July 26, 2020 8:17 am
LONDON (AP) — Peter Green, the dexterous blues guitarist who led the first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac in a career shortened by psychedelic drugs and mental illness, has died at 73. A law firm representing his family, Swan Turton, announced the death in a statement Saturday. It said he died “peacefully in his sleep″ this weekend. A further statement will be issued in the coming days. Green, to some listeners, was the best of the British blues guitarists of the 1960s. B.B. King once said Green “has the sweetest tone I ever heard. He was the only one who gave me the cold sweats.” Green also made a mark as a composer with “Albatross,” and as a songwriter with “Oh Well” and “Black Magic Woman.”
July 26, 2020 8:16 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Regis Philbin, the genial host who shared his life with television viewers over morning coffee for decades and helped himself and some fans strike it rich with the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” has died at 88. Philbin died of natural causes Friday night, just over a month before his 89th birthday, according to a statement from his family provided by spokesman Lewis Kay. Celebrities routinely stopped by Philbin’s eponymous syndicated morning show, but its heart was in the first 15 minutes, when he and co-host Kathie Lee Gifford — on “Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee” from 1985-2000 — or Kelly Ripa — on “Live! with Regis and Kelly” from 2001 until his 2011 retirement — bantered about the events of the day. Viewers laughed at Philbin’s mock indignation over not getting the best seat at a restaurant the night before, or being henpecked by his partner.
July 26, 2020 8:12 am
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (WPXI) — Pittsburgh police are asking for the public’s help finding a 17-year-old woman and her 1-year-old son. Investigators said Jamilah Mclean, 17, and Josiah Mclean, 1, were last seen leaving home and going for a walk in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood around 2 p.m. Friday. According to police, the mother and son may still be in East Hills or in Braddock Hills. Police described the mother as 5-foot-3, 165 pounds, with black hair worn in braids. She also wears black glasses. Her son is 2-foot-4 and weighs 22 pounds. He also has black hair, according to authorities. There was no description available for what clothing they last had on. Anyone with information regarding their whereabouts is asked to call the special victims unit at 412-323-7141.
July 26, 2020 4:13 am
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. (WPXI) — The body of a 14-year-old girl who did not resurface after going into the Monongahela River on Friday was found Saturday afternoon, officials said. According to West Mifflin Police Chief Anthony Topolnak, the girl was fishing on the river with her family when she went out too far while playing in the river. She went under, and her family tried to rescue her unsuccessfully. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office later identified her as Kristina Rai. “The undercurrent is so strong over there. It don’t look like it. It looks as calm as can be, but the undercurrent is so strong,” Dave Lloyd, of Glassport, said. Officials said the search started around 5:50 p.m. Friday in the area of Lebanon School Road and Route 837 (Clairton Dravosburg Road) in West Mifflin. Crews later called off the search for the night out of safety for divers and resumed efforts about 6:30 a.m. Saturday. They continued searching until the girl’s body was found around 1:55 p.m. Crews focused their search Saturday in the area of the river between West Mifflin, Glassport and Dravosburg. Numerous agencies helped in the search, using boats, divers, sonar and drones.
July 25, 2020 4:29 am
BEIJING (AP) – South Korea has reported more than 100 new coronavirus cases for the first time in four months as more American states tightened anti-disease controls in response to rising infections. The South Korean government says the 113 new cases included 36 workers returning from Iraq and 32 crew members of a Russian freighter. China, which has relaxed most of its anti-disease controls after case numbers dropped off, reported 34 new cases in a new surge of infections. Worldwide, a total of 638,352 deaths and 15,672,841 cases have been reported, according to Johns Hopkins University. In the United States, the governor of Mississippi tightened controls on bars to protect “young, drunk, careless folks.”
July 25, 2020 4:27 am
HOUSTON (AP) – Legal groups sued the U.S. government Friday in an attempt to prevent the rapid expulsion of children that the Trump administration detained in hotel rooms under an emergency declaration citing the coronavirus. The groups sought a temporary restraining order on behalf of “unnamed children” held at the Hampton Inn & Suites in the Texas border city of McAllen. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the McAllen hotel is one of three Hampton Inns that the government has used nearly 200 times to detain children so it can rapidly deport them to their countries of origin.
July 25, 2020 4:26 am
NEW DELHI (AP) – India has begun its first human trials of a coronavirus vaccine candidate as the world’s second-most populous country recorded nearly 49,000 new cases. The additional infections take India’s total to more than 1.3 million on Saturday, with surges seen in a quarter of the country’s 36 states and union territories. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences says it administered the first dose of a trial COVID-19 vaccine on Friday. The drug Covaxin is among nearly two dozen that are in human trials around the world. South Korea reported 113 new cases, its first daily jump over 100 in nearly four months. Health authorities had forecast a temporary spike driven by imported infections including workers airlifted out of Iraq.
July 25, 2020 4:24 am
Federal immigration officials say new foreign students will be barred from entering the United States if they plan to take their classes entirely online this fall. In a memo to college officials, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says new students who were not already enrolled as of March 9 will “likely not be able to obtain” visas if they take all their courses online. Students already in the U.S. or those returning from abroad will still be allowed to take classes entirely online. Education groups say they’re disappointed by the decision.
July 25, 2020 4:23 am
PHOENIX (AP) – A government lawyer says all new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals applications are being put in a pending bucket while officials decide whether to end the program. That means no new applicants have been accepted into the program for young immigrants even though the Supreme Court ruled it was improperly ended last month. Immigrant rights attorneys say the Supreme Court ruling and two others should revert the program that gives work permits to younger immigrants and shields them from deportation to its original form. About 650,000 are enrolled in DACA, but it’s estimated that another 66,000 now meet age requirements to join, if the government allows them to.
July 25, 2020 4:22 am
QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (AP) – President Donald Trump is trying to win over suburbanites by promising to protect their “beautiful” neighborhoods from the racial unrest that has gripped some U.S. cities this summer. He’s sent federal agents to stem violence in cities, warned of a way of life being “obliterated,” and raised the prospect of falling property values. It’s a strategy with deep roots in presidential politics and some record of success. But even some GOP strategists and Republican voters note it doesn’t account for the rapid demographic changes in the suburbs and may be misreading the top concerns of voters he’s trying to retain.
