December 9, 2024 4:45 am
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — Court records show New York prosecutors have charged a man with murder in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO. Luigi Nicholas Mangione is currently being held without bail in Pennsylvania after he was arrested and arraigned on gun, forgery and other charges on Monday. He’s expected to be extradited to New York eventually. It’s unclear whether 26-year-old Mangione has an attorney who can comment on the allegations. Authorities say he was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a McDonald’s customer noticed another patron who resembled the man in security-camera photos that New York police had publicized.
December 10, 2024 4:41 am
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump’s second term comes with the specter of the world’s richest man serving as his political enforcer. Within the president-elect’s team, there is a feeling that Elon Musk not only supports Trump’s agenda and Cabinet appointments, but is intent on seeing them through to the point of threatening Republicans who may be less devout. A week after Trump won the election, Musk suggested on his social media site that he would “play a significant role in primaries.” One Trump adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal political dynamics, noted Musk had come to enjoy his role on the campaign and that he clearly had the resources to stay involved.
December 10, 2024 4:48 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for intelligence chief, Tulsi Gabbard, is making her case on Capitol Hill. The former Democrat-turned-Republican is facing fresh scrutiny about her proximity to Russian-ally Syria amid that country’s sudden collapse of its hardline Assad regime. Trump wants Gabbard to be his director of national intelligence. But nearly 100 former national security officials have implored senators to hold a closed-door briefing on her work. Gabbard ignored shouted questions about her 2017 visit to war-torn Syria as she ducked into private meetings with senators Monday. She delivered a statement saying she stands by Trump’s approach to foreign affairs.
December 10, 2024 7:38 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The grinding war pitting Ukraine against its Russian invaders has escalated ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration. President Joe Biden is rushing out billions more in military aid before U.S. support for Kyiv’s defenses is thrown into question under the new administration. Russia, Ukraine and their global allies are scrambling to put their side in the best possible position for any changes that Trump may bring to American policy in the nearly 3-year-old war. The president-elect insisted in recent days that Russia and Ukraine immediately reach a ceasefire, and said Ukraine should likely prepare to receive less U.S. military aid. A Ukrainian military commander says his forces will keep fighting but when the aid runs out, they’ll be destroyed.
December 10, 2024 4:47 am
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s prime minister says most cabinet ministers are still at work after rebels overthrew President Bashar Assad. But some state workers failed to return to their jobs, and a United Nations official said the country’s public sector had come “to a complete and abrupt halt.” Meanwhile, streams of refugees crossed back into Syria from neighboring countries, hoping for a more peaceful future and looking for friends and relatives who disappeared during Assad’s brutal rule. There were already signs of the difficulties ahead for the rebel alliance now in control of much of the country.
December 9, 2024 12:50 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s police commissioner says police have arrested a 26-year-old with a weapon “consistent with” the gun used in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Thompson died in a dawn ambush Wednesday as he walked to the company’s annual investor conference from his hotel to the company’s annual investor conference across the street. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Luigi Nicholas Mangione was taken into custody Monday. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said said at a news conference that Mangione was taken into custody after police got a tip that he had been spotted at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.
December 9, 2024 4:26 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — A Marine veteran who put an agitated subway rider in a choke-hold on a New York subway has been acquitted in the man’s death. A Manhattan jury cleared Daniel Penny on Monday of a criminally negligent homicide charge. The verdict came after a more serious manslaughter charge was dismissed because the jury deadlocked on that count. The case arose from Jordan Neely’s May 2023 death and became a prism for differing views about public safety, valor and vigilantism. The 26-year-old Penny gripped Neely around the neck for about six minutes. Penny’s defense said he was protecting fellow subway passengers.
December 9, 2024 5:07 am
A man and a woman are dead after a crash in West Bethlehem Township. The Washington County Coroners office say it happened in the 100-block of Clarksville Road in Marianna. 36 year old Brittany Crile was the driver of the vehicle that left the roadway and traveled down an embankment. She was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected. Officials say the crash occurred between 4:15 p.m. Saturday and 9:20 a.m. Sunday when the crash was first reported. 46 year old Joseph Crile was believed to have been the front seat passenger in the vehicle. Evidence showed that he was ejected but was able to leave the scene. Marianna firefighters conducted a search with State Police and discovered his body in an empty home along that same roadway around 2:30 p.m. A cause and manner of death for both is pending. State Police are handling the investigation.
December 9, 2024 5:15 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – One person was hurt after a tractor-trailer crashed in Downtown Pittsburgh. Allegheny County dispatchers say the crash happened at the intersection of Stanwix Street and Fort Pitt Boulevard at 8:26 p.m. One person was taken to a hospital from the scene. The vehicle had crashed on top of a barrier, causing the trailer to be at risk of rolling over. Channel 11 has reached out to Pittsburgh Police for more information and is waiting to hear back.
December 9, 2024 5:11 am
CANONSBURG, Pa. — A local borough is bringing back “old-fashioned Christmas.” It’s the seventh year Canonsburg has held the event. It began as a community tree lighting and has since grown into a holiday spectacle that draws thousands of visitors. “It takes over 200 volunteers to pull this together. We have people from all walks of life — I have elves here dancing around, we have all the characters, everyone’s done a great job to pull it together for us — we’re just thrilled with the attendance, and everyone just had a great time here tonight,” organizer Gloria Dunkle said. Despite the chilly weather, Dunkle estimates up to 20,000 people came out to enjoy the festivities. On top of the main event — the tree lighting ceremony — Canonsburg’s Old Fashioned Christmas featured a holiday market, kids games, food trucks, photos with Santa, stories with Mrs. Claus and visits from the Grinch. The event wrapped up with a holiday drone light show.
