October 29, 2019 4:17 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats have released text of a resolution that authorizes the next phase of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. The eight-page resolution released Tuesday calls for open hearings and requires the House Intelligence Committee to submit a report outlining its findings and recommendations. House Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern of Massachusetts says the resolution will “provide a clear path forward” as the House begins a public phase of the impeachment inquiry. (Photo: CNN)
October 29, 2019 4:14 am
NORTH VERSAILLES, Pa. (AP) – Police have one man in custody and are seeking another in a shooting death on a western Pennsylvania highway that preceded a crash that sent 10 people, five of them children, to hospitals. Allegheny County police say a white Nissan was pursuing a westbound black Chrysler on Route 30 at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday, and shots fired into the car killed 32-year-old Richard Littlejohn Jr. The vehicles collided and went into the eastbound lanes, where a Jeep was hit head-on. The injured included four children 2 or younger and a 10-year-old boy; there was no immediate word on their conditions. Police say a 22-year-old man was injured and is in custody while a 23-year-old man is being sought. Both face criminal homicide, aggravated assault, reckless endangering and firearms charges.
October 29, 2019 4:13 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – A victims’ rights constitutional amendment question and a pair of vacancies on an appeals court are the only contested statewide elections in Pennsylvania this year. But a legal challenge is ongoing regarding the Marsy’s Law amendment, which would enshrine victims’ rights in the state constitution. It’s unclear what will happen to the proposal if it’s approved on Nov. 5. In the contest for two Superior Court openings, Republicans have nominated Christylee Peck, a common pleas court judge in Cumberland County, and Megan McCarthy King, a prosecutor in the Philadelphia suburb of Chester County. The Democratic nominees are Philadelphia Judge Dan McCaffery and Amanda Green-Hawkins, a Pittsburgh lawyer. Voters will also have to sort through what are thousands of local and county government races.
October 29, 2019 4:12 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Legislation to allow Sunday hunting with a landowner’s written permission three days a year in Pennsylvania is getting some minor changes ahead of a final vote in the state House. Representatives voted overwhelmingly Monday to waive trespassing violations for unarmed people who enter posted property solely to retrieve a hunting dog, to let local police help the Game Commission enforce trespassing rules and to push back the law’s effective date by three months. Leaders say a final vote to send it back to the Senate is likely to occur Tuesday. The bill would allow Sunday hunting one day during rifle deer season, one during statewide archery deer season and a third day the Game Commission would select. It also would make it easier for wardens to enforce the anti-trespassing law.
October 29, 2019 4:08 am
PITTSBURGH – (WPXI) – A Port Authority bus, with a passenger on board, was swallowed by a massive sinkhole Monday downtown. The bus fell into the giant sinkhole at 10th Street and Penn Avenue just before 8 a.m. Police have closed Penn Avenue from 9th to 11th streets. Tenth Street is closed from Liberty Avenue to Fort Duquesne Boulevard. The underpass at the Convention Center is also closed. City officials said that 10th street will likely be closed for 6-8 weeks. The woman driving the bus and a second woman who was a passenger both managed to get off the bus and through the front door, Port Authority officials said. The passenger was treated by paramedics and was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital for neck pain then released, officials said. The driver was not hurt.
October 28, 2019 5:35 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) – Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will vote on a resolution setting procedures for the impeachment inquiry as Democrats try to counter the Trump administration’s stonewalling of the probe. Pelosi told colleagues Monday in a letter obtained by The Associated Press that the vote will “eliminate any doubt” about whether the Trump administration must comply with the investigation.
October 28, 2019 4:59 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – Robert Evans, the producer of “Chinatown” who helped shepherd countless seminal films including “The Godfather” and “Harold and Maude” to the screen as chief of Paramount Pictures, has died. He was 89. A representative for Evans confirmed that Evans died on Saturday. No other details were immediately available. During Evans’ tenure running Paramount, he resurrected the studio with films including “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Serpico” and “The Godfather,” parts one and two. Evans continued the drama off screen by marrying some of the industry’s most glamorous women. He was married seven times. His wives included actresses Ali MacGraw and Catherine Oxenberg and former Miss America Phyllis George. Evans penned the 1994 memoir “The Kid Stays in the Picture,” which was turned into a documentary in 2002.
October 28, 2019 8:52 am
State Police say a Greene County woman was killed early this morning in a two-vehicle crash on Prosperity Pike at Valley View Road in Morris Township. Troopers say 35-year-old Tammy Lynn Householder of Holbrook was traveling south on Route 18 when her vehicle crossed into the northbound lanes, briefly left the road and then turned onto its side. Police say Householder’s vehicle then re-entered the northbound lane and collided with an oncoming vehicle driven by 49-year-old John Dukeman of Uniontown. Householder was not wearing a seatbelt. There was no word on whether Dukeman suffered any injuries. Police say his vehicle sustained major damage.
October 28, 2019 4:29 am
DETROIT (AP) – The Rev. Jesse Jackson says there would be no federal holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. without the work of John Conyers. Conyers, the longest-serving black member of Congress, died Sunday at his Detroit home, two years after leaving the U.S. House. Jackson, the Chicago-based civil rights leader, tells The Associated Press that even some of Conyers’ allies doubted that he could persuade Congress to create a public holiday for King. Jackson says Conyers’ death and the recent death of Rep. Elijah Cummings of Baltimore have been “real painful.” Jackson says “it’s like a hole in the sky.” Conyers was in Congress for nearly 53 years.
October 28, 2019 4:26 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic congresswoman Katie Hill of California has resigned amid an ethics probe and revelations of an affair with a campaign staffer. In a statement Sunday, the 32-year-old freshman from the Los Angeles area says leaving the House is best for her constituents, community and country. Hill is under investigation by a congressional committee for an alleged intimate relationship with a male senior aide, which Hill denies. She has acknowledged an affair with a young female staffer. Compromising photos and purported text messages surfaced online this past week in a right-wing publication and a British tabloid. Last year, Hill won the last Republican-held House seat anchored in Los Angeles County.
