June 5, 2025 10:42 am
(WPXI) – MURRYSVILLE, Pa. — An attorney who was involved in a police standoff over the weekend in Westmoreland County has died. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office released a report Thursday morning that Robert C. Klingensmith, 61, died on Wednesday following a self-inflicted injury. Police showed up to arrest Klingensmith at his office on Old William Penn Highway in Murrysville on Saturday. He was charged with allegedly stealing more than $300,000 from a deceased client’s estate from 2021 to 2024. Klingensmith reportedly shot himself during the standoff with police. Viewer video shows the moments that tense standoff ended. He appeared to ignore police commands to get on the ground, and he was tased.
June 5, 2025 7:41 am
The man accused in a Rostraver murder in April has been transferred to the Westmoreland County Prison, and is set to face a judge next week. Dorian Jeri-Greene appeared for a preliminary hearing in Washington County by video Wednesday morning. He was charged in a Donora incident in February and was arrested in Florida last month on those charges. According to court documents, Jeri-Greene broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home by destroying a door frame. Police said he strangled the woman before running out of the home with a hatchet. In court Wednesday, the victim told the judge she no longer wanted to move forward with the prosecution and refused to testify. So, the district attorney dropped the charges against him in that case. But, Jeri-Greene is still behind bars. Westmoreland County Deputies picked him up from the Washington County Jail and brought him to the Westmoreland County Prison after those charges were dropped. Jeri-Greene is accused of killing Jennah Seibert in her Rostraver home in April. Police said he walked nearly three miles from Monongahela, hid behind a shed on Seibert’s property, and waited for her fiancé, Bryan Murray, to leave for work. Police said he shot Seibert in her bed, stole jewelry, and left. They tracked him to a home in Florida after searching pawn shops across several states, and finding the stolen jewelry at a pawn shop in Tampa. Jeri-Greene is set to face a judge for the murder of Seibert at a hearing set for Monday at 1 p.m.
June 5, 2025 5:14 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s big bill is likely to unleash trillions in tax cuts and slash spending, but also spike deficits by $2.4 trillion over the decade and leave some 10.9 million more people without health insurance. That’s according to a new analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The findings are raising political stakes for the GOP’s signature domestic priority. Senate GOP Leader John Thune said after a meeting with Trump at the White House that they’re committed to getting it done. Republican leaders are determined to muscle the package through Congress by Trump’s July Fourth deadline. But billionaire Elon Musk is trashing the package, posting “Kill the bill,” and Democrats are piling on their own opposition.
June 5, 2025 5:13 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At least five people, including a one-year-old child, were killed in a Russian drone strike on the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky overnight, regional governor Viacheslav Chaus said Thursday. Six more people were wounded in the attack and have been hospitalized, Chaus said. According to him, six Shahed-type drones struck residential areas of Pryluky early Thursday morning, causing severe damage to residential buildings. Hours later, seventeen people were wounded in a Russian drone strike on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early Thursday, including children, a pregnant woman, and a 93-year-old woman, regional head Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram.
June 5, 2025 5:11 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department has cut back on the inflation data it collects because of the Trump administration’s government hiring freeze, raising concerns among economists about the quality of the inflation figures just as they are being closely watched for the impact of tariffs. The department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, which produces the monthly consumer price index, said Wednesday that it is “reducing sample in areas across the country” and stopped collecting price data entirely in April in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Provo, Utah. It also said it has stopped collecting data this month in Buffalo, New York.
June 5, 2025 5:09 am
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the government to immediately halt deportation proceedings against the wife and five children of a man charged in the firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado. U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher said the order Wednesday was urgently needed to ensure the protection of the family’s constitutional rights. Mohamed Sabry Soliman faces federal hate crime charges and state charges of attempted murder in the Sunday attack in downtown Boulder. None of his family members has been charged in the attack that injured 15 demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.
June 5, 2025 5:08 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is again banning people from countries his administration deems dangerous from coming to America. The travel ban issued Wednesday is a repeat of an order of his first administration that led to widespread confusion at airports. This version includes Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The Republican president’s first travel ban was issued in 2017 and banned travel to the U.S. by citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries. The order was retooled until a version was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018.
June 5, 2025 5:06 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is directing his administration to investigate Joe Biden’s actions as president, alleging aides masked his predecessor’s “cognitive decline” and raising questions about his use of the autopen to sign pardons and other documents. The order Wednesday marks a significant escalation in Trump’s targeting of political adversaries, and it could lay the groundwork for claiming that a range of Biden’s actions were invalid despite the president’s pardon power being enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Biden responded, “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency,” adding, “Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”
June 5, 2025 5:04 am
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Pennsylvania officials are warning the public about the dangers of illegal explosive devices ahead of the Fourth of July holiday. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives Philadelphia Division encourages members of the public to report the manufacture and sale of illegal explosives to protect their communities. Since 2020, Pennsylvania has accounted for nearly 20 percent of all ATF illegal explosive device investigations nationwide, the division says. It is illegal under federal law to manufacture, store, distribute, receive or transport explosive materials without a federal explosives license or permit, the division says. Violators can face up to 10 years in federal prison. They are sold in a non-commercial location, such as out of a vehicle or residence. The person with the device has no evidence of a receipt or commercial packaging, or they cannot tell you where they originally purchased it. The device is often 1-6 inches long and up to an inch or more in diameter. The casing resembles a roll of coins with a fuse. Some outer shells are made of cardboard tubes. The outer covering is red, silver, or brown in color. The device looks oddly shaped and wrapped in brown paper that may be filled with an explosive material.
June 5, 2025 4:52 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A bill to reduce how much Pennsylvania school districts have to pay for cyber charter students is advancing in the state Legislature. The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to establish an $8,000 per student limit. It passed with mostly Democratic support. Republican opponents say the measure would imperil the online learning programs. Cyber charters wouldn’t be able to maintain cash balances above 12% of their spending and wouldn’t be able to provide payments or gifts to parents as incentives to enroll their children. About 65,000 Pennsylvania students currently attend the state’s 14 public cyber charter schools.
