September 7, 2023 5:01 am
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania prison officials say a murderer made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire and jumping from a roof. Authorities gave details of the escape at a news conference Wednesday. The acting warden of the Chester County Prison said there a guard in an observation tower has been put on administrative leave. The fugitive Danelo Cavalcante has been spotted five times since he escaped from jail Thursday. He was awaiting transfer to serve a life sentence in state prison. A jury convicted Cavalcante of murdering his girlfriend in 2021. He’s also wanted in his native Brazil over a killing.
September 7, 2023 4:58 am
NORTH STRABANE, Pa. — North Strabane Township police say the driver involved in a 2021 crash who had not been showing up for court is now under arrest. The Department posted on Facebook that 29 year old Kyrsten McHenry of Pitcairn had been arrested. They say she drove her car while under the influence of narcotics and without a license or insurance in December 2021. She crossed the center line on Route 519, hitting another vehicle head-on and causing critical injuries. She’s facing several charges, including aggravated assault by vehicle while DUI, accident involving death/injury while not licensed and driving under the influence of a controlled substance. The department said that since then, she hasn’t shown up to a single court date and was eluding police.
September 7, 2023 4:50 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – Bruce Springsteen’s two concerts in Pittsburgh scheduled for next week have been postponed. According to a Facebook post, Springsteen has postponed eight shows scheduled for September due to medical issues. Springsteen is being treated for symptoms of peptic ulcer disease, and his doctors advised him to postpone his September shows. Ticketholders will receive information on the rescheduled dates for the Sept. 12 and Sept. 14 shows at PPG Paints arena.
September 7, 2023 2:46 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new indictment against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter could come before the end of September, according to court documents filed Wednesday. The exact charges the president’s son would face were not immediately clear, but appeared related to a gun possession charge in which he was accused of having a firearm while being a drug user. He has also been under investigation by federal prosecutors for his business dealings. U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss, newly named a special counsel in the case, referred to a seeking an indictment before Sept. 29 in a status report required by Judge Maryellen Noreika.
September 6, 2023 4:43 pm
ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election subversion case involving former President Donald Trump has denied requests by two of the 19 defendants to be tried alone, instead saying the pair would be tried together starting next month. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell’s trial would begin Oct. 23 since both filed speedy trial demands. But he seemed skeptical Wednesday of prosecutors’ arguments that all 19 defendants could be tried together that soon. The hearing provided more provided some insight into how the sprawling case could play out, with prosecutors estimating a trial would take four months and that they’d call more than 150 witnesses.
September 6, 2023 5:11 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit, hours after Russia launched its first missile attack in a week against the Ukrainian capital. Blinken’s trip Wednesday aimed to assess Ukraine’s 3-month-old counteroffensive and signal continued U.S. support for Kyiv’s efforts to drive out the Kremlin’s forces after 19 months of war. Some of Ukraine’s Western allies have expressed concerns over the pace of the counteroffensive’s progress. Washington officials said possible alternative export routes for Ukrainian grain will also be discussed following Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative and its frequent bombardment of port facilities in the Odesa region from where most grain is transported abroad.
September 6, 2023 5:09 am
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency says Earth endured its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures. Last month was not only the hottest August scientists ever recorded by far with modern equipment. It also was the second hottest month measured, behind only July 2023. That’s according to the World Meteorological Organization and the European climate service Copernicus. August was about 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, warmer than pre-industrial averages — the warming threshold that the world is trying not to pass.
September 6, 2023 5:08 am
HONOLULU (AP) — Lawyers for residents and business owners of the Hawaiian town devastated by last month’s fires on Maui told a court that cable TV and telephone companies share in responsibility for the disaster. The attorneys made the statements Tuesday, saying the companies allegedly overloaded and destabilized some of the power poles. The lawyers said the cables were attached in a way that put too much tension on the poles, causing them to lean and break in the winds on Aug. 8 when flames burned down much of Lahaina, killing at least 115 people and destroying more than 2,000 structures.
September 6, 2023 5:07 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for orchestrating a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election. Tuesday’s sentencing caps one of the most significant prosecutions over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Tarrio’s sentence is the longest so far among more than 1,100 Capitol riot cases. Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and former Proud Boys leader Ethan Nordean each received 18 years for their Jan. 6 convictions. Tarrio’s defense attorneys asked for no more than 15 years in prison, and told reporters after the hearing that they will appeal.
September 6, 2023 5:04 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia’s mayor says the city’s police commissioner, Danielle Outlaw, will step down this month to take a leadership position with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Outlaw leaves after a turbulent three years on the job that spans the country’s recent clashes over race and policing. She leaves as Mayor Jim Kenney’s two terms in office wind down. Outlaw, the first Black woman to run the 6,000-member police department, came to Philadelphia from Portland, Oregon. Democratic mayoral candidate Cherelle Parker is praising Outlaw’s tenure while acknowledging there will be a sea of Monday morning quarterbacks second-guessing her decisions.
