October 18, 2021 4:12 am
LANCASTER, Pa. — (WPXI)- At least six people suffered non-life-threatening injuries after a shooting at a Pennsylvania mall Sunday afternoon, authorities said. According to police, several men were arguing inside the Park City Center mall when multiple shots rang out, WPVI-TV reported. Police confirmed to the TV station that a woman and three men were shot during the incident and that two other women suffered minor injuries while trying to flee the shooting scene. According to Lancaster County 911, dispatchers received a call at 2:26 p.m. EDT about an active shooter at Park City Center in Lancaster, WMPT reported. Lancaster Online reported that multiple ambulances were sent to the mall for gunshot wounds and trampling injuries, according to a dispatch report. (PHOTO; Lancaster Online)
October 18, 2021 4:07 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – Police are investigating after a man died as a result of being dragged by a car on Pittsburgh’s North Shore. According to investigators, officers and EMS responded to the intersection of Allegheny Avenue and Casino Drive following reports of a pedestrian hit by a vehicle at around 10:40 p.m. Saturday. First responders found a man pinned under the back of the vehicle. Rescue crews immediately started filling airbags to lift the car, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators said the man appeared to have been dragged about 150 feet. The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene to be interviewed by police. The victim’s identity has not yet been released.
October 17, 2021 8:01 am
NEW DELHI (AP) — At least eight people have died and a dozen are feared missing after a day of torrential rains in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Rescue operations were underway on Sunday after heavy rains lashed the state the day before, triggering flash floods and landslides, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported. The National Disaster Response Force and the Indian Army deployed teams to help with rescue efforts in two of the worst-hit districts, Kottayam and Idukki, where a dozen people are still feared missing. On Saturday, when the heavy rains began, television reports showed people wading through chest-deep waters to rescue passengers from a bus that was nearly submerged by the torrents flooding the roads. Officials said the intense rainfall has subsided, but they fear the death toll could rise as relief and rescue operations continue.
October 17, 2021 8:00 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Mask rules, vaccination mandates and business shutdowns have all landed in the courts during the COVID-19 outbreak, confronting judges with questions of science and government authority. Now they are increasingly being asked to weigh in on the deworming drug ivermectin. At least two dozen lawsuits have been filed around the U.S., many in recent weeks, by people seeking to force hospitals to give their COVID-stricken loved ones ivermectin, a drug for parasites that has been promoted by conservative commentators as a treatment despite a lack of conclusive evidence that it helps people with the virus. Interest in the drug started rising toward the end of last year and the beginning of this one, when studies — some later withdrawn, in other countries — seemed to suggest ivermectin had some potential and it became a hot topic of conversation among conservatives on social media.
October 17, 2021 7:58 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — New York real estate heir Robert Durst, who days ago was sentenced in a two-decade-old murder case, has been hospitalized after contracting COVID-19, his lawyer said Saturday, Defense Attorney Dick DeGuerin said he was notified that Durst was admitted after testing positive for the coronavirus. DeGuerin told multiple media outlets that Durst is on a ventilator. Additional details on his condition were not immediately made available. The Los Angeles Superior Court said in a statement Saturday that the court was notified someone present for the sentencing hearing for Durst on Thursday had tested positive for COVID-19. No additional COVID-19 cases have been reported. Durst, 78, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without a chance of parole for the murder of his best friend more than two decades ago. Durst, who has numerous medical issues, sat in a wheelchair with a catatonic stare during much of the sentencing hearing.
October 17, 2021 7:57 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 11th-hour deal was reached Saturday, averting a strike of film and television crews that would have seen some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers walk off their jobs and would have frozen productions in Hollywood and across the U.S. After days of marathon negotiations, representatives from the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and from the studios and entertainment companies who employ them reached the three-year contract agreement before a Monday strike deadline, avoiding a serious setback for an industry that had just gotten back to work after long pandemic shutdowns. “This is a Hollywood ending,” union president Matthew Loeb said. “Our members stood firm.” The workers still must vote to approve it, but the strike has been called off with the tentative deal.
October 17, 2021 7:55 am
PITTSBURGH (WPXI)— Crews were called out to a home near the intersection of Bandera Street and Ater Way just after 7 p.m. Saturday for a 3-alarm fire. Firefighters worked for multiple hours trying to extinguish the flames. As they doused the three-story home from above, flames persisted, pouring out of the roof. Several streets nearby were blocked by fire trucks, and many people just stood by watching crews get to work. Fire officials believe no one was present in one of the homes. Pittsburgh Public Safety says a firefighter had to be checked out by a medic on scene for breathing issues and another had to be taken to the hospital. There’s no word yet on what sparked the flames or how much damage was done.
October 17, 2021 4:31 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. — A Washington County Commissioner has been reappointed to serve on two national committees of The American Legion. Earlier this month, Larry Maggi was re-selected by the National Executive Committee of the Legion to serve on the Youth Cadet Law Enforcement and the Law and Order & Homeland Security committees. Maggi says the Youth Cadet Law Enforcement Committee oversees, organizes and conducts youth law enforcement programs throughout the nation, while the Law and Order & Homeland Security Committee discusses law and order, homeland security issues and writes policies why lobbying national legislators. Maggi says that this year’s theme is “No Veteran Left Behind” and he has been asked to focus on that message as an appointee. The Commissioner is a lifelong resident of Claysville who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, is a member of the American Legion, the Mon Valley Leathernecks, the Marine Corps League, Sons of the American Legion and the American Legion Riders.
October 16, 2021 4:46 am
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – President Joe Biden says he would prefer to slash the length of the new and expanded programs in his $3.5 trillion social safety net and climate change legislation, rather than eliminate programs entirely. Biden is trying to reassure progressives who are worried their priorities may get cut in the negotiations. Democrats on Capitol Hill are working to reduce the sweeping package down to about $2 trillion in spending, which would be paid for with higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy. The proposal includes everything from free child care and community college to significant provisions meant to combat climate change.
October 16, 2021 4:44 am
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) – A truck driver accused of causing a fiery pileup that killed four people and injured six others on a Colorado highway has been convicted of vehicular homicide and other charges. Rogel Lazaro Aguilera Mederos was convicted by a Jefferson County jury on Friday in connection with the April 2019 crash on Interstate 70 west of Denver. The Denver Post reports that Aguilera Mederos faces decades in prison when he is sentenced Dec. 13. The driver testified that the brakes on his semitrailer failed before he plowed into vehicles that had slowed because of another wreck in the Denver suburb of Lakewood. Prosecutors argued he could have used one of several runaway ramps.
