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PITTSBURGH (AP) – Prosecutors have withdrawn charges against five men charged in a shooting at a neighborhood vigil in Pittsburgh 4 1/2 years ago that wounded three people, two of them children.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.
March 1, 2020 8:26 am
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state trooper was shot while conducting a traffic stop in Franklin County early Saturday, authorities said. The trooper, who was not identified, was flown to a hospital and listed in stable condition. The shooting happened shortly after 2 a.m. at the 1400 block of Lincoln Way East in Guilford Township. It came after troopers stopped a driver who was suspected of driving under the influence. During a sobriety test, an altercation broke out between the troopers and the driver, Robert William Ransom, 20, of Chambersburg, according to a news release from the Pennsylvania State Police. While the troopers were trying to arrest him, Ransom pulled out a handgun and shot one of them, the release said. Ransom was taken into custody uninjured. It’s not clear whether Ransom has yet to secure legal representation.
March 1, 2020 8:23 am
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WPXI) — Two men were arrested in connection with a shooting near the WVU campus in Morgantown early Saturday morning, according to Morgantown 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 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 the 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 the other person were able to run out of the apartment. Police said they are still investigating.
March 1, 2020 8:21 am
BALDWIN, Pa. (WPXI) — Two people were rushed to the hospital after a nasty crash in Baldwin Borough. The accident happened around 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning on Becks Run Road. There was extensive damage to two cars involved.“One lady was trapped and they had to pry her out with the Jaws of Life. There was somebody passed out in the back when the ambulances came to fix everybody up and get everybody out,” a witness at the scene told our news partners at Channel 11. Police are still investigating what caused the collision.
February 29, 2020 9:48 am
(AP)-Health officials in California, Oregon and Washington state worried about the novel coronavirus spreading through West Coast communities after confirming three patients were infected by unknown means. Authorities say the patients – an older Northern California woman with chronic health conditions, a high school student in Everett, Washington, and an employee at a Portland, Oregon-area school – hadn’t recently traveled overseas or had any known close contact with a traveler or an infected person. Earlier U.S. cases involved people who were evacuated from China, the epicenter of the outbreak, and American passengers from a cruise ship in Japan.
