June 2, 2021 4:10 am
PITTSBURGH (WPXI) – Two winning tickets split a Pennsylvania Lottery Cash 5 with Quick Cash jackpot worth $500,000 from the Friday drawing. Each ticket matched all five balls drawn, 11-13-30-41-43, to win $250,000 each, less withholding. The Giant Eagle at 5055 Library Road in Bethel Park and Fischer’s New Brighton Foodland at 415 9th St. in New Brighton, Beaver County each will receive a $500 bonus for selling the winning tickets that split the jackpot. Winners can be identified only after prizes are claimed and tickets validated. A main Cash 5 game prize must be claimed within one year of the drawing date. Anyone holding a jackpot-winning Cash 5 with Quick Cash ticket should contact the nearest Lottery office for further instructions or call 1-800-692-7481.
June 2, 2021 4:07 am
ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – Two teenagers involved in a fight that ended in gunshots inside Ross Park Mall on Saturday are now facing gun charges. According to our partners at Channel 11, the two 17-year-old boys are being charged with illegal possession of a firearm by a person under the age of 21, along with other crimes. However, the teens are not charged with firing the guns because none of the witnesses interviewed said they saw the guns being fired. The fight broke out on the second floor of the mall around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday near Guest Services. Ross Police Department Det. Brian Kohlhepp said the fight involved as many as six people. At some point during the scuffle, guns were pulled out and several shots were fired. Three guns were recovered during the investigation. The mall was put on lockdown, shoppers went running for the exits, and employees shuffled others into back rooms and closets to stay safe. Luckily, there were no injuries.
June 1, 2021 5:49 pm
A medical helicopter was called to the scene of an accident Tuesday morning in Cecil Township. Washington County 9-1-1 tells WJPA News that the head-on crash occurred just before nine-thirty at Muse-Bishop Road and Oakbrooke Drive. Dispatchers say one female was trapped in a vehicle and two other individuals were evaulated at the scene. They say multiple emergency responders were called to the scene but there’s been no word on the extent of the injuries or what may have led to the crash.
June 1, 2021 2:55 pm
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has confirmed that he is personally liable for $700 million in loans taken by his coal companies. The loans were taken out from a lender in the United Kingdom that went bankrupt in March. Justice blamed the lender, Greensill Capital U.K., at a news conference on Tuesday. The Republican governor’s coal company, Bluestone Resources Inc., sued the lender after it went under over allegations of fraud. Justice says the loans were acquired to rebuild Bluestone after a period of decline. The Roanoke, Virginia-based company is involved in mining metallurgical grade coal used for steel making.
June 1, 2021 4:24 am
An Avella man was killed in a motorcycle crash Monday afternoon. The Washington County Coroner’s office says 43 year old Chester Lesjak was pronounced dead following the crash on Meadowcroft Road. His motorcycle collided with another vehicle. Lesjak was not wearing a helmet. State Police are investigating.
June 1, 2021 4:10 am
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is plunging Florida deeper into the culture wars. With a stroke of his pen on Tuesday, Florida is now the latest state to bar transgender girls and women from playing on public school teams intended for student athletes born as girls. The measure DeSantis signed at a Christian school was approved by the GOP-led Legislature. Starting July 1, a transgender student athlete can’t participate without first showing a birth certificate saying she was a girl when she was born. Critics call the new law hateful and are preparing to challenge it in court.
June 1, 2021 4:09 am
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Tropical Storm Blanca has gained some strength in the eastern Pacific while staying far off Mexico’s southern coast and posing no threat to land. Blanca had winds of about 60 mph (95 kph) late Monday and the U.S. National Hurricane Center says it is expected to reach its peak intensity by Tuesday before beginning to weaken while move farther into the Pacific. Blanca is the second named storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane season. The first named storm in the eastern Pacific, Andres, formed May 9 off the southwestern coast of Mexico, though it quickly dissipated.
June 1, 2021 4:08 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of a massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that wiped out a thriving Black community. On Tuesday, Biden grieved for the more than 300 Black people killed at the hands of a white mob a century ago. The visit comes amid an ongoing national reckoning on racial justice. Biden was the first president to be part of the remembrances of what happened in what used to be known as “Black Wall Street.” On May 31 and June 1 in 1921, white residents and civil society leaders looted and burned to the ground Tulsa’s Greenwood district. (Photo: CNN)
June 1, 2021 4:06 am
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority. The revised criminal law section of the Vatican’s Code of Canon Law also says that lay people who hold church office, such as a Catholic school principal, can be sanctioned for sex abuse crimes. The new provisions were released Tuesday after 14 years of study. The most significant changes aim to address major problems and shortcomings in the church’s handling of sexual abuse. The law recognizes that adults, too, can be victimized by priests who abuse their authority, and said that lay people in church offices can be punished for abusing minors as well as adults.
June 1, 2021 4:06 am
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A dramatic late-night walkout in the Texas Capitol that blocked sweeping new voting restrictions is giving Democrats a boost of morale after months of racking up losses in GOP-controlled statehouses around the country. The Texas Legislature officially adjourned Monday hours after Democrats walked off the floor of the House chamber to deny a vote on a sweeping bill that would shorten polling hours and scale back polling places. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott was expected to sign the bill and says he’ll call a special session to finish the job. The meltdown of the Texas bill was a rare victory for Democrats in a year that has seen more than a dozen states enact new laws tightening voting restrictions.
