October 12, 2020 8:58 am
PITTSBURGH – (WPXI)- One person died and two others were taken to a hospital after a cement truck was involved in a multi-vehicle crash Monday morning in Pittsburgh’s South Side, officials said. The crash, which involved a van, a car and the cement truck, happened shortly before 7:30 a.m. in the area of South 18th and Crosman streets. Police said a passenger in the van was killed. The drivers of the van and truck were taken to a hospital. The car was parked at the time of the crash.
October 12, 2020 4:27 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – A federal judge in Pennsylvania is throwing out a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump’s campaign, dismissing its challenges to the battleground state’s poll-watching law and its efforts to limit how mail-in ballots can be collected and which of them can be counted. Trump’s campaign said it would appeal at least one element of Saturday’s ruling by U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan, with barely three weeks to go until Election Day in a state hotly contested by Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The lawsuit was opposed by the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, and the state Democratic Party.
October 12, 2020 4:24 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says he is ready to return to the campaign trail, a declaration that comes despite unanswered questions about his health on the eve of a Florida rally kicking off the final weeks before Election Day. The White House doctor has said Trump is no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus but has not said explicitly whether Trump has tested negative for it. The president insisted Sunday he is now “immune” from the virus, a claim that is impossible to prove.
October 12, 2020 4:23 am
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Louisiana officials have announced a second death from Hurricane Delta. The state Department of Health says a 70-year-old woman in Iberia Parish died in a fire likely caused by a natural gas leak following damage from the storm. Gov. John Bel Edwards said earlier Sunday that an 86-year-old man from St. Martin Parish died in a fire that started after he refueled a power generator in a shed. Delta made landfall Friday evening in southwest Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane and then began weakening quickly over land. It came weeks after Hurricane Laura battered the same region. Laura claimed 32 lives, though only seven of the deaths came the day that the hurricane struck. Many others were caused by carbon monoxide poisoning from generators.
October 12, 2020 4:22 am
DENVER (AP) – Police say a private security guard working for a Denver TV station was jailed for investigation of first-degree murder in the deadly shooting of another man during dueling right- and left-wing protests. The gunfire erupted Saturday afternoon. The Denver Post reports the guard – identified as 30-year-old Matthew Dolloff – was taken into custody after the clash in which another man apparently slapped him and sprayed him with Mace. The wounded man later died at a nearby hospital. Authorities did not reveal his name but family members identified him on Sunday as 49-year-old Lee Keltner.
October 12, 2020 4:20 am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – Joe Biden is campaigning in Ohio as he attempts to expand the battleground map and keep President Donald Trump on the defensive in a state thought to be out of reach after veering right in the presidential race four years ago. The Democratic presidential nominee on Monday stressed an economic message and promoted his own record while casting Trump as having abandoned working-class voters who helped him win Rust Belt states that put him in the White House in 2016. He held Monday rallies in Toledo and Cincinnati. Vice President Mike Pence held his own rally Monday in Columbus, while Trump had an evening rally planned in Florida.
October 12, 2020 4:19 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Democrats branded Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett a threat to Americans’ health care during the coronavirus pandemic Monday at the start of a fast-tracked hearing that Republicans are confident will end with Barrett’s confirmation to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before Election Day. In a competing effort to define the 48-year-old Barrett, who sat silent and wearing a face mask, Republican senators called President Donald Trump’s pick a thoughtful judge with impeccable credentials. Barring a dramatic development, Republicans appear to have the votes to confirm Barrett to a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court.
October 12, 2020 4:18 am
UNDATED (AP) – Kentucky voters are about to get their first, and potentially only, chance to see a debate between Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic challenger Amy McGrath. They’re set to meet Monday evening for a socially distanced encounter. The debate will be aired on Gray Television’s Kentucky-based stations. It comes near the end of a big-spending campaign. McConnell is seeking a seventh term and has consistently led in polling. The rivals will debate at WKYT, and the Lexington station took a number of precautions in response to the coronavirus. Kentucky is in the midst of another spike of COVID-19 cases.
October 12, 2020 4:17 am
ATLANTA (AP) – People eager to cast ballots are lining up on Georgia’s first day of early in-person voting. Some voters showed up before dawn to be among the first in line. Problems soon developed at a massive voting site in the state’s most populous county. Fulton County spokeswoman Jessica Corbitt-Dominguez said technicians had to fix the electronic poll books used to check voters in at State Farm Arena, where the Atlanta Hawks NBA team plays. And the wait was up to four hours at Cobb County’s election headquarters. Early in-person voting began Monday throughout Georgia and runs through Oct. 30.
October 12, 2020 4:14 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Authorities in western Pennsylvania say two people were arrested after climbing onto a Pittsburgh bridge in an attempt to hang a protest banner. Police said the man and woman climbed the superstructure of the 6th Street/Roberto Clemente Bridge at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday. The bridge was then closed to traffic and fire department crews cut the line the protesters were using to try to hang the banner. The protesters were arrested after they descended three hours later. Public safety officials said criminal charges were planned but didn’t specify what they would be.
