April 18, 2024 1:38 pm
A Monongahela man faces trial in connection with a fire at The Main Street Tavern in March. Following his preliminary hearing, 29-year-old Hunter McMahon was held for court on multiple charges, including arson, aggravated assault of an officer and public drunkenness. Authorities say he was seen setting fire to a dumpster behind the Great Wall Chinese Restaurant and then behind the bar. Police say there is a video of McMahon at the tavern. Police also say they found two lighters on him. McMahon remains in the Washington County Jail in lieu of two-hundred and fifty-thousand-dollars bond.
April 18, 2024 5:02 am
An Avella man was killed in a one-vehicle crash Wednesday evening in Independence Township. The Washington County Coroner’s office say 29 year old Cody Hukill was pronounced dead at the scene in the 2-thousand block of Avella Road (Route 50). The crash occurred just after 7 p.m. Investigators say he lost control while traveling east and struck a tree. He was not wearing a seatbelt. A cause and manner of death are pending. State Police are investigating.
April 17, 2024 2:56 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — President Joe Biden has told an audience of cheering unionized steelworkers that his administration will block the acquisition of U.S. Steel by a Japanese company, potentially. And he’s calling for a tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel. The Democratic president is seeking to use trade policy to win over working-class votes in Pennsylvania, an election-year battleground. He said Wednesday that U.S. Steel “has been an iconic American company for more than a century and it should remain totally American.” His administration is reviewing the proposed acquisition by Japan’s Nippon Steel. On the tariff front, Chinese imports account for only a small percentage of the steel products coming into the United States so the higher fees are largely symbolic. Washington Mayor Jo Jo Burgess was among those to attend the rally and was acknowledged by the President during the event. Burgess was also a guest of the President at his State of the Union Address (Photo: AP)
April 18, 2024 2:37 am
A Burgettstown man has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges, including allegedly assaulting law enforcement officers with a weapon during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Thirty-one-year-old Joshua Lee Atwood is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with felony offenses of civil disorder; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon; entering, remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; and an act of physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Authorities say a man, later identified as Atwood, was seen in police body-worn camera and open-source video footage attacking law enforcement officers defending the Lower West Terrace Tunnel between approximately 4:51 p.m. and 5:03 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021. The Tunnel was the site of some of the most violent attacks against law enforcement that day. The FBI arrested Atwood Wednesday in Burgettstown and he made his initial court appearance in the Western District of Pennsylvania.
April 17, 2024 2:25 am
A Washington man will be sentenced in July for his role in the drug related deaths of two people. Thirty-seven-year-old Lorenzo Brian Lloyd pleaded guilty to two counts of drug delivery resulting in death, for helping to supply a deadly batch of fentanyl to the individuals in February of 2021. Lloyd was one of three men accused of helping to supply stamp bags of fentanyl to David and Nannette Dennick. They were found dead in their home in Canton Township. As for the other two men involved in the case, 22-year-old Zaeshown Jaheim Kimbrew of Aliquippa pleaded guilty two years ago to two counts of drug delivery resulting in death and was sentenced to six to twelve years in prison. The third man, 31-year-old Mitchell William Logan, of Washington, is free on bond while awaiting trial. Lloyd remains in the Washington County Jail on five-hundred-thousand-dollars bond.
April 18, 2024 5:09 am
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury of 12 people has been seated in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York. Alternates are now being selected. The rapid progress Thursday afternoon propels the case closer to opening statements and weeks of testimony in a case charging the Republican with falsifying business records to suppress stories about his sex life in the final days of the 2016 election. The jury includes a sales professional, a software engineer, an English teacher and multiple lawyers. The case centers on $130,000 Trump’s lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen paid to porn actor Stormy Daniels. Trump faces 34 felony counts. He denies any wrongdoing.
April 18, 2024 5:35 pm
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden has accepted endorsements from at least 15 members of the Kennedy political family. The Kennedy family backing came during a campaign stop Thursday in Philadelphia as the Democratic incumbent aims to undermine Republican Donald Trump and marginalize the candidacy of independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The decision to highlight the Kennedy family endorsement with Election Day more than six months away is an indication of how seriously Biden’s team is taking the threat of a long-shot candidate using the Kennedy name to siphon support. The candidate’s sister Kerry delivered the endorsements by calling Biden her hero. Kennedy Jr. writes on social media his campaign is about “healing America.”
April 18, 2024 5:07 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has dismissed all impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, ending the House Republican push to remove the Cabinet secretary from office over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border and ending his trial before arguments even began. Senate Democrats argued that the articles were unconstitutional. The first article charged Mayorkas with “willful and systemic refusal to comply” with immigration law. The second article charged Mayorkas with a “breach of trust” for saying the border was secure. The votes were 51-48 and 51-49, both along party lines. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the House Republicans’ case failed to meet “the high standard of high crimes and misdemeanors.”
April 17, 2024 5:11 am
A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 45% of U.S. adults say they have become more concerned about climate change over the past year. That includes roughly 6 in 10 Democrats and one-quarter of Republicans. President Joe Biden’s signature climate change policy, the Inflation Reduction Act, was intended to address some of those fears, investing billions in incentives for consumers and businesses to move toward clean energy sources. Biden points to this climate agenda as a success during his run for reelection. But the poll suggests that although the law has already affected some Americans, it’s not widely known — and may not be the electoral boost Biden is looking for.
April 18, 2024 5:10 am
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will decide whether and how to respond to Iran’s major air assault earlier this week, brushing off calls for restraint. Israel has vowed to respond to Iran’s unprecedented attack, leaving the region bracing for further escalation after months of fighting in Gaza. Israel’s allies have been urging Israel to hold back on any response that could spiral. The pressure came as Iran’s president warned that even the “tiniest” invasion would bring a “massive and harsh” response. Israel and Iran have waged a long shadow war, but the weekend strike was Iran’s first direct military attack on Israel. Iran held an annual army parade at a new location Wednesday, possibly to avoid being targeted.
