June 1, 2025 7:46 am
(AP) – Pride Month, a global celebration of LGBTQ+ people, is starting this weekend in many places. It’s always a mixture of party and protest. Some of the celebrations this year will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed same-sex marriage nationally. A lot of the protest in the U.S. are expected to be against President Donald Trump’s efforts to impose restrictions across several fronts on transgender people. The event emerged in 1970 as a response to the violent police raid of New York City’s Stonewall Inn in 1969. (Photo: AP)
June 1, 2025 7:00 am
According to a post on the Charleroi Fire Department’s Facebook Page, firefighters were called out Saturday afternoon for a reported house fire in the 800 block of Crest Avenue. Fire officials say there were no injuries and everyone inside of the house escaped without injury.
June 1, 2025 7:00 am
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The ten men who escaped from a New Orleans jail more than two weeks ago by cutting out a hole behind a toilet received help from at least fifteen people, many of them friends and family who provided food, cash, transport and shelter according to court documents. Some are held on bonds $1 million or higher. Records reviewed by The Associated Press show how some of the fugitives received aid before and after their escape — including from a number of people named in police reports but not facing charges, such as an apparent former jail employee. Authorities upped the reward to $50,000 for each of the two remaining fugitives.
May 31, 2025 8:48 am
Would U.S. companies go back to Russia if there’s a peace deal over Ukraine? President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin have raised that possibility. But a lot has changed since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Russia has enacted a slew of new restrictions on foreign companies from countries allied to Ukraine and shown its willingness to seize businesses. The changed environment means it’s unlikely that U.S. companies would be in any hurry to return to Russia. There are also several factors that could deter U.S. companies from ever going back.
May 31, 2025 8:45 am
PITTSBURGH — A school van driver is in jail after police say he crashed into another vehicle while driving under the influence, all while students were on board. According to our news partners at Channel 11, Pittsburgh Police said they went to the north side of the 16th Street Bridge Friday afternoon after receiving reports of a van being involved in a crash with another vehicle. They said the van fled the scene. The van contained the man driving it and six passengers, all around 10 years old, according to police. The students began contacting their parents, who police said quickly called 911 and began tracking their children’s phones. Officers caught up to the van at 4:15 p.m. in Mt. Oliver at the intersection of Becks Run Road and Wagner Street.
May 31, 2025 7:55 am
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Manitoba’s premier says the Canadian prairie city of Flin Flon hasbeen virtually deserted and more evacuees were expected as wildfires raged in the province. Premier Wab Kinew told a news conference that the mayor, councilors, health-care staff and other officials have had to depart Flin Flon, a city of 5,000 people. The evacuees are among 17,000 people reported so far to have left their homes due to a number of wildfires burning in remote regions from Manitoba’s northwest to the southeast. Kinew said as the fires grow, thousands more evacuees can be expected and that communities like Winnipeg, Thompson and The Pas have already stepped up to help provide food and shelter.
May 31, 2025 5:10 am
SINGAPORE (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reassured allies in the Indo-Pacific that they will not be left alone to face increasing military and economic pressure from China. Hegseth spoke on Saturday at the Asian Defense Summit in Singapore. He said Washington will bolster its defenses overseas to counter what the Pentagon sees as rapidly developing threats by Beijing. Hegseth said China is no longer just building up its military forces to be able to take Taiwan by 2027, it’s “actively training for it, every day.” He said the threat China poses “is real — and it could be imminent.”
May 31, 2025 5:02 am
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s doubling the tariff rate on steel to 50%, a dramatic increase that could further push up prices for a metal used to make housing, autos and other goods. Trump made the announcement Friday at U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works–Irvin Plant in West Mifflin, where he announced investments by Japan’s Nippon Steel. The price of steel products has increased roughly 16% since Trump became president in January, according to the government’s producer price index. Trump later added that aluminum tariffs would also be doubled to 50% and said both tariff hikes would go into effect Wednesday.
May 30, 2025 4:12 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy Awards playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding head nurse of a behind-the-lines surgical unit during the Korean War on the pioneering hit TV series “M.A.S.H.,” has died. She was 87. Publicist Harlan Boll says Swit died Friday at her home in New York City, likely from natural causes. Swit and Alan Alda were the longest-serving cast members on “M.A.S.H.,” which was based on Robert Altman’s 1970 film, which was itself based on a novel by Richard Hooker, the pseudonym of H. Richard Hornberger. The CBS show aired for 11 years from 1972 to 1983, revolving around life at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, which gave the show its name. The two-and-a-half-hour finale on Feb. 28, 1983, lured over 100 million viewers, the most-watched episode of any scripted series ever. (Photo: AP)
May 30, 2025 11:43 am
(WPXI) PITTSBURGH — Giant Eagle Pharmacy Inc. has announced an agreement to transfer customer prescriptions from 78 Rite Aid Locations in Pennsylvania and Ohio. A Giant Eagle spokesperson says the prescriptions will be transferred to the Giant Eagle Pharmacy location most convenient for customers. Closing on the purchase of the prescriptions is expected to come in waves during June. Giant Eagle will assume operations of two Rite Aid pharmacy locations immediately after Rite Aid departs, with no planned interruptions, officials said. The agreement is subject to applicable regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, officials said. Additional details are expected as the closing dates approach. Officials say Giant Eagle and Rite Aid are working closely to ensure a smooth and seamless transition for patients, with Giant Eagle reaching out to inform affected Rite Aid customers. “We’re excited to welcome new patients to our Giant Eagle Pharmacy,” said Bill Artman, president and CEO of Giant Eagle. “
