August 21, 2019 7:40 am
The Washington County Coroner’s office has not yet released the identity of the person killed after being struck by a train in downtown Charleroi Tuesday night. Officials say it happened around 10 p.m. when the person was struck by a Norfolk Southern Train near 7th Street and Railroad Way. Officials are still working to notify the next of kin. Norfolk Southern and Charleroi Police continue to investigate.
August 21, 2019 4:18 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Larry King is seeking a divorce from his seventh wife, Shawn King, after 22 years. The 85-year-old talk show host filed a petition to end the marriage Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. Larry King and Shawn King, then a singer and TV host, married in 1997 and have two adult sons, Chance and Cannon. They both filed for divorce in 2010 but later reconciled.
Larry King has been married eight times to seven different women and has five children. He married and divorced Alene Akins twice. He has overcome several serious health issues in recent years, including a bout with lung cancer two years ago.
August 21, 2019 4:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says any Jewish people who vote Democratic show “either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.” Trump commented Tuesday amid his ongoing feud with Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Trump has taken several steps favored by Israel, while the Muslim lawmakers are outspoken critics of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. Trump calls Omar a “disaster” for Jews and says he didn’t “buy” the tears Tlaib shed Monday as she discussed the situation. At Trump’s urging, Israel last week blocked the pair from entering the country. Israel later agreed to a humanitarian visit for Tlaib to visit her grandmother who lives in the West Bank. Tlaib declined. Recent polling shows that a majority of Jews identify as Democrats.
August 21, 2019 4:10 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – A committee of Pennsylvania Game Commission staff has recommended a statewide ban on feeding white-tailed deer. The agency biologists say that banning artificial feeding stations would help slow the spread of wildlife diseases. They’re asking residents to voluntarily stop feeding deer. The commission often addresses wildlife outbreaks of insect-borne infections, West Nile Virus, and other flare-ups, but its scientists are most concerned about chronic wasting disease in deer. The neurological disorder is fatal, and exposure cannot be detected until shortly before the deer’s death. The disease has spread to herds in 23 states, including Pennsylvania, where it continues to spread. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that municipalities that have proposed feeding bans in the past have faced opposition and eventually abandoned the idea after backlash from voters who enjoy the pastime.
August 21, 2019 4:06 am
Approximately 50 North Strabane Residents gathered for a Special Hearing regarding the Amended Development Plan for the Scenic Valley Development on McDowell lane. The mood was much more cordial than in previous meetings about the development. Laurel Communities changed the idea for the 68 acre site after public outcry regarding a 4 story senior living facility was proposed. That development is now a two phase development that replaced that senior living facility with 74 townhomes and kept the original phase two development of 52 townhomes. Neighboring residents are relieved that the plan was amended to be what it is right now. Alan Bullard of neighboring Sunset Pointe states that Developer Terry Bowe of Laurel Communities was receptive to neighbors concerns and went to great lengths to try and please neighboring residents. Bullard was complimentary of Bowe and Laurel Communities calling them “Good Neighbors”. Supervisors expect to give final approval for the conditional use of the plan in an upcoming meeting.
August 21, 2019 3:55 am
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Southwest Airlines is cutting its route between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, Pittsburgh International Airport announced on Monday. Service between the two cities, which had been operating six days a week, was suspended in June due to issues with the airline’s Boeing 737 Max 8 jets. There have been problems with the plane — two 737 Max 8 jets have crashed under similar circumstances since October 2018 — and that has led to the Federal Aviation Administration grounding all 737 Max 8s.
August 20, 2019 4:38 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says his administration is a looking at tax cut proposals but not as a response to a potential recession. He says, “I’m looking at that all the time anyway.” Trump talked about the economy and trade with China during a meeting Tuesday in the Oval Office with the president of Romania. Trump says his administration is looking at a cut in the capital gains tax when investors sell assets. It is also exploring lower payroll taxes. But mostly, Trump is pressuring the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. He says, “They have to do a rate cut.” Trump says the word recession is “inappropriate” and if the Fed would do its job, “you would see a burst of growth like you’ve never seen before.” (Photo: CNN)
August 20, 2019 3:09 pm
(AP) – Federal agents say a truck driver warned that he would commit a mass shooting at a church in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday. Court records filed Monday say Thomas Matthew McVicker was apprehended in Indianapolis before the plan could be carried out. An FBI special agent says in an affidavit that McVicker made “credible threats to conduct a mass shooting and suicide.” McVicker’s friend in southern Alabama this month told a Florida FBI agent that McVicker was considering “shooting a church up” or killing people on the street. The affidavit doesn’t specify a motive, nor does it identify a specific Memphis church. Court records list McVicker’s address as Punta Gorda, Florida. The records don’t list a lawyer who could be reached for comment on McVicker’s behalf.
August 20, 2019 10:58 am
BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) – A 15-year-old girl and her father have sued Appalachian Regional Healthcare, saying that the girl and at least 20 others were sexually harassed by a physician in West Virginia. The Register-Herald reports the lawsuit was filed Monday against Dr. Zouhair Kabarra and the Kentucky-based network that owns Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital, where the father and teen volunteered. The lawsuit says Kabarra sexually harassed the teen several times and at one point pressed his genitalia against her buttocks. The lawsuit says when the father and daughter alerted officials, they were barred from the volunteer program. The lawsuit says the hospital knew about multiple harassment allegations but did nothing about it. ARH spokeswoman Melissa Cornett says Kabarra no longer is an ARH employee. The company declined to comment further on the lawsuit.
August 20, 2019 9:34 am
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Rio de Janeiro’s state governor says an armed man who took dozens of hostages on a bus has died after being shot by police following a four-hour long standoff. Gov. Wilson Witzel said the hostages were freed after Tuesday’s incident. The man armed with a gun and a knife took 37 people hostage around 5:30 a.m. on a busy bridge linking the suburb of Sao Goncalo to downtown Rio de Janeiro. Police say hostages told them the man had spilled gasoline in the bus and was threatened to set it on fire. Hans Moreno, one of the hostages onboard, said on TV Globo the man was not behaving in an aggressive way and was “very calm.” Sao Goncalo is a violent, impoverished suburb separated from Rio by Guanabara Bay. Many use the bridge to go to and from work.
