June 6, 2021 7:42 am
BURGETTSTOWN, Pa. — Looks like no cheeseburgers in Burgettstown this summer. The Jimmy Buffet and The Coral Reefer Band show at Star Lake amphitheater has been canceled. According to Buffet’s website, the July 15 show had to be canceled because of a scheduling conflict. He has shows in Cincinnati on July 13 and in Nashville on July 16. The website says refunds will be automatically issued for people who already have tickets. The popular island-rock icon’s show was supposed to kick off the live events season at The Pavilion at Star Lake. Instead, Chicago will headline the first show on July 21.
June 6, 2021 4:28 am
A Canonsburg man is accused of embezzling nearly $7 million from another business he worked for. Jon Weston, who owns Katie’s Kandy in Pittsburgh, was federally indicted on charges of fraud, conspiracy, money laundering and filing false tax returns this week. Investigators say Weston was an accountant for Hillandale Farms in Greensburg and worked with the bookkeeper to steal from Hillandale. Investigators say that Weston laundered millions of dollars through the bank accounts for Katie’s Kandy and his chain of car washes. Officials say the embezzlement went on for 14 years until the bookkeeper died in 2019. Weston faces up to 58 years in prison.
June 6, 2021 4:18 am
MCDONALD, Pa. — After over a week, Police have found a McDonald man who was reported missing last month. According to the Washington County Coroner, John R. Terrell, 58, was found dead in a seated position folded over between two cars in a vacant lot Friday around 9:00 p.m. The parking lot was near the 100 block O’Hara Street in the borough. The coroner’s report says the office is investigating the case as a natural death, with the cause of death pending an autopsy and the manner of death still under investigation by the McDonald Police Department. Authorities sent out a release asking for the public’s help in finding Terrell, who was considered missing back on May 28th. According to the release, Terrell was known to suffer from alcoholism.
June 6, 2021 1:50 am
The Washington County Coroner’s Office said Friday that they have identified the human remains found in a burned-out car in Claysville. Authorities say DNA testing shows the body is that of 40-year-old Thomas Ringer of Waynesburg. Ringer’s remains were found in what was left of a burned out vehicle on May 16th on Maple Road. No further details have been released. State Police are asking anyone with information connected to this incident to call their barracks at 724-223-5200.
June 5, 2021 4:35 am
President Joe Biden is portraying the May jobs report as a jumping off point for more spending on infrastructure and education. It’s an argument for his broader agenda to keep growth going. But Friday’s employment numbers also hinted at the limits of how much government aid can be pumped into the world’s largest economy. The 559,000 jobs added were less than what many economists were expecting. A separate figure indicated that too few people are looking for jobs compared to demand from employers. This mismatch means wages are rising sharply. But it also means that inflation could be elevated until market forces sort out supply chains and hiring.
June 5, 2021 4:34 am
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – U.N. experts say Taliban insurgents show no sign of reducing the level of violence in Afghanistan to facilitate peace negotiations with the government. The experts said in a report to the U.N. Security Council circulated Friday that the Taliban appears to be trying to strengthen its military position as leverage, with the “unprecedented violence” of 2020 carrying into 2021. The experts said the Taliban are also reported to be responsible for the great majority of assassinations that have become a feature of the violence in Afghanistan, targeting government officials, women, human rights defenders and journalists among others.
June 5, 2021 4:33 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Department of Agriculture is sending $1 billion to the country’s food bank networks, seeking to expand the reach of the system and revamp the way food banks acquire and distribute aid. The funding, announced Friday, comes half from the American Rescue Plan COVID stimulus bill and half from standard congressional appropriations. Like other aspects of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better initiative, the food bank plan openly seeks to use COVID recovery as a chance to reform a support system whose flaws were exposed by the pandemic.
June 5, 2021 4:32 am
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) – A sheriff’s deputy who was involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, is resigning. The Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on Friday that Aaron Lewellyn is using accrued leave time before officially resigning June 30. The statement provides no reason for his departure. He was one of three deputies placed on extended leave following the April 21 shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. The deputies were serving drug-related warrants. A prosecutor said the shooting was justified because Brown struck a deputy with his car and nearly ran him over. The sheriff announced last month that the deputies would keep their jobs but would be disciplined and retrained.
June 5, 2021 4:21 am
GREENSBURG, Pa. — A 60-year-old man was arrested outside the Westmoreland Mall after a teen girl told police he followed her out to her car. The girl told police when she was walking in to work at the mall, William Gressman made a sexual comment toward her. Hours later as she was leaving, she told officers she recognized Gressman from earlier. She said he started following her to her car and appeared to be touching himself inappropriately. State police said security camera footage showed the encounter. Gressman admitted to the incident while being interviewed by investigators, according to court documents. He was taken to the Westmoreland County Prison on $5,000 bond.
June 5, 2021 1:17 am
(AP) – Facebook says it will suspend former President Donald Trump’s accounts for two years following its finding that he stoked violence ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. Facebook also plans to end a contentious policy championed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that automatically exempted politicians from certain moderation rules on its site. The social media giant said on Friday that will it will still apply this “newsworthiness” exemption to certain posts it deems to be in the public interest even if it violates Facebook rules, it will no longer treat material posted by politicians any differently from what’s posted by anyone else.
