March 29, 2021 4:21 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky are making impassioned pleas to Americans not to let their guard down in the fight against COVID-19. Walensky warned on Monday of a potential “fourth wave” of the virus and spoke of a “recurring feeling … of impending doom.” Biden said the virus will get worse, not better “if we let our guard down now.” He said that “people are letting up on precautions, which is a very bad thing.” Walensky spoke of hope but added, “Right now, I’m scared.”
May 31, 2020 8:22 am
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Another night of unrest in every corner of the country left charred and shattered landscapes in dozens of American cities Sunday as years of festering frustrations over the mistreatment of African Americans at the hands of police boiled over in expressions of rage met with tear gas and rubber bullets. Cars and businesses were torched, the words “I can’t breathe” were spray-painted all over buildings, a fire in a trash bin burned near the gates of the White House, and tens of thousands marched peacefully through city streets to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who died Monday after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on his neck until he stopped breathing. His death is one of a litany of racial tragedies that have thrown the country into chaos amid the coronavirus pandemic that has left millions out of work and killed more than 100,000 people in the U.S., including disproportionate numbers of black people. “We’re sick of it. The cops are out of control,” protester Olga Hall said in Washington D.C. “They’re wild. There’s just been too many dead boys.” People set fire to police cars, threw bottles at police officers and busted windows of storefronts, carrying away TVs and other items even as some protesters urged them to stop. In Indianapolis, police were investigating multiple shootings, including one that left a person dead amid the protests — adding to deaths in Detroit and Minneapolis in recent days. In Minneapolis, the city where the protests began, police, state troopers and National Guard members moved in soon after an 8 p.m. curfew took effect to break up protests, firing tear gas and rubber bullets to clear streets outside a police precinct and elsewhere. At least 13 police officers were injured in Philadelphia when peaceful protests turned violent and at least four police vehicles were set on fire. In New York City, dangerous confrontations flared repeatedly as officers made arrests and cleared streets. A video showed two NYPD cruisers lurching into a crowd of demonstrators who were pushing a barricade against one of them and pelting it with objects. Several people were knocked to the ground, and it was unclear if anyone was hurt.
August 10, 2019 9:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has become a high-profile object of partisan scorn as he positions himself as President Donald Trump’s wingman. Both are running for reelection in 2020, and McConnell tells voters he and Trump “are making America great again!” McConnell has proven a loyal implementer of the president’s initiatives, and Trump has stopped assailing the senator on Twitter. But McConnell is drawing hecklers and protesters in his home state, Kentucky.
September 23, 2024 5:12 am
BROWNSVILLE, Pa. — (WPXI) – Emergency crews were called to the scene of a fire in Brownsville on Sunday evening. The fire started in an apartment above Pickers Pub & Grub in the 100 block of Bank Street around 5:30 p.m. Crews arrived on scene to find heavy fire on two different floors. A Channel 11 crew at the scene learned a firefighter was injured during the response and taken to a local hospital. Twelve people live in the building that caught on fire. It’s not clear how many of them have been displaced. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
November 26, 2023 6:30 am
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump used college football rivalry weekend to bask among his supporters in a state and region that are key to his presidential fortunes, while trying to upstage his Republican opponent Nikki Haley on her home turf at the Clemson-South Carolina football game. The former president and current front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination arrived at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia on Saturday night to chants of “We want Trump!” Trump was a guest of South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster. The entourage also included South Carolina’s senior U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, giving Trump a show of local political force at a game featuring Haley’s alma mater, Clemson, where she is also a member of the board of trustees.
January 3, 2023 4:42 am
As law dictates, municipalities and township governing boards are required to reorganize on the first Monday of January. Even though many have delayed because of the observance of New Years Day, Peters Township Council chose to reorganize on Monday. Elected to the Chairmanship by a unanimous 6-0 vote was previous Vice Chairman Frank Kosir. The Vice Chairmanship took two votes to deliver an appointment. Councilmen Dr. Thomas Pirosko and Robert Lewis both garnered 3 votes. In order to keep the election from being delayed until absent Councilwoman Allison Shanafelt could attend the meeting, Lewis nominated Pirosko that then delivered a unanimous vote. Council will be interviewing candidates for open board positions on various committees on January 16.
February 22, 2022 10:20 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – A federal lawsuit claims the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would overstep its authority by selecting a new set of congressional district maps. The plaintiffs asked Monday for a restraining order to prevent the state justices from changing the election calendar. The lawsuit was filed by two Republicans running for Congress, a member of the election board in rural Susquehanna County and two others. They’re suing Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and two high-ranking state elections officials, arguing that the stalemate over passing new maps should require all 17 races to be run as “at-large” statewide contests this year.
March 29, 2021 4:21 am
BEIJING (AP) – A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak of the coronavirus is “extremely unlikely.” A draft copy was obtained Monday by The Associated Press. The findings were largely as expected, and left many questions unanswered. The team proposed further research in every area except the lab leak hypothesis. The report’s release has been repeatedly delayed, raising questions about whether the Chinese side was trying to skew the conclusions. The AP received what appeared to be a near-final version from a Geneva-based diplomat from a WHO-member country.
May 31, 2020 8:14 am
PITTSBURGH (WPXI) — Police cars set on fire, businesses vandalized and protesters and police officers injured — all of that prompted the mayor to implement citywide curfew and call in more police. “I’m just so angry at the fact that some segment hijacked this and took some of the youth and brought them into the mix,” said Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert. Schubert lashed out at protesters who turned violent and set fire to police cars, assaulted journalists and looted businesses. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto implemented a curfew at 8:30 p.m. and called in more law enforcement agencies. The mayor and the chief both appeared visibly upset that a peaceful protest for more than two hours turned violent so quickly. And they’re blaming it on outsiders. “I’m willing to bet my check that there’s lot of people who are anarchists, who, they’re not here to protest what happened. They’re here to take advantage of the situation and try to throw it their way and bring other people into the mix and cause damage, cause injuries with that. And there’s no doubt that’s who’s doing it. And a lot of the things we are seeing are white males dressed in the anarchist Antifa,” Schubert said. “They’re the ones who are fueling a lot of this. It’s just a damn shame that they took advantage of the situation.” Pittsburgh Public Safety Director Wendell Hissrich said more than a dozen businesses in the Central Business District have been vandalized.
August 10, 2019 4:21 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – More than 550 residency slots at a Philadelphia teaching hospital have fetched a $55 million winning bid at a bankruptcy auction ahead of the facility’s impending closure.
The residency slots at Hahnemann University Hospital were won by a team of six local health systems at Thursday’s auction, topping bids by Tower Health and a California company that wants to reopen the hospital. Christiana Care Health System, Cooper University Health Care, and Main Line Health joined Einstein Healthcare Network, Jefferson Health and Temple University Health System in the winning bid. The salaries and benefits of those residencies are paid by Medicare, which has objected to the sale in bankruptcy court. Hahnemann is still in the process of closing, but the 496-bed hospital has no patients. It’s closing due to unsustainable financial losses. A bankruptcy hearing on the hospital’s sale has been rescheduled for Aug. 19.
