December 3, 2019 4:17 am
NEW YORK (AP) – A federal appeals court in New York has handed President Donald Trump another legal defeat. It ruled that Congress can see his banking records for investigations into possible foreign influence in U.S. politics or other misdeeds. The panel of 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges said two banks, Deutsche Bank and Capital One, should comply with subpoenas from the House Financial Services and Intelligence committees seeking records related to Trump’s business ventures.
December 3, 2019 4:15 am
SAN DIEGO (AP) – California Rep. Duncan Hunter faces five years in prison after pleading guilty to misusing campaign money. Hunter changed his not guilty plea in federal court in San Diego Tuesday. He gave a brief statement outside court saying he failed to properly monitor campaign funds. He had denied wrong doing for more than a year. He claimed he was the victim of a political witch hunt by federal prosecutors.
December 3, 2019 4:10 am
KEMPTON, Pa. (AP) – The mother of two young children found hanging in their Pennsylvania home has been charged with their murder. Medical personnel revived the 8-year-old boy and 4-year-old girl, but they died three days later. Berks County prosecutors announced Lisa Snyder’s arrest Monday. A message was left with her attorney seeking comment. Snyder told authorities that she found her children, Conner and Brinley, in their Albany home on Sept. 23.
December 3, 2019 4:03 am
ALIQUIPPA, Pa. – (WPXI) – A 20-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with stabbing a 14-year-old in the chest in Aliquippa. The stabbing happened inside an apartment along Superior Avenue. Police said the victim was alert enough to tell them Kaitlyn Heater stabbed him. “We responded to her apartment, she was there, we got a search warrant we found the knife and arrested her,” said Aliquippa police Officer Josh Gonzalez. Police said somehow, the victim’s grandma got involved, put him in her car and rushed to the hospital. When the situation became dire, police said that she pulled over at the Ambridge Police Department where officers dialed 911 and worked on the teen until the paramedics arrived. According to the criminal complaint, Heater said she was swinging a knife and had no intention of calling police. As for the relationship between the two, Gonzalez said, “they just know each other.” The 14-year-old is still in the hospital recovering from the stabbing. Aliquippa police, along with state police, are still investigating.
December 2, 2019 5:26 pm
MILWAUKEE (AP) – A police chief says an officer shot an armed male student in a classroom at a suburban Milwaukee high school when the suspect pointed a gun at officers. Police say it all began when a student informed a school resource officer that a classmate had a handgun around 10:17 a.m. Police say more officers arrived and tried to de-escalate the situation, but the 17-year-old suspect ignored their commands. He is in custody and in stable condition.
December 2, 2019 5:23 pm
LONDON (AP) – President Donald Trump is accusing Democrats of scheduling this week’s impeachment hearing to undercut him during his trip abroad. He’s headed for a NATO summit playing out at a crucial moment for the 70-year-old military alliance. As he departed the White House for London, Trump called the trip “one of the most important journeys that we make as president.”
December 2, 2019 12:53 pm
Shoppers, many of them using smartphones, spent $3.6 billion buying online from small businesses on Saturday. Adobe Analytics, which tracks online sales, says that’s up 18% from a year earlier. Adobe reports that holiday season sales are on track to grow 14.9% from 2018. Small businesses garnered $68.2 billion in online sales from Nov. 1 to Nov. 30. More people are shopping on their phones. Adobe said Sunday that smartphone revenue made up 41.2% of all e-commerce revenue on Saturday. That is up 22% from a year ago. Saturday’s top-selling products included toys from Disney’s “Frozen 2,” “Madden 20” and “FIFA 20” video games, Amazon’s Fire TV and Apple AirPods.
December 2, 2019 8:19 am
One person was transported to an area hospital following a one-vehicle crash Monday morning in North Franklin Township. It happened around 4:30a.m in the one-hundred block of Cleveland Road. Reports are that the vehicle struck a pole. No other details have been released. There is no word on the identity nor the condition of the individual transported from the scene.
December 2, 2019 4:25 am
CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) – Police say heavy fog may have helped cause a nearly 60-car pileup that snarled holiday traffic on an interstate highway in western Maryland. Maryland State Police say there were 58 vehicles involved in 29 separate collisions Sunday on westbound Interstate 68. Police say 10 people were taken to a local hospital with injuries, none of them life-threatening. Authorities say it’s unclear what caused the initial collision but heavy fog in the area is believed to be a factor in the pileup. Police said the westbound portion of the interstate was closed for about four hours. (Photo: WPXI)
December 2, 2019 4:23 am
MADRID (AP) – Delegates from almost 200 countries have begun a two-week international climate conference in Madrid that seeks to step up efforts to stop global warming. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that the efforts so far are insufficient to overcome the “point of no return” in climate change. “What is lacking is political will,” Guterres told reporters on the eve of the COP25 meeting, which opened Monday. The summit, which moved to the Spanish capital after Chile had to pull out amid anti-government protests, aims to put the finishing touches to the rules governing the 2015 Paris accord. That involves creating a functioning international emissions-trading system and compensating poor countries for losses they suffer from rising sea levels and other consequences of climate change.
