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.
December 2, 2019 4:22 am
NEW YORK (AP) – A wave of new laws in 15 states that allow people to make claims of sexual abuse going back decades could bring a deluge of lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Church that could surpass anything seen so far in its clergy abuse crisis. Associated Press interviews with attorneys and clergy abuse watchdog groups found it could result in at least 5,000 new cases against the church and more than $4 billion in payouts. It’s a financial reckoning playing out in such Catholic strongholds as New York, California and New Jersey, among eight states that go the furthest with “lookback windows” allowing sex abuse claims no matter how old. Catholic leaders worry about the difficulty of defending such old cases, and more dioceses are considering bankruptcy and victim compensation funds.
December 2, 2019 4:21 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Democratic majority on the House Intelligence Committee says an impeachment report on President Donald Trump will speak for itself in laying out evidence of “wrongdoing and misconduct” over his dealings with Ukraine. The report is being made available for committee members to review ahead of a vote Tuesday to send it to the Judiciary Committee. The White House counsel has turned down an invitation to appear before the first meeting of the Judiciary Committee, scheduled for Wednesday.
December 2, 2019 4:19 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – The Pennsylvania Game Commission says it is investigating a video circulated on social media showing two males apparently beating an injured deer. In a Facebook post Sunday, the commission called the conduct portrayed in the video “reprehensible and potentially a violation of the law.” In the video, the two appear to kick the animal in the face repeatedly and rip off one of its antlers. Game wardens are investigating and asked anyone with information to call its Operation Game Thief hotline or the northwest region dispatch office. The commission told KDKA-TV that although the two individuals are reportedly from Brookville in Jefferson County, that doesn’t mean the incident occurred there. Brookville police told WJAC-TV that the events occurred outside of their jurisdiction and that “proper authorities were notified.”
