October 26, 2019 4:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – A judge has ordered the Justice Department to give House Democrats secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell made the directive in a brief order on Friday. Democrats had requested that the department provide the material, which was redacted from Mueller’s report, as part of their ongoing impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Justice Department lawyers argued at a hearing earlier this month that House Democrats already had sufficient evidence from Mueller’s investigation, including copies of summaries of FBI witness interviews.
October 26, 2019 4:06 am
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (WPXI) – A person was taken to the hospital after being hit by a Port Authority bus on a Route 65 on-ramp in Pittsburgh. The incident happened around 7 p.m. Friday on the ramp leading to Route 65 (Ohio River Boulevard) from Beaver Avenue, according to Port Authority officials. That bus, which was not in service at the time, struck a person who was in the street. PAT officials said the victim was not in a crosswalk or in an area designed for pedestrians. That person, who has not yet been identified, was taken to the hospital for arm and facial injuries. Their condition was not specified. Police are currently investigating the crash.
October 26, 2019 4:02 am
PITTSBURGH (WPXI) – Sharena Nancy has been charged with homicide two months after she allegedly kidnaped 2-year-old Nalani Johnson and abandoned her in a park. Nalani was abducted in Penn Hills on Aug. 31 and her body was discovered on Sept. 4 in Pine Ridge Park in Indiana County. The coroner has determined that Nalani’s manner of death was homicide. Nancy is now charged with criminal homicide and abuse of a corpse on top of her previous charges of kidnapping a minor, concealing the whereabouts of a child and interference with custody of children.
October 26, 2019 4:01 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. – Sixty-six-year-old Jan Ondra, the South Strabane Township man accused of violating his bond on a child luring charge from June of this year had his bond revocation hearing continued once again. Ondra is accused of violating a court order to not have contact with children. He is accused of approaching 3 children at the Synergy Performing Arts Academy, in North Strabane Township, by offering them candy on September 28th. The October 25th hearing was a continuance from an earlier hearing where defense counsel asked for more time to produce video evidence that could clear Ondra. During the hearing both sides presented evidence and testimony to the events of September 28th but ultimately the District Attorney’s Office asked for a second continuance to allow them time to secure further video surveillance evidence and contact a new possible eye witness to the alleged encounter. Judge Gary Gilman granted the prosecution’s request and scheduled a hearing for November 1 at 10:00 a.m.
October 25, 2019 5:54 pm
DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) – Authorities say actress Felicity Huffman has been released from a federal prison in California on the 11th day of a 14-day sentence for her role in the college admissions scandal. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons says the “Desperate Housewives” star was released from the low-security prison for women in the San Francisco Bay Area on Friday morning. Under prison policy, inmate scheduled for weekend release are let out on Friday. (Photo: CNN)
October 25, 2019 5:45 pm
Sixty-six-year-old Jan Ondra, the South Strabane Township man accused of violating his bond on a child luring charge from June of this year had his bond revocation hearing continued once again. Ondra is accused of violating a court order to not have contact with children. He is accused of approaching 3 children at the Synergy Performing Arts Academy, in North Strabane Township, by offering them candy on September 28th. The October 25th hearing was a continuance from an earlier hearing where defense counsel asked for more time to produce video evidence that could clear Ondra. During the hearing both sides presented evidence and testimony to the events of September 28th but ultimately the District Attorney’s Office asked for a second continuance to allow them time to secure further video surveillance evidence and contact a new possible eye witness to the alleged encounter. Judge Gary Gilman granted the prosecution’s request and scheduled a hearing for November 1 at 10:00 a.m.
October 25, 2019 5:26 pm
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) – Striking General Motors factory workers are putting down their picket signs after approving a new contract that will end a 40-day strike that paralyzed the company’s U.S. production. The United Auto Workers union confirmed that the contract passed on Friday but did not immediately announce vote totals. Picket lines will end immediately, and skilled trades workers will begin restarting factories that were shuttered when 49,000 workers walked out on Sept. 16. Some production workers could return Friday night. The deal includes a mix of wage increases and lump-sum payments and an $11,000 signing bonus. But GM will close three U.S. factories.
October 25, 2019 5:22 pm
PITTSBURGH (WPXI) – Sharena Nancy has been charged with homicide two months after she allegedly kidnaped 2-year-old Nalani Johnson and abandoned her in a park. Nalani was abducted in Penn Hills on Aug. 31 and her body was discovered on Sept. 4 in Pine Ridge Park in Indiana County. The coroner has determined that Nalani’s manner of death was homicide. Nancy is now charged with criminal homicide and abuse of a corpse on top of her previous charges of kidnapping a minor, concealing the whereabouts of a child and interference with custody of children.
October 25, 2019 4:25 am
PITTSBURGH – (WPXI) – There is a new cancer care center coming to the Pittsburgh area – in part, inspired by Nick Cumer. Cumer was one of the people killed in the mass shooting in Dayton in August 2019. The Washington native was murdered while shielding fellow interns. Karen Wonders, the executive director of Maple Tree Cancer Alliance, said her organization has been rocked, but Cumer’s memory is helping get them back on their feet. His spirit helped inspire wonders to expand. They will be opening a new cancer care office in Pittsburgh in 2020, and it will be at no cost to cancer patients.
October 25, 2019 4:12 am
SAN DIEGO (AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union says U.S. immigration authorities separated more than 1,500 children from their parents at the Mexico border early in the Trump administration, bringing the total number of children separated since July 2017 to more than 5,400. The ACLU said Thursday the government told its attorneys that 207 of the 1,556 children separated between July 1, 2017, and June 26, 2018, were under 5. A federal judge in San Diego has given the government until Friday to identify children separated going back to July 2017. The government had inadequate tracking systems at the time, complicating efforts to locate children. Volunteers working with the ACLU are searching for some of them and their parents by going door-to-door in Guatemala and Honduras.
