May 26, 2020 2:16 am
Shortly before noon on Memorial Day, the 911th Airlift Wing of the Pennsylvania National Guard flew over WHS Washington Hospital as a tribute to honor healthcare professionals and first responders who are on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. The flyovers also took place at several hospitals in Allegheny County as well as Canonsburg General Hospital. (Photo courtesy of WHS/Facebook)
May 25, 2020 3:44 am
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Nearly two weeks ago the White House urged governors to ensure that every nursing home resident and staff member be tested for the coronavirus within 14 days. It’s not going to happen. A review by The Associated Press found that at least half of the states are not going to meet White House’s Monday deadline and many aren’t even bothering to try. Many say the logistics, costs and manpower needs are too great to accomplish the testing goal in a two-week window. Some say they need another week or so, while others say they need much more time.
May 25, 2020 3:43 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House has broadened its travel ban against countries hard-hit by the coronavirus by denying admission to foreigners who have been in Brazil in the two weeks before they sought entry to the U.S. President Donald Trump has now banned travel from China, Europe and the United Kingdom and Ireland. He had said last week that he was considering similar restrictions for Brazil. The restrictions are scheduled to take effect late Thursday. The U.S. leads the world in the number of confirmed cases, followed by Brazil, now Latin America’s hardest-hit country. Third on the list is Russia.
May 25, 2020 3:41 am
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A huge fire that tore through a warehouse on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf has destroyed fishing gear used to deliver about two-thirds of the city’s fresh seafood. Larry Collins, who runs the San Francisco Community Fishing Association, estimates that thousands of crab, shrimp and black cod traps worth up to $5 million were lost in the blaze. With the Dungeness crab season expected to begin in mid-November, crab boat owners were racing to raise $1 million to buy new gear.
May 25, 2020 3:40 am
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern barely skipped a beat when an earthquake struck during a live television interview. She interrupted Newshub host Ryan Bridge to tell him what was happening at the parliament complex. “We’re just having a bit of an earthquake here Ryan, quite a decent shake here,” she said, looking up and around the room. “But, um, if you see things moving behind me.” She continued with the interview and noted she was in a structurally sound place and not under any light fixtures. The quake was felt by thousands of New Zealanders getting ready to start their work weeks, but no major damage was reported.
May 25, 2020 3:40 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has booked back-to-back Memorial Day appearances amid the coronavirus pandemic. Trump plans to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. Afterward, he will head to Baltimore to speak at Fort McHenry national monument. That’s where “The Star-Spangled Banner” was written. But Baltimore’s mayor is unhappy about Trump’s visit, saying it sets a bad example when many residents have been told to limit travel. Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young also says the city can’t afford the cost of a presidential visit when city revenue is declining because of the virus outbreak.
May 25, 2020 3:39 am
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida. (AP) – Big crowds turned out for the Memorial Day weekend in the U.S. amid warnings from authorities about people disregarding the coronavirus social-distancing rules and risking a resurgence of the scourge that has killed nearly 100,000 Americans. On the Navajo Nation, which sprawls across the states of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, the number of virus cases rose by 56 on Sunday to 4,689, according to the local health department. Meanwhile, the White House broadened its travel ban against countries hit hard by the virus, saying it would deny admission to foreigners who have recently been in Brazil. Japan moved further toward reopening Monday, with plans to end a state of emergency in Tokyo and surrounding areas.
May 25, 2020 3:35 am
AMBRIDGE, Pa. (WPXI) — A body located in the Ohio River near a bridge in Ambridge on Saturday night has been identified as the man who fell in while he was fishing. According to the Ohio Township Police Department, the body is that of 23-year-old Kenneth Robinson and the manner of death has been ruled as accidental. Police confirmed the body was located in the water near the Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge around 8 p.m. on Saturday night. Robinson was fishing on a dock with friends on Neville Island when he fell in last weekend.
May 25, 2020 3:32 am
ERIE, Pa. (AP) – State game commission wardens in northwestern Pennsylvania tranquilized and removed a 127-pound bear from an Erie neighborhood over the weekend. Erie police and game wardens were called to east Erie at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday after the animal was spotted in a tree in a home’s backyard. A game warden fired a tranquilizer dart from the bucket of a fire department ladder truck backed into an adjacent yard near the tree, and the bear dropped to the ground from a branch about 25 feet in the air. Wardens said the bear would likely be taken to Forest County and be released.
May 25, 2020 3:31 am
BELL ACRES, Pa. (AP) – Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a man is facing charges in a hit-and-run crash that killed a bicyclist near Pittsburgh over the weekend. Allegheny County police say Bell Acres officers were dispatched just before 12:30 p.m. Saturday on a report of a collision involving a pickup truck and a 51-year-old cyclist, who died shortly afterward. Witnesses said the truck was heading west in the eastbound lanes and struck the eastbound cyclist head-on. Thirty-three-year-old Justin Michael Miller faces charges including vehicular homicide while driving under the influence. Court documents don’t list a defense attorney. A listed number for Miller couldn’t be found Sunday.
