May 7, 2021 4:12 am
A jackpot-winning Pennsylvania Lottery Cash 5 ticket sold for the Thursday drawing matched all five balls drawn. The winning numbers were 1, 2, 33, 41 and 43. The jackpot was for $275,000 and the Sunoco at 800 Main St. in Bentleyville will earn a $500 bonus for selling the winning ticket. Winners can be identified only after prizes are claimed and tickets validated and winners have one year to claim the prize.
May 7, 2021 3:52 am
(WPXI) – As COVID-19 vaccines become more readily available, Giant Eagle is no longer requiring an appointment to get one. The announcement came during a news conference Friday with all three Pittsburgh professional sports teams as they urged people to continue to get vaccinated. Starting Monday, anyone 16 and older can walk into a Pittsburgh-area Giant Eagle to get a COVID-19 vaccine, without an appointment. Giant Eagle hosted a few mass vaccination clinics at Heinz Field before eligibility opened up to everyone in April.
May 7, 2021 3:26 am
The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum broke ground on its latest expansion project on Thursday afternoon. As part of the museum’s “On Track for the Future” campaign for expansion, museum officials, volunteers and local government officials put shovels in the ground to celebrate the 21,000 square foot Welcome and Education Center. Museum Executive Director and CEO Scott Becker stated that the expansion will increase visitor capacity from its current 30,000 people per year to over 50,000 people. The center will have interactive and expanded educational aspects to attract local students as well as tourists. Ray Betler, Campaign Chair and retired Wabtec CEO thanked all of the corporations, foundations and individuals for their support, raising over $14 million for the project. The projected opening for the Welcome and Education Center is in the second half of 2022.
May 6, 2021 3:39 pm
(WPXI) – Two children were found handcuffed inside a man’s car outside Francis McClure Elementary School in White Oak after another child refused to get into the vehicle. Investigators were called Wednesday at about 1:30 p.m. to the school on Longvue Drive. An 11-year-old boy was refusing to get in the car after being dismissed from school. School officials looking inside the father’s vehicle found a seven and ten-year-old child handcuffed in the back seat. The eleven and ten-year-old are Hayes’ children. The seven-year-old is not related to him or Bell but is a sibling of one of the other children. A man and woman, Richard Hayes, 37, of Mt. Oliver, and his girlfriend, Natosha Bell, 26, of Rankin, were both in the vehicle. Hayes was found in possession of a loaded handgun. Police interviewed the three children, who said they were physically abused by Hayes and Bell. Detectives found “corroborating evidence” at Hayes’ home in Mt. Oliver. Both Hayes and Bell were arrested and charged with multiple felonies, including aggravated assault, false imprisonment and endangering the welfare of children. They were taken to the Allegheny County Jail.
May 6, 2021 2:54 pm
(AP) – Jonathan Bush, the younger brother of the late President George H.W. Bush and uncle of former President George W. Bush, has died. He was 89. A spokesman for the Texas-based George & Barbara Bush Foundation says Jonathan Bush died Wednesday at his home in Jupiter, Florida. He would have turned 90 on Thursday. In a post on Twitter, the foundation said he was “a fine gentleman and a noble soul.” Jonathan Bush worked in finance. He was the last surviving of the family’s five siblings. Their father was Prescott Sheldon Bush, a U.S. senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963.
May 6, 2021 7:57 am
TOKYO (AP) – An online petition calling for the Tokyo Olympics to be canceled has gained tens of thousands of signatures since being launched in Japan only days ago. The rollout comes with Tokyo, Osaka and several other areas under a state of emergency with coronavirus infections rising. The state of emergency is to expire on May 11 but reports in Japan say it is likely to be extended. The Olympics are to open in just under three months on July 23. The petition is addressed to International Olympic President Thomas Bach. He has tentative plans to visit Japan later this month.
May 6, 2021 7:56 am
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) – With a badly aging bridge as his backdrop, President Joe Biden stood in reliably Republican Louisiana on Thursday to pressure GOP lawmakers to support his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan. But he also expressed a willingness to compromise on the tax hikes on corporations he’s recommending to pay the cost. The president directly challenged the Republicans whose dogma has been that low taxes for corporations and the wealthy will fuel economic growth. But he declared he was willing to negotiate and dared them to do the same. (Photo: AP)
May 6, 2021 5:56 am
A Canonsburg man and former employee of West Penn Hospital has entered a guilty plea to some 89 charges in connection with the videotaping of patients and co-workers in a bathroom at the hospital. Guy Caley, 53, was convicted of 44 felony counts of intercepting communications and 45 misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy. He was charged last July after a hospital employee discovered a small video camera in a bathroom. The camera captured Caley attaching it to a chair in the bathroom. Investigators also identified more than 30 female patients whom he had recorded undressing in the hospital’s radiology department. Caley is to be sentenced August 16 in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court.
May 6, 2021 4:20 am
PHOENIX (AP) – The U.S. Department of Justice says it is concerned about ballot security and potential voter intimidation arising from the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate’s unprecedented private recount of the 2020 presidential election results in Maricopa County. The head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a letter to GOP Senate President Karen Fann that the Senate’s farming out of 2.1 million ballots to a contractor may run afoul of federal law requiring ballots to remain in the control of elections officials. And the letter said the Senate’s plans to directly contact voters may violate federal laws banning voter intimidation.
May 6, 2021 4:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. officials say the Army plans to put a civilian in charge of the command that conducts criminal investigations, in response to widespread criticism that the unit is understaffed, overwhelmed and filled with inexperienced investigators. Officials familiar with the decision tell The Associated Press the decision reflects recommendations made by an independent commission in the wake of violent crimes and murders at Fort Hood, Texas, including the death of Vanessa Guillén, whose remains were found about two months after she was killed.
