginia water utility says it’s taking precautionary steps following the derailment of a train hauling chemicals that later sent up a toxic plume in Ohio. West Virginia American Water said in a statement on Sunday that it has enhanced its treatment processes even though there hasn’t been a change in raw water at its Ohio River intake. It’s also installing a secondary intake on the Guyandotte River in case there’s a need to switch to an alternate water source. There are currently no drinking water advisories in place. The train derailed in a fiery crash Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio. Emergency workers evacuated nearby neighborhoods before igniting vinyl chloride from the cars.
February 13, 2023 4:18 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces over the weekend continued to shell Ukrainian cities amid a grinding push to seize more land in the east of the country. One person was killed and another was wounded on Sunday morning by the shelling of Nikopol, a city in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Gov. Serhii Lysak reported. In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, one person was wounded after three Russian S-300 missiles hit infrastructure facilities overnight, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said. The attacks come as Russian forces push to take over more lands in the eastern industrial heartland of Donbas, which comprises the partially occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Ukrainian officials say that Moscow is having trouble mounting a broad offensive in the area.
February 13, 2023 4:17 am
ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) – Rescue crews on Monday pulled a 40-year-old woman from the wreckage of a building a week after two powerful earthquakes struck, but reports of rescues are coming less often as the time since the quake reaches the limits of the human body’s ability to survive without water, especially in sub-freezing temperatures. The magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 quakes that struck nine hours apart in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, killed at least 33,185, with the toll expected to rise. On Monday rescuers pulled a 40-year-old woman from the wreckage of a 5-story building in the town of Islahiye, in Gaziantep province. Experts said the likelihood of finding people alive is “very, very small now.”
February 13, 2023 4:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – A U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” over Lake Huron on Sunday on orders from President Joe Biden. It was the fourth such downing in eight days. Pentagon officials believe the latest military strike in an extraordinary chain of events over U.S. airspace has no peacetime precedent. The head of NORAD and U.S. Northern Command, Gen. Glen VanHerck, says part of the reason for the repeated shootdowns is a “heightened alert” following a spy balloon from China that emerged over U.S. airspace in late January.
February 13, 2023 4:10 am
BRENTWOOD, Pa. — (WPXI) – Visitation for fallen McKeesport police officer Sean Sluganski continues Monday afternoon. Dozens of mourners came to pay their respects on Sunday afternoon. At points, some people were waiting in lines that were reaching out of the front door. Sluganski was killed in the line of duty on Monday. Allegheny County police were at the visitation to help manage large crowds. They are asking the public to park at Benson Lincoln Mercury on Route 51. Shuttles were bringing people from that location to the Jojm F. Slater Funeral Home. The visitations will continue on Monday from 2-8 p.m. The Fraternal Order of Police will hold its service for Officer Sluganski at 7 p.m. on Monday. The funeral for Sluganski is on Tuesday and is not available to the general public. No one is allowed to enter the cemetery other than family and the McKeesport Police Departmet.
February 13, 2023 4:06 am
ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – Crews battled a fire that broke out at Elizabeth Forward High School in Elizabeth Township early Sunday morning. According to Allegheny County 911, the fire broke out at around 5:30 a.m. Smoke could be seen billowing from a section of the school’s roof. Elizabeth Township Police Chief Ken Honick told Channel 11 the structural integrity of the building was possibly compromised. Two walls of the auditorium are at risk of crumbling. Chief Honick said that per the Elizabeth Forward School District, high school students won’t be having class on Monday. The middle school and elementary school will remain on a normal schedule. The school is having a staff meeting to discuss their options, Chief Honick said. Students participating in the school’s musical have lost the chance to perform after the destruction of the auditorium. A GoFundMe has been set up to help restore the lost theater, music wing, set, microphones, lights, and costumes. The police chief told Channel 11 it doesn’t appear to be suspicious at this point.
