November 29, 2024 4:51 am
PITTSBURGH — Allow some extra time to scrape the windshield and watch for a few icy spots as you head out early for Black Friday Deals. Temperatures dropped below freezing overnight and wet roads and sidewalks may become icy. Scattered snow showers will also move through the area with a coating to less than an inch of snow possible. You’ll need the extra layers too, with high temperatures below freezing and wind chills in the teens. Gusty winds will make it feel even colder early Saturday and Sunday morning with wind chills in the single digits and a continued stretch of below freezing weather is expected through the middle of next week.
November 29, 2024 5:04 am
NEW YORK (AP) — After weeks of pushing early deals, retailers in the United States and some other countries are promising bigger discounts on Black Friday. The day after Thanksgiving still reigns as the unofficial kickoff of the holiday shopping season even if it’s lost some luster. In the U.S., analysts envision solid sales, though perhaps not as robust as last year’s. Despite the easing of inflation, many shoppers are being cautious with their discretionary spending, according to analysts. Retailers are even more under the gun to get shoppers in to buy early and in bulk since there are five fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year.
November 29, 2024 4:19 am
ALLENPORT, Pa. —(WPXI)- One home was destroyed, another significantly damaged in a fire on Main Street in Allenport, Washington County, Wednesday evening. Fire officials got the call around 6:30 p.m. “I heard three big booms. Next thing you know, the house is engulfed,” neighbor Brandon Veschio told us. “When I got outside, the front of the house was completely engulfed. I was speechless.” He raced over to warn his neighbors, but they were already outside. They told Channel 11 off-camera that a stranger driving by had knocked on the door to tell them to evacuate. The homes were owned by members of the same family. The brother owned the one in the middle. That’s where the fire started and spread to the sister’s home on the right and a vacant home on the left. All of the family members had been in the sister’s home watching the news when the stranger knocked on the door. Everyone did make it out of the house safely. Firefighters were even able to rescue a cat. Neither of the houses were insured. “It’s just the worst thing that could happen on the night before Thanksgiving,” Veschio said. The fire marshal is investigating.
November 29, 2024 5:03 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is creating a National Energy Council that he says will establish U.S. “energy dominance” around the world. The energy council will be led by Doug Burgum, Trump’s choice to head the Interior Department. It will be key in Trump’s pledge to sell more oil to allies and his intent to move away from President Joe Biden’s focus on climate change. But the president-elect’s energy wishes are likely to run into real-world limits. For one, U.S. oil production under Biden is already at record levels.
November 29, 2024 5:01 am
Workers at one of Ukraine’s thermal power plants struggle to repair damage and keep electricity flowing as Russia continues its campaign of attacks targeting the country’s power grid. In the latest large-scale strike, damage to the energy infrastructure caused power disruption for more that a million Ukrainians. Despite the ongoing risks, workers at a power plant operated by Ukraine’s biggest private energy operator, say they feel compelled to do their best to keep the lights on and heat homes through the winter months. “Who’ll do it, if not us?” said Oleksandr, head of the Production Management Department.
November 29, 2024 5:00 am
PARIS (AP) — After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral has showed its new self to the world Friday. Rebuilt soaring ceilings and creamy good-as-new stonework have erased somber memories of its devastating fire in 2019. Images broadcast live of a site visit by French President Emmanuel Macron showed the inside of the iconic cathedral as worshippers might have experienced it back in medieval times. Gaping holes that the blaze tore into the vaulted ceilings, leaving charred piles of debris, are gone, now filled in with new stonework. Macron entered via the cathedral’s giant and intricately carved front doors and stared up at the ceilings in wonder.
November 29, 2024 2:00 am
A huge thank you to Washington County! Our 2000 Turkeys campaign has surpassed its goal and has raised more than $204,000. This is the 40th year of the program that puts a complete Thanksgiving day meal on the table of needy families throughout the county. Earlier this year, it was projected that the goal would be around $188,000 to help some of the 16-thousand residents who are considered ‘food insecure’. Donations are still being accepted. If you would like to donate, you can send a check to; 2000 Turkeys P.O. Box 2000 Washington, Pa. 15301 or go to Range Resources Facebook Page and click on the link for the Pittsburgh Food Bank.
November 28, 2024 4:34 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three American citizens imprisoned for years by China have been released. That word comes Wednesday from the White House and it’s a rare diplomatic agreement with Beijing in the final months of the Biden administration. The three are Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung. Each had been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained. Swidan had been facing a death sentence on drug charges while Li and Leung were imprisoned on espionage charges. The White House says the men will soon “return and be reunited with their families for the first time in many years.” China also announced Thursday that the U.S. had returned four people to China, including three citizens it said had been held for “political purposes.”
November 28, 2024 4:25 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has conducted what officials called a “massive” missile and drone attack against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. The assault added to fears that the Kremlin aims to cripple Ukraine’s power generation capacity before winter. Ukraine’s energy minister says attacks on energy facilities were happening all across the country on Thursday. He says emergency power outages are being implemented nationwide. Ukrainian officials have warned that Russia is stockpiling cruise and ballistic missiles, presumably for another pre-winter aerial campaign against Ukraine’s power grid. Ukrainian officials have in the past accused Russia of “weaponizing winter.” Around half of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been destroyed during the war with Russia, and rolling electricity blackouts are common.
November 28, 2024 4:27 am
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — In the remotest reaches of Alaska, there’s no relying on DoorDash to have Thanksgiving dinner delivered. But some residents living well off the grid nevertheless have turkeys this holiday, thanks to the Alaska Turkey Bomb. For the third straight year, a resident named Esther Keim has been dropping frozen turkeys from an airplane to those who can’t simply run out to the grocery store. She launched her turkey delivery mission a few years back after she found out a family of three had only one squirrel to split for Thanksgiving. She planned to drop 32 turkeys this year and more in years to come.
