November 10, 2019 8:24 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is on a sports kick, taking in baseball, a mixed martial arts tournament and college football in recent days. Even his re-election campaign made the most of sporting events by airing a pricey television ad during the World Series. Presidents have long used sporting events to woo support, but it’s also a venue for fans to express their own political leanings. Trump was booed at Game 5 of the World Series but he’s heading to friendlier turf Saturday to watch the two highest-ranked college football teams. Louisiana State University and the University of Alabama face off in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
November 10, 2019 8:21 am
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) – A caravan of more than a dozen vehicles holding Mormon families escaping after a violent attack in Mexico has arrived in Arizona. The families crossed the border into the state Saturday afternoon, the Arizona Daily Star reports. They came nearly a week after an attack Monday in which nine women and children were killed by what authorities said were people from drug cartels. The families had lived in two hamlets in Mexico’s Sonora state: La Mora and Colonia LeBaron. The attack occurred as the women traveled with their children to visit relatives. Other residents of the hamlets planned to depart in the coming days. The spread-out community traces its origins to the end of polygamy more than a century ago by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, forcing Mormon families in the U.S. with multiple wives to establish offshoots elsewhere.
November 10, 2019 8:20 am
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran’s president says a new oil field has been discovered with an estimated 50 billion barrels of crude oil in the country’s south. The announcement by President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday would mean Iran’s proven crude oil reserves would be boosted by a third. Right now, Iran says it has some 150 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves. He said the discovered field was located in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province. Rouhani made the announcement Sunday in a speech in the desert city of Yazd. Iran’s energy industry has been hard-hit by U.S. sanctions over its collapsing nuclear deal with world powers.
November 10, 2019 8:19 am
NEW YORK (AP) – The Associated Press has learned that former national security adviser John Bolton has a book deal. Bolton departed in September because of numerous foreign policy disagreements with President Donald Trump – on Iran, North Korea and more. According to three publishing officials with knowledge of negotiations, he reached a deal over the past few weeks with Simon & Schuster. The officials weren’t authorized to discuss the deal publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Two say the deal is worth about $2 million. Bolton was represented by the Javelin literary agency, whose clients include former FBI Director James Comey and the anonymous Trump administration official whose book, “A Warning,” comes out Nov. 19.
November 10, 2019 8:16 am
NORTH STRABANE (WPXI) — The victim of a trench collapse in North Strabane Township has been identified. Washington County Coroner Tim Warco has identified Richard St. John, 49 of Bellaire, Ohio as the man who became trapped when a trench that he was digging collapsed. The cause and manner of death are still pending. The incident occurred on Brehm Road in North Strabane Township at 1:10 p.m. on Friday afternoon. St. John was one of several people trying to tie a sewer line into the public system. It is unclear what caused the collapse and the incident is still being investigated by OSHA and the North Strabane Township Police. (Photo WPXI)
November 10, 2019 8:15 am
HEMPFIELD, Pa. (AP) – Officials say three trains were involved in a derailment in western Pennsylvania, prompting cancellation of rail service between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, but no injuries were reported. Three Norfolk Southern Corp. trains were involved in the 2:30 p.m. Friday derailment just west of the Georges Station Road bridge in Hempfield, about three miles east of Greensburg. Norfolk Southern said one westbound train struck the rear of another, and derailed cars hit part of an eastbound train. A total of 11 rail cars transporting 50 shipping containers derailed, blocking lines that carry both freight and passengers between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Norfolk Southern said in a statement Saturday that cranes, excavators, loaders and other heavy equipment are being used to clear the tracks, and service restoration was expected late Saturday night.
November 10, 2019 8:14 am
PENN HILLS, Pa. (WPXI) – Two men who were wanted in connection with a deadly home invasion in Penn Hills were caught in California and have been extradited back to Allegheny County. Laron Howard, 19, and Laquon Perkins, 18, are facing homicide charges in the death of Aaron Evans. Evans, 35, was found shot inside his home on Lawton Street on Oct. 6. Evans was leaving to pick up his child from day care, when the three men — at least one of whom had a weapon — forced him back inside. According to the police criminal complaint, security cameras at the home showed the men dragging Evans into the house. Detectives said when Evans never showed up to pick up his child, the day care called the child’s mother, who then called 911. Investigators said the home was ransacked. Nearly two weeks later, on Oct. 18, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office arrested Howard and Perkins at a home in the 1200 block of Herzel Street in Lancaster, Calif. They were extradited back to Allegheny County Saturday morning, according to police. Both men are being charged with criminal homicide, burglary, robbery and criminal conspiracy. Howard also faces a weapons violation. Meanwhile, police are still trying to identify a third man they say is also involved. Anyone with information about the identity of the third man is asked to call the Allegheny County Police tip line at 1-833-255-8477.
November 9, 2019 9:22 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – If Ukraine’s new leader wanted an Oval Office welcome from Donald Trump – and he did – he would have to open a public probe into the president’s Democratic foe Joe Biden and his son. That is what two key White House officials told impeachment investigators. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an Army officer assigned to the National Security Council, testified that Gordon Sondland, a Trump donor serving as ambassador to the European Union, told the visiting officials that if they hoped to win that coveted face-to-face meeting, “the Ukrainians would have to deliver an investigation into the Bidens.” According to transcripts released Friday in the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, Vindman and Fiona Hill, a former White House Russia adviser, gave House investigators detailed updates of scenes central to the probe.
November 9, 2019 9:16 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Michael Bloomberg plans to focus his likely presidential campaign on Super Tuesday states, skipping early voting states where other candidates have spent months meeting voters and building operations. Bloomberg adviser Howard Wolfson says other candidates already have a big head start in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. Wolfson says Bloomberg is “realistic” about where he can make up ground at this late stage. That means Bloomberg would focus on the crush of states that vote on March 3, hoping to quickly amass delegates in California, Virginia and elsewhere. The billionaire’s vast personal wealth means he can start advertising and building a campaign apparatus in those states while other candidates are focused on the early primary contests. Bloomberg is expected to make a final decision on the 2020 campaign in the coming days.
November 9, 2019 9:13 am
BERLIN (AP) – Germany is marking the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. Leaders from Germany and other European nations are attending ceremonies Saturday in Berlin recalling the peaceful protests that piled pressure on East Germany’s government to allow its citizens free passage to the west on Nov. 9, 1989 . The main commemoration is being held at Bernauer Strasse, where one of the last parts of the Berlin Wall that divided the city for 28 years still stands. Light installations, concerts and public debates are also being held throughout the city and other parts of Germany to mark the anniversary.
