November 27, 2020 4:01 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – An inmate died after he was found unresponsive in his cell in the Allegheny County Jail on Thursday. According to Warden Orlando Harper, a medical emergency was called, and the man was helped immediately by a correctional officer and medical staff. The medical staff continued life-saving efforts until paramedics arrived and took over. Harper said the man was pronounced dead at 10:43 a.m. An internal review will happen, and the incident will also be investigated by the county police. Harder said these procedures are done with all incidents at the jail.
November 26, 2020 4:38 am
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Some California counties are pushing ahead with plans to wind down a program that’s housed homeless people in hotel rooms amid the coronavirus pandemic. It comes despite an emergency cash infusion from the state aimed at preventing people from returning to the streets in colder weather as the virus surges. Counties say that as federal coronavirus funding expires, it’s time to transition residents from costly hotels to cheaper, more stable housing. Gov. Gavin Newsom recently announced $62 million for counties to move hotel guests into permanent housing or to extend hotel leases. In San Francisco, advocates are outraged by plans to start moving hundreds of people around the holidays.
November 26, 2020 4:37 am
TOKYO (AP) – Global shares are mostly higher, although Wall Street had taken a pause from the market optimism underlined in a record-setting climb earlier in the week. Benchmarks in France and Germany rose in early trading, while shares fell in Britain. Japan’s Nikkei 225 finished at its highest level in nearly three decades, since the nation’s “bubble economy” collapsed. Indexes also rose in China and South Korea. U.S. markets will be closed Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday, and open for a half day on Friday. The recent upbeat mood has been set off by news of the development of coronavirus vaccines and treatments.
November 26, 2020 4:36 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – California has reported a record number of coronavirus cases on the eve of Thanksgiving. More than 18,000 COVID-19 infections were reported Wednesday. That surpassed a previous daily record of more than 15,000 cases announced Saturday. As officials urged people to reconsider their Thanksgiving gatherings, Los Angeles restaurants were preparing to close for three weeks and firefighters in Silicon Valley were being enlisted to help enforce public health rules to try to halt the spread of infections. Los Angeles, which has been hard hit by the virus, has been mulling a new stay-home order but has not yet issued one.
November 26, 2020 4:35 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – As coronavirus cases surge again nationwide, the Supreme Court is barring New York from enforcing certain attendance limits at houses of worship in areas designated as hard hit by the virus. The court’s action late Wednesday won’t have any immediate impact since the two groups that sued as a result of the restrictions, the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Jewish synagogues, are no longer subject to them. The groups had challenged attendance limits in areas designated red and orange zones, but they are now in the less-restrictive yellow zones.
November 26, 2020 4:34 am
HOUSTON (AP) – The U.S. government has appealed a judge’s order barring the expulsions of immigrant children who crossed the border alone, a policy enacted during the coronavirus pandemic to deny the children asylum protections. Judge Emmet Sullivan issued a preliminary injunction on Nov. 18 sought by advocates for immigrants that barred expulsions of unaccompanied children under public health laws. The Justice Department on Wednesday night also asked Sullivan to issue a stay of the injunction pending appeal, a request he previously denied.
November 26, 2020 4:32 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has pardoned former national security adviser Michael Flynn despite Flynn’s guilty plea to lying to the FBI about his Russia contacts. Trump announced the pardon on Wednesday, calling it his “Great Honor.” Flynn’s family thanked Trump “for answering our prayers and the prayers of a nation” by issuing the pardon. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the Flynn pardon “an act of grave corruption and a brazen abuse of power.” The pardon is part of a broader effort by the president to undo the results of a Russia investigation that shadowed his administration and yielded criminal charges against a half dozen associates.
November 26, 2020 4:30 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa — Pennsylvania State Police are searching for an elderly man who disappeared Wednesday evening in Fayette County. Clarence Frederick Robinson, 97, was last seen around 3:00 p.m. Wednesday afternoon traveling north along State Route 119 in his 2012 Maroon/Tan Ford 5-150 pickup truck. He stands at 5’10”, is balding with gray hair and brown eyes while weighing roughly 170 pounds. The Smithfield man was last seen wearing navy blue pants, a button down shirt and a U.S. Air Force ball cap. Anyone with information on Robinson’s disappearance is asked to call State Police in Uniontown at 724-439-7111.
November 26, 2020 4:20 am
A Pennsylvania appeals court judge has ordered state officials on Wednesday to halt any further steps toward certifying election results. The ruling comes a day after Gov. Tom Wolf said he had certified Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election in Pennsylvania. Wolf’s administration quickly asked the state Supreme Court to block the ruling from taking effect, saying there was no ‘conceivable justification’ for it. Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough, a Republican, had issued the order. It wasn’t immediately clear if she hoped to hold up the certification of state and local contests on the ballot or interrupt the scheduled Dec. 14 meeting of the state’s 20 electors.
November 26, 2020 4:15 am
PITTSBURGH, Pa (WPXI) — Did your phone blare with a message about COVID-19 Wednesday evening? Gov. Wolf’s office announced the state will start using the national Wireless Emergency Alert system to put out messages about the pandemic. According to a news release, WEA is a national public safety system that allows people who own a cellphone to receive targeted, text-like messages. The system is currently used to issue alerts to your phone for things like Amber Alerts or severe weather warnings. The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau allows the state to use the system as a COVID-19 communications tool. State officials said the plan is target specific regions of the state for future messages.
