March 28, 2021 7:35 am
PITTSBURGH (WPXI) — A 41-year-old man was arrested and charged with criminal homicide in connection with a woman found shot to death on a Carrick sidewalk. Investigators said Donte Moss was arrested and is being held at the Allegheny County Jail. The woman was found dead just after 12:30 a.m. in the 400 block of Linnview Avenue. Police said she had been shot in the head. Detectives from the Major Crimes and the Crime Scene Unit processed evidence at the scene.
May 29, 2020 5:59 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has announced that the U.S. will be terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization. He said the WHO failed to adequately respond to the coronavirus because China has “total control” over the global organization. He said Chinese officials “ignored” their reporting obligations to the WHO and pressured the WHO to mislead the world when the virus was first discovered. He noted that the U.S. contributes about $450 million to the world body while China provides about $40 million.
August 9, 2019 4:21 am
BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) – Joe Biden is anchoring his presidential campaign around questions of character – both his and President Donald Trump’s. The recent back-to-back mass killings in Texas and Ohio have given Biden new traction for his arguments. Biden has spent the past three months largely on defense over a long policy record that draws fire from Democratic Party’s most progressive corners. But he reasserted himself this week with a blistering takedown of Trump’s racist language and the ways in which some of the president’s anti-immigrant outbursts could have inspired one of the shootings. In Iowa, Biden weaved between hushed disappointment and incredulous fury over a president who offers “no moral leadership.”
September 22, 2024 6:16 am
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Police say four people have died and more than 20 have been wounded following a shooting in a nightlife area in Birmingham, Alabama. The Birmingham Police Department says in a social media post there were multiple people shot on 20th Street near Magnolia Avenue in the Five Points South area. WBMA-TV and AL.COM report police said officers arrived at the scene and discovered two men and a woman dead at the scene while a fourth victim died at a hospital. Police say up to 21 were wounded. The Birmingham police did not immediately respond to a message from The Associated Press seeking additional information. The Five Points South area of Birmingham has numerous entertainment venues, restaurants and bars and often is crowded on Saturday nights.
November 24, 2023 5:06 am
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has released 39 Palestinian prisoners in line with a truce deal that saw 13 Israeli hostages freed by militants in Gaza hours earlier. Thirty-three prisoners were freed Friday in the West Bank and handed to a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross. Qadura Fares heads an advocacy group for prisoners. He said the remaining six prisoners were being freed from a Jerusalem lockup. The releases on both sides were part of a deal for a four-day truce in the Israel-Hamas war that began Friday. Over the next four days, 150 Palestinian prisoners and 50 Israeli hostages are to be freed.
January 2, 2023 3:43 am
CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — President Joe Biden and top administration officials are opening a new year of divided government by fanning out across the country later this week to talk about how the economy is benefiting from his work with Democrats and Republicans. As part of the effort, the White House says Biden and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell will make a rare joint appearance in McConnell’s home state of Kentucky on Wednesday. The leaders will highlight nearly $1 trillion in infrastructure spending that lawmakers approved on a bipartisan basis in 2021. More than $1 billion of that money will be used to build a new bridge over the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky.
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.
