May 15, 2021 4:21 am
JERUSALEM (AP) – An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City has killed at least seven Palestinians. The airstrike early Saturday in the western part of Gaza City recorded the highest number of fatalities in a single hit. The militant group Hamas reported the number is likely to rise as efforts to recover casualties from under the rubble of the house on the edge of Shati refugee camp are still ongoing. There is no immediate update from the Health Ministry. A resident nearby says Israeli warplanes dropped at least three bombs on the three-story house without warning its residents in advance. Shortly afterward, Hamas said it fired a salvo of rockets at southern Israel in response to the airstrike.
May 15, 2021 4:16 am
PITTSBURGH — An Ambridge teen is dead nearly two years after he was shot at a Fourth of July celebration in Pittsburgh. Keyari Wynn, 18, was 16 when he and another teen were shot just one hour after Pittsburgh’s fireworks show in 2019 as crowds were leaving. Police said a fight among a group of kids over previously released rap videos turned violent near the corner of 7th Street and Penn Avenue in the Cultural District. Wynn was shot in the head during the incident. He died Friday at UPMC Children’s Hospital. Investigators said Camerin Caldwell turned himself in to police more than a week after the shooting. Caldwell, 18 at the time, faces two counts of criminal attempt homicide, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of reckless endangerment and firearms violations. Caldwell has a court hearing scheduled for Tuesday. His charges could change now that Wynn died.
May 15, 2021 1:26 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is easing mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, allowing them to stop wearing masks outdoors in crowds and in most indoor settings. The new guidance announced Thursday is a major step toward returning to pre-pandemic life. President Joe Biden said, “Today is a great day for America.” The new guidance still calls for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings like buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters, but it will help clear the way for reopening workplaces and schools. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky says: “We have all longed for this moment – when we can get back to some sense of normalcy.”
May 15, 2021 1:16 am
One person was killed and another injured in a fatal accident early Thursday evening in South Strabane Township. The Washington County Coroner’s Office says nineteen-year-old Caleb Jackson of Washington was killed when his motorcycle collided with a vehicle on East Maiden Street near the Interstate 79 South off-ramp just before six o’clock. A female passenger on his bike, who has not been identified, was taken to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh where she underwent surgery. There has been no word on her condition. There was also no information released on the driver of the other vehicle. State Police are continuing to investigate the crash. (Photo: Facebook)
May 14, 2021 4:27 am
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Police in Rhode Island’s capital said nine people have been wounded in a shooting. Providence Police Chief Col. Hugh T. Clements told reporters Thursday evening that three of the nine were seriously or critically wounded. Clements believed the shooting was the largest in city history. It took place in the southeastern neighborhood of Washington Park just before 7 p.m. No arrests have been made. Clements stressed the investigation was in its early stages. He also said multiple guns were used. Witnesses at the scene said shots were fired outside a home.
May 14, 2021 4:25 am
President Joe Biden is scheduled to meet Friday with six immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children who benefited from an Obama-era policy that protected them from deportation. The Oval Office meeting comes as Biden looks to press Congress to pass legislation codifying the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that then-President Barack Obama instituted by executive action in 2012. President Donald Trump tried to phase out DACA during his administration, but the Supreme Court ruled he didn’t properly end the program. The DACA recipients Biden is scheduled to meet with include teachers, a medical resident and a nursing home aide.
May 14, 2021 4:23 am
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel says it is massing troops along the Gaza frontier and calling up 9,000 reservists ahead of a possible ground invasion of the Hamas-ruled territory. Egyptian mediators rushed to Israel for cease-fire efforts but showed no signs of progress. The stepped-up fighting came as communal violence in Israel erupted for a fourth night. Jewish and Arab mobs clashed in the flashpoint town of Lod. The fighting took place despite a bolstered police presence ordered by the nation’s leaders. The four-day burst of violence is the most intense fighting Israel has ever had with Hamas. It has also sparked the worst Jewish-Arab violence inside Israel in decades.
May 14, 2021 4:07 am
Jury deliberations are underway in the trial for Chris Williams, the 55 year old Waynesburg man charged with aggravated assault for the shooting of 17 year old Anthony Ward at the Regal Cinemas at the Washington Crown Center in March of 2019. The defense called on Williams’ wife and her friend that accompanied Williams to the movie that night. Testimony was emotional and contradictory to everything presented by the prosecution. Closing arguments were held after a lunch break. Defense attorney Alexander Lindsay indicated that the case was about two narratives. He stated that Williams’ recollection of the facts that he was the victim was true because of all of the emotion that filled his and his wife’s testimony. The teenagers involved could not be believed because they are “not like individuals that you and I know”. The prosecution countered in their closing argument stating that Williams’ behavior was completely unhinged and called the defense an “unmitigated disaster”. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Patrick Schulte described for jurors, line by line, of each charge how the prosecution’s witnesses presented evidence to convict Williams on each of the aggravated assault charges he faces. Jurors deliberated for four hours on Thursday. Deliberations resume at 9:00 am Friday.
May 14, 2021 2:42 am
Officials with the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced Thursday that the state’s mask order is now in line with the CDC’s guidance issued earlier in the day. The CDC guidelines that fully vaccinated people do not need to wear a face covering while indoors or outdoors is now automatically in effect in Pennsylvania. This only applies to fully vaccinated people. Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam said in a news release. Masks are still required for unvaccinated people until 70% of Pennsylvanians age 18 and older are fully vaccinated. State officials said the CDC’s guidance says fully vaccinated individuals can resume activities that they did prior to the pandemic without wearing a mask or physically distancing except where required by law, rule and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance.
May 14, 2021 2:35 am
Authorities are investigating a death Thursday afternoon around one-thirty at the Washington County Correctional Facility as a possible suicide. The Washington County Coroner’s Office says 53 year old Gregory Roddy of New Derry, Pa. was found unresponsive in a cell during a regular check by a corrections officer. They say the individual was transported to Washington Hospital and was pronounced dead in the emergency department. The coroner’s office says the cause and manner of death are pending.
