January 5, 2024 4:55 am
Only minor injuries are reported after a vehicle went through a fence and crashed into the rear of a home in the City of Washington early Friday morning. Washington County 9-1-1 tells WJPA News it happened just before 3 a.m. in the 600-block of Henderson Avenue. According to dispatchers, the driver of the truck was not injured. The homeowner was treated at the scene but was not transported. HAZMAT was called to the scene. Dispatchers say they are there for structural support for the home. Dispatch says all crews cleared the scene by 6 a.m. No other information is currently available.
January 5, 2024 2:17 am
A Brownsville man has been sentenced in federal court to fifty-one months’ imprisonment, ten years of supervised release, and has been ordered to pay $28,000.00 in restitution on his conviction of possessing material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor. United States District Judge Cathy Bissoon imposed the sentence on 52-year-old Karl D. Lutes. Authorities say Lutes had been sharing images over the Internet which depicted the sexual exploitation of minors. He was identified through an investigation undertaken by agents of Homeland Security Investigations. On February 11, 2020, agents executed a search warrant at Lutes’s residence and found him in possession of hundreds of videos and still images in computer graphics files depicting the sexual exploitation of minors, some of whom had not yet attained the age of 12 years. Prior to imposing sentence, Judge Bissoon stated that a sentence that included 51 months in prison served to protect the public, to provide for just punishment, and to afford Lutes with needed rehabilitation. Judge Bisson further highlighted that the submitted victim impact statements provided a view of the real harm to children stemming from crimes involving their sexual exploitation.
January 4, 2024 5:27 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, has died. She was 100. Mitch Clem, her manager, said she died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles of natural causes. Johns’ greatest triumph was playing Desiree Armfeldt in “A Little Night Music,” for which she won a Tony in 1973. Sondheim wrote the show’s hit song “Send in the Clowns” to suit her distinctive husky voice, but she lost the part in the 1977 film version to Elizabeth Taylor. (Photo: ABC)
January 4, 2024 1:44 pm
Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding unveiled the 2024 PA Farm Show Butter Sculpture, a 1,000-pound diorama in dairy titled, A Table for All: Pennsylvania Dairy Connects Communities. The sculpture was designed and crafted by Jim Victor and Marie Pelton of Conshohocken to reflect the 2024 Farm Show theme, Connecting Our Communities, and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of PA Preferred®, Pennsylvania’s statewide brand for locally grown and made agricultural products. “Pennsylvania’s $14 billion dairy industry provides jobs 53,000 Pennsylvanians and makes up a third of our state’s food agriculture industry,” Secretary Redding said. “Our hardworking dairy farm families are connecting Pennsylvanians to opportunity and feeding our prosperity together. The Shapiro Administration is working hard to connect our dairy industry to future economic opportunities. We are proud to invest in dairy and highlight the industry and its innovative leaders during the Farm Show and year-round.” Pennsylvania dairy farmer Walt Moore of Walmoore Holsteins in Chester County, and a host of PA dairy industry leaders joined Redding to unveil the sculpture, which depicts urban and rural Pennsylvanians connecting around a meal of delicious local food against a backdrop of a cityscape and farm skyline. The diners are celebrating a harvest of PA products with a centerpiece of the keystone-and-check-mark PA Preferred logo.
January 4, 2024 11:58 am
(WPXI) – A Monroeville police officer was shot multiple times after spotting a person suspected in an armed robbery at Crumbl Cookie Wednesday night. Police were called to the Crumbl Cookie in Miracle Mile Shopping Center for an armed robbery at 9:13 p.m. According to the criminal complaint, the person who called 911 said there was a Black male dressed in all black with a black hoodie armed with a handgun. Officers responding to the scene were told to keep an eye out for anyone matching that description. At 9:17 p.m., a Monroeville sergeant was traveling east on Monroeville Boulevard near Stonecliffe Drive. The sergeant saw an individual that matched the description of the suspect. According to the complaint, body cam footage showed the sergeant making a U-turn after he passed a male on the road. He relayed he was getting out with one male at the entrance of Stonecliff Drive, which was when the suspect fired multiple rounds at the police vehicle. The officer radioed that he was taking shots from a male in an orange vest armed with a gun. The complaint said the sergeant was shot at least three times in the left elbow and left hip. He was taken to the hospital and is listed in critical but stable condition. Police have not identified the adult male suspect.
January 4, 2024 10:15 am
PERRY, Iowa (AP) — Police said a sixth grader was killed and five other people were wounded by a 17-year-old suspect in the shooting Thursday at a small-town Iowa high school. The shooter, identified as Dylan Butler, was found dead from what they believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police in Perry, Iowa, say multiple people were shot at the city’s high school, on students’ first day back in classes after their annual winter break. A spokesperson said two gunshot victims were taken by ambulance to a hospital in the state capital of Des Moines, about 40 miles southeast of Perry. In Perry, Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante says an active shooter was reported at Perry High School before school started on Thursday and officers responded about seven minutes later. The shooting occurred in the backdrop of the Iowa caucuses and not far from where Republican candidates were campaigning. (Photo: AP)
January 4, 2024 5:10 am
PERRY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a 17-year-old student with a shotgun and a handgun opened fire at a small-town Iowa high school, killing a sixth-grader and wounding five others. Thursday’s shooting had students at Perry High School barricading themselves in offices, ducking into classrooms and fleeing. Authorities say one of the wounded was a school administrator and the suspect was found dead with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. investigators are looking at possible motive and reviewing the suspect’s social media posts. Two friends and their mother who spoke with The Associated Press said the suspect was a quiet person who had been bullied for years.
January 4, 2024 5:09 am
MUWASI, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians seeking refuge in southern Gaza say every day has become a desperate struggle to find food, water, medicine and working bathrooms. They often spend hours waiting in line for aid distributed by the U.N. Families also live in fear of Israeli airstrikes and the growing threat of diseases. Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion to eradicate Hamas have pushed almost all Palestinians toward Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah. In nearly every plot of land that stretches west from the city, thousands of nylon tents have sprung up for those without a house to shelter in.
January 4, 2024 5:07 am
DETROIT (AP) — American consumers bought 15.6 million new vehicles last year. The numbers indicate car buyers were undeterred by high prices, rising interest rates, autoworker strikes and a computer-chip shortage that slowed assembly lines. The tally is 12% more than in 2022, and the biggest increase in more than a decade. Yet sales still haven’t returned to the 17 million rate in the years before the pandemic, and there are signs of a cooling market as supplies grow on dealer lots and prices start to fall. Average auto sales prices peaked in December of 2022 just over $47,300. Data from J.D. Power show that average prices in mid-December were down 2.7% from the peak to around $46,000. Analysts expect more discounts through the year.
January 4, 2024 5:06 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers posted 8.8 million job openings in November, down slightly from October and the fewest since March 2021. But demand for workers remains strong by historical standards. The number of job vacancies dipped from 8.9 million in October. And the number of people quitting their jobs — a sign of confidence in the labor market — fell to its lowest level since February 2021. The number of quits is now roughly where it stood before the pandemic erupted. Job openings dropped by 128,000 in transportation, warehousing and utilities and by 78,000 at hotels and restaurants. The federal government reduced job openings by 58,000. By contrast, openings in construction rose by 43,000 and in retail by 42,000.
