June 12, 2024 5:15 am
DETROIT (AP) — If Tesla shareholders vote against restoring Elon Musk’s $44.9 billion pay package Thursday, the CEO could deliver on threats to take artificial intelligence research to one of his other companies. If they approve the all-stock compensation that was thrown out by a Delaware judge this year, that would likely keep him at the company so he can shift to AI and robotics, which Musk says is Tesla’s future. But even with reapproval at the annual shareholders’ meeting there would be uncertainty. Musk has threatened on X, his social media platform, to develop AI elsewhere if he doesn’t get a 25% stake in Tesla.
June 12, 2024 1:48 pm
(AP) – Jerry West, a native West Virginian and WVU legend, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, has died. The Los Angeles Clippers say West died Wednesday morning with his wife, Karen, by his side. He was 86. West was nicknamed “Mr. Clutch” for his late-game exploits as a player, and he won both NBA and Olympic titles. He was an All-Star in all 14 of his NBA seasons and won the 1972 championship with the Lakers. West was later the general manger of eight Lakers championship teams. (Photo: AP)
June 11, 2024 5:16 pm
(WPXI) – A man is dead and two others are hurt after two separate shootings in Uniontown on Tuesday afternoon. According to Uniontown police, a man was shot and killed on Dunlap Street. While police were on the scene of the first shooting, two males inside a car were injured when someone in another car opened fire on them. Both victims were taken to the hospital. One was flown via medical helicopter.
June 11, 2024 12:35 pm
(WPXI) – Emergency crews are on the scene of several buildings on fire in Etna. Allegheny County 911 said crews were called to 86 Vilsack Street at 11:42 a.m. At least two buildings were on fire. An explosion was reported in one of the buildings, and one of the buildings also collapsed. One of the buildings involved is an apartment building, possibly a duplex, while the other appears to be a home. One firefighter was taken to the hospital but there’s been no word on what type of injuries they suffered.
June 11, 2024 11:28 am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden has been convicted of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, he lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs. Jurors found Hunter Biden guilty of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application by saying he was not a drug user and illegally having the gun for 11 days.
June 10, 2024 5:03 am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors have started their second day of deliberations in the criminal case against Hunter Biden over a gun President Joe Biden’s son bought in 2018 when prosecutors say he was in the throes of a crack cocaine addiction. Jurors deliberated for less than an hour Monday before leaving the federal courthouse in Delaware. They resumed deliberations Tuesday. Jurors are weighing whether Hunter Biden is guilty of three felonies in the case pitting him against his father’s Justice Department in the middle of the Democratic president’s reelection campaign. Hunter Biden’s lawyers have argued he did not consider himself an “addict” when he bought the gun.
June 11, 2024 4:44 am
The Washington School Board met Monday and passed their 2024-2025 general fund budget. The vote to approve was unanimous. The budget is balanced and comes in at $33,511,980. It also contains a tax increase of .5172 mills. According to Superintendent George Lammay, that tax increase would be in the neighborhood of $20 annually for most residents, increased funds from casino gambling was able to offset most of the tax increase. Lammay said that insurance has increased nearly 30% over the last three years, and increases in salaries, benefits and other contract costs were drivers in the tax increase. Lammay also said that the district will pay out approximately $2.2 million to support cyber schools. He mentioned pending legislation to help greatly reduce that burden in all school districts in Pennsylvania. Lammy applauded the progress of the reading program instituted last year. He says early returns are showing positive results.
June 11, 2024 4:48 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Democratic-sponsored proposal to boost public school funding by billions in the coming years and impose stricter rules on cyber-charter schools is on its way to the Pennsylvania Senate after passage in the state House. Five Republicans joined all Democrats in approving the bill on Monday. The measure passed 107 to 94. The bill is a response to a report issued in January that said Pennsylvania underfunds public school districts by more than $5 billion annually. The proposed legislation would set up a new formula to distribute state education aid but does not include an appropriation of the money to fund it.
June 11, 2024 1:48 am
Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh announced on Monday that warrants have been issued for the arrest of two individuals from Wellsburg, West Virginia, in connection with the robbery on Wednesday, of the First National Bank on Route Nineteen in North Strabane Township. Walsh says the warrants are out for Kayla Pruett and Brandon Scerri. Authorities say they believe Scerri was the one who entered the bank and demanded money. They say the two were identified using their tattoos and driver’s license photos, along with the description of their car, a blue-colored Ford Focus. Walsh says Scerri got away with more than seventy-four-hundred-dollars in the robbery. Walsh stressed that these warrants are for the First National Bank robbery and not the one at Washington Financial in Washington two days earlier. He says though, there are similarities and the investigation is continuing. (PHOTO; North Strabane Twp Police)
June 11, 2024 2:21 am
A Washington woman charged in an August 2023 accident on Interstate 79 that took the life of a New York man faced her preliminary hearing on Monday. Rachel Phillips, 35 is accused of killing 58 year old Gary Reinhardt of Lancaster, New York. Witness testimony from Mindy Burgess recalled how Phillps passed her on I-79 North going faster than the 65 miles per hour that she was travelling. She stated that Phillips’ SUV drifted into the right shoulder of the road and dramatically swerved left and crossed two lanes of traffic and the median before striking Reinhardt’s vehicle, killing him and causing the wreckage of two other vehicles. First responder testimony reported the odor of alcohol inside Phillips’ car while they extricated her and the presence of several unopened cans containing alcohol. After being flown to a Pittsburgh hospital, Phillips’ had a blood draw that showed no alcohol but did show marijuana and cocaine in her system. All charges were held for court, Phillips is facing homicide by vehicle and reckless endangerment charges among others. Phillips is free on $175,000 bond.
