June 14, 2020 7:55 am
MIAMI (AP) – Venezuela is demanding the release of a government-connected businessman who was detained in Cape Verde on U.S. corruption charges. In a statement issued Saturday night, it called his arrest an illegal act of aggression by the Trump administration aimed at piling new hardships on the crisis-wracked oil nation. Alex Saab was arrested Friday in connection to U.S. money laundering charges in Miami. Saab is a Colombian businessman who came onto the radar of U.S. authorities a few years ago after amassing contracts with Maduro’s government. Maduro’s aides say Saab was traveling on a Venezuelan passport on an official mission to secure food and medicine.
June 14, 2020 7:54 am
PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) – Authorities in the Southern California city of Palmdale are investigating the death of a 24-year-old black man found hanging from a tree, which they originally described as an apparent suicide, prompting outrage in the community. More than 100,000 people signed an online petition demanding a full investigation and community members confronted city officials on Friday. Los Angeles County coroner’s officials said a decision on the cause of death is deferred pending an investigation. Fuller’s death has brought to light the death of another black man found hanging from a tree on May 31 in Victorville, a desert city 45 miles east of Palmdale.
June 14, 2020 7:53 am
ATLANTA (AP) – An Atlanta police officer has been fired following the fatal shooting of a black man and a second officer was placed on administrative duty. The move announced by police early Sunday comes on the heels of the resignation of Atlanta’s police chief following the killing of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks. Police identified the fired officer as Garrett Rolfe. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said she doesn’t believe the shooting was justified. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation say Brooks resisted arrest after he failed a field sobriety test and a struggle ensued over a Taser. Police say 36 people were arrested at Saturday night protests. Police have released body camera and dash camera footage.
June 14, 2020 7:49 am
PITTSBURGH (WPXI) — Police are investigating after three people were injured from a shooting during a backyard party in Pittsburgh’s Manchester neighborhood. The shooting happened around 7 p.m. Saturday in the area of Sedgwick Street and Liverpool Street, investigators said. According to investigators, there about 20 gunshots while a backyard party was happening in the area. It’s unclear how many people were there at the time. Three people, including a woman and a girl, were hospitalized after being grazed by bullets. A third victim walked into Allegheny General Hospital after also being struck. The girl was grazed in the head, while the woman was shot in the arm. They are both in stable condition. Police said none of the victims have life-threatening injuries, and the details of what led to the shooting are under investigation. No information regarding a suspected shooter has been released yet. Witnesses told police they think the shooter was in a car driving by the party.
June 14, 2020 7:46 am
JEFFERSON HILLS, Pa. (WPXI) — A police officer has died days after being seriously hurt in a head-on crash in Allegheny County. A Jefferson Hills police cruiser and the pickup truck collided just after 8:15 a.m. on June 3 on Old Clairton Road in Jefferson Hills. When emergency crews got there, both the officer and the pickup truck driver were trapped inside their vehicles. Once freed, they were flown to hospital. The officer and the pickup driver were the only people hurt. On Saturday, the Jefferson Hills Police Department announced that the officer who was hurt — Officer Dale Provins — died “due to extensive injuries” from that accident. Provins was a 15-year veteran of the department. Investigators believe that Provins was traveling northbound on Old Clairton Road and the pickup truck was traveling southbound when the two collided head-on on the northbound side of the road. Old Clairton Road was closed from Coal Valley Road to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for several hours for road reconstruction and investigation.
June 14, 2020 7:42 am
NATRONA HEIGHTS, Pa. (AP) – Stainless steel may be resistant to rust and the ravages of time, but the tangible history of Allegheny Ludlum may not be as resilient. That’s the fear of longtime employee Todd Barbiaux. He worries the company’s legacy, and a source of community pride, will fade with the loss of four cars that have stainless steel bodies. They were produced by Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., in partnership with Ford. Allegheny Ludlum has since morphed into today’s Allegheny Technologies Inc.
June 13, 2020 9:57 am
ATLANTA (AP) – Authorities in Georgia say a DUI suspect who resisted being taken into custody by Atlanta police has been shot and killed. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said it was investigating the shooting that happened at a Wendy’s restaurant late Friday. Officers were responding to a complaint of a male sleeping in a vehicle parked in the drive-thru. The officers attempted to place the male subject into custody. The GBI said he resisted and a struggle ensued, leading the officer to deploy a Taser. The GBI said witnesses saw the male grab the Taser away from the officer. The male was subsequently shot.
June 13, 2020 8:23 am
BEIJING (AP) – The largest wholesale food market in Beijing has been shuttered behind police guard and the surrounding neighborhood locked down after more than 50 people tested positive for the new coronavirus in the Chinese capital. The unexpected outbreak comes more than 50 days since the last local case in the city of 20 million people. Beijing officials said that 45 workers at the market tested positive for the coronavirus, though they showed no symptoms. That was in addition to seven earlier cases of people with symptoms who had visited or worked at the market.
June 13, 2020 8:22 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says he is rescheduling his first campaign rally in months to a day later so it won’t conflict with the Juneteenth observance of the end of slavery in the United States. Trump had scheduled the rally – his first since early March – for June 19 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Black leaders said it was offensive for Trump to pick that day and place, a city that in 1921 was the site of a fiery and orchestrated white-on-black attack. Trump tweeted late Friday, “Many of my African American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date.” He said he is moving the rally to June 20 “to honor their requests.”
June 13, 2020 8:20 am
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) – President Donald Trump will address the graduating class at the U.S. Military Academy against a backdrop of urgent questions about the role of soldiers in a civil society. Trump’s commencement speech to the 1,100 graduating cadets during a global pandemic will be delivered as arguments continue to rage over his threat to use American troops on domestic soil to quell protests stemming from the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Tensions between the White House and the military have escalated since protests over Floyd’s death swept the nation.
