September 14, 2021 2:30 am
BROWNSVILLE, Pa. — (WPXI) – Four Brownsville Senior High School students were rushed to the hospital Monday morning after state police troopers said they may have overdosed. According to troopers, state police were called at around 7:15 a.m. for a report of four children that were taken to a nearby hospital “for unknown medical issues.” Investigators said the students may have eaten THC edibles on school property, leading to the medical issues. The students were released from the hospital in stable condition. Troopers are still investigating. The superintendent issued this statement to our news partners at Channel 11: “Unfortunately, we had a student discipline issue in our high school today involving 4 students. The State Police and local ambulance service were contacted. However, reports circulated on social media regarding our students’ well-being are not accurate.”
September 14, 2021 2:13 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – The union that represents corrections officers in Pennsylvania prisons wants a state court to intervene over the governor’s recent mandate that they all get coronavirus vaccines or submit to weekly testing. The six-page Commonwealth Court complaint over a rule Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf announced last month requests that the court issue a preliminary injunction to end mandatory testing unless inmates, visitors and outside vendors are also subject to the requirement. Wolf a month ago announced that about 25,000 employees of Pennsylvania’s prisons and state health care and congregate care facilities would have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 7 or take weekly tests for the virus.
September 13, 2021 1:41 pm
NEW ORLEANS (AP) –
A Louisiana man who is the oldest living World War II veteran in the United States has marked his 112th birthday. Lawrence Brooks celebrated Sunday with a drive-by party at his New Orleans home hosted by the National World War II Museum. Festivities included a Jeep parade, a live performance from the museum vocal trio and entertainment from New Orleans musicians. Drafted in 1940, Brooks was a private in the Army’s mostly Black 91st Engineer Battalion. The unit was stationed in New Guinea and the Philippines and built infrastructure such as bridges, roads and airstrips.
September 13, 2021 11:44 am
NORTH VERSAILLES, Pa. (AP) – Authorities are asking for help from the public in their search for a teenage suspect who opened fire at a popular Halloween attraction in western Pennsylvania over the weekend, killing one 15-year-old youth and wounding another. Allegheny County police said 15-year-old Steven Eason of Wilmerding was shot in the chest and stomach Saturday night at the Haunted Hills Hayride in North Versailles. The other youth is in stable condition. Detectives said Eason and friends knew the other youth casually and went to his aid when they saw him in a confrontation with the 15- to 17-year-old suspect, who drew a handgun and fired three times.
September 13, 2021 4:27 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Britney Spears has announced her engagement to her boyfriend Sam Asghari with an exuberant post displaying a diamond ring engraved with the word lioness. The news comes days after her father filed to end the court conservatorship that has controlled the singer’s life and money for 13 years. She announced the engagement with a short video of the couple winking, smiling and kissing. The couple met on a music-video set in 2016. The singer told a judge in June she wanted to marry Asghari and have a baby with him as she made an impassioned plea to end the conservatorship
September 13, 2021 4:25 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Allies of former President Donald Trump are calling those charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol “political prisoners.” Such rhetoric ahead of a rally planned for Saturday at the Capitol is the latest attempt to explain away what played out for all the world to see when rioters loyal to Trump stormed the building to try to stop Congress from certifying the election for President Joe Biden. Many Republicans who had voted to challenge Biden’s victory have not said if they will attend the rally. Rally organizer and former Trump campaign strategist Matt Braynard says those jailed are being unfairly prosecuted.
September 13, 2021 4:24 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – A Democratic senator vital to the fate of President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion plan for social and environmental spending says he won’t support even half that amount or the ambitious timetable envisioned for passing it. The stand taken by Sen. Joe Manchin is described as unacceptable by the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Bernie Sanders, who’s helping craft the measure. Manchin also says there’s is “no way” Congress can meet the goal of passing the bill by late this month. Democrats have no votes to spare if they want to enact Biden’s massive “Build Back Better” agenda.
September 13, 2021 4:21 am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – President Joe Biden will promote his administration’s use of the Defense Production Act to aid in wildfire preparedness during a western swing in which he’ll survey wildfire damage in Idaho and California. Biden is aiming to drum up support for his massive $3.5 trillion spending plan by linking it to wildfires and social programs while visiting those two states and Colorado. Biden’s trek on Monday and Tuesday also coincides with the recall election of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. The president is set to appear with Newsom on the eve of Tuesday’s vote.
September 13, 2021 4:20 am
MIAMI (AP) – Tropical Storm Nicholas is strengthening early Monday as it travels up the western Gulf Coast. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say coastal areas of Texas, Mexico and Louisiana could see heavy rain and flooding. Nicholas has top winds around 60 mph. Tropical storm warnings have been issued for coastal Texas. Nicholas is expected to produce storm total rainfall of up to 10 inches across portions of coastal Texas into southwest Louisiana through midweek. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 5 inches were expected through Monday over the eastern portions of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
September 13, 2021 4:18 am
Pennsylvania health officials say some physicians are offering stock “doctor’s notes” for use by parents wishing to have their children exempted from wearing masks in school. The Health Department says it has referred these doctors for possible disciplinary action. A statewide, universal mask mandate for Pennsylvania schools went into effect Tuesday. The order contains a medical exemption, but parents have complained it’s been difficult to find a physician who will sign off. The Health Department says some doctors are pushing stock exemptions that are available to anyone, regardless of medical necessity.
