June 10, 2025 5:05 am
JERUSALEM (AP) — Activist Greta Thunberg has been deported from Israel, the country’s foreign ministry said Tuesday, after the Gaza-bound ship she was on was seized by the Israeli military. In a post on X, the Foreign Ministry shared a photo of Thunberg on a plane, saying she had departed Israel and was headed to France before continuing on to Sweden. Thunberg was one of 12 passengers on board the Madleen, a boat carrying aid destined for people in war-torn Gaza. The activists said they were protesting the ongoing war and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Israel says such ships violate its naval blockade of Gaza.
June 9, 2025 5:43 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Pentagon is expected to formally deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles in the coming hours to help National Guard members respond to immigration protests. That’s according to three U.S. officials. The Marines are coming from their base at Twentynine Palms in the Southern California desert. The officials spoke Monday on condition of anonymity to discuss military plans. The deployment was first reported by CNN. (Photo: AP)
June 9, 2025 5:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new ban on travel to the United States by citizens from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries is now in effect. The ban took effect on Monday and comes as tensions escalate over the president’s campaign of immigration enforcement. Trump signed the new proclamation last week. It applies to citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It also imposes heightened restrictions on people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela who are outside the U.S. and don’t hold a valid visa.
June 9, 2025 5:47 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines. He is pledging to replace them with his own picks. The 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices had been in a state of flux since Kennedy took over. He recently took the unusual step of changing COVID-19 recommendations without first consulting the panel. Kennedy says the committee members had too many conflicts of interest.
June 9, 2025 4:18 pm
(AP) – A plane carrying six people crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The crash occurred off the coast of San Diego on Sunday, The Associated Press reported. Authorities say the plane went down near Point Loma. The plane was owned by Optimal Health Systems, which is an Arizona nutritional supplement company. The U.S. Coast Guard is searching in a debris field in water that is about 200 feet deep. The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane was a two-engine Cessna 414 and crashed shortly after takeoff from San Diego International Airport. It was en route to Phoenix, the AP reported. This is the second plane to crash in the San Diego area in as many months. A plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood after it hit a power line in foggy weather in May, killing all six on board.
June 9, 2025 1:17 pm
PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County officials, in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), are advising the public of a Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) established over Oakmont Country Club for the duration of the 2025 U.S. Open.
TFR Details:
- Location: Oakmont Country Club (1233 Hulton Rd, Oakmont, PA 15139)
- Restricted Radius: 1 nautical mile from the center of Oakmont
- Altitude: Ground level up to 1,000 feet
- Effective Period: Throughout the duration of the U.S. Open
The operation of drones or any Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) within this restricted airspace is strictly prohibited. The FAA, along with local law enforcement agencies, will be actively enforcing this restriction. All spectators, local residents, and visitors are urged to comply with the TFR and refrain from operating drones in the area for any reason.
June 8, 2025 4:58 am
The number of power outages left in the area has dropped significantly since a pocket of storms led to multiple tornado warnings in local communities on Sunday. West Penn Power shows fewer than 100 outages in all local communities with fewer than 30 in Washington County. 20 of those are in Smith Township. Duquesne Light Company shows only four outages left in Allegheny County. West Penn Power reports 1,313 power outages in Pennsylvania.
June 9, 2025 5:05 am
The man accused in a Rostraver murder in April was set to face a judge Monday in Westmoreland County. Dorian Jeri-Greene appeared for a preliminary hearing in Washington County last week. He was charged in a Donora incident in February and was arrested in Florida last month on those charges. According to court documents, Jeri-Greene broke into his ex-girlfriend’s Donora home by destroying a door frame. Police said he strangled the woman before running out of the home with a hatchet. The victim told the judge she no longer wanted to move forward with the prosecution and refused to testify. Charges were then dropped but Westmoreland County Deputies picked him up from the Washington County Jail and brought him to the Westmoreland County Prison. Jeri-Greene is accused of killing Jennah Seibert in her Rostraver home in April. Police said he walked nearly three miles from Monongahela, hid behind a shed on Seibert’s property, and waited for her fiancé, Bryan Murray, to leave for work. Police said Jeri-Greene pulled the electric meter from the home, knocking out the power to the security system and the house. Police said he shot Seibert in her bed, stole jewelry, and left. They tracked him to a home in Florida after searching pawn shops across several states, and finding the stolen jewelry at a pawn shop in Tampa.
June 9, 2025 4:54 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – A man is facing several charges after Pennsylvania State Police say he lit a commercial firework at Rivers Casino, causing an explosion that hurt a casino employee. A Pennsylvania State Police spokesperson says the incident began when Jeremy Allen Hartman was taken into custody by casino security around 5:40 a.m. after reportedly being found trespassing in a closed restaurant, trying to steal bottles of alcohol worth up to $4,000. While being escorted to a secure holding area, PSP says Hartmas asked to go to the bathroom and was allowed to use an employee restroom. That’s where he’s accused of lighting a commercial-grade firework and putting it in a toilet. The subsequent explosion caused a minor injury to an employee who was also in the restroom. That employee was treated and released by medics at the casino. When authorities later executed a search warrant on Hartman’s vehicle in the casino parking garage, PSP says they found additional commercial-grade fireworks. The Pittsburgh Police Bomb Squad and K-9 unit searched the vehicle and casino, confirming both were free of explosive devices. Hartman is facing several charges, including arson, risking a catastrophe, theft and criminal mischief. The investigation into the incident is ongoing and PSP says there’s no immediate threat to the public. In a statement, a Rivers Casino spokesperson says they are cooperating fully with the authorities.
June 8, 2025 5:12 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of protesters took to the street in Los Angeles on Sunday in response to President Donald Trump’s extraordinary deployment of the National Guard against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wishes. The demonstrations centered on a cluster of federal buildings including a detention center where immigrants arrested on Friday were taken. As the protests swelled on Sunday, demonstrators blocked a freeway entrance, set self-driving cars on fire and threw objects including concrete and electric scooters at law enforcement officers and vehicles. Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell says some of the protesters engaging in the most aggressive behavior are agitators looking to cause trouble.
