May 23, 2021 4:10 am
Authorities are searching for the suspect involved in a reported drive-by shooting in the City of Washington Thursday night. Washington City Police were called to the intersection of Ridge and Shannon Avenues around 8:30 p.m. The suspect, believed to be 26-year-old Maceo Saunders, fled the scene by vehicle before police arrived. Police say a teenage girl was shot in the leg and taken to Washington Hospital for treatment. Police say Saunders already has an outstanding warrant for criminal attempted homicide and is also wanted by the Washington County Adult Probation Office. Authorities say Saunders whereabouts is unknown at this time and they are asking for assistance from the public to find him. Police say Saunders should be considered armed and dangerous and if you see him or know where he is, you’re advised to call Washington County 911. Police are also asking Saunders to turn himself into them or Adult Probation.
May 22, 2021 9:25 am
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – New body-camera video of Ronald Greene’s arrest shows Louisiana state troopers ordering the shackled, beaten Black man to keep lying facedown — a tactic that may have hindered his breathing — and an autopsy cited restraint and “inflicted head injury” among the factors in his death. The Associated Press obtained still more investigative details of Greene’s 2019 arrest this week after it published previously unreleased footage that showed troopers converging on his car after a high-speed chase, repeatedly jolting him with stun guns, putting him in a chokehold, beating him and dragging him by his ankle shackles.
May 22, 2021 9:22 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden says he and South Korean President Moon Jae-in remain “deeply concerned” about the situation with North Korea. Biden says he will deploy a new special envoy to the region to help refocus efforts on pressing Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program. Moon is welcoming “America’s return” to the world stage, while Biden is praising the “long history of shared sacrifice” by the two allies. Biden says the U.S. has agreed to vaccinate 550,000 South Korean service members who serve alongside U.S. forces on the peninsula. Biden is also noting South Korea’s growing influence on American culture, saying, “K-pop fans are universal.”
May 22, 2021 9:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Prospects for a vast infrastructure deal have been thrown into serious doubt. The White House has reduced President Joe Biden’s sweeping proposal to $1.7 trillion, but Republican senators are rejecting the compromise as disappointing, saying “vast differences” remain. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki disclosed the new offer as Cabinet secretaries and GOP senators were negotiating. Skepticism had been rising on all sides amid complaints about the lack of significant movement off the opening bids. Republicans had offered a $568 billion plan. The president’s team had set a soft Memorial Day deadline to determine whether a deal was within reach.
May 22, 2021 9:15 am
The United Nations says approximately 800,000 people in Gaza don’t have regular access to clean piped water. The world body says nearly 50% of the water network was damaged in the recent fighting. Quoting Gaza’s public works and housing ministry, the U.N. ‘s office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said nearly 17,000 residential and commercial units have been damaged or destroyed. These include 769 housing and commercial units that have been rendered uninhabitable, at least 1,042 units in some 258 buildings which have been destroyed and another 14,538 units that have suffered minor damage.
May 22, 2021 9:11 am
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Police say a shooting in downtown Minneapolis has killed two people and wounded eight others. Police say in tweets early Saturday that the 10 people shot included five men and five women. Two of the men died and another man was at a hospital in critical condition. Police say the other seven wounded people had injuries not considered to be life-threatening. No arrests were immediately announced. KMSP-TV reports a police spokesperson says the gunfire stemmed from two men in a crowd who got into an argument, pulled out guns and started shooting.
May 22, 2021 4:25 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A Michigan man has pleaded guilty to hacking a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employee database, stealing the personal information of more than 65,000 people and then selling the information online. The Tribune-Review reports that Justin Johnson is being held at Butler County Prison and will be sentenced in four months. Johnson pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of conspiracy and one count of aggravated identity theft. According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Melucci, investigators found that Johnson used his expertise in the PeopleSoft software to gain access to the database. He then sold the information on the dark web. Johnson was arrested last year in Detroit.
May 22, 2021 4:23 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate and payrolls remained virtually the same in April. State figures released Friday show Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point to 7.4%. That was more than a whole point above the national rate of 6.1% in April. In a survey of households, the labor force remained virtually the same, at just below 6.34 million. The state hit a record high labor force of almost 6.6 million just before the pandemic. In a separate survey of employers, payrolls in Pennsylvania slid in April by 4,400, to below 5.67 million. Pennsylvania has regained about 60% of the 1.1 million jobs lost in the pandemic.
May 22, 2021 4:22 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – A senior adviser to Donald Trump is taking to Twitter to stress that the former president has made no endorsement of anyone to become governor of Pennsylvania. Thursday’s statement by the adviser, Jason Miller, comes a day after a Republican state senator said that Trump had asked him to run for governor in 2022 and promised to campaign for him. Miller, on Twitter, reiterated that Trump “has not made any endorsement or commitments yet” in the race. The state senator, Doug Mastriano, hasn’t declared his candidacy. However, Lou Barletta, the Republican Party’s Trump-endorsed nominee for U.S. Senate in 2018, has declared his candidacy for governor.
May 21, 2021 2:53 am
TOKYO (AP) – The IOC and local Tokyo Olympic organizers are wrapping up three days of planning meetings just two months before the postponed games are to open. Much of the focus is on persuading a skeptical public and medical community that the games should go ahead. The problem is that 60 to 80 percent of people in Japan, depending how the question is asked in public opinion polls, don’t want the Olympics to open in the middle of a pandemic despite repeated assurances from organizers that games will be “safe and secure.” The Olympics open on July 23 followed by the Paralympics on August 24.
