August 11, 2019 7:51 am
PLUM, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania man whose 3-year-old daughter drowned last week is now facing charges after police say he left his two young children alone in the pool to go inside and make a drink. According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday, 27-year-old Charles Mitchell told officers he returned to the backyard Aug. 1 to find his daughter submerged in the deep end of the pool and pulled her out and started CPR. Mitchell has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and two counts of child endangerment. No attorney is listed in court documents. Police say he told them his 4-year-old son wanted to swim but his daughter didn’t, so he put a life vest on his son and his daughter stayed outside while he left for five minutes to fix a ginger ale mixed with an apple-flavored alcohol. They say he later changed his statement to say it was only ginger ale.
September 24, 2024 5:01 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — With its larger-than-usual half-point cut to its key interest rate last week, the Federal Reserve underscored its belief that it’s all but conquered inflation after three long years. The public at large? Not so much. Consumer surveys show that most Americans remain unhappy with the economy, still bruised by an inflation rate that hit a four-decade high two years ago as the economy rebounded from the pandemic recession. Yet in the view of some economists, the shift toward steadily lower borrowing rates could eventually boost consumer sentiment. Inflation has sunk for more than two years and is nearly back down to the Fed’s 2% target. Though that means overall prices are still rising, they’re doing so much more slowly.
November 27, 2023 5:17 am
(AP) – A man pleaded not guilty to attempted murder Monday in connection with the weekend shooting of three college students of Palestinian descent in Vermont — an attack that is being investigated as a possible hate crime. The three young men were shot and injured Saturday while walking near the University of Vermont campus. Forty-eight-year-old Jason Eaton was arrested Sunday and made a brief court appearance from jail Monday. He’s charged with three counts of attempted murder. The U.S. Justice Department and state officials are also investigating whether the shooting was a hate crime. Protests have been widespread and tensions have escalated in the U.S. as the death toll rises in the Israel-Hamas war.
January 4, 2023 12:12 pm
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) – Authorities say a school bus crash in West Virginia sent 15 children to the hospital. Officials told news outlets that the students were taken to Wheeling Hospital as a precaution after the bus crashed Wednesday morning. Ohio County Sheriff Tom Howard told WTRF-TV that there were no serious injuries. The sheriff’s office said the bus went into a ditch and the students aboard were tossed around. Ohio County Schools spokesman Gabe Wells told The Intelligencer that the crash happened around 6:30 a.m. and video from the bus will be reviewed. The sheriff’s office is investigating what caused the crash.
February 23, 2022 3:18 am
MOSCOW (AP) – The East-West faceoff over Ukraine has escalated dramatically, with Russian lawmakers authorizing President Vladimir Putin to use military force outside his country and President Joe Biden and European leaders responding by slapping sanctions on Russian oligarchs and banks. Both leaders signaled that an even bigger confrontation could lie ahead. Putin has yet to unleash the force of the 150,000 troops massed on three sides of Ukraine, while Biden held back on the toughest sanctions that could cause economic turmoil for Russia but said they would go ahead if there is further aggression. The sanctions underscored the urgency felt by Western nations to blunt the conflict.
March 30, 2021 4:21 am
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The teenager who shot the widely seen video of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer charged in his death testified Tuesday that Derek Chauvin “just stared at us” and didn’t react to bystander pleas. Eighteen-year-old Darnella Frazier said Chauvin and another officer on the scene put their hands on their Mace when bystanders wanted to intervene. She says she began recording because “it wasn’t right, he was suffering, he was in pain.” Earlier, a man who was among onlookers shouting at Chauvin to get off Floyd last May says he called 911 to report a murder after Floyd was removed by paramedics. Prosecutors led off their case by playing portions of Frazier’s video, which sent waves of outrage around the globe.
June 1, 2020 4:17 am
ATLANTA (AP) – Atlanta’s mayor says two police officers have been fired and three others placed on desk duty over excessive use of force during a weekend protest incident. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Sunday that she and the police chief made the decision after reviewing body-camera footage of a Saturday incident that first gained attention from video online and on local news. It shows police officers in riot gear and gas masks surround a car driven by a man with a woman passenger. The officers use stun guns on both the woman and the man.
August 11, 2019 7:46 am
MONACA, Pa. (AP) – President Donald Trump is coming to western Pennsylvania next week to visit a multibillion-dollar ethane cracker plant under construction.
A White House official said Thursday the visit to the 386-acre site in Monaca that had been planned for this week before two mass shootings occurred will take place on Tuesday. The massive Shell Pennsylvania Chemicals plant will convert natural gas liquids into plastic pellets to be used in manufacturing. There are currently about 5,000 construction workers on the site. Shell has said it expects to have about 600 permanent workers at the Ohio River facility, once it’s fully built and up and running sometime in the early 2020s. The plant will be operated by Shell Polymers.
September 23, 2024 4:58 am
PUERTO ESCONDIDO, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane John has struck Mexico’s southern Pacific coast with life-threatening flood potential. John grew from a tropical storm to a major hurricane in hours and came ashore near Punta Maldonado late Monday night with 120 mph winds. John’s rapid intensification made authorities rush to keep pace and warn people of its potential destruction. Mexico’s president was among those urging people to seek higher ground and protect their lives. Hours after landfall, John had weakened to 100 mph winds early Tuesday. The high terrain inland was forecast to weaken the hurricane quickly. Through Thursday, 10 to 20 inches of rain was forecast along and near the Oaxaca coast to southeast Guerrero with more in isolated areas.
November 27, 2023 5:16 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Armed assailants seized and later let go a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen before being apprehended by the United States Navy. Two ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen then landed near a U.S. warship in the Gulf of Aden, raising the stakes amid a series of ship attacks linked to the Israel-Hamas war. Yemen’s internationally recognized government blamed the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels for the attack. But the rebels in control of the capital, Sanaa, did not acknowledge either the seizure or the missile attack. The U.S. Central Command said Monday that there was no damage or reported injuries from either vessel.
