December 18, 2021 3:25 am
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents that there is a telephone scam making its way around the county and they are urging residents to be aware of it. Sheriff’s officials say the caller identifies him or herself as a Washington County Sheriff’s Deputy and advises the resident that they have missed jury duty and are in contempt of court and can face fines. The caller then advises the resident that they can pay the fines with cash or gift cards. The sheriff’s office says they would never call residents in that manner and should anyone have any legitimate concerns over a jury summons, they should contact the court administrator or the jury management office.
December 17, 2021 7:35 am
The Washington County Coroner’s office says an Aliquippa woman was killed following a crash along Route 22 near Mile Marker 1 around 2 a.m. Friday. According to the coroner’s office, 47 year old Lori Ann Dickey was traveling east when her vehicle crossed the center median and entered the westbound lanes. Her vehicle then collided with an oncoming tractor trailer. She exited her vehicle and began to approach the operator of the tractor trailer when she was struck by another vehicle. She was pronounced dead at the scene. State Police continue to investigate and are not releasing any other information involving that third vehicle.
December 17, 2021 4:23 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block lower court orders that are keeping President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for health care workers from going into effect in about half of the states. The administration asked the justices to allow the “urgently needed health and safety measure to take effect before the winter spike in COVID-19 cases worsens further.” It said the requirement “will save hundreds or even thousands of lives each month.” Two federal appeals court have kept the mandate blocked in a total of 24 states.
December 17, 2021 4:21 am
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) – Authorities say the body of a Kentucky teenager has been found after a tornado ravaged her neighborhood. Nyssa Brown was the seventh member of her family to die in the tornado that hit Bowling Green last week. A coroner says the 13-year-old’s body was found Thursday in a wooded area near her subdivision. The girl’s parents, three siblings ranging in age from 4 to 16, and a grandmother also died in the tornado. Kirby says eight children were among the 12 victims who died on a single street. The teen’s death pushes the total of storm-related casualties in five states to 90, including 76 in Kentucky.
December 17, 2021 4:19 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Sex and the City” actor Chris Noth has been accused of sexually assaulting two women, who shared their accounts with the trade publication The Hollywood Reporter. Noth denies the allegations, saying his interactions with the women in 2004 and 2015 were “consensual.” The actor isn’t under criminal investigation over the allegations. Noth questioned the timing of the allegations, which come days after he reprised his Mr. Big character in the “Sex and the City” sequel “And Just Like That.” One of the women said the new show prompted her to go public.
December 17, 2021 4:17 am
LONDON (AP) – Four children have died after fire ripped through a building in south London. About 60 firefighters descended on the home in a residential area and brought the children out of the home as intense fire ripped through the building Thursday night. The four children are believed to be related. They were treated at the scene and taken to the hospital where they were pronounced dead. Their ages weren’t immediately available.
December 17, 2021 4:16 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate parliamentarian says a Democratic effort to let millions of immigrants remain temporarily in the U.S. should be dropped from an expansive social and environment bill. It deals another blow to a longtime priority of the party, migrant advocates and progressives. The ruling by Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate’s nonpartisan arbiter of its rules, all but certainly means Democrats will have to drop the proposal from their 10-year, $2 trillion package of health care, family services and climate change initiatives championed by President Joe Biden.
December 17, 2021 4:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – A judge says that a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems can go forward. In a ruling released Thursday, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis denied the cable news giant’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Dominion filed the lawsuit against Fox earlier this year alleging that some of its employees elevated false charges that Dominion had changed votes in the 2020 election and spread Donald Trump allies claims of fraud by the voting machine company. There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election, a fact that a range of officials across the country and Trump’s own attorney general confirmed.
December 17, 2021 4:14 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden has all but acknowledged negotiations over his sweeping domestic policy package will have to be pushed into the new year. It was a setback Thursday as Senate Democrats rushed to try to send the roughly $2 trillion bill to his desk by Christmas. But Biden does not yet have the votes, in large part because of opposition from one holdout: Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Biden’s discussions with Manchin will continue. He says he is confident the package will eventually pass. Biden also says Democrats must press forward on voting rights legislation.
December 17, 2021 4:12 am
RICES LANDING, Pa. — (WPXI) – Three people are in Pennsylvania State Police custody after being involved in a lengthy standoff in Greene County in Rices Landing. State police surrounded a home on Bayard Avenue after trying serve an arrest warrant. After some confrontation, police entered into a standoff with the person. After some time, police were able to place them in custody Two other people are in custody for questioning, according to police sources. State police wouldn’t say what the suspect was wanted for. “I’ve never witnessed anything like it in this small town,” Jacob Broadwater said. Broadwater lives across the street from the home police were focused on. He said a member of the SWAT team used his house to keep eyes on the other. “We have a gentleman from the SWAT team come in and sit in our window,” he said.
