June 21, 2020 7:53 am
TULSA, Okla. (AP) – President Donald Trump’s supporters faced off with protesters shouting “Black Lives Matter” in Tulsa as the president held his first campaign rally in months amid public health concerns about the coronavirus and fears that the event could lead to violence in the wake of killings of Black people by police. Activists flooded the city’s downtown streets and briefly blocked traffic at an intersection, but police reported just one arrest as of Saturday afternoon. Later in the evening, a group of armed men began following the protesters. When the protesters blocked an intersection, a man wearing a Trump shirt got out of a truck and spattered them with pepper spray. Police later deployed an irritant gas to try and make the group disperse.
June 21, 2020 7:52 am
PARIS (AP) – Protesters marched through Paris against racism and police violence and in memory of Lamine Dieng, a 25-year-old Franco-Senegalese man who died in a police van in 2007. The French government agreed this month to pay 145,000 euros ($162,000) to Dieng’s relatives after 13 years of legal wrangling. His sister expressed hope that the global awareness stoked by George Floyd’s death would help bring about legislative change in France. The protesters marched to his former home and were joined by a separate Paris demonstration in support of undocumented workers Saturday. Both protests were authorized by authorities in spite of the coronavirus outbreak. Other protests in the French capital were banned.
June 21, 2020 7:51 am
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Police say one man is dead and 11 people are wounded following a shooting in Minneapolis. Minneapolis police initially said 10 people had been shot with “various severity levels of injuries,” but revised their total just after 3 a.m. Sunday. An initial tweet from Minneapolis police advised the public to avoid the area in Uptown Minneapolis, a commercial district that includes several bars and restaurants. No one was in custody in connection with the shooting as of 4 a.m., according to a police release that said preliminary investigation indicated that “individuals on foot” started shooting around 12:30 a.m. and later fled the scene.
June 21, 2020 7:50 am
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) – Authorities in central New York say nine people were shot at a nighttime “celebration.” Syracuse police say a 17-year-old boy is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head and eight others were expected to survive. No was immediately taken into custody and the investigation was in its early stages. The shooting took place at a celebration centralized in a parking lot near downtown Syracuse, but the police chief said shots could have been fired at multiple locations in the area. The nature of the celebration wasn’t immediately known. Syracuse’s mayor says the event likely didn’t have a permit.
June 21, 2020 7:46 am
SCOTT TWP. PA (WPXI) — Three people were rushed to the hospital in critical condition after a major crash in Allegheny County. The accident happened around 4:45 p.m. Saturday in the 300 block of Noblestown Road, according to investigators. A woman driving a Ford Fiesta hit two men and another woman who were fixing a broken-down car on the side of the road. According to a release from Allegheny County police, all three victims were in one vehicle when it broke down on Noblestown Road. The driver, a 37-year-old woman, her father and another man, ages 70 and 61, got out to begin to fix the issue. Police said they were working on the car’s battery when the collision happened. All three victims were listed in critical condition with undisclosed injuries. Pending the outcome of an investigation, police said they will consult with the district attorney’s office to determine if charges will be filed against the woman who caused the crash. Anyone with information is asked to call police.
June 21, 2020 7:41 am
PITTSBURGH (WPXI) — A second employee at Rivers Casino has tested positive for COVID-19. Officials said the employee last worked on June 13, but they didn’t specify where at the casino they work. Rivers has had heavy guidelines to limit the amount of exposure to the virus, as most of southwestern Pa. moved into the green phase. Casino officials said all employees and guests that were in close proximity to that employee will be notified by the Allegheny County Health Department. Rivers also will begin temperature checks for guests in addition to employees. Anyone with a temperature above 100.4 degrees will not be allowed to access the gaming floor.
June 21, 2020 7:38 am
WILKINSBURG, Pa. (AP) – Authorities in western Pennsylvania are seeking a man and a vehicle seen in the area of a shooting that claimed the lives of two men and a woman in Wilkinsburg. Officials said an officer on routine patrol heard gunshots on Coal Street at about 1:30 a.m. Friday, and then a second round of shots. Arriving officers found the bodies of 43-year-old Oliver Andrew Finley of Wilkinsburg and 43-year-old Tara Alice Joseph of Pitcarin near a car. The body of 51-year-old Harold Hicks of Pittsburgh was found in a pickup truck down the street near Hunter Park. Investigators said the three knew each other.
June 21, 2020 7:19 am
CANONSBURG, Pa – Over 350 peaceful protestors gathered in Canonsburg on Saturday for a Black Lives Matter march that communicated two main issues: the need to vote and education reform. Organizers did not want to express anger, but brought attention to the need for people to vote and curriculum reform in public schools to include more black figures in history classes. After a beginning prayer, a moment of silence for George Floyd, and music/speeches – the group marched to the Canon-Mac School Administration Building and then over the Officer Scott Bashioum Bridge, then back to where they started. The Canonsburg Police Department kept the protestors safe for the nearly 1 ½ hour event. Canonsburg Mayor, Dave Rhome, was pleased with the march and said, “Canonsburg set an example for the United States of America.”
June 20, 2020 11:51 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal judge has ruled that former national security adviser John Bolton can move forward in publishing his tell-all book. The Trump administration had tried to block the release because of concerns that classified information could be exposed. The decision from U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth is a victory for Bolton in a court case that involved core First Amendment and national security concerns. The ruling means a broader election-year readership and distribution for a memoir that paints an unflattering portrait of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy decision-making during the turbulent year-and-a-half that Bolton spent in the White House.
June 20, 2020 9:19 am
BEIJING (AP) – The body that handles most lawmaking for China’s top legislative body has closed its latest meeting with no word on whether it passed a highly controversial national security law for Hong Kong. China’s official Xinhua News Agency says the bill – which has been strongly criticized as undermining the semi-autonomous territory’s legal and political institutions – was raised for discussion at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress but there was no further word on its fate. Tam Yiu-chung, Hong Kong’s sole delegate on the Standing Committee, told Hong Kong public broadcaster RTHK that the law was reviewed but no vote had been taken, and that it wasn’t clear when it would be further vetted.
