September 29, 2022 2:46 am
Washington County 9-1-1 says three people were transported by ambulance from the scene of a two-vehicle crash along Interstate 70 Westbound Thursday morning. I happened around 8:30 a.m. at mile-marker 16 near the Jessop Place exit. A tractor trailer and another vehicle were involved. Initial reports said the driver of the tractor trailer was entrapped. Traffic in both directions were impacted by the crash. A Hazmat team was called to the scene for leaking fluids. About two-hours later, Washington County 9-1-1 reported that crews had cleared the scene. There is no word on the identity or condition of those injured.
September 28, 2022 2:07 pm
(AP) – Television personality Katie Couric has announced she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Couric posted a statement on her website saying the diagnosis came on June 21, 2022, which was “the first day of summer, my 8th wedding anniversary,” CNN reported. Couric had a lumpectomy on July 14 and has been undergoing radiation treatments since Sept. 7th, the “Today” show reported. She finished the treatments this week. She said that she feels fine other than looking like she’s been sunbathing on parts of her body.
September 28, 2022 1:45 pm
SHERWOOD, Ark. (AP) – One person is dead and one person has been taken into custody in connection with an active shooter event at CHI St. Vincent North hospital in Sherwood. During a news conference shortly after 12:30 p.m., Sherwood Police Department Chief Jeff Hagar reported that one person at the hospital had died of gunshot wounds, and one “person of interest” had been taken into custody. A spokesperson for the SPD said the call for police came at about 10 a.m., and officers were on the scene shortly thereafter. They immediately established a perimeter and entered the building, clearing the hospital.
September 28, 2022 6:16 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – Pittsburgh police have confirmed three of their marked vehicles caught fire this morning in the department’s Training Academy parking lot and the fire is considered suspicious. The building is located at 900 N. Lincoln Avenue in the city’s North Side neighborhood and the parking lot is located behind the building on Maolis Way. The fire was first reported around 3 a.m. No one was injured and there was no damage to the building. Police plan to use privately owned surveillance cameras in the area to learn who set the fire and how. The Fire Investigation Unit and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are investigating.
September 28, 2022 4:20 am
Activists say Iran’s current wave of protests are different from previous unrest. Unleashing their anger at the compulsory veil for women, protesters are targeting something central to the identity of Iran’s Islamic cleric-led rule. The protests are drawing from a long history of resistance among Iranian women. During the 1979 revolution, the hijab was a sign of breaking with the secular monarchy. But when the new Islamic Republic then made wearing it mandatory, thousands of women marched in protests. Woman have been challenging the rule ever since. The death of a woman arrested for wearing too loose a headscarf has sparked an eruption of anger.
September 28, 2022 4:18 am
Clergy in 33 states are exempt from laws requiring professionals such as teachers, physicians and psychotherapists to report information about alleged child abuse to police or child welfare officials. That loophole has resulted in an unknown number of predators being allowed to continue abusing children for years despite having confessed the behavior to religious officials. An Associated Press review finds that over the past two decades, more than 130 bills have been proposed in state legislatures to create or amend child sex abuse reporting laws. After intense opposition from religious groups, the clergy privilege remained unchanged. Often, legislative efforts to close the loophole run up against lawmakers who are also church members.
September 28, 2022 4:17 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian-installed officials in occupied regions of Ukraine say they will ask President Vladimir Putin to incorporate them into Russia, claiming their residents overwhelmingly supported such a move in Kremlin-orchestrated votes widely viewed as illegitimate. Pro-Moscow administrations of all four occupied regions of Ukraine said Tuesday night that their residents voted to join Russia. According to Russian-installed election officials, 93% of the ballots cast in the Zaporizhzhia region supported annexation, as did 87% in the Kherson region, 98% in the Luhansk region and 99% in Donetsk. The preordained outcome sets the stage for a dangerous new phase in Russia’s seven-month war, with the Kremlin threatening to throw more troops into the battle and potentially use nuclear weapons.
September 28, 2022 4:16 am
HAVANA (AP) – Cuba is in the dark after Hurricane Ian knocked out the power grid and devastated some of the country’s most important tobacco farms when it hit the island’s western tip as a major storm. Cuba’s Electric Union says authorities were working to gradually restore service overnight to the country’s 11 million people. Ian hit a Cuba that has been struggling with an economic crisis and has had frequent power outages in recent months. It made landfall as a Category 3 storm on the island’s western end, devastating Pinar del Río province, where much of the tobacco used for Cuba’s iconic cigars is grown.
September 28, 2022 4:15 am
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – Hurricane Ian has made landfall in southwestern Florida as a massive Category 4 storm. About 2.5 million people had been ordered to evacuate the area before the storm hit the coast on Wednesday with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (241 kph). The storm was heading inland, where it was expected to weaken, but residents in central Florida could still experience hurricane-force winds. Before making its way through the Gulf of Mexico to hit Florida, Hurricane Ian tore into western Cuba as a major hurricane Tuesday, killing two people and bringing down the country’s electrical grid.
September 28, 2022 4:07 am
North Strabane Township Supervisors met Tuesday night and an item buried deep in the agenda was the authorization of a separation agreement between the township and its police chief Brian Hughes. No details were given during the meeting before supervisors voted unanimously 4-0 to enter into the agreement. Township Manager Andrew Walz would not comment on the item citing it as a personnel issue but he did indicate a right to know request can be filed at the end of the week. In other business supervisors granted the developers of Ashford Place their conditional use application adding several conditions to the application before the vote. The development is a single building multifamily construction. Some of those conditions required are a height restriction of not more than three stories, a 49 unit maximum for the building, a privacy fence and building line that will be measured from the nearest point of a right of way and not from the property line. Prior to the meeting a public hearing was held to review changes to the township’s zoning ordinance recommended by Planning and Zoning Director Anthony Asciolla. Items under consideration are an annual permitting process to regulate the operations of Air BnB and VRBO properties, less restrictive rules for keeping chickens and new regulations for beekeepers. Electric vehicle charging stations were also addressed in the proposed new ordinance. Citizens may view the changes for the next 30 days.
