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.
October 28, 2019 4:25 am
SANTA ROSA, California (AP) – Millions of people in Northern California are on track to have lights come back on, but some may not be restored before another round of strong winds threaten to damage power lines and spark fires. Electricity is expected to begin being restored by Monday, though Pacific Gas & Electric Co. warned it might cut power again as soon as Tuesday with a forecast of strong winds expected to last until Wednesday. The utility notified more than 1.2 million people that they may have their electricity shut off for what could be the third time in a week.
Nearly 200,000 people are under evacuation orders as crews grapple with a wildfire in wine country that fire officials say was 85 square miles (220 square kilometers), destroyed 94 buildings and was threatening 80,000 buildings Sunday night.
October 28, 2019 4:24 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff says President Donald Trump’s administration is “building a powerful case” for impeachment as a former White House national security adviser defied a subpoena on Monday. Charles Kupperman failed to show up for a scheduled deposition Monday after asking a federal court in Washington for guidance on whether he was legally required to do so. Schiff, who is leading the impeachment probe, says Kupperman’s suit has “no basis in law” and speculated that the White House didn’t want him to testify because his testimony could be incriminating. Democrats are investigating Trump’s overtures to the Ukrainian government to pursue politically motivated investigations. Schiff says the three committees leading the inquiry will “move forward” even if witnesses don’t appear.
October 28, 2019 4:17 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Fast-tracked legislation negotiated behind closed doors could usher in some advancement to Pennsylvania election laws that critics say are hugely outdated. The bill could be the most substantive changes to Pennsylvania election laws in more than 80 years. Micah Sims is executive director of Common Cause’s Pennsylvania chapter. Sims says it’s a big moment because Pennsylvania has ranked in the bottom tier of states in election laws. Many states long ago adopted farther-reaching changes to election laws. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf didn’t get leaders of the House and Senate Republican majorities to embrace every election reform he had sought. But Wolf did get a few wins, including expanding voting access and securing millions of dollars for counties to buy voting machines ahead of the 2020 elections.
October 28, 2019 4:15 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Jury selection begins Monday for the death penalty trial of a man charged in the shooting death of a western Pennsylvania police officer almost two years ago. Testimony is slated to begin next week for the trial of 31-year-old Rahmael Sal Holt in the November 2017 slaying of New Kensington officer Brian Shaw. Prosecutors have said they intend to seek capital punishment if Holt is convicted of first-degree murder. Holt has maintained that he wasn’t the one who fired the shots that killed Shaw following a traffic stop in New Kensington. A judge last week rejected a defense request to remove Holt’s previous gun charges from trial evidence but did agree to bar prosecutors from introducing evidence that Holt had sold drugs prior to the slaying.
