September 19, 2024 5:38 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street romped to records as a delayed jubilation swept markets worldwide following the Federal Reserve’s big cut to interest rates. The S&P 500 jumped 1.7% Thursday for one of its best days of the year and topped its last all-time high set in July. The Dow Jones Industrial Average leaped more than 500 points, or 1.3%, to beat its own record set on Monday, and the Nasdaq composite led the market with a 2.5% spurt. Treasury yields were mixed in the bond market as economic reports helped bolster hopes that the economy can avoid a recession with the help of lower rates.
November 21, 2023 4:48 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — (WPXI) – A woman was shot by her ex-boyfriend in Uniontown during a reported break-in on Monday evening. Police were called to Carlisle Street at 5:08 p.m. for reports of a break-in when they learned a woman was shot. Police say they believe this started as part of a domestic situation where a girlfriend and boyfriend had recently broken up. Authorities say the woman’s ex-boyfriend showed up and forced his way inside of 28 Carlisle Street. At that time, the woman was in the house with her grandmother and an 18-year-old relative. After the man got inside, police say he got into an argument with the victim’s grandmother and then shot the victim. Officers say when they got to the house, they found the woman in an upstairs hallway with a gunshot wound to a “vital” part of her body. The victim was taken to Ruby Memorial Hospital where we understand she underwent surgery Monday night. Her condition isn’t known.
December 31, 2022 4:00 am
The lead witness for the prosecution who pleaded his fifth amendment rights during a preliminary hearing in December was held for contempt of court on Thursday. Elijah White, 24 of Donora was identified in a video arguing with 29 year old Jaisen Irwin in a Monongahela tavern before Irwin was killed and had his body dumped in Finleyville. When White was called to the stand to testify, he told the court that he was going to plead the fifth to every question asked of him no matter what the subject was. White is considered a key witness in the homicide trials of Keaundre Crews, 29 of Charleroi and Maurissa Spencer, 24 of Library who are charged in the killing of Irwin back in October near Bob’s Tavern in Finleyville. District Attorney Jason Walsh tells WJPA news that the judge that held the hearing on Thursday is holding White in contempt of court for not cooperating with his testimony. White will spend the next 5 days to 6 months in jail. He is also required to comply with all subpoenas.
February 17, 2022 4:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden is hoping to use his upcoming State of the Union address as a chance to nudge the pandemic into the nation’s rear-view mirror. But there are risks the event could turn out to be yet another disruptive display of national tensions and frustration over how to move past COVID-19. Biden’s March 1 address to Congress will play out in one of the most significantly disrupted workplaces in the country – something of a ground zero for the culture war over lingering pandemic restrictions. It comes as federal officials are racing to develop looser national guidance that Biden aims to highlight as part of a return to normalcy in his address.
March 25, 2021 4:12 am
A federal indictment says the University of Pittsburgh’s former emergency management director stole more than 13,600 face masks meant for school employees and students and sold them online in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. The indictment announced Wednesday says Christopher Casamento stole N95 respirators, surgical masks and particulate respirator masks and sold them on his eBay vendor page at “significant price mark ups,” making nearly $19,000 from the sales. Pitt says Casamento admitted misappropriating the masks and was fired last July. A message was left at his number seeking comment.
May 27, 2020 3:55 am
WILLINGTON, Conn. (AP) – The wife of a man killed in a machete attack said Tuesday that the college student suspected in that and another killing was looking for a young woman he knew when he began his rampage. University of Connecticut senior Peter Manfredonia is a fugitive in the killing of that young woman’s 62-year-old neighbor in Willington, Connecticut. Police say he also is believed to have also killed a high school friend who was found dead Sunday about 70 miles away. Manfredonia was last reported seen in Pennsylvania on Sunday and is the target of a search involving police and the FBI.
August 7, 2019 10:19 am
SPENCER, W.Va. (AP) – A West Virginia city is offering to forgive unpaid parking tickets in exchange for school supplies. The city of Spencer announced the deal Tuesday on Facebook. It says it will clear the parking tickets if a person brings an item from a list of supplies for elementary, middle and high schools. Some of the items include crayons, pencils, pens, loose-lead paper and Clorox Wipes. Supplies can be dropped off at the city’s municipal building. Multiple tickets can be excused if a person brings one item per ticket. Tickets issued through Friday are eligible for the program.
September 19, 2024 8:59 am
Three helicopters were called to the scene of a two-vehicle, head-on collision in North Bethlehem Township Thursday morning. Washington County 9-1-1 tells WJPA News it happened around 7 a.m at State Route 40 and Route 917. The crash did close the roadway in that area. A landing zone was set up in Cokeburg and all three patients were taken to hospitals in Pittsburgh. There is no word on the identity or condition of any of those injured.
November 21, 2023 3:22 am
A hearing will be held Wednesday morning on challenge that has been filed in connection with the mayor’s race in the city of Washington. Democrat Jo Jo Burgess won the race by 39 votes over Independent candidate Mark Kennison. Washington County Elections Director Melanie Ostrander says there are twenty petitioners who are all registered voters in the city who voted in the election and they are requesting to review all of the election materials including; voted ballots, voting lists and poll book lists. She says they believe there were activities that occurred at the 6th Ward-Precinct 1 polling place that could have caused the election to be swayed towards one candidate. Results show that Burgess beat Kennison by 68 votes in that precinct. A hearing on the challenge will be heard before Washington County Common Pleas Court Judge Gary Gilman Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock. WJPA reached out to attorney Lane Turturice, who filed the petition on behalf of the twenty individuals, but received no response. Jo Jo Burgess told WJPA that he has filed a motion to quash the petition because he believes there was no wrong-doing. A hearing on that motion is set for Wednesday morning as well. Burgess says his campaign worked especially hard to court voters in that precinct and he believes this challenge has racial undertones and is an effort to disenfranchise their votes.
December 30, 2022 4:11 am
KINGSHILL, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) – President Joe Biden has signed a $1.7 trillion bill funding government operations through September 2023, the end of the federal budget year. The bill increases spending for domestic and Defense Department programs. It also includes roughly $45 billion in new aid for Ukraine and NATO allies, a sum larger than Biden had requested. Congress cleared the bill just before Christmas and Biden had until Dec. 30 to sign the measure to continue government operations. Biden signed the more than 4,000-page bill on Thursday in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he is spending time with family.
