January 21, 2020 3:17 am
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) – Hundreds of Central American migrants have waded across the Suchiate River into southern Mexico in a new test of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Central America strategy to keep them away from the U.S. border. Some scuffled with national guardsmen on the riverbank Monday while others slipped through Mexican lines and trudged off on a rural highway in small groups. Immigration authorities nabbed more there and chased others into the brush. áMost, however, remain at the river’s edge or standing in its muddy waters trying to decide what to do next, after being blocked from crossing en masse over a border bridge between Guatemala and Mexico.
January 21, 2020 3:16 am
SEATTLE (AP) – The U.S. has its first case of a new virus that was found only last month in China, but health officials say they believe the virus’ overall risk to the American public remains low. A Washington state resident who recently returned from a trip to central China has been diagnosed with the new virus. Health officials said Tuesday that the man returned to the Seattle area in the middle of last week after traveling to the Wuhan area, where the outbreak began. The man is in his 30s and is in good condition at a hospital in Everett, outside Seattle.
January 21, 2020 3:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell abruptly changed his proposed rules for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial after senators objected. He is now offering three days, rather than two, for opening arguments from each side. Democrats objected strongly to rules proposed by the Republican leader for compressed arguments and a speedy trial. Chief Justice John Roberts gaveled in the session. Democrats warned that the rules package could force midnight sessions that would keep most Americans in the dark. Trump said anew that the whole thing was a hoax, and he said he was sure it would “work out fine.”
January 21, 2020 3:09 am
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (WPXI) — A gun buyback program at the Holy Cross Episcopal Church held in conjunction with Martin Luther King Jr. Day ran out of money in less than an hour, paying out over $5,000. Program officials said they were offering $100 per gun turned in, with no questions asked. Church leaders were partnering with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police and Homewood Ministries to put on the program. Last November, there was a double homicide right outside of the church. Program officials said the doors will be open through the afternoon with the hope they receive more donations in order to buy back more guns. However, they are planning to host another similar event soon. The church is asking for more donations but you cannot donate online. You’d have to go to the church directly.
January 21, 2020 3:07 am
EAST HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WPXI) — Three workers burned when a business caught fire Friday in East Huntingdon are still recovering from their injuries as officials with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigate what happened. Three people were burned and two of them are still in a hospital following a huge fire at Fleet Services. Shawn Wilson was one of the victims and his wife told our news partners at Channel 11 he was moved out of the ICU and will need skin grafts. Officials with OSHA are looking into what sparked the massive fire. Leaders with the company were also reportedly making their way to the site to investigate. “The one tanker in the garage has a blow off valve on top. When the pressure gets behind it and the heat, it blew the valves off to release the pressure. It’s meant to do that,” said Chief Brian Kite with the East Huntingdon Fire Department. He said mechanics were doing routine maintenance on tanks containing butane when the fire started. Fire officials said several years ago, they toured the company to become familiar with it in case there was ever an incident there.
January 21, 2020 3:04 am
MOUNT PLEASANT TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WPXI) — Several students from the Mount Pleasant Area School District were hurt Monday evening in a crash in Westmoreland County, the district’s superintendent said. The head-on crash happened about 5:30 p.m. on Claypike Road in Mount Pleasant Township, officials said. Four people were flown by medical helicopters to Pittsburgh hospitals, officials told our news partners at Channel 11. Mount Pleasant Area School District Superintendent Timothy Gabauer released the following statement: “The Mount Pleasant Area School District is saddened by the news that several of our students were injured in a two vehicle accident earlier this evening. Our entire community prays together for a full recovery of everyone involved.” Gabauer’s statement went on to say that the school district’s crisis teams will be available Tuesday morning “to assist other members of our MP family as we continue thinking of our friends.”
January 20, 2020 4:11 pm
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) – A defense attorney says he expects to appeal the murder conviction of a western Pennsylvania man who asserted that his now-deceased twin brother was the shooter. Jurors in Westmoreland County deliberated for about two hours Friday before convicting 30-year-old Darrelle Tolbert-McGhee of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 32-year-old Michael Wilson. McGhee had asserted that he was in Florida at the time of the April 2017 slaying in downtown Jeannette. He said the shooter was his twin brother, Dwayne, who was killed in a shooting 13 months later in Wilkinsburg. Prosecutors said the shooter’s identity wasn’t in question.
January 20, 2020 3:28 pm
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Police say an armed security guard shot and killed a man suspected of fatally shooting a woman and injuring 15 more people outside a bar in Kansas City, Missouri. The attack took place shortly before midnight Sunday outside 9ine Ultra Lounge. A motive for the shooting has not been revealed. Kansas City Police Capt. David Jackson told reporters early Monday that responding officers found “a chaotic scene.” Jackson says a man and a woman were killed and police believe the shooter is the deceased man. The venue was hosting a celebration of the Kansas City Chiefs’ progression to the Super Bowl.
January 20, 2020 12:23 pm
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. (AP) – State police say an armed woman was shot and wounded by a state trooper in western Pennsylvania.Police in Lawrence County say troopers responded just after 9 a.m. Monday to a Slippery Rock Township location where a woman was reported causing a disturbance. Trooper R. Dan Kesten said the woman was armed and failed to comply with the demands of the troopers. Kesten said the troopers’ lives “became endangered and they fired at her.” She was taken to a hospital. No information was available about her condition. Police say she will face charges. The troopers weren’t injured.
January 20, 2020 12:15 pm
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Thousands of gun-rights activists from around the country rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol on Monday, protesting plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation that have become a key flashpoint in the national debate over gun violence. The size of the rally and the expected participation of white supremacists and fringe militia groups raised fears that the state could see a repeat of the violence that exploded in 2017 in Charlottesville. But the rally concluded uneventfully around noon, and the mood was largely festive. Attendees spilled into the streets, chanting “USA” and waving signs denouncing Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam. (Photo: CNN)
