June 4, 2020 4:05 am
NEW YORK (AP) – New York City police say a confrontation in Brooklyn has left one police officer stabbed in the neck, two officers with gunshot wounds to their hands and another man shot by police. The bloodshed happened late Wednesday, about four hours after an 8 p.m. curfew that was intended to quell unrest over the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. Police say none of the officers’ wounds was life-threatening. The condition of the man shot by officers was not released. Police didn’t immediately say how the confrontation started. The city has been roiled by protests over police brutality, but no protest was in the area at the time.
June 4, 2020 4:01 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Philadelphia will be under curfew again for a fifth straight night, as Gov. Tom Wolf marched in Harrisburg with demonstrators protesting police violence against black people and racial injustice following the killing of George Floyd. Wolf, with officials from Harrisburg, marched from the Capitol steps to a community center and museum parking lot about a mile away as demonstrators chanted. Demonstrations on Tuesday night and elsewhere around Pennsylvania were largely peaceful, unlike the previous few nights. In Philadelphia, where Wolf dispatched the National Guard and Pennsylvania State Police to support police officers, city officials ordered a curfew for a fifth straight night, from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m. Thursday.
June 3, 2020 6:07 pm
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Contemporary Christian singer Amy Grant has had open heart surgery to fix a heart condition she has had since birth. A publicist for the singer says doctors discovered the condition during a routine checkup. Grant is married to country singer Vince Gill and is a six-time Grammy winner with hits like “Baby, Baby,” and “That’s What Love is For.”
June 3, 2020 3:58 pm
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Prosecutors have charged a Minneapolis police officer accused of pressing his knee against George Floyd’s neck with second-degree murder, and for the first time are leveling charges against three other officers. Bystander video showing Floyd’s May 25 death has sparked protests nationwide and around the world. The officer, Derek Chauvin, was fired May 26 and initially charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Three other officers were also fired but weren’t immediately charged. Attorney General Keith Ellison on Wednesday charged the other three officers with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter. Floyd’s family and protesters have demanded that all four be charged.
June 3, 2020 1:52 pm
Firefighters from North Strabane Township were called out around eleven-thirty Wednesday morning to reports of a fire on the roof of the Doubletree Hotel on Racetrack Road. North Strabane Assistant Fire Chief Rich Yosi tells WJPA News that the fire started when an electrical unit on the building’s HVAC unit caught fire. Yosi says the fire burned a small, four-foot section of the roof and sent some smoke into the lobby. He says the building was briefly evacuated but firefighters had everything under control quickly and were only on the scene for about an hour and a half. There were no reports of any injuries.
June 3, 2020 4:09 am
(AP) – Researchers say that a malaria drug President Donald Trump took to try to prevent COVID-19 proved ineffective for that in the first large, high-quality study to test it in health workers and others closely exposed to people with the disease. Results published Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine show that hydroxychloroquine was no better than placebo pills at preventing illness from the coronavirus. The study involved 821 people in the U.S. or Canada who took the drug or placebo pills for five days. Two weeks later, illness rates were similar in both groups.
June 3, 2020 4:08 am
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – President Donald Trump says he is seeking a new state to host the Republican National Convention after North Carolina refused to guarantee the event could be held in Charlotte without restrictions because of ongoing concerns over the coronavirus. Trump tweeted the news Tuesday night, complaining that the state’s governor, Democrat Roy Cooper, and other officials “refuse to guarantee that we can have use of the Spectrum Arena” and are not “allowing us to occupy the arena as originally anticipated and promised.” Trump and the Republican National Committee had been demanding that the convention be allowed to move forward with a full crowd and no face coverings.
June 3, 2020 4:07 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Army says Defense Secretary Mark Esper has overturned an earlier decision to send a couple hundred active-duty soldiers home from the Washington, D.C., region. The decision Wednesday comes amid growing tensions between the White House and the Pentagon over the military response to the protests. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy tells The Associated Press that the decision came after Esper attended a meeting at the White House, and after other internal Pentagon discussions. He says he believes the change was based on ensuring there is enough military support in the region to respond to any protest problems if needed.
June 3, 2020 4:06 am
NEW YORK (AP) – An 8 p.m. curfew didn’t stop thousands of defiant demonstrators from marching through the streets of New York City throughout the night though some of the repant destruction seen over the last few nights was quelleed. Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday had doubled down on a citywide curfew, moving it up from 11 p.m. the night before. He rejected urging from President Donald Trump and an offer from Gov. Andrew Cuomo to bring in the National Guard. People marched in groups of thousands in parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn throughout the night Tuesday. Just after midnight Wednesday, most of the city’s streets were cleared aside from police patrolling, especially in hot-spot areas for demonstrations.
June 3, 2020 4:01 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania held a primary election amid civil unrest, a pandemic, the introduction of new voting machines in 22 counties and the debut of mail-in balloting that pushed county election bureaus to their limits. Polls closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Long lines were reported in Philadelphia, where polling places were dramatically consolidated, while two suburban Philadelphia counties won court decisions to extend counting of mail-in ballots. The result of the highest-profile contest on the ballot was a foregone conclusion: President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, uncontested for their party’s nominations, both won their primary Tuesday in Pennsylvania. County officials otherwise warned that many contest results would be delayed well past election night.
