December 29, 2022 4:17 am
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – The Southwest saga continues. On Wednesday, Southwest Airlines had 38 cancelled flights at Pittsburgh International Airport and Thursday will be the same. Right now, there are rows and rows of luggage at the Southwest baggage claim at the airport after several cancelled flights. Some frustrated passengers finally arrived but their bags have not. A passenger said he had to book a flight on another airline to get here from Denver, but he doesn’t have his checked luggage with his hockey equipment that he needs for a game this Friday. A local mom said she had to drive to Chicago to get her son. They came to the airport to find his suitcase with Christmas presents and other personal items inside, but they had no luck. Southwest Airlines sent Channel 11 a statement saying,
“Information for Customers with lost baggage is here: https://www.southwest.com/help/baggage/lost-damaged-baggage [southwest.com] … Customers can also speak with a representative at the baggage service office in an airport where we operate or contact Southwest customer service, though we are experiencing abnormally high call volumes. Our team is utilizing its standard procedures for returning baggage during irregular operations. We will make every attempt to reconnect Customers with their baggage at no cost to the Customer – we will use shipping partners to return baggage, where appropriate. Additional info for Customers is here: https://www.southwest.com/traveldisruption/ [southwest.com]”
February 16, 2022 4:44 pm
(PBRTV.com) – Long-time Pittsburgh sports talk reporter and personality Stan Savran announced on his program on Monday that he was diagnosed with lung cancer in January. As a result he will be receiving chemotherapy treatments every three weeks throughout 2022. Savran hosts the Noon-2:00 p.m. slot on WBGG (970) ESPN each weekday and he says he has no intention of stopping calling it “therapeutic”, though he admitted that he was still feeling the effects from the second treatment late last week. As the cancer has not spread from the one lung, doctors tell Savran the prognosis is good and, all things considered, he’s “doing great!” Treatments will continue through the end of the year and then, “life will go on,” Savran said. Savran is no stranger to health woes. He’s had two brain tumor operations, back surgery, and open-heart surgery. “It’s almost comical” he told his listeners as he assured that he would beat this one too. (Photo: Twitter)
March 23, 2021 9:39 am
In a private Facebook group called the Pittsburgh Area Police Breakroom, many current and retired officers spent the year criticizing chiefs who took a knee or officers who marched with Black Lives Matter protesters, whom they called “terrorists,” “racist” or “thugs.” Posts from the group were shared with The Associated Press, showing some of the 2,200 members including police officers, chiefs and retired law enforcement officials made regular transphobic bullying or violent posts, and bullied members who supported anti-police brutality protesters or Joe Biden in a forum billed as a place officers can “decompress, rant, share ideas.” The Associated Press says Mount Pleasant Township Police Chief Louis McQuillan was one of four administrators for the site. He said his comments and posts on the site were “meant to support law enforcement and police officers everywhere.” Township officials have not returned a call from WJPA News for comment and whether McQuillan could face possible disciplinary action. In addition to police chief, McQuillan is also a councilman in McDonald Borough and is currently a candidate for Magisterial District Judge for MCDonald, Cecil, Mount Pleasant and Robinson Township.
May 26, 2020 4:03 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Authorities in western Pennsylvania are investigating vandalism of a Pittsburgh war memorial on the eve of Memorial Day. The statue of a World War I doughboy in the city’s Lawrenceville neighborhood was splashed with red paint during the night. Public Safety Director Wendell Hissrich said vandalizing a memorial was wrong on any day but was “incomprehensible” on Memorial Day. He vowed that city police “will vigorously investigate this crime.” Police spokeswoman Cara Cruz said Monday that investigators are reviewing “all available video footage” from the area. She also said that arrangements are being made to clean the memorial.
August 6, 2019 10:25 am
NEW YORK (AP) – Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has died. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88.
She was the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, awarded in 1993. The Swedish academy hailed her use of language and her “visionary force.” Her novel “Beloved,” in which a mother makes a tragic choice to murder her baby to save the girl from slavery, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988. (Photo: Getty Images)
September 18, 2024 4:47 am
Students, lawyers and lovers of the constitution gathered on the Washington county courthouse steps Tuesday afternoon to mark the 237th anniversary of the signing of one of the country’s most important documents – The United States Constitution. Constitution Day recognizes the actual date the document was signed into law, September 17, 1787. The Washington County Bar association sponsors the annual event and association President Todd Pappasergi says members of the community and students gather for about 90 minutes every year to read the document in its entirety.
November 19, 2023 7:41 am
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A suspect believed to have fatally shot three women and a teenage girl and critically wounded another teen girl at three locations in Tennessee has died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot. The Memphis Police Department says officers found Mavis Christian Jr., 52, in his car during a manhunt. Officers responded to a reported shooting at 9:22 p.m. Saturday on Howard Drive, where a woman was found dead. Investigators determined there were two other connected fatal shootings. At Field Lark Drive, a woman and a 13-year-old girl were dead and a 15-year-old girl was critically wounded. Another woman was found fatally shot on Warrington Road.
December 29, 2022 4:14 am
ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. — (WPXI) – More than a dozen people say their constitutional rights were violated when they were fired from the county for not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. They’re asking for hundreds of thousand dollars in damages. One year ago, Shane Chesher was fired from Allegheny County for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, after his religious exemption was denied. Since then, he and 12 other people have filed a federal lawsuit against the county, claiming that they were wrongfully fired. Last year the county decided to mandate the vaccine for all employees, and if they didn’t get it, they would be fired by Dec. 1, 2021. That’s exactly what happened to Chesher. The basis of the lawsuit claims he and the other former employees were put through public shaming, forced to release private medical information and were not granted a religious exemption. “We are saying to the county, you fired us, and we are going on offense back at you guys,” Chesher explained. “We believe you violated our rights, and we are going to settle this in court.” A county spokesperson said they do not comment on legal matters. The former employees are acting as their own attorneys.
February 16, 2022 8:26 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden is ordering the release of Trump White House visitor logs to the House committee investigating the riot of Jan. 6, 2021, once more rejecting former President Donald Trump’s claims of executive privilege. The committee has sought a trove of data from the National Archives, including presidential records that Trump had fought to keep private. The records being released to Congress are visitor logs showing appointment information for individuals who allowed to enter the White House on the the day of the insurrection. A Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the decision.
March 23, 2021 4:17 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden’s administration has tried for weeks to keep the public from seeing images from the border like those released Monday. The new images show immigrant teenagers sleeping on mats in crowded conditions, separated in groups by plastic partitions. The administration steadfastly refuses to call the detention of more than 15,000 children in U.S. custody a crisis. But it has stymied most efforts by outsiders to decide for themselves. Officials have barred nonprofit lawyers who conduct oversight from entering a Border Patrol tent where thousands of children and teenagers are detained. And federal agencies have refused or ignored dozens of requests from the media for access to detention sites.
