June 12, 2025 3:27 pm
(WPXI) ARNOLD, Pa. — An Arnold woman is facing charges after investigators say an infant in her care tested positive for drugs twice. The Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office says the infant tested positive for methamphetamine and THC in April. After that, investigators tried to question Ariana Carter, 33, multiple times, but were unable to do so. The infant then tested positive for methamphetamine, THC and Benadryl in May. At that point, the DA’s office says county detectives executed a search warrant at Carter’s home, taking syringes, two meth smoking pipes, two marijuana smoking pipes and other drug paraphernalia related to smoking marijuana. Carter is now charged with endangering the welfare of children and possession of drug paraphernalia. The infant is no longer in her care.
June 12, 2025 3:12 pm
(WPXI) PITTSBURGH — Police accuse a Pittsburgh woman of trespassing in Acrisure Stadium and assaulting officers multiple times while being detained. Jacquayla Desje Jackson, 31, is charged with seven counts of aggravated assault, four counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer, public drunkenness, defiant trespassing and related charges in connection with a May 17 incident during Monster Jam. In court records, police say Jackson was seen going through a gate without scanning a ticket and without complying with stadium staff. Jackson reportedly ignored orders from police and continued to walk away toward a locked entrance to the seating area. She pushed an officer who was trying to detain her and was taken to the ground as a result. Jackson proceeded to punch, kick and spit on officers and medics while being detained, police say. After being sedated by medics, Jackson was taken to UPMC Mercy Hospital to be evaluated.
June 12, 2025 5:07 am
GANZHOU, China (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump wants China to lift restrictions on exporting rare earths and other critical minerals that Beijing imposed as part of a years-long trade war. The U.S., and in fact the world, depend on China for the materials. Between 2020 and 2023, China was the source of 70% of U.S. imports of all rare earth compounds, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. China has told exporters of certain key rare earths and other critical minerals to obtain licenses for every shipment abroad. Approvals can take weeks, disrupting supply chains in the U.S. and other countries. China has spent decades building a full industrial chain for mining and processing critical minerals.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s New York sex crimes retrial has come to a disjointed end. The jury foreperson declined to deliberate Thursday, and the judge declared a mistrial on a remaining rape charge. The case has been seen as a bellwether of the #MeToo era. On Wednesday Weinstein was convicted of one of the top charges but acquitted of another. Both concerned accusations of forcing oral sex on women in 2006. Those verdicts still stand. The ex-studio boss faces a third New York trial on the rape count and a new sentencing on his sexual assault conviction. Weinstein denies all the charges. (Photo: AP)
June 11, 2025 1:21 am
(AP) – Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world’s most influential recording artists, has died at 82. Wilson’s family posted news of his death to his website and social media accounts Wednesday. Further details weren’t immediately available. Since May 2024, Wilson had been under a court conservatorship to oversee his personal and medical affairs, with Wilson’s longtime representatives, publicist Jean Sievers and manager LeeAnn Hard, in charge. The eldest and last surviving of three musical brothers — Brian played bass, Carl lead guitar and Dennis drums — he and his fellow Beach Boys rose in the 1960s from local California band to national hit-makers to international ambassadors of surf and sun. Wilson himself was celebrated for his gifts and pitied for his demons. He was one of rock’s great Romantics, a tormented man who in his peak years embarked on an ever-steeper path to aural perfection, the one true sound. (Photo: AP)
June 11, 2025 9:39 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation picked up a bit last month as food costs rose, though overall inflation remained mostly tame. Consumer prices increased 2.4% last month compared to a year ago, according to a Labor Department report released Wednesday. That is up from a 2.3% yearly increase in April. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 2.8% for the third straight month. The figures suggest inflation remains stubbornly above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, which makes it less likely that the central bank will cut its key short-term interest rate.
