November 30, 2025 8:49 am
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Venezuelan government is accusing President Donald Trump of making a ”colonial threat” and seeking to undermine the South American country’s sovereignty. That charge comes after Trump’s social media post Saturday that the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela should be considered as “closed in its entirety.” His assertion raises more questions about the U.S. pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. The White House isn’t responding to questions about what Trump meant by his post. The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry says “such declarations constitute a hostile, unilateral and arbitrary act.” The Federal Aviation Administration’s jurisdiction is generally limited to the United States and its territories.
November 30, 2025 8:34 am
Washington City Police were involved in a wrong-way chase Saturday night. According to Washington County 911, the chase began just after eleven o’clock on Wiley Avenue in Washington. A 911 Supervisor tells WJPA that the driver entered the Interstate in the Jefferson Avenue area and began traveling west in the Eastbound lanes. Police called off their chase shortly after that but picked it up again when the driver got off the highway and crashed his vehicle in the eleven-hundred block of West Chestnut Street near Washington Medical. The supervisor says the car then caught fire. There were no reported injuries, but the man was taken to the hospital for a blood draw.
November 30, 2025 8:36 am
State Police are investigating after a man became trapped beneath the tire of his vehicle and later died. A PSP spokesperson says Troopers responded to a Uniontown home Friday for a report of a man who had been run over and was trapped beneath a wheel. The investigation so far determines the man pulled into the driveway of his home, then got out of the vehicle without it being in park. As he got out, the vehicle drifted backward down the driveway, and the open driver-side door pulled him to the ground, where he became pinned under the front tire. Before emergency responders got on scene, the man’s family and passersby were able to free him from beneath the tire. Medics took him to an area hospital, where he later died of his injuries. His identity has not yet been released.
November 29, 2025 10:31 am
ISTANBUL (AP) — Ukraine has used Sea Baby naval drones to strike two Russian oil tankers in the Black Sea. An official from Ukraine’s security services told The Associated Press about the attack on Saturday. The tankers, Kairos and Virat, are part of Russia’s “shadow fleet,” which evades sanctions. The strikes occurred off Turkey’s Black Sea coast late Friday afternoon. Rescue operations by the Turkish coast guard ensured the safety of all crew members. The official said the drones disabled vessels capable of transporting oil worth almost $70 million. The strikes hinder Russia’s efforts to bypass international sanctions.
November 28, 2025 7:00 am
Pennsylvania State Police are investigating after a man became trapped beneath the tire of his vehicle and later died. A PSP spokesperson says Troopers responded to a Uniontown home Friday for a report of a man who had been run over and was trapped beneath a wheel. The investigation so far determines the man pulled into the driveway of his home, then got out of the vehicle without it being in park. As he got out, the vehicle drifted backward down the driveway, and the open driver-side door pulled him to the ground, where he became pinned under the front tire. Before emergency responders got on scene, the man’s family and passersby were able to free him from beneath the tire. Medics took him to an area hospital, where he later died of his injuries. His identity has not yet been released. The incident remains under investigation.
November 29, 2025 10:29 am
[WPXI] NORTH STRABANE TOWNSHIP–Police are looking to identify a man who allegedly attempted to rob a market in North Strabane Township. Police say that a man tried to stick up the Coen Markets at 2601 Washington Road around 5:35 Friday Night. According to our news partners at Channel 11, the suspect told employees that he had a gun and threatened them. Anyone with information that can help identify the suspect is asked to contact the North Strabane police’s anonymous tip line at (724) 746-4090 or reach out through email at tips@nstpd.com. (Picture from North Strabane Police FB page)
November 30, 2025 7:00 am
A small but vocal crowd gathered in front of U-S Representative of the 14th District Guy Reschenthaler’s office on Friday. They held a “Where’s Guy” rally drawing attention to his absence in the district. Rally participant Patrick Herford simply wants to meet with Reschenthaler in a Town Hall gathering. Rally organizer Sharon Laffey says that in the six years that Reschenthaler has represented the 14th district, he has never held a Town Hall meeting. Washington County Democratic Committee Chairperson Christina Proctor calls Reschenthaler an absentee congressman. WJPA reached out to Representative Reschenthaler’s office by phone and email and have not had a response.
November 30, 2025 7:00 am
Rifle deer season is underway in Pennsylvania. The firearms buck season runs through December 13. There are two Sundays included this season, Sunday, November 30th as well as December 7th. The Commonwealth’s earlier statewide archery deer season was from October 4th through November 21st. It resumes December 26th through January 19th. In certain Wildlife Management Units like those around Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, the season just ended but will resume on December 26th and continue through January 24th.
November 29, 2025 4:19 am
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque on Saturday but didn’t stop to pray, as he opened an intense day of meetings and liturgies with Turkey’s religious leaders and a Mass for the country’s tiny Catholic community.
The head of Turkey’s Diyanet religious affairs directorate showed Leo the soaring tiled domes of the 17th-century mosque and the Arabic inscriptions on its columns, as Leo nodded in understanding.
The Vatican had said Leo would observe a “brief minute of silent prayer” there, but it didn’t appear that he had. The imam of the mosque, Asgin Tunca, said he had invited Leo to pray, since the mosque was “Allah’s house,” but the pope declined.
Speaking to reporters after the visit, Tunca said he had told the pope: “It’s not my house, not your house, (it’s the) house of Allah,” he said. He said he told Leo: “’If you want, you can worship here,’ I said. But he said, ‘That’s OK.’”
“He wanted to see the mosque, wanted to feel (the) atmosphere of the mosque, I think. And was very pleased,” he said.
Later, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said: “The pope experienced his visit to the mosque in silence, in a spirit of contemplation and listening, with deep respect for the place and the faith of those who gather there in prayer.”
Leo, history’s first American pope, was following in the footsteps of his recent predecessors, who all made high-profile visits to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, as it is officially known, in a gesture of respect to Turkey’s Muslim majority. Leo removed his shoes and walked through the carpeted mosque in his white socks.
November 29, 2025 4:25 am
ISTANBUL (AP) — Airlines around the world canceled and delayed flights heading into the weekend to fix software on a widely used commercial aircraft after an analysis found the computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue plane last month.
Airbus said Friday that an examination of the JetBlue incident revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls on the A320 family of aircraft.
The FAA joined the European Union Aviation Safety Agency in requiring airlines to address the issue with a new software update. More than 500 U.S.-registered aircraft will be impacted.
The EU safety agency said it may cause “short-term disruption” to flight schedules. The problem was introduced by a software update to the plane’s onboard computers, according to the agency.
In Japan, All Nippon Airways, which operates more than 30 planes, canceled 65 domestic flights for Saturday. Additional cancellations on Sunday were possible, it said.
The software change comes as U.S. passengers were beginning to head home from the Thanksgiving holiday, which is the busiest travel time in the country.
American Airlines has about 480 planes from the A320 family, of which 209 are affected. The fix should take about two hours for many aircraft and updates should be completed for the overwhelming majority on Friday, the airline said. A handful will be finished Saturday.
American expected some delays but it said it was focused on limiting cancellations. It said safety would be its overriding priority.
