February 22, 2022 4:08 am
BETHEL PARK — (WPXI) – Bethel Park police are asking for the public’s help to find a man they say is missing. 47-year-old Jonathan Muse was last seen on Feb. 20 at 10:30 p.m. leaving work in Imperial. He has brown hair and brown eyes, is 6 feet, 1 inch tall and weighs 180 pounds. Police said he’s possibly wearing a blue flannel, jeans and black shoes. He drives a 2016 gray Mitsubishi Outlander with the Pennsylvania license plate number KCD5821. Anyone with information about Muse’s whereabouts is asked to call the Bethel Park Police Department at 412-833-2000.
March 29, 2021 4:10 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – Special effects artists and actor Tom Savini, known for his work in “From Dusk Till Dawn,” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” “Machete,” “Dawn of the Dead,” and “Friday the 13th,” was hit by a car and hospitalized in Pittsburgh. According to Savini’s social media, he was riding a bike on Thursday when he was hit. He was forced to cancel an upcoming appearance at the Nashville Full Moon Tattoo & Horror Festival. “Thanks so much to everyone who reached out and a huge thank you to both the Pittsburgh Police department & The Pittsburgh paramedics who came to my aid,” Savini wrote on social media. He shared pictures from UPMC Presbyterian Hospital showing him wearing a neck brace and with an injury to his head.
May 30, 2020 4:12 am
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – U.S. Customs and Border Patrol says it dispatched a drone to Minneapolis following three nights of violent protests there but ended up sending it back to its base because the unmanned aerial vehicle wasn’t needed. The agency, which typically patrols the nation’s border and ports of entry, said the drone was going to provide live video to assist law enforcement in Minneapolis as they responded to protests that have left dozens of stores burned and looted. A CBP statement issued Friday says the drone would have provided “situational awareness” to local law enforcement. It said it routinely conducts such operations if needed to help other agencies or during natural disasters.
August 9, 2019 4:25 pm
AKRON, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio-based energy company says it’s closing its last coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania nearly two years earlier than expected. FirstEnergy Solutions said Friday that its plant in Shippingport will be idled Nov. 7. The company had previously said the Bruce Mansfield plant would be shut down in June 2021. FirstEnergy, which is going through bankruptcy reorganization, blamed “a lack of economic viability in current market conditions.” The company has said it can’t compete in regional wholesale markets as coal and nuclear lose out to cheaper energy sources such as natural gas and renewables. FirstEnergy announced last year that it would shut down the Pennsylvania plant and its last three coal-fired plants in Ohio. President Donald Trump has vowed to take steps to prevent struggling coal-fired and nuclear power plants from closing
September 23, 2024 5:23 am
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A search is underway for the shooters who killed four people and injured 17 others in a weekend shooting at a popular nightspot in Birmingham, Alabama. Police say victims were caught in the crossfire during the shooting shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday. Authorities say they believe the shooting was a paid hit on one of the victims. They did not report any immediate arrests the day after the attack. A news conference has been planned for Monday morning. The shooting was one of several this year in the major city of Birmingham and left city officials pleading for help to both solve the crime and address the broader problem of gun violence.
November 25, 2023 4:32 am
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Egyptian officials say Hamas is preparing to release 14 Israeli hostages Saturday for 42 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel in the second swap on the second day of a four-day cease-fire. The truce has allowed critical humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. Hamas on Friday released 24 of the about 240 hostages taken during its Oct. 7 attack on Israel that triggered the war. Those freed from captivity in Gaza were 13 Israelis, 10 Thais and a Filipino. The truce has allowed more deliveries of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, where civilians have been desperate for food, water, medicine and fuel. Overall, Hamas is to release at least 50 Israeli hostages, and Israel 150 Palestinian prisoners, all woman and minors.
January 3, 2023 4:19 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – The community is reacting after former Central Catholic and Pitt football player Damar Hamlin collapsed during Monday Night Football. Hamlin, a McKees Rocks native who now plays for the Buffalo Bills, collapsed after being tackled during the Bills vs. Bengals game. Hamlin stood up before falling to the ground. CPR was then administered on the field. According to the most recent update from the NFL, 24-year-old Hamlin is in critical condition. Many took to social media to send prayers to Hamlin, his family and the Bills during this time. Football fans took to Hamlin’s GoFundMe, in support of Dama’s “The Chasing M’s Foundation” which serves as a vehicle to bring lasting impact to his community. The foundation supports toy drives, back-to-school drives, kids camps, and more. Over four-million-dollars has been raised so far.
February 22, 2022 4:04 am
A Chicago man will face trial for his alleged role in the sale of marijuana and cocaine in Washington. Terrell Jones, 34, requested a jury trial against charges of felony possession of drugs and possession of a firearm. Jones and his accomplice had their Washington home raided after Washington County detectives had a confidential informant purchase drugs from Jones and his accomplice Tommie Holmes. Holmes is in the Washington County Jail awaiting trial on similar charges. Jones is also being held in the Washington County Jail. In a second case a McDonald man will face trial on a multitude of charges spread out over 6 different criminal cases. Fifty-year-old Adam Snatchko of McDonald faces drug possession, reckless endangerment and flight to avoid apprehension charges. These cases date back to January of 2019 through August of 2020. One of the cases involves a car chase after police witnessed Snatchko and several accomplices in suspected drug activity at a Chestnut Street motel. Both men are scheduled for the May trial term.
March 28, 2021 7:44 am
SUEZ, Egypt (AP) — Two additional tugboats sped Sunday to Egypt’s Suez Canal to aid efforts to free a skyscraper-sized container ship wedged for days across the crucial waterway, even as major shippers increasingly divert their boats out of fear the vessel may take even longer to free. The massive Ever Given, a Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, got stuck Tuesday in a single-lane stretch of the canal. In the time since, authorities have been unable to remove the vessel and traffic through the canal — valued at over $9 billion a day — has been halted, further disrupting a global shipping network already strained by the coronavirus pandemic. The Dutch-flagged Alp Guard and the Italian-flagged Carlo Magno, called in to help tugboats already there, reached the Red Sea near the city of Suez early Sunday, satellite data from MarineTraffic.com showed. The tugboats will nudge the 400-meter-long (quarter-mile-long) Ever Given as dredgers continue to vacuum up sand from underneath the vessel and mud caked to its port side, said Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, which manages the Ever Given. Workers planned to make two attempts Sunday to free the vessel coinciding with high tides, a top pilot with the canal authority said.
May 30, 2020 4:11 am
BEIJING (AP) – China’s Defense Ministry says the navy’s only entirely home-built aircraft is carrying out sea trials to test weapons and equipment and enhance crew training. Ministry spokesperson Ren Guoqiang says the exercises are being conducted as planned, apparently unaffected by the country’s coronavirus outbreak. The highly secretive Chinese military was credited with aiding in the response to the epidemic in the epicenter of Wuhan earlier this year, but no information has been released about cases among military personnel or any change in the armed forces’ readiness status. The U.S. Navy, in contrast, saw a public controversy over the spread of the coronavirus aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the firing of the aircraft carrier’s skipper in April.
