February 9, 2024 5:10 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems poised to reject attempts to kick former President Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot. A definitive ruling for the leading Republican candidate for president would largely end efforts in Colorado, Maine and elsewhere to prevent his name from appearing on the ballot. In more than two hours of arguments Thursday, both conservative and liberal justices raised questions of whether Trump can be disqualified from being president again because of his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election. Their main concern was whether Congress must act before states can invoke a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office again.
February 9, 2024 5:08 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A special counsel report has found evidence that President Joe Biden “willfully” retained and shared highly classified materials when he was a private citizen, including documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan. The Justice Department report nonetheless says no criminal charges are warranted for Biden or anyone else. In remarks at the White House Thursday evening, Biden denied that he improperly shared classified information and angrily lashed out at special counsel Robert Hur for questioning his mental acuity. The report from Hur, released earlier Thursday, represents a harshly critical assessment of Biden’s handling of sensitive government materials and includes unflattering characterizations of his memory.
February 9, 2024 5:07 am
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has bombed targets in Rafah, after U.S. officials warned Israel against expanding its Gaza ground offensive to the southern city where more than half of the territory’s 2.3 million people have sought refuge. Airstrikes overnight and into Friday in Rafah and a central area of Gaza killed 12 people, including women and children. Meanwhile, widening disagreements between Israel and the United States were on display over the future of the war, now in its fifth month. U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack was “over the top.” Israel’s stated intentions to expand its ground offensive to Rafah also prompted a harsh backlash in Washington.
February 9, 2024 5:05 am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Donald Trump has won Nevada’s Republican presidential caucuses after he was the only major candidate to participate. The former president handily won Thursday’s contest run by the state Republican Party and wins Nevada’s 26 delegates as he seeks to accrue enough to become the party nominee. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley skipped the caucuses, blaming what she considered an unfair process that favored Trump. She instead was listed on the ballot in Nevada’s symbolic state-run presidential primary on Tuesday, finishing behind the “none of these candidates” option.
February 9, 2024 5:03 am
EAST LANSDOWNE, Pa. (AP) — Six members of a family are feared dead at a house in suburban Philadelphia that went up in flames as two police officers who responded to the scene were shot. Among those feared dead are three children. Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer says some remains of a body and a rifle were recovered from the home in East Lansdowne. He’s cautioning that the probe is in its early stages as investigators seek clues to the fire and the shooting, which took place Wednesday afternoon. One of the wounded officers was discharged from the hospital Thursday.
February 9, 2024 5:01 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — (WPXI) – A grocery store in Fayette County was closed last week when the landlord had sheriff’s deputies put locks on the door. When the owners of the building went inside, they found expired food on the shelves and rotting meat in the cooler. The abrupt closure of Save Well grocery store last week happened because the store had not been paying rent to the building’s owner. “When they became delinquent for, in the end, four months, which is $8,000 a month, $32,000 dollars, I filed suit, had them ejected, got a $97,000 judgment against them, had the sheriffs come and padlock the building, and had them escorted out the door,” said attorney Thomas Shaffer. When the landlords went inside, they were hit with an awful smell. In fact – a lot of the products on the shelves still today are expired. The building’s owners say they’ve hired a company to help clean and have thrown out 8 dumpsters of bad food so far. The landlords tell Channel 11 they hope to get a new grocery store in the building soon.
February 9, 2024 4:54 am
CARROLL TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Authorities say two Washington County residents were killed yesterday afternoon in a head-on crash along Route 837 near the Donora-Monessen Bridge. Officials say it happened just after one o’clock when vehicles driven by 81-year-old Linda Blanker of Venetia, who was traveling south, and 48-year-old Michael Bove of McMurray, who was traveling north, collided. Both drivers were pronounced dead at the scene. Police are continuing to investigate the cause of the crash.
February 8, 2024 4:25 pm
A portion of a busy road in Donora was closed after a multi-vehicle crash that happened Thursday afternoon. Washington County 911 says crews were called to Route 837 near the Donora Monessen Bridge at 1:13 p.m and PennDOT said Route 837 in both directions between Route 837 (Donora Road) and the Donora Monessen Bridge in Carroll Township and Northbound Route 837 (McKean Avenue) between Walnut Street and Second Street in Donora Borough were closed for several hours and urged motorists to seek alternate routes and use caution if traveling through the area. (Photo: WPXI)
February 8, 2024 3:40 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden “willfully” retained and disclosed highly classified materials when he was a private citizen, including documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan and other sensitive national security matters. That’s according to a Justice Department report that nonetheless says no criminal charges are warranted for him or anyone else. The report from special counsel Robert Hur, released Thursday, represents a harshly critical assessment of Biden’s handling of sensitive government materials, but also details the reasons why he should not be charged with the crime.
February 8, 2024 12:53 pm
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The military says five U.S. Marines aboard a helicopter that went down during stormy weather in the mountains outside of San Diego are confirmed dead. The miliary made the announcement early Thursday. Authorities say the CH-53E Super Stallion vanished late Tuesday night while returning to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego after training at Creech Air Force Base, northwest of Las Vegas. The craft was discovered Wednesday morning near the mountain community of Pine Valley, an hour’s drive from San Diego. The names of the Marines were not immediately released. Efforts to recover the remains of the five have begun and an investigation into the crash is underway.
