March 2, 2020 4:27 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles as it resumed weapons demonstrations following a months-long hiatus. The launches came two days after North Korea’s state media said leader Kim Jong Un supervised an artillery drill aimed at testing combat readiness. Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff couldn’t immediately confirm how far the projectiles flew or whether the weapons were ballistic or rocket artillery. In late December, Kim expressed deep frustration over deadlocked diplomacy with the United States and said he would no longer be bound by a self-imposed weapons test moratorium that coincided with his diplomacy with Trump.
March 2, 2020 4:26 am
NEW YORK (AP) – James Lipton, longtime host of “Inside the Actors Studio,” has died. His wife Kedakai Lipton tells the New York Times and the Hollywood Reporter that he died Monday in his New York home from bladder cancer. He was 93. Lipton interviewed hundreds of master actors and Hollywood luminaries for nearly 25 years on Bravo’s “Inside the Actors Studio,” including Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro and Glenn Close. The Detroit-born actor-turned-academic became an unlikely talk show host and celebrity when he began the show that also served as a class for his Actors Studio students. (Photo: CNN)
March 2, 2020 4:25 am
SEATTLE (AP) – An increase in testing for the coronavirus is shedding light on its spread in the United States, including among nursing home residents in one Washington state facility. U.S. health officials on Monday updated the nation’s count of coronavirus cases to 91 people in 10 states. Seattle officials announced four more deaths, bringing the total in the U.S. to six. Vice President Mike Pence met with the nation’s governors and pledged to update them on a weekly basis. The nursing home cases especially troubled health care experts because of the vulnerability of sick, elderly people to COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.
March 2, 2020 4:18 am
(WPXI) – The man who was charged with kidnapping a Bethel Park woman and killing her in the desert outside Las Vegas has been ordered to be sent to Nevada where he is facing life in prison if convicted. John Chapman was in federal court Monday where the ruling was handed down. Chapman, 39, confessed to driving Jaime Feden into the desert last September, according to police, suffocating her and leaving her die. Police said he convinced Feden to drive into the desert for a photo shoot. He faces federal charges, including kidnapping resulting in death among others. FBI agents found a fake CIA credential with Chapman’s name and picture on it along with three backpacks, one of which they called a “kill kit,” when they searched Feden’s apartment. Court papers said investigators believed Chapman had been living there after killing her.
March 2, 2020 4:16 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Prosecutors have withdrawn charges against five men charged in a shooting at a neighborhood vigil in Pittsburgh 4 1/2 years ago that wounded three people, two of them children. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the action by the Allegheny County district attorney’s office Friday came 10 days before jury selection was scheduled in the case. A prosecutor cited “the murder of a commonwealth witness, subsequent lack of cooperation of witness and other evidentiary issues.” The September 2015 gunfire occurred at a vigil in the Homewood neighborhood to mark the two-year anniversary of a young man’s shooting death nearby.
March 2, 2020 4:15 am
MCKEESPORT, Pa. — A 19-year-old man was rushed to the hospital after being shot multiple times in McKeesport on Sunday afternoon. Allegheny County police said they were notified of the shooting at the intersection of Jenny Lind and Fremont streets around 2:34 p.m. Police said the victim’s gray Ford Taurus was being driven by a 20-year-old man and a 13-year-old child was in the back seat. The driver turned the car into Irwin Alley off of Fremont Street, where they encountered a man in dark clothing, according to police. The man then began firing shots into the victims’ car as it was driven through the alley. A witness told our news partners at Channel 11 she was inside her house on Jenny Lind Street when she heard gunshots coming from behind her house. She said when she made it to the front porch, she saw a gray car speeding down her street before coming to an abrupt stop. She said a man got out of the car yelling for help, and she said she called 911 immediately. The man who was shot was taken to a hospital and was reported to be in critical condition. Police are investigating two separate crime scenes in the area.
March 2, 2020 4:14 am
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — (WPXI) – Two men have been arrested in connection with a shooting near the WVU campus in Morgantown, according to police. This comes less than a day after a WVU student was shot and killed at a campus housing complex. Officers said Edward Kolleh, 29, and Ethan Horseman, 20, were the suspects. Kolleh was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery. Horseman was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, among other charges. According to police, shortly after 1 a.m., officers were called to an apartment on College Avenue for a report of gunshots. Kolleh and Horseman were were at the scene and told police two men had tried to steal their marijuana. That’s when a gunfight started. Shortly after talking with Kolleh and Horseman, police said a shooting victim arrived at a Morgantown hospital. The victim and another person were invited to the apartment to buy marijuana, investigators said. Kolleh and Horseman had already planned to rob them by having the victim and other person sit in a specific spot with their backs to a closet. Kolleh was hiding inside and Horseman had a code word, at which the two pulled out guns and demanded the victims empty their pockets. A fight started and there were multiple gunshots fired.
The shooting victim and other person were able to run out of the apartment. Police said they are still investigating.
March 1, 2020 8:31 am
KASTANIES, Greece (AP) — Syria’s official news agency said two of its warplane were shot down by Turkish forces inside northwest Syria, amid a military escalation there that’s led to growing direct clashes between Turkish and Syrian forces. SANA says the jets were targeted over the Idlib region, and that the four pilots ejected with parachutes and landed safely. Turkey’s Defense Ministry said it had shot down two SU-24 aircraft and destroyed air defense systems after one of its aerial drones was downed. Earlier, Syrian military-run media said it had downed a drone inside northwest Syria, and was closing its airspace for any flights or drones across the country’s northwestern region. It said any aircraft that penetrates Syrian airspace will be treated as hostile and shot down.
March 1, 2020 8:30 am
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Joe Biden scored a thundering victory in South Carolina’s Democratic primary on the strength of African American support, a decisive win that could force moderate rivals out of the race and blunt the rise of progressive leader Bernie Sanders. Biden’s win Saturday came at a perilous moment in his 2020 bid as he needed an emphatic rebound after underwhelming performances this month in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. The race now pivots to the 14 states from Maine to California that vote on Tuesday in what effect will be a national primary. Biden won about three times as many delegates in South Carolina as his nearest rival. Sanders claimed a distant second place, a loss that gave a momentary respite to anxious Democrats who feared that the democratic socialist would finish February with four consecutive top finishes that would make it difficult for anyone to overtake him.
March 1, 2020 8:29 am
TOKYO (AP) — Amid fears about where the next outbreak of a fast-spreading new virus would appear, infections and deaths continued to rise across the globe Sunday, emptying streets of tourists and workers, shaking economies and rewriting the realities of daily life. Panic-buying of daily necessities emerged in Japan, tourist sites across Asia, Europe and the Mideast were deserted, and governments closed schools and banned big gatherings. Amusement parks have been shuttered and concerts cancelled. In Paris, priests stopped placing sacramental bread in worshippers’ mouths. While the new coronavirus has extended its reach across the world, definite geographic clusters of infections were emerging, with Iran, Italy and South Korea seeing rising cases. The United States, meanwhile, recorded its first death, a man in his 50s in Washington state who had underlying health conditions but who hadn’t traveled to any affected areas.
