January 2, 2022 8:09 am
It may be a new year, but for Powerball players it was the same old result — no jackpot winner. No one matched the five numbers and Powerball on Saturday night, meaning that Monday’s jackpot will be worth at least $522 million, lottery officials said. The numbers drawn were 6-12-39-48-50 and the Powerball number was 7, according to the Powerball website. According to Powerball officials, jackpot-winning numbers have not been selected in the past 38 drawings. No one has won a Powerball jackpot since Oct. 4, when one player claimed $699.8 million. That was Powerball’s fifth-largest and the seventh-largest for any lottery in the United States. Meanwhile, the largest Powerball jackpot to date is the $1.586 billion payout split by three winners in 2016, CNN reported. If somebody wins the jackpot on Monday, they can take the full amount in an annuity payment or take a lump sum option of $371.5 million before taxes. Powerball is played in 44 states, according to lottery officials, with drawings held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292 million.
January 2, 2022 8:06 am
ROSTRAVER, Pa. (WPXI) — Police are asking for the public’s help after a woman was found shot and killed in Rostraver. The Rostraver Township Police Department and The Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office Detective Bureau are investigating the shooting death of a 59-year-old woman that occurred on Rostraver Road in the area of Rankins Crossroads at approximately 1:30 in the morning on Jan. 1, 2022. There is evidence that there were several vehicles traveling within the vicinity of the shooting. Anyone with information should call Rostraver Twp Police at 724-929-8811.
January 2, 2022 8:05 am
ALLEGHENY CO. (WPXI) — The region started off 2022 with a loud boom heard and felt by many around the region at 11:30 Saturday morning. From the North Hills to Carnegie, to the South Hills, Greensburg, Westmoreland County and beyond, people shared on social media their experiences witnessing the boom. Some posts said the boom shook people’s houses. The National Weather Service said the boom was not an earthquake. It also ruled out thunder and lightning as a possible cause. The organization’s theory is a meteor that entered the atmosphere and exploded. The NWS said a satellite loop captured activity over Washington County that likely showed the meteor. The organization is still not 100% sure whether it was a meteor, but noted that a meteor explosion over West Virginia in September caused similar activity. The National Weather Service is still investigating what exactly happened, but said there is no cause for concern at this time. Officials with the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh reported the source may have been a meteor explosion. Information from the GOES-16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper satellite, which specifically searches for light emitted by lightning, detected “a flash that was not associated with lightning” at the time of the incident. This has not been confirmed as the source yet, however. (Photo: NWS Pittsburgh Facebook Page)
January 2, 2022 8:00 am
NEW EAGLE, Pa. — Mon Valley Fire crews were busy Saturday evening with a residential trailer fire in New Eagle Borough. Officials say everyone was out of the structure on Crestview Estates Drive when fire departments arrived just after 6:00 p.m. New Year’s Day. The New Eagle Volunteer Fire Department was joined on scene by Monongahela, Valley Inn, and Bentleyville to put out the blaze. There was no word on the cause of this fire. (Photo: Monongahela Fire Department Facebook Page)
January 2, 2022 4:04 am
BENTLEYVILLE, Pa. — No injuries were reported after a fire broke out in a home off of Main Street in Bentleyville Friday evening. Crews were called to a scene of heavy smoke coming out of a residence at around 5:00 p.m. New Year’s Eve. Bentleyville Fire-Rescue worked with the Ellsworth and Cokeburg Volunteer Fire Departments as well as Ambulance and Chair EMS during the incident. Officials say responders were on scene for an extended period of time for clean up. The fire is currently under investigation by the State Fire Marshal. (Photo: Bentleyville Fire-Rescue Facebook Page)
January 1, 2022 4:24 am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – After tough talk between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin over the Russian troop buildup on the Ukraine border, both sides insist they are hopeful that a pathway to easing tensions could open during diplomatic talks set for January. But with less than two weeks to go before senior U.S. and Russian officials are to meet in Geneva, the chasm is deep and the prospect of finding an exit to the crisis faces no shortage of complications. Biden told reporters Friday that he advised Putin the upcoming talks could only work if the Russian leader “deescalated, not escalated” the situation in the days ahead.
January 1, 2022 4:22 am
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Two people have been shot and wounded following an apparent altercation at the Mall of America, sending New Year’s Eve shoppers scrambling for safety and placing the Minneapolis mall on temporary lockdown. Bloomington Police Department officials say the shooting happened about 4:30 p.m. Friday. One man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg during and another person was grazed. Shoppers ran for cover and the mall was evacuated until the lockdown ended about 45 minutes later. Police say no arrests have been made and the suspect is believed to have fled the mall. They say the shooting did not appear to be random.
January 1, 2022 4:22 am
LONDON (AP) – Scientists and medical chiefs who have led Britain’s response to the pandemic have been awarded knighthoods in the country’s annual New Year Honors List, which recognized the achievements of hundreds of people from James Bond star Daniel Craig to teenage tennis star Emma Raducanu. Queen Elizabeth II also made former Prime Minister Tony Blair a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the oldest and most senior British order of chivalry. In another year dominated by the pandemic, officials said almost one in five of the honors were for coronavirus-related service. In total, the Honors List recognized more than 1,200 people in the U.K., including scientists, actors, politicians, Olympic athletes and people who worked for charities.
January 1, 2022 4:21 am
NEW YORK (AP) – The annual New Year’s Eve ball drop in New York City’s Times Square has arrived just as the year prior began, with the pandemic clouding an already uncertain future. Confetti and cheers spread across Times Square as a New Year’s Eve tradition returned to a city beleaguered by a global pandemic.T he city limited the number of people Friday to about 15,000 in-person spectators. That’s far fewer than the 50,000 revelers initially envisioned. Doubts swirled whether New York would have to cancel this year’s bash as the city posted record numbers of COVID cases in the days leading to it.
January 1, 2022 4:16 am
The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch for portions of Southwestern Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia Saturday, with areas set to see close to two inches of rain in some spots. Greene and Fayette Counties are currently under the watch, which is expected to last until early Sunday morning. Washington County is not under and watches or warnings at this time, but the area could see up to 1.5 inches of rain throughout New Year’s Day. Officials says to watch for rising creeks and streams as well as flooded roadways. (Photo: National Weather Service Facebook Page)
