November 11, 2021 2:42 am
A Burgettstown man who scuffled with his father and shot him dead will face trial. Twenty-four-year-old Joseph Robert Warrick, Jr. requested that he have a jury trial on felony homicide and aggravated assault charges. Warrick got into an argument with his father Joseph Robert Warrick, Sr. over a missing vape pen. The argument turned physical and when the younger Warrick got loose, he pulled a gun from a holster and the gun fired killing Warrick, Sr. The district attorney offered a plea deal of third degree murder but Warrick, Jr. would not agree. The trial will be scheduled for February of 2022.
November 11, 2021 2:10 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – A state court has thrown out an order by Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary that requires masks inside K-12 schools, but the Wolf administration plans an appeal. Commonwealth Court ruled that the mask mandate didn’t comply with rules for setting regulations and was adopted without an existing disaster emergency declared by the governor. Commonwealth Court sided 4-1 with the ranking Republican in the state Senate and others who sued to challenge the masking order that took effect in early September. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday announced he’ll return authority over masking decisions to local school districts in January.
November 10, 2021 3:23 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Just call him sexy – after all, People magazine has. Paul Rudd has been named 2021’s Sexiest Man Alive. The actor, who has starred in “Ant-Man,” “Clueless” and This is 40,” was revealed last night on CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Rudd tells the magazine for its issue this week that some will be surprised by him receiving the honor – but he won’t turn it down. Previous winners include George Clooney, Idris Elba, Brad Pitt, Michael B. Jordan and Adam Levine. (Photo: AP)
November 10, 2021 1:40 pm
(AP) – Brian Williams says he’s leaving NBC News at the end of the year. He remade his career as an MSNBC host after losing his job as “NBC Nightly News” anchor in 2015 for making false claims about his role in a wartime story. His contract is ending in December, and Williams said in a note to staff members that “following much reflection,” he had decided to leave. He said he plans to take several months off to spend time with his family and that “I’ll pop up again somewhere.” Williams was the top-rated news anchor on television for a decade until his downfall in 2015.
November 10, 2021 12:53 pm
A Pennsylvania State Trooper facing a felony aggravated assault charge continued his case. Dustin Schumacher, 30 of Claysville showed up at his preliminary hearing without his attorney. The Attorney General explained that he could postpone his hearing until his attorney could be present or waive the charges to court to get the process moving. No plea deal would be made at the magisterial level. Schumacher was arrested by State Police when they were called to a Claysville residence at 3:20 AM on September 27 where it was reported that Schumacher was causing a disturbance. When troopers arrived, Schumacher yelled at them and pushed one of them to the ground. Schumacher has been suspended without pay pending the resolution of the charges against him. His next hearing is December 8.
November 10, 2021 9:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.2% in October compared with a year earlier as surging costs for food, gas and housing left Americans grappling with the highest inflation rate since 1990. The year-over-year increase in the consumer price index exceeded the 5.4% rise in September. From September to October, prices jumped 0.9%, the highest month-over-month increase since June. Inflation is eroding the strong gains in wages and salaries that have flowed to America’s workers in recent months, creating political headaches for the Biden administration and congressional Democrats and intensifying pressure on the Federal Reserve as it considers how fast to withdraw its efforts to boost the economy.
November 10, 2021 8:57 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – About 900,000 kids aged 5-11 will have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in their first week of eligibility, the White House said Wednesday. Final clearance for the shots was granted by federal regulators on Nov. 2, with the first doses to kids beginning in some locations the following day. Now nearly 20,000 pharmacies, clinics and physicians’ offices are administering the doses and the Biden administration estimates that by the end of Wednesday more than 900,000 of the kid doses will have been administered. Kids who begin the two-dose regimen by the end of next week will have full protection from the vaccines by Christmas.
November 10, 2021 8:56 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a new pandemic low 267,000 last week, another sign that the job market is recovering from last year’s sharp coronavirus downturn. Jobless claims fell by 4,000 last week, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out weekly ups and downs, dropped by nearly 7,300 to 278,000, also a pandemic low. Altogether, 2,2 million Americans were collecting traditional unemployment benefits the week that ended Oct. 30.
November 10, 2021 4:22 am
A mobile home was destroyed by fire, overnight, in Chartiers Township. Fire officials say the blaze broke out around 11 p.m. along Galaxy Drive in the Washington Estates mobile home park. Two unidentified occupants got out safely after neighbors smelled smoke and alerted them to the fire. A vehicle parked near the home was also damaged. Officials say the fire began in the kitchen but an exact cause has not been released. The occupants are now staying with relatives.
November 10, 2021 4:13 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – House investigators have issued subpoenas to 10 more former officials who worked for Donald Trump at the end of his presidency. They are part of a committee’s effort to find out more about what the president was doing and saying as his supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a bid to overturn his defeat. The subpoenas issued Tuesday include demands for documents and testimony from senior adviser Stephen Miller and press secretary Kayleigh McEnany (pictured). They bring the House panel tasked with investigating the insurrection even closer inside Trump’s inner circle – and to Trump himself.
