March 5, 2026 1:14 am
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Berkshire Hathaway is buying back shares for the first time in nearly two years, and new CEO Greg Abel said he has no immediate plans to sell off Kraft Heinz shares now that the packaged food giant has shelved its plan to split the company into two. Abel appeared on CNBC Thursday — less than a week after releasing his first letter to shareholders. Berkshire also took the unusual step of filing a formal notice about the share repurchases. Abel revealed that he used all $15.3 million of his take-home pay for 2026 to buy Berkshire stock, and he plans to continue doing that as long as he remains CEO.
March 5, 2026 5:43 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House narrowly rejected a war powers resolution that would halt President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran. Thursday’s roll call offers a snapshot of the support and opposition in Congress for the widening conflict that’s reordering U.S. priorities at home and abroad. It’s the second vote in as many days. The Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines Wednesday. Lawmakers are confronting the sudden reality of representing the nation in wartime and all that entails — with lives lost, dollars spent and alliances tested by a president’s decision to attack Iran. Republicans largely back the war, while Democrats oppose. But there are splinters in the parties.
March 5, 2026 1:58 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s replacing his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin. Trump made the announcement on social media on Thursday, two days after Noem faced a grilling on Capitol Hill from GOP members as well as Democrats. Trump says he’ll make Noem a “Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas,” a new security initiative that he said would focus on the Western Hemisphere. Noem is the first Cabinet secretary to leave during Trump’s second term. Noem’s departure caps a tumultuous tenure overseeing immigration enforcement tactics that have been met with protests and lawsuits. (Photo: AP)
March 4, 2026 4:47 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. — Demolition work on the Courthouse Square building is on hold after a 30-ton excavator toppled into a ditch on Tuesday. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has confirmed that it has opened an investigation into the incident. Officials say the operator of the excavator was not injured. Engineers with Adamo Demolition — the Michigan-based company hired by Washington County to demolish the building and parking garage — were at the site Wednesday assessing the situation. An Adamo worker told our news partners at Channel 11 that engineers still need to develop a plan to remove the excavator and that a crane will be brought in to lift the machine out of the ditch. That process may not happen until next week.
March 4, 2026 2:13 am
The Superintendent of the Bentworth School District posted on their Facebook page that a middle school student was found with a knife on Tuesday morning. Scott Martin says the student went to breakfast and then reported to the office where he turned the knife over to an adult. Martin says the student’s parents were immediately notified and the matter was referred to the school district’s police. No names were released and no reason was given as to why the student brought the knife to school.
March 5, 2026 2:25 am
The final suspect in the September 2020 drug delivery resulting in death case surrounding the death of Bradley Remorowski of Washington has entered a plea. Duane Berry, 33 of Carnegie pleaded guilty to conspiracy possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance charge. Berry was initially accused of supplying the drugs to Remorowski that caused his death because police identified phone communications between the two in the hours leading up to Remorowski’s death. Berry told police that he acted as the intermediary between Remorowski and the actual supplier Calvin Ortiz of Homestead. In October of 2025, Calvin Ortiz pleaded no contest to a drug delivery resulting in death charge and a criminal use of a communications device charge. He is currently spending 4-10 years in state prison. In exchange for Berry’s plea and cooperation with prosecutors, Berry received a 3 year probationary sentence. Felony charges of conspiracy drug delivery resulting in death and criminal use of a communications device against Berry were dropped.
March 5, 2026 4:56 am
(AP) – The U.S. and Israel are striking a much wider array of targets in Iran than they did during 12 days of war last summer, when their focus was on the country’s nuclear enrichment sites. Experts say the aim now appears to be destroying Iran’s military and weakening the grip of its theocratic rulers. U.S. Central Command alone says it has hit more than 2,000 targets in less than a week, a far heavier barrage than any American bombing campaign in the Middle East in more than a decade. Israel says it has hit hundreds of sites. The bombardment has affected military bases, weapons factories, soldiers and police, and state TV.
March 4, 2026 4:58 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is preparing to vote on a war powers resolution that would halt President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran. Thursday’s roll call will offer a snapshot of the support, or opposition, in Congress to the widening conflict that is rapidly reordering U.S. priorities at home and abroad. It’s the second vote in as many days, after the Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines. Lawmakers are confronting the sudden reality of representing the nation in wartime and all that entails — with lives lost, dollars spent and alliances tested by a president’s decision to go to war with Iran. Republicans largely back the war, while Democrats oppose, but there are splinters in the parties.
March 4, 2026 5:00 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are invoking the war in Iran and the prospect of retaliatory terrorist attacks as they tee up votes on a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. The House already approved a DHS spending bill in January, but it faltered in the Senate as Democrats insisted on changes to immigration enforcement operations following the shooting death of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. As a result, funding for the department lapsed on Feb. 14. Republicans are calling on Democrats to reconsider in the wake of the conflict in Iran. But Democrats argue that it’s a cynical effort that will fail without changes to immigration enforcement operations.
March 5, 2026 4:54 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that companies that paid tariffs struck down last month by Supreme Court are due refunds. Judge Richard Eaton of the U.S. Court of International Trade wrote that “all importers of record’’ are “entitled to benefit’’ from the Supreme Court ruling that struck down sweeping double-digit import taxes President Donald Trump imposed last year under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Eaton also wrote that he alone “will hear cases pertaining to the refund of IEEPA duties.’’ The ruling offers some clarity about the tariff refund process, something the Supreme Court did not even mention in its Feb. 20 decision.
