February 21, 2022 4:15 am
ROBINSON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – Fire crews were called to a fire at an industrial site in Robinson Township on Sunday. According to responding crews, a passerby on Route 22 saw smoke billowing out of the huge commercial building after 1:30 this afternoon and called 911. The Midway fire chief says when crews first arrived, there was thick black smoke coming out of nearly every corner of the building. No one was inside the Costy’s Energy Services building when the fire started and there were no injuries. Costy’s is an equipment company that services the fracking industry. Firefighters say the greatest challenge they faced was just getting to the location. “The commercial building was approximately a mile off Steubenville Pike, down a gravel lane,” Midway Volunteer Fire Chief Doug Baird said. “We did have a hydrant near the scene, which we cut through property to get to, and had tanker shuttles from Washington County, Beaver County, Allegheny County and Pittsburgh International Airport.” Crews were able to knock down the majority of the flames down in an hour and a half but crews remained here on scene until about 5:30. We’re told that the fire marshal is investigating the cause of the fire.
March 28, 2021 7:33 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Planned Parenthood and other operators of abortion clinics lost in court on Friday in their bid to reverse a decades-old Pennsylvania court decision upholding limits on the use of state Medicaid dollars to cover the cost of abortions. The plaintiffs will appeal to the state Supreme Court, the only state court that can repeal the limits on abortion coverage under Medicaid, said Susan Frietsche of the Women’s Law Project. The loss in the lower Commonwealth Court was expected, she said. A seven-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court ruled, with one dissent, both that the abortion clinic operators do not have standing to assert the constitutional rights of low-income women seeking an abortion and that it is bound by the high court’s 1985 decision in question. The state Supreme Court in 1985 upheld the 1982 law, which bans the use of state dollars for abortion, except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, supports abortion rights, but his administration nevertheless fought the case, as did Republican lawmakers who intervened. Wolf’s office declined comment, saying it was still reviewing the decision.
May 29, 2020 4:12 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is escalating his war on social media companies, signing an executive order challenging the liability protections that have served as a bedrock for unfettered speech on the internet. He declared he was “fed up” with what he considers bias as prepared to sign the order on Thursday. Still, the move appears to be more about politics than substance, as the president aims to rally supporters after he lashed out at Twitter for applying fact checks to two of his tweets. Legal experts have expressed doubts Trump can do much by himself, without an act of Congress. And the order is certain to face legal challenges.
August 9, 2019 4:20 am
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) – Across the early primary states, Democratic voters have seen a parade of more than two dozen presidential candidates march through their states for months. Some are starting to get exhausted with the primary field and are anxious to take on Donald Trump. Iowans treasure the national attention that shines on them every four years when presidential candidates descend on the state, whose caucuses mark the beginning of an election year. But as virtually every Democratic contender swings through Iowa this weekend to participate in the famed state fair, even some die-hard Democratic activists are getting restless. They’re worried the historically massive field isn’t shrinking fast enough and the debate stages are too crowded.
September 22, 2024 6:13 am
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s sidewalks once notorious for sprawling tents belonging to homeless people are largely clear. There are still thousands of homeless people living in RVs and cars and in expanded shelter beds. But Mayor London Breed’s office says the nearly 3,000 people counted sleeping outdoors in tents is the lowest figure in a decade. And even fewer people are likely living on sidewalks after Breed ramped up enforcement of anti-camping laws following a U.S. Supreme Court decision this summer. Part of the decrease in tents is also due to San Francisco adding thousands of new shelter beds and affordable housing units. Other California cities also are seeing fewer tents.
November 24, 2023 5:03 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — (WPXI) – A 16-year-old girl continues to fight for her life after police say a 36-year-old man who called her his girlfriend shot her. Police said the teen was shot in the head by 36-year-old Nathan Glasscock (pictured) Monday night in Uniontown. Police said Glasscock told them he didn’t mean to shoot her. They said he told them he wanted to shoot the grandmother for interfering in his relationship with the girl. The victim’s great-aunt, however, says that’s a lie. The grandmother — Karen Leydig — and the girl were just 10 feet away from each other when police say Glasscock pulled the trigger. The teen is in critical but stable condition at Ruby Memorial Hospital. Glasscock is due in court on Nov. 28.
January 2, 2023 3:42 am
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Ten guards and four inmates were killed early Sunday when gunmen in armored vehicles attacked a state prison in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas. The Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office said in a statement that around 7 a.m. various armored vehicles arrived at the prison and gunmen opened fire on guards. In addition to those killed, 13 people were wounded and at least 24 inmates escaped. Mexican soldiers and state police regained control of the prison later Sunday. The state prosecutor’s office said its personnel were investigating. In August, a riot inside the same state prison spread to the streets of Juarez in violence that left 11 people dead.
February 21, 2022 4:08 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Justices on Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court are weighing how to pick a map of new congressional districts. The justices listened to more than a dozen lawyers for five hours Friday each trying to persuade them that their proposed map is best. Meanwhile, justices did not necessarily embrace a Republican-backed map recommended by a lower court judge, but viewed by Democrats as blatantly partisan. Rather, justices seemed to search for a non-partisan and neutral basis on which to select a map. Pennsylvania’s Democratic-majority court must make the final decision on how to draw the state’s congressional districts after Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and the Republican-controlled Legislature deadlocked.
March 28, 2021 4:08 am
A Washington man charged with possession with the intent to deliver cocaine was found guilty in Washington County Court. Donald Stanley Knupp, 33 of Washington was arrested in August of 2018 after detectives from the Washington County Drug Task Force arranged controlled purchases from Knupp at his barbershop at 520 West Chestnut Street. According to Assistant District Attorney Rachel Wheeler, the jury deliberated for only eleven minutes before delivering a guilty verdict on one felony charge of possession with the intent to deliver and two misdemeanor charges of possession of controlled substances and drug paraphernalia. Knupp is a repeat offender and could receive five to ten years in prison on his felony charge. Knupp will be sentenced by Judge Gary Gilman in 90 days.
May 29, 2020 4:10 am
South Korea has reported 58 new cases of the coronavirus, all in the Seoul metropolitan area, as officials scramble to stem transmissions linked to a massive e-commerce warehouse near the capital. The figures announced Friday by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention brought national totals to 11,402 infections and 269 deaths. Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun called for officials to examine working conditions at warehouses of online shopping companies, which have seen orders surge during the pandemic, and other congested workplaces. South Korea has reported 177 new COVID-19 cases over the past three days, a resurgence that threatens to erase some of its hard-won gains against the virus.
