June 1, 2020 5:36 pm
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – George Floyd’s brother is pleading for peace in the streets, saying violence is “not going to bring my brother back at all.” President Donald Trump is berating most of the nation’s governors as “weak” for not cracking down harder on the lawlessness that has convulsed cities from coast to coast. The competing messages, one conciliatory, one bellicose, come as cities brace for another round of violence. In the past few days, stores have been ransacked, cars burned and windows smashed in some of the most widespread racial unrest since the 1960s.
June 1, 2020 2:55 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is deriding the nation’s governors as “weak” and demanding tougher crackdowns on burning and stealing in the aftermath of more violent protests in dozens of American cities. Trump spoke Monday to governors on a video teleconference with law enforcement and national security officials, telling the state leaders they “have to get much tougher” amid nationwide protests and criticizing their responses. The days of protests were triggered by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after he was pinned at the neck by a white Minneapolis police officer. They turned violent in several cities, with looting and mayhem, and fires ignited in the park across from the White House.
June 1, 2020 2:42 pm
GRAFTON, W.Va. (AP) – Police say a man who recently moved from Texas to West Virginia has been charged in the beheading of his girlfriend’s father. The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office says 28-year-old Nicholas Padron of Grafton turned himself in Saturday and was arraigned on a first-degree murder charge. Taylor County Sheriff Terry Austin says the body of 49-year-old Michael Blackburn was found in a home he shared with his daughter, her children and Padron. Austin told The Exponent Telegram the daughter wasn’t home at the time of Friday’s homicide. Padron is being held without bond in the North Central Regional Jail.
June 1, 2020 9:56 am
PITTSBURGH – The City of Pittsburgh declared a citywide curfew in response to violent protests on Saturday. The curfew was first put into place between 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. Sunday. It was again in place Sunday night and has been extended again to go into effect Monday night AT 8:30 and last until 6:00 Tuesday morning.
May 25, 2020 3:35 am
AMBRIDGE, Pa. (WPXI) — A body located in the Ohio River near a bridge in Ambridge on Saturday night has been identified as the man who fell in while he was fishing. According to the Ohio Township Police Department, the body is that of 23-year-old Kenneth Robinson and the manner of death has been ruled as accidental. Police confirmed the body was located in the water near the Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge around 8 p.m. on Saturday night. Robinson was fishing on a dock with friends on Neville Island when he fell in last weekend.
May 25, 2020 3:32 am
ERIE, Pa. (AP) – State game commission wardens in northwestern Pennsylvania tranquilized and removed a 127-pound bear from an Erie neighborhood over the weekend. Erie police and game wardens were called to east Erie at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday after the animal was spotted in a tree in a home’s backyard. A game warden fired a tranquilizer dart from the bucket of a fire department ladder truck backed into an adjacent yard near the tree, and the bear dropped to the ground from a branch about 25 feet in the air. Wardens said the bear would likely be taken to Forest County and be released.
May 25, 2020 3:31 am
BELL ACRES, Pa. (AP) – Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a man is facing charges in a hit-and-run crash that killed a bicyclist near Pittsburgh over the weekend. Allegheny County police say Bell Acres officers were dispatched just before 12:30 p.m. Saturday on a report of a collision involving a pickup truck and a 51-year-old cyclist, who died shortly afterward. Witnesses said the truck was heading west in the eastbound lanes and struck the eastbound cyclist head-on. Thirty-three-year-old Justin Michael Miller faces charges including vehicular homicide while driving under the influence. Court documents don’t list a defense attorney. A listed number for Miller couldn’t be found Sunday.
May 24, 2020 6:24 am
HONG KONG (AP) – Hong Kong police have fired volleys of tear gas in a popular shopping district as thousands took to the streets to march against China’s proposed tough national security legislation for the city. Pro-democracy supporters have sharply criticized China’s proposal to enact a national security law that would ban secessionist and subversive activity, as well as foreign interference and terrorism. Critics say it goes against the “one country, two systems” framework that promises the city freedoms not found on the mainland. On Sunday afternoon, crowds of protesters dressed in black gathered in Causeway Bay, a popular shopping district, to protest the proposed legislation. The bill would bypass the city’s legislature and make it possible for Chinese agents to arbitrarily arrest people.
May 24, 2020 6:22 am
HONOLULU (AP) – Joe Biden has won the presidential primary in Hawaii. The results were announced Saturday. The party-run primary was delayed by more than a month because of the coronavirus. In-person voting was canceled and additional ballots were sent out for an all-mail-in voting system. Biden received 63% of the votes and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders received 37%. Biden won 16 delegates and Sanders got eight. According to the count by the Associated Press, Biden has a total of 1,566 delegates to the party’s national convention. He needs 1,991 delegates to win the nomination, a threshold he is projected to reach in June.
May 24, 2020 6:21 am
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) – At least one migrant has drowned, six are missing and over 80 have been rescued off Tunisia’s Mediterranean coast. Tunisian authorities are reporting a new wave of dangerous attempts by migrant traffickers to cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach Europe. The Tunisian coast guard rescued 11 migrants after an emergency call from a boat that was filling with water Saturday off the city of Sfax. Divers from the Tunisian emergency services retrieved one body, and the captain and chief trafficker fled. Six others who had been aboard the boat are missing. The coast guard also rescued 70 other people from another boat in poor condition.
