April 23, 2021 4:19 am
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Police say a man in downtown San Diego shot and killed one person and then walked another block and opened fire again, wounding four people before police subdued him with a Taser. Homicide Lt. Andra Brown says a suspect was taken into custody Thursday night in the city’s Gaslamp Quarter dining and nightlife district. Brown says three victims were taken to hospitals and one was treated at the scene, but that none of the wounds were believed to be life-threatening. The violence began outside a hotel where a man was shot to death. The gunman then walked up the street, got into a confrontation with a group of men and opened fire. He was tackled by bystanders before police detained him.
April 23, 2021 4:13 am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – SpaceX has launched its third crew in under a year for NASA, this time using a recycled rocket and capsule. A Falcon rocket carrying four astronauts blasted into orbit early Friday morning from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. The Dragon capsule should reach the International Space Station on Saturday. It’s the same capsule that carried up the first SpaceX crew last May. And the rocket hoisted the second crew in November. SpaceX founder Elon Musk met briefly with the U.S., French and Japanese astronauts before they headed to the launch pad.
April 23, 2021 4:11 am
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania coroner says a young Amish woman whose remains were found this week had been strangled and stabbed in the neck. The Lancaster County coroner used dental records to positively identify the body of 18-year-old Linda Stoltzfoos. The coroner said following an autopsy Friday that the cause of death was asphyxia from strangulation, along with suffocation. He says the stab wound was a contributing factor in her death. Stoltzfoos was last seen walking home from church in the Bird-in-Hand area on June 21, 2020. Her remains were found in a grave along railroad tracks behind a business where the man charged in her death had worked.
April 23, 2021 4:10 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A Pittsburgh suburb is honoring pro wrestler Bruno Sammartino by renaming a park in the longtime resident’s honor. Relatives and friends on Friday will be on hand as Sangree Park in Ross Township becomes Sammartino Park. Sammartino lived in the community for more than 50 years. Sammartino appeared in the ring between 1963 and 1987. He was the longest reigning champion in World Wrestling Entertainment history and was a member of its Hall of Fame. Sammartino was born in Italy and his family joined his father in Pittsburgh in 1950. Sammartino died in 2018 at age 82.
April 23, 2021 4:08 am
MEHOOPANY, Pa. (AP) – A helicopter crashed in rural northeastern Pennsylvania, killing one, authorities said Friday. The wreckage of a privately owned Robinson R44 copter was found in a remote area of Wyoming County on Thursday night after the agency had issued an alert about a missing aircraft, the Federal Aviation Administration said. According to the FAA, the flight had departed Allentown Queen Municipal Airport in Allentown and was headed to Bradford County Airport in Towanda when it went down. The crash sparked a fire. One person was killed, state police said, but that person’s name has not been released. The Robinson R44 is a four-seat light helicopter that has been in production since 1992. The National Transportation Safety Board will be in charge of the investigation.
April 23, 2021 4:06 am
Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire in Monessen late Thursday night. Firefighters from several departments were called out around ten-thirty to reports of a fire at a three-story wooden-frame house on McKee Avenue. Emergency dispatchers said that when crews arrived on the scene, flames could be seen going through the roof. The flames became so intense that at one point, firefighters were ordered out of the structure and told to fight the blaze from the exterior. Authorities say everyone inside was able to make it out safely.
April 22, 2021 12:43 pm
Power has been restored to more than three-hundred customers of West Penn Power in Cecil Township. The power was knocked out around six-thirty Thursday morning after a rollover crash at 285 Papp Road. Authorities say the driver, who refused treatment, was driving a vehicle that slammed into a utility pole and brought down power lines. A section of the roadway between Klinger and Cecil-Henderson Road was closed while crews repaired the damage.
April 22, 2021 9:16 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Republicans have unveiled a public works proposal with a much smaller price tag than what President Joe Biden wants. The $568 billion plan unveiled Thursday shows there are big differences between the two sides that will be hard to overcome. The Republican proposal would spend $568 billion over five years, while Biden has proposed spending $2.3 trillion over eight years. To help pay for their plan, the Republicans would rely on user fees and on redirecting unspent federal dollars. The Republicans reject Biden’s proposal to pay for infrastructure by raising the corporate tax rate.
April 22, 2021 4:17 am
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – The fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Kiah Bryant as she swung a knife toward another girl has raised questions about why the Ohio officer chose to fire his weapon. Interim Columbus Police Chief Michael Woods has been forced to defend training policies common to police agencies that allow for the use of deadly force to stop a threat. Woods has also defended the use of a gun over a stun gun and firing at Bryant’s torso instead of her leg. Ma’Kiah was shot four times just seconds after Officer Nicholas Reardon arrived responding to a disturbance call.
April 22, 2021 4:15 am
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) – A prosecutor says the man accused of killing 10 people at a crowded Colorado supermarket last month had armed himself with 10 high-capacity ammunition magazines. The devices have been banned in the state since 2013 after previous mass shootings in the state. Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty told reporters Thursday that 22-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa possessed the magazines unlawfully but that investigators don’t believe Alissa purchased the magazines illegally. Magazines that hold more than 15 rounds were banned in Colorado after the 2012 mass shootings at a suburban Denver movie theater and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
