June 22, 2020 4:09 am
TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) – NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace says a noose found in his garage stall at Talladega in Alabama “will not break me.” Wallace is the only Black driver in the elite Cup Series, and just two weeks ago he successfully pushed the stock car series to ban the Confederate flag at its venues. NASCAR has launched an investigation.
June 22, 2020 4:08 am
NEW YORK (AP) – Joel Shumacher, who shepherded the so-called”Brat Pack” to the big screen in “St. Elmo’s Fire” and directed two 1990s-era “Batman” films, has died. A representative says the director died Monday at 80 after a year-long battle with cancer. Schumacher’s credits included “The Lost Boys” and “Batman Forever,” “Batman & Robin,” “A Time to Kill” and “Flatliners.” Though Schumacher’s “Batman” films were trashed by critics and have been endlessly mocked, they’ve achieved cult status in later years as entertaining, self-aware, and playful offshoots of the Batman mythology in the spirit of Bob Kane.
June 22, 2020 4:07 am
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Teenagers, TikTok users and Korean pop music fans may have trolled the president of the United States. For more than a week before Donald Trump’s first campaign rally in three months on Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, these tech-savvy groups have been mobilizing to reserve tickets for an event they had no intention of attending. While it’s unlikely they were responsible for the low turnout, their antics may have inflated the campaign’s expectations for attendance numbers. Democrat Joe Biden’s campaign says the turnout was a sign of weakening voter support. The Trump campaign blamed the “fake news media” for “warning people away from the rally” because of the coronavirus.
June 22, 2020 4:02 am
SCOTT TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) – Authorities say a woman and two men trying to get a car started in western Pennsylvania were struck by another car, sending four people to hospitals in critical condition. Allegheny County police say the crash happened at about 4:45 p.m. Saturday in Scott Township. Investigators said a subcompact car was heading south on Noblestown Road when it struck the 37-year-old woman, her 70-year-old father and his 61-year-old friend as the two men were working on the battery of the woman’s car. Authorities said the three and the 47-year-old female driver of the subcompact car were transported to hospitals in critical condition.
June 22, 2020 4:01 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – August Wilson is going Hollywood, after a fashion. The famed playwright from Pittsburgh will be honored with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles. Wilson was among the Hollywood Walk of Fame’s 2021 honorees announced last week. With ceremonies on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, however, even some 2020 honorees are still awaiting their Hollywood moment. August Wilson wrote mostly about the 20th-century African-American experience from growing up in Pittsburgh’s historically black Hill District
June 22, 2020 3:58 am
SOUTH FAYETTE, Pa. — (WPXI) – A man was found unconscious and severely beaten in South Fayette Sunday morning, police said. Investigators said 911 was called around 7:30 a.m. for a report of a 58-year-old man who was found unconscious in the 300 block of Ridgepoint Circle. Police said he appeared to be severely beaten and was taken to an area hospital in critical condition. The victim’s identity has not been released. Police said a woman stepped outside to walk her dog and found the man on the sidewalk. Homicide detectives were taking over the investigation, police said. Anyone with information on what happened is asked to call the police tip line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.
June 22, 2020 3:56 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — (WPXI) – A Uniontown police officer and another person were injured in a crash in Fayette County Sunday evening, according to our partners at Channel 11. 911 dispatchers said the crash happened along East Fayette Street at 5:45 p.m. The officer was reportedly flown to a hospital in Morgantown, West Virgina. Police say a bystander helped pull the officer from his cruiser when it caught fire. The other person injured in the crash was taken to a hospital by ambulance, 911 dispatchers confirm.
June 21, 2020 7:56 am
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Spain opened its borders to European tourists on Sunday in a bid to kickstart its vital tourism economy, but Brazil and South Africa reported record new levels of coronavirus infections. At a campaign rally, President Donald Trump questioned the value of testing for the virus, telling his government to reduce U.S. testing to avoid unflattering statistics. The head of the World Health Organization has warned the virus’s global spread is accelerating after a daily high of 150,000 new cases was reported last week. At a campaign rally in Tulsa, Trump said Saturday he has told his administration to slow down virus testing. He said the United States has tested 25 million people, but the “bad part” is that found more cases.
June 21, 2020 7:55 am
BEIJING (AP) – China’s top lawmaking body has announced a three-day session for the end of this month, a move that raises the possibility of the enactment of a national security law for Hong Kong that has stirred debate and fears in the semi-autonomous territory. The official Xinhua News Agency said Sunday that the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress would meet from June 28 to 30 in Beijing. The Xinhua report did not mention the Hong Kong security law among several possible discussion items, but it could still be on the agenda or added to it at the meeting.
June 21, 2020 7:53 am
TULSA, Okla. (AP) – President Donald Trump’s supporters faced off with protesters shouting “Black Lives Matter” in Tulsa as the president held his first campaign rally in months amid public health concerns about the coronavirus and fears that the event could lead to violence in the wake of killings of Black people by police. Activists flooded the city’s downtown streets and briefly blocked traffic at an intersection, but police reported just one arrest as of Saturday afternoon. Later in the evening, a group of armed men began following the protesters. When the protesters blocked an intersection, a man wearing a Trump shirt got out of a truck and spattered them with pepper spray. Police later deployed an irritant gas to try and make the group disperse.
