May 27, 2022 2:36 am
(AP) – Ray Liotta, the actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams,” has died. He was 67. A source at the Dominican Republic’s National Forensic Science Institute who was not authorized to speak to the media confirmed the death of Ray Liotta and said his body was taken to the Cristo Redentor morgue. Representatives for Liotta told The Hollywood Reporter and NBC News that he died in his sleep Wednesday night in the Dominican Republic, where he was filming a new movie. Liotta’s most iconic role, as real life mobster Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” came in 1990. (Photo: ABC News)
May 26, 2022 12:44 pm
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Four people were shot Wednesday night as they walked to a prom party in the Mantua neighborhood, according to Philadelphia police. WPVI-TV reports that just after 7 p.m., on the 3500 block of Fairmount Avenue, surveillance video captured a gunman who was reportedly on a bike when he fired the gunshots. The suspect is described as wearing all black clothing and a white mask over his face. Police say the victims include a 19-year-old man, a 19-year-old woman, her 34-year-old mother and a 60-year-old man. The 19-year-old man remains in critical condition. The other three victims are expected to survive their injuries. The suspect has not been arrested and police did not give a motive for the shootings.
May 26, 2022 4:21 am
Eight of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. lost population during the first year of the pandemic. New estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show only Phoenix and San Antonio gained new residents from 2020 to 2021. New York led the way, losing more than 305,000 residents, or about 3.5% of its 2020 population. Among the nation’s 10 largest cities, it was followed by Chicago and Los Angeles. Smaller big cities primarily in the Sunbelt gained news residents. Those cities include Austin and Fort Worth in Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Columbus, Ohio.
May 26, 2022 4:20 am
LONDON (AP) – British prosecutors have charged actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men. The Crown Prosecution Service said Thursday that Spacey “has also been charged with causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.” Rosemary Ainslie, head of the service’s Special Crime Division, said the charges follow a review of evidence gathered by London’s Metropolitan Police. Spacey, a 62-year-old double Academy Award winner, was questioned by British police in 2019 about claims by several men that he had assaulted them. The former “House of Cards” star ran London’s Old Vic Theatre between 2004 and 2015. (Photo: ABC News)
May 26, 2022 4:17 am
The Russian Defense Ministry is promising to open a safe corridor to allow foreign ships to leave Black Sea ports. A separate corridor will be open to allow ships to leave Mariupol by sailing from the port on the Sea of Azov port to the Black Sea. Mikhail Mizintsev heads the National Defense Control Center under the General Staff. He says 70 foreign vessels from 16 countries are now in six ports on the Black Sea including Odesa, Kherson and Mykolaiv. Mizintsev says the corridors would be open every day. Earlier Wednesday, the Russia military said Mariupol’s port was functioning again after three months of fighting.
May 26, 2022 4:15 am
UVALDE, Texas (AP) – Texas authorities say the gunman who massacred 21 people at an elementary school was in the building for over an hour before he was killed by law enforcement officers. The amount of time that elapsed has stirred anger and questions among family members, who demanded to know why authorities did not storm the place and put a stop to the rampage more quickly. Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Travis Considine said 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered Robb Elementary School and began his rampage at 11:40 a.m. Tuesday. A Border Patrol tactical unit began trying to get inside the building an hour later, and at 12:58 p.m., radio chatter noted he was dead.
May 26, 2022 4:13 am
BETHEL PARK, Pa. — (WPXI) – Bethel Park School District is mourning the loss of a history teacher who died in a tragic kayaking accident. The school district called Jon Gentile, a teacher for the last 15 years, an incredibly well-respected and beloved member of the high school and middle school staff. His colleagues say Gentile was the kind of teacher who made students want to go into teaching. Gentile was an avid outdoorsman who died Tuesday after a tragic kayaking accident. Many of his students paid tribute to him by showing up to school wearing plaid and flannel — his signature teaching outfit.
May 26, 2022 4:09 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania’s top election official says the margin between the top two candidates in last week’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate is tight enough to trigger a recount. The state’s acting secretary of state, Leigh Chapman, said the vote totals for celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick fall within the recount margin in state law. Oz, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, led McCormick by 902 votes out of more than 1.3 million ballots counted as of Wednesday. The separation between the candidates is well within the the recount law’s 0.5% margin. A recount could take until June 8.
May 26, 2022 4:08 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – An effort by Democratic lawmakers in Pennsylvania to ban owning, selling or making high-capacity, semi-automatic firearms isn’t going to be taken up by state lawmakers. Pennsylvania House Republicans on Wednesday again displayed their firm opposition to gun restriction proposals. The House voted 111 to 87 against the effort to take up the bill. Republican floor leader Kerry Benninghoff argued it should have to go through a committee first. The bill has spent more than a year in the Judiciary Committee, where the Republican chairman has bottled up most proposals to regulate or restrict firearms. Just one Republican and one Democrat crossed party lines in the vote against considering the bill.
May 25, 2022 4:25 pm
Officials from 9-1-1 say that a SWAT situation that occurred in Smith Township has come to a close. A man allegedly shot another man on Loffert Road and State Police and several local police departments took to the scene. The standoff ended with the alleged shooter surrendering to police peacefully. The victim was injured but officials state that they do not believe he was transported from the scene by ambulance. Details about the event are still evolving.
