March 15, 2021 4:22 am
BIG BEAVER — (WPXI) – A deadly house fire in Beaver County is being investigated now as a homicide, according to a release from police Sunday. The Beaver County coroner was called to the scene in the 1000 block of Shenango Road in Big Beaver shortly after flames broke out around 6 a.m. While firefighters got the blaze under control, they found the victim — identified as Rolando Contreras, 26 — dead inside the home. The coroner told our news partners at Channel 11 he had multiple gunshot wounds to the head and body. Police did not specify how the man was killed, or what caused the fire. Later Sunday morning, investigators confirmed police were looking for a vehicle and two people in connection with a homicide in Big Beaver. A BOLO went out for a green 2014 Chevrolet pickup truck with a Texas license plate. However, officials did not say if it is related to the deadly fire. Investigators said anyone with information about what happened is asked to call police.
March 15, 2021 4:17 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Police say a woman was critically injured in a mauling by two dogs at a Pittsburgh home over the weekend. Pittsburgh public safety officials said the victim is related to the owner of the dog and was apparently trying to let the dogs out of the residence when she was attacked shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday. Police, emergency medical personnel and animal care and control workers responded, and the woman was taken to a hospital in critical condition with serious wounds to her head and face. Animal control workers took possession of the animals. The police violent crime unit is investigating.
March 15, 2021 4:14 am
MURRYSVILLE, Pa. — (WPXI) – A man riding a motorcycle was killed in a crash overnight Sunday in Westmoreland County. According to the coroner’s office, the crash happened around 12:45 a.m. on Sardis Road in Murrysville. Investigators said the victim — identified as Robert Mahan, 24 — was riding his motorcycle south on Sardis Road when he crossed over the center line into the opposite lane and hit a Honda CR-V. Mahan was thrown from the motorcycle, and the county coroner pronounced him dead at the scene. Police said Mahan was not wearing a helmet at the time of the deadly crash. The driver of the other vehicle involved was not hurt.
March 14, 2021 7:45 am
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A top leader with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Friday political donations made in his name to several Democratic candidates, including President Joe Biden, that violate the faith’s political neutrality rules were done by his family. Dieter Uchtdorf said in a statement provided by church officials that the contributions came from an online family account associated with his name. “I regret such an oversight on my part,” Uchtdorf said. “I fully support the church’s policy related to political donations from church leaders.” Uchtdorf is a member of a top governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, which sits below the first presidency and helps set church policy and oversees the faith’s business interests. A church rule created in 2011 when church member Mitt Romney was running for the GOP presidential nomination dictate that members of this panel and other full-time church leaders and their spouses should not participate in political campaigns or give donations.
March 14, 2021 7:43 am
DENVER (AP) — More than 2,000 flights have been canceled over the weekend at Denver International Airport as a major snowstorm strikes the region. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning, saying it expects 18 to 24 inches (46-61 cm) of heavy, wet snow to fall in Denver and Boulder from Saturday afternoon through Sunday night. Some areas along the Front Range foothills were expected to receive up to 30 inches (76 cm). The Colorado Department of Transportation warned that road closures are highly likely and asked people not to make unnecessary trips. The highways most likely to be affected included Interstate 25 from Colorado Springs to Wyoming, including Denver and Monument Hill; I-70 to Limon; and I-76 to Ft. Morgan, the department said. Denver International had a busy morning Saturday with passengers trying to beat the storm, but about 750 flights later in the day were canceled, airport spokeswoman Emily Williams said. Just about all Sunday flights had been canceled as well — nearly 1,300.
March 14, 2021 7:42 am
Marvelous Marvin Hagler stopped Thomas Hearns in a fight that lasted less than eight minutes yet was so epic that it still lives in boxing lore. Two years later he was so disgusted after losing a decision to Sugar Ray Leonard — stolen, he claimed, by the judges — that he never fought again. One of the great middleweights in boxing history, Hagler died Saturday at the age of 66. His wife, Kay, announced his death on the Facebook page for Hagler’s fans. Hagler fought on boxing’s biggest stages against its biggest names, as he, Leonard, Hearns and Roberto Duran dominated the middleweight classes during a golden time for boxing in the 1980s. Quiet with a brooding public persona, Hagler fought 67 times over 14 years as a pro out of Brockton, Massachusetts, finishing 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts. Hagler was unmistakable in the ring, fighting out of a southpaw stance with his bald head glistening in the lights. He was relentless and he was vicious, stopping opponent after opponent during an eight-year run that began with a disputed draw against Vito Antuofermo in 1979 that he later avenged.
March 14, 2021 7:40 am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Biden administration is turning to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help managing and caring for record numbers of unaccompanied immigrant children who are streaming into the United States by illegally crossing the border with Mexico. FEMA will support a governmentwide effort over the next three months to safely receive, shelter and transfer minor children who arrive alone at the U.S. southwest border, without a parent or other adult, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Saturday. Government figures show a growing crisis at the border as hundreds of children illegally enter the U.S. from Mexico daily and are taken into custody. The Homeland Security Department is supposed to process and transfer unaccompanied minor children to the Department of Health and Human Services within three days so that they can be placed with a parent already living in the United States, or other suitable sponsor, until their immigration cases can be resolved. But more children are being held longer at Border Patrol facilities that weren’t designed with their care in mind because long-term shelters run by the Department of Health and Human Services have next to no capacity to accommodate them. Children are being apprehended daily at far higher rates than HHS can release them to parents or sponsors.
March 14, 2021 7:36 am
PITTSBURGH (WPXI)— The U.S. Marshals Service is now involved in the search for a man wanted in the shooting death of an 18-year-old man in the Strip District last month. Marshals released new photographs of Howard Hawkins, also know as Mark McClendon, who is wanted in the homicide of Ahmir Tuli. Tuli was shot in the head shortly after 9 p.m. Feb. 21 on Penn Avenue, outside Preeti’s Pitt and across from Pittsburgh Winery. According to police documents, Hawkins got into an argument with other people inside Preeti’s Pitt and security told him to leave. Investigators said he then came back and shot Ahmir Tuli in the head outside the door. Charges against Hawkins include homicide and carrying a firearm without a license. The U.S. Marshals are also offering a reward for information leading to Hawkins’ arrest.
March 14, 2021 7:27 am
PITTSBURGH (WPXI) — A man was hit and killed in downtown Pittsburgh Saturday night. Investigators said it happened at the intersection of Penn Avenue and Stanwix Street around 9:30 p.m. When first responders arrived, they found the man under the vehicle. He was declared dead at the scene. The person’s identity has not yet been released. Police said the driver remained at the scene and was cooperating. (Photo: WPXI)
March 14, 2021 3:32 am
While you turn your clocks forward this Sunday, March 14, for Daylight Saving Time take some time to check your smoke detectors. This is the perfect time of year to check and replace batteries, or even replace old smoke detectors.
