January 29, 2024 5:01 am
CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois election board is scheduled to consider whether to keep Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot after a recommendation that he be removed over the Constitution’s insurrection provision. The meeting of the Illinois State Board of Elections comes a little more than a week before the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a similar case from Colorado, where the state’s highest court found the 14th amendment barred Trump from the ballot over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Illinois election board is split evenly between Democrats and Republicans. If the vote is tied, the effort fails and Trump’s name would remain on the ballot.
January 29, 2024 5:01 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has supervised test-firings of cruise missiles designed to be launched from submarines and also reviewed efforts to build a nuclear-powered submarine. The reports say those activities came as Kim reiterated his goal of building a nuclear-armed navy to counter what he portrays as growing external threats. The reports Monday came a day after South Korea’s military said it detected North Korea firing multiple cruise missiles over waters near the eastern port of Sinpo, where the North has a major shipyard developing submarines. It was the latest in a streak of weapons demonstrations by North Korea amid increasing tensions with the United States, South Korea and Japan.
January 29, 2024 4:58 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — An enemy drone that killed three American troops and wounded dozens of others in Jordan may have been confused with an American drone returning to the U.S. installation. That’s according to two U.S. officials who were not authorized to comment and insisted on anonymity Monday. The officials say preliminary information suggests the enemy drone that struck the installation known as Tower 22 may have been mistaken for an American drone that was in the air at the same time. The officials add that as the enemy drone was flying in at a low altitude, a U.S. drone was returning to base. As a result, there was no effort to shoot down the enemy drone.
January 29, 2024 4:57 am
JENIN, West Bank (AP) — Israeli undercover forces dressed as women and medical workers have stormed a hospital in the occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinian militants. The raid underscored the spillover of deadly violence to the territory during the war in Gaza. The Palestinian Health Ministry condemned Tuesday’s incursion on the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin. The military said the militants were using the hospital as a hideout and that one was planning an attack. Meanwhile, Qatar, Egypt and the United States are working to strike a deal between Israel and Hamas that might lead to a pause in fighting and the release of hostages held in Gaza.
January 29, 2024 4:55 am
A Waynesburg woman was was pronounced dead following a one-vehicle crash early Saturday morning in Jefferson Township. The Greene County Coroner’s office says 44 year old Jennifer Caldwell was pronounced dead in a field just off of State Route 21. She was ejected from the vehicle. There were no other occupants in the vehicle. A cause and manner of death are pending. No other information is being released at this time as the investigation continues.
January 29, 2024 4:51 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – One person was rescued from flood waters near the Mon Wharf as the rivers continue to rise and are expected to crest later in the day on Monday. Police, firefighters and medics were called to the wharf just before 9:30 p.m. Sunday. They found several tents from a homeless camp surrounded by water. Crews rescued one man with a ladder. He was not injured. River Rescue divers continued to search the area and waded through the flood waters to check the remaining tents. No other people were found. The Mon Wharf was initially closed on Thursday because of a flood advisory. The River Rescue team also traveled around Point State Park and along the Allegheny River and found two people. They did not need to be rescued. All three people were taken to a shelter until the water levels fall.
January 29, 2024 4:47 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Two men accused of racing on a public highway in western Pennsylvania have been ordered to stand trial on charges in a crash involving a school van that left a teenage girl dead. Three other students and two adults were also injured in the Sept. 20 crash in Dravosburg. An Allegheny County judge on Friday upheld all 15 counts against 43-year-old William Soliday II, including homicide. She dismissed the only felony charge against 37-year-old Andrew Voigt and a charge of failing to stop and render aid, but held for court other charges including reckless endangering. Defense attorneys say there is no evidence that their clients were racing.
January 29, 2024 4:43 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court says a lower court must hear a challenge to the constitutionality of a decades-old state law that limits the use of state Medicaid dollars to cover the cost of abortions. Monday’s 3-2 decision overturns the lower court’s ruling and puts aside an earlier state Supreme Court decision. The high court’s majority said Monday that prior court decisions did not fully consider the breadth of state constitutional protections against discrimination. The lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood and other operators of abortion clinics says the law unconstitutionally discriminates against poor women. Abortion is legal in Pennsylvania under state law through 23 weeks of pregnancy.
January 28, 2024 6:26 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s security service says employees from an arms firm conspired with defense ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy mortar shells for the war with Russi. The SBU said late Saturday that five people have been charged and the money has been recovered. The investigation comes as Kyiv clamps down on corruption in an attempt to speed up its membership in the European Union and NATO. Officials from both blocs have demanded widespread anti-graft reforms before Kyiv can join them.
January 28, 2024 6:22 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. negotiators are making progress on a potential agreement in which Israel would pause military operations against Hamas in Gaza for two months in exchange for the release of more than 100 hostages who were captured in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. That’s according to two senior administration officials who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive talks. The yet-to-be sealed deal would play out over two phases. In the first phase, fighting would stop to allow for the remaining women, elderly and wounded hostages to be released by Hamas. Israel and Hamas would then aim to work out details during the first 30 days of the pause for a second phase in which Israeli soldiers and civilian men would be released.
