January 14, 2024 12:42 am
State Police are investigating after a robbery Friday night at the Sunoco Station in the 15-hundred block of W. Chestnut Street in North Franklin Township. According to Washington County 9-1-1, a white male in a yellow jacket walked into the store just after 9 p.m. and robbed the store. No weapon was shown and no injuries were reported. It’s unclear what the man got away with. He fled on foot.
January 14, 2024 12:38 am
Cecil Township Police are investigating a stabbing Friday night. Washington County 9-1-1 dispatchers tell WJPA News it happened just before 10 p.m. in the area of 44 Georgetown Road. Dispatchers say an Uber driver had picked up two men for a ride. A short time later, one of those men began stabbing the other. The driver jumped out of the vehicle. The individual stabbed was transported by ambulance to a Pittsburgh Hospital by ambulance because weather conditions did not allow for a helicopter to be used. No identities have been released and there is no word on the condition of the individual that was stabbed.
January 13, 2024 5:19 am
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Forecasters say brutally cold weather could prove a deadly challenge this weekend as a continuing wave of Arctic storms hammers much of the country with blinding snow, freezing rain and whipping winds. Governors from New York to Louisiana have declared states of emergency ahead of predicted snow and subzero temperatures. In St. Louis, the National Weather Service warned of rare and “life-threatening” cold. The fierce weather has forced GOP presidential nominees to shuffle their schedules in Iowa, the leadoff caucus state. And near-record cold in Kansas City will make for a frigid NFL playoff game Saturday night, when the Chiefs host Miami. In Chicago, authorities say a man died of exposure on Thursday in a suburb.
January 13, 2024 5:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a few months after he took office, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a moratorium to halt federal executions — a stark contrast after his predecessor carried out 13 in six months. Under Garland’s watch and a president who vowed to abolish the death penalty, the Justice Department took on no new death penalty cases. That changed Friday as federal prosecutors said they would seek capital punishment for a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket. The decision doesn’t change the halt on federal executions, but Garland’s first approval of a new capital prosecution opens a new chapter in the long and complicated history of the death penalty in the U.S.
January 13, 2024 5:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has struck another Houthi-controlled site in Yemen that it had determined was putting commercial vessels in the Red Sea at risk. That’s according to a statement released by U.S. Central Command. The first day of strikes on Friday hit 28 locations and struck more than 60 targets, and President Joe Biden had warned that the Houthis could face further strikes. U.S. Central Command says the “follow-on action” early Saturday local time against a Houthi radar site was conducted by the Navy destroyer USS Carney using Tomahawk land attack missiles. Associated Press journalists in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, heard one loud explosion.
January 13, 2024 5:14 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a new twist in the abortion access fight, congressional Republicans are trying to block a Biden administration spending rule that they say will cut off millions of dollars to anti-abortion counseling centers. The rule would prohibit states from sending federal funds earmarked for needy Americans to so-called “crisis pregnancy centers,” which counsel against abortions. Millions in federal funding currently flow to the organizations through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, a 1996 block grant program created to give cash assistance to poor children and prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancies. Republicans have introduced legislation to block the Health and Human Services Department from restricting funds for the centers, though it has no chance of becoming law this year.
January 13, 2024 5:12 am
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. This comes a day after an attack on a Turkish military base in Iraq killed nine Turkish soldiers. The ministry said fighter jets destroyed caves, bunkers, shelters and oil facilities and “many” militants were “neutralized” in the strikes. On Friday night, attackers attempted to infiltrate a military base in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, leaving nine soldiers and 15 militants dead. Turkey often launches strikes against targets in Syria and Iraq it believes to be affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a banned Kurdish separatist group that has waged insurgency against Turkey since the 1980s.
January 13, 2024 5:11 am
BEAVER FALLS, Pa. — (WPXI) – Beaver Falls Police are investigating after a missing woman was found stabbed Thursday morning on a walking trail off College Avenue, right behind the track at Geneva College. Officers were first called to the scene just before 9:30 a.m. and spent nearly nine hours investigating along the quarter-mile trail. Sources have identified the victim as Rebecca Miller, 41. A preliminary autopsy showed multiple stab wounds. Investigators say she left her home Sunday and never returned. A missing person’s report was taken for Miller on Tuesday. “This is a rough one for all of us. We all felt this one,” said Assistant Chief William Giska, with nearby Conway Fire Department. He and several of his firefighters were at the scene Thursday. According to Giska, the woman’s family also spent several hours there alongside first responders and investigators as they collected evidence. “I had the family in my rehab tent. We would’ve done anything for them,” Giska said. “There is nothing that can comfort at this point. To simply say, ‘I’m sorry,’ just doesn’t do enough. My heart goes out to them.”
January 13, 2024 2:42 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania defense attorney who used to work as a county prosecutor has been sentenced to jail for preying on vulnerable clients for sex. The attorney general’s office says that between 2018 and 2022, Corey Kolcharno demanded sexual acts or materials in exchange for providing legal work. Prosecutors say he targeted women who struggled with addiction, had been sexually abused or had financial problems. Kolcharno pleaded guilty in Lackawanna County to four felony counts of promoting prostitution. He was sentenced Thursday to four months to nearly two years behind bars.
January 13, 2024 2:40 am
EMMAUS, Pennsylvania (AP) — President Joe Biden is trying his hand at retail politics. He stopped in a trio of shops in Emmaus, Pennsylvania to tout the value of small businesses and promote his economic record. It was a distinct change from the set speeches that the Democratic president usually gives to highlight his policies about an economy with strong employment but levels of inflation that worry voters. The White House used the visit to say that there have been 16 million applications to start new businesses during the first three years of Biden’s presidency. That’s the most on record. (Photo: AP)
