September 11, 2019 4:08 am
New England Patriots wide receiver Antonio Brown is facing rape accusations by a former trainer. According to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Southern District of Florida, Britney Taylor says Brown sexually assaulted her on three occasions. Brown has denied the allegations. Darren Heitner, a lawyer representing Brown, told The Associated Press his client plans to countersue. Heitner said Brown and Taylor had “a consensual personal relationship.” Taylor also said in the statement she will cooperate with the NFL and any other agencies. A spokesman for the NFL declined comment, but the Patriots say the league told the team it will launch an investigation.
September 10, 2019 5:46 pm
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – A Turkish newspaper says in his final words, slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi urged his killers not to cover his mouth because he suffered from asthma and could suffocate. The Sabah newspaper this week published new excerpts of a recording of Khashoggi’s conversation with members of a Saudi hit squad sent to kill him. The paper says the recording of Khashoggi’s grisly Oct. 2, 2018, killing and dismemberment at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul was obtained by Turkey’s intelligence agency. According to the reported transcript, a member of the hit squad tells Khashoggi that he has to be taken back to Riyadh because of an Interpol order. The man is also heard trying to force Khashoggi to send his son a message telling him not to worry if he doesn’t hear from him.
September 10, 2019 5:42 pm
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) – Apple’s new iPhones will resemble recent models, but with better cameras and new colors. The most-expensive models, the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max, will now have three cameras on the back, including a new, wider-angle one to squeeze more of the landscape into the picture. They start at $1,000, the same as before. The cheaper model called the iPhone 11 will start at $700, down from $750 for the iPhone XR. It now gets two lenses instead of one. The lower price reverses a trend in which premium phones get more expensive as people upgrade them less often. The new phones come out Sept. 20. Apple unveiled the new phones, along with a new iPad and Apple Watch, at a product event Tuesday at its Cupertino, California.
September 10, 2019 5:25 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – Americans are commemorating 9/11 with mournful ceremonies, volunteering, appeals to “never forget” and rising attention to the terror attacks’ extended toll on responders. A crowd of victims’ relatives is expected at ground zero Wednesday. President Donald Trump is scheduled to join an observance at the Pentagon. Vice President Mike Pence is to speak at the third attack site, near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Here in Washington, services will be held at the 9/11 Memorial in the parking lot of the Old Washington Mall in South Strabane Township. The service will begin at exactly 8:46 a.m., the time the first plane hit the World Trade Center. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the hijacked-plane attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
September 10, 2019 4:58 pm
Some members of the United Auto Workers Union, Local 1311, walked off their jobs Monday at Langeloth Metallurgical Company in Smith Township. According to reports, about ninety workers picketed the facility for the second day on Tuesday in a dispute with the company over seniority rights. Union members say the local’s executive committee rejected the company’s last offer on August 8th and they had to wait thirty days before walking off the job. Langeloth Metallurgical is a metal fabricator. WJPA’s calls to the company have not been returned.
September 10, 2019 1:51 pm
Teachers and administrators in the Washington School District have reached agreement on a new five-year contract. Teachers ratified the agreement Monday and then later the same day at their meeting, school board members unanimously voted to approve the contract. Details of the new contract were not released but officials say health care costs for the teachers remained steady and raises were incremental.
September 10, 2019 12:35 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) – Iran is claiming credit for President Donald Trump’s dismissal of his hawkish national security adviser John Bolton. An adviser to President Hassan Rouhani said Bolton’s departure was the result of Iran’s resistance to Trump’s maximum pressure campaign. The adviser (Hesameddin Ashena) said in a tweet that the move is a sign of the pressure campaign’s failure and proof that Iran is able to “manage” U.S. policies on Iran. Trump and Bolton disagreed on numerous issues, including over the president’s willingness to consider meeting with Rouhani.
September 10, 2019 7:38 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in Philadelphia over whether the chief lawyer for Penn State when the Jerry Sandusky scandal broke should face public censure. The state’s lawyer disciplinary board recommended that punishment in March for Baldwin. The board has leveled several claims against Baldwin regarding her conduct as investigators ramped up their probe of Sandusky. Sandusky, Penn State’s former defensive football coach, is serving a state prison sentence on a 45-count child sexual abuse conviction in 2012. Lawyers for Cynthia Baldwin and the Office of Disciplinary Counsel will debate the matter Tuesday. Baldwin’s lawyer says the justices should conclude she did not violate the rules of professional conduct for lawyers.
September 10, 2019 4:25 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea says it’s willing to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States in late September. But First Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said Monday that the United States must come to the negotiating table with proposals that satisfy North Korea, or dealings between the two countries will come to an end. Talks between the countries on North Korean nuclear disarmament fell apart in February when President Donald Trump rejected North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s demand for sweeping sanctions relief in return for partial disarmament at their second summit in Vietnam. The two leaders met again at the Korean border in late June and agreed to restart diplomacy. Choe says North Korea has given the U.S. enough time to map out new proposals to salvage the nuclear negotiations.
September 10, 2019 4:23 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – A large explosion has been heard in Afghanistan’s capital near the U.S. Embassy shortly after midnight on the anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the United States. A plume of smoke rose early Wednesday over Kabul. An embassy employee reached by phone confirmed the blast but had no details. It would be the first major attack in the Afghan capital since President Donald Trump abruptly called off U.S.-Taliban talks on the brink of an apparent deal to end America’s longest war. Two Taliban car bombs shook Kabul last week, killing several civilians and two members of the NATO mission. Trump has cited the death of a U.S. service member in one of those blasts as the reason why he now calls the U.S.-Taliban talks “dead.”
