September 8, 2025 5:09 am
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin in the trial of a man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump while he played golf last year in South Florida. The court has blocked off four weeks for the trial of Ryan Routh, but attorneys are expecting they’ll need less time. Jury selection is expected to start on Monday and take three days, with opening statements planned for Thursday. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has signed off on Routh’s request to represent himself but said court-appointed attorneys need to remain as standby counsel. Prosecutors have said Routh methodically plotted to kill Trump for weeks before aiming a rifle through the shrubbery as Trump played golf at his West Palm Beach country club.
September 8, 2025 5:06 am
JERUSALEM (AP) — Paramedics said at least five people were killed in a shooting attack in Jerusalem after attackers opened fire at a bus stop at a busy intersection in north Jerusalem. It was the country’s deadliest shooting attack in nearly a year. Paramedics said at least 12 other people were injured in the Monday morning attack, with six in serious condition. Police said a security officer and civilian who were at the scene shot and killed the two attackers soon after the attack began. The war in Gaza has sparked a surge of violence in both the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel. Palestinian militants have attacked and killed Israelis in Israel and the West Bank, while there has also been a rise in settler violence against Palestinians.
September 8, 2025 4:58 am
UNION TOWNSHIP — A fatal motorcycle crash Sunday in Union Township. The Washington County Coroner’s Office says 42 year old Albert Swoager Jr. of New Eagle was pronounced dead at the scene along State Route 88 at Airport Road. The Coroner says he was traveling south when he lost control while attempting to negotiate a curve and struck a guide rail. He was not wearing a helmet. A passing motorist reported the accident to Washington County 911 just before 4 p.m. Monongahela police are investigating.
September 8, 2025 1:56 am
Police in Canonsburg say they have made an arrest in connection with the shooting death over the weekend of 25-year-old Brady Paul. Police say Paul was at a friend’s home for a party in the 500 block of Giffin Avenue late Saturday night around eleven-thirty when the shooting occurred. Authorities say his friend, who has not been identified, sought help from a neighbor who called 911. During a Monday afternoon press conference, Police say the suspect, 20-year-old Kristopher Moorehouse of Canonsburg turned himself in on Monday and was arraigned later that afternoon on a homicide charge. Police say Paul was found dead on the front porch of the home. A gun was found lying inside the foyer, and another was on the floor of the living room. Court paperwork says Moorehouse went to a local creek to wash off the blood, then went to his mother’s house, where he asked the woman he was with to drive him to Parkersburg, West Virginia. That woman told police, on the way there, Moorehouse confessed to shooting Paul. (Photo: WPXI)
September 7, 2025 8:00 pm
MONONGAHELA, PA (WPXI) – One person was injured, another taken into custody after a stabbing at a youth football event at Ringgold High School’s Joe Montana Stadium Sunday afternoon. A 911 supervisor said a 19-year-old man was injured. Washington County 911 dispatchers say that police, fire and medics were called were dispatched shortly after 1:30 pm. Neither the victim, nor the person in custody was identified. The police investigation is continuing.
September 7, 2025 3:25 pm
Police are investigating a shooting that occurred Saturday night just after eleven-thirty in the 500 block of Giffin Avenue in Canonsburg. Washington County Coroner Tim Warco says 25-year-old Brady Hugh Paul of Canonsburg was shot while at a friend’s house. Warco says his friend sought help from a neighbor who called 911. No further information has been made available.
September 7, 2025 8:11 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The American job market, a pillar of U.S. economic strength since the pandemic, is crumbling under the weight of President Donald Trump’s erratic economic policies. Uncertain about where things are headed, companies are reluctant to hire, leaving agonized jobseekers unable to find work and worrying the consumers (70% of U.S. economic activity) whose spending has driven impressive growth for the world’s biggest economy since the COVID-19 disruptions of 2020. The Labor Department reported Friday that U.S. employers — companies, government agencies and nonprofits — added just 22,000 jobs last month, down from a 79,000 in July and well below the 80,000 that economists had expected. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3% last month, the highest since 2021.
September 7, 2025 8:05 am
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — A man in his 50s has died after a shark attack near Sydney, Australia. Emergency crews responded to Long Reef Beach on Saturday morning after reports of critical injuries. The man was brought to shore but died at the scene. Police have closed the beach and are working with wildlife experts to identify the shark species. Nearby beaches are also closed. Witnesses say two surfers brought the victim ashore, and family members rushed to the scene. Surf Life Saving NSW has deployed a drone to monitor shark activity. This is the first shark attack in New South Wales this year.
September 7, 2025 8:04 am
(AP) – The U.N. postal agency says postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after a Trump administration move to end a tariff exemption for low-cost imports. The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling out new measures that can help postal operators around the world calculate and collect duties. The U.S. on Aug. 29 eliminated an exemption that had allowed U.S.-bound parcels valued at $800 or less to avoid customs charges. The UPU says 88 national postal operators have suspended some or all postal services to the U.S. as a result.
September 7, 2025 8:03 am
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Powerball players in Missouri and Texas have won the estimated $1.8 billion jackpot, overcoming astronomical odds to end the lottery game’s three-month drought without a big winner. The winning numbers were 11, 23, 44, 61, and 62, with the Powerball number being 17. The prize, which was the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot in history, followed 41 consecutive drawings in which no one matched all six numbers. The last drawing with a jackpot winner happened May 31. Powerball’s terrible odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to generate big jackpots, with prizes growing as they roll over when no one wins. (Photo: AP)
