August 17, 2020 8:46 am
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Videos posted online appear to show a man punched and kicked unconscious by demonstrators just blocks away from a peaceful protest in Portland, Oregon. News outlets report the man had been driving a truck that crashed downtown Sunday night. Afterward, the man is seen sitting in the street. He appears to be punched and kicked in the head by demonstrators. A police spokesperson told The Oregonian that the man was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. A peaceful protest took place blocks away outside a U.S. courthouse. Demonstrations, often violent, have happened nightly in Portland for more than two months following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
August 17, 2020 6:25 am
A McDonald man was killed in an ATV crash Sunday afternoon. The Washington County Coroner’s office says 70 year old Angelo Quaresima was pronounced dead just after 1:30 p.m. A cause and manner of death are pending. The crash occurred on private property near Swihart Road in Cecil Township. Police say Quaresima was operating a side-by-side ATV and lost control. He was not wearing a seatbelt. Cecil Township police continue to investigate.
August 17, 2020 4:25 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Joe Biden will accept the Democratic presidential nomination in a live speech Thursday night, but he’ll be seen and heard every night of the convention in some form. Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez tells The Associated Press on Monday that Biden will be part of the virtual convention’s prime-time programming leading up to his Thursday address. For example, Perez said Monday’s programming will include Biden talking with activists about criminal justice reform. During traditional conventions, the nominee is often mentioned from the speaker’s podium but is largely shielded from view as the convention builds to the acceptance speech on Thursday night.
August 17, 2020 4:23 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A rare summer thunderstorm brought lightning that sparked several small blazes in Northern California on Sunday and stoked a huge forest fire that has forced hundreds of people from their homes north of Los Angeles. More than 4,500 buildings remained threatened by the largest fire on Sunday, which was burning toward thick, dry brush in the Angeles National Forest. In Northern California, a thunderstorm moving rapidly from the Pacific Ocean onshore brought thunder, lightning and strong winds that knocked out power across the San Francisco Bay Area. Unsettling weather also caused a fire-induced tornado at an out-of-control forest fire that broke out north of Lake Tahoe.
August 17, 2020 4:23 am
(AP) – Officials at universities around the United States are scrambling to deal with COVID-19 clusters at the start of the fall semester. Nearly two dozen cases were reported at Oklahoma State University after maskless students packed into a nightclub, and off-campus parties have been blamed for cases at Notre Dame.
August 17, 2020 4:18 am
The Peters Township Police Department announced on their Facebook Page that they are investigating two reports of a white male in loose running shorts, possibly in his 30’s, exposing himself in Peterswood Park or near the Arrowhead Trail. If this type of behavior, or any other type of suspicious activity is observed, please call 9-1-1 immediately. The police have the best chance of stopping this by responding without delay, to hopefully encounter this person while they are still in the area. If it can be done so safely, a clothing description and direction of travel will help police in their efforts. Again, please call immediately if this behavior is observed.
August 17, 2020 4:16 am
CHEAT LAKE, W.Va. (AP) – A West Virginia official says seven people were injured in a boat explosion. Lawrence Messina of the state Division of Natural Resources says the Crownline watercraft had just refueled at Edgewater Marina on Cheat Lake Sunday evening when the operator tried to start the engine and the explosion occurred. Those injured suffered burns. Messina told WDTV that eight people were on the boat. The agency is investigating.
August 17, 2020 4:15 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – The mayor of Pittsburgh is strongly condemning tactics used in the arrest of a protester during a march over the weekend that drew condemnation from the American Civil Liberties Union and others. Mayor Bill Peduto said he was “livid” after seeing images of the arrest and “will never tolerate these tactics being used at peaceful protests again.” On Sunday, Peduto said he had “serious concerns” after plainclothes officers arrested a protester at about 5 p.m. Saturday in Oakland and placed him in an unmarked, white van. After Peduto’s remarks Sunday, about 150 protesters marched to his house and demonstrated there. (Photo: WPXI)
August 17, 2020 2:31 am
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (WPXI) — The Pa. Department of Health removed five states from its COVID-19 travel advisory list on Friday. If you have traveled, or plan to travel, to an area where there are high amounts of coronavirus cases, it is recommended that you stay at home for 14 days upon return to Pennsylvania. The states that were removed are Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina, Utah and Wisconsin. Since those states are no longer considered to be “hot spots,” the state health department said quarantining is not necessary after returning to Pennsylvania.
August 16, 2020 7:41 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Telephone service between the United Arab Emirates and Israel has begun as the two countries opened diplomatic ties. Associated Press journalists in Jerusalem and Dubai were able to call each other from both landline and cellular phones on Sunday. Officials in Israel and the UAE did not immediately acknowledge the lines had begun working. Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced Thursday they are establishing full diplomatic relations in a U.S.-brokered deal that required Israel to halt its contentious plan to annex occupied West Bank land sought by the Palestinians.
