September 1, 2026 5:01 am
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — The bodies of two friends — a Texas chiropractor and a martial arts studio owner — have been found after a major flash flood swept through the Grand Canyon. Officials said Monday that one person remains unaccounted for after about 80 others were rescued over the weekend. Park officials did not release identities, but the families of the two deceased men identified them as John Giusti and Brent Rosenkranz. THey say their buddy Saturday’s flash flood severely damaged the only water pipeline into the canyon. Officials have barred tourists from staying at lodges and hotels inside Grand Canyon National Park and issued emergency water restrictions for year-round residents. Officials say they used the park’s permit system to track the number of missing people.
September 1, 2026 4:59 am
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescue teams are searching for thousands of people still missing after catastrophic flooding in Nepal and China. The disaster has left over 1,000 dead. Nepal’s disaster agency reported 987 deaths and 3,916 missing, including 583 foreigners. Chinese authorities reported 16 deaths and 546 missing. The scale of last week’s disaster is hampering rescue efforts, with landslides and destroyed roads cutting off remote areas. In Nepal, rescuers are racing to reach hundreds of hydropower workers trapped in tunnels. The Aug. 26 disaster began with a chain of events high in the Himalayas. A glacial collapse sent large amounts of rock, ice and meltwater into valleys below, triggering powerful floods downstream.
September 1, 2026 5:02 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has launched a large aerial assault in and around Ukraine’s capital that has killed at least 11 people. The attack that began Monday evening and continued into Tuesday also wounded more than a dozen other people including three children. It was the sixth consecutive day of Russian attacks on Kyiv. The strikes hit civilian infrastructure and residential buildings. Odesa also faced attacks which damaged infrastructure and wounded one person. Ukrainian forces said they destroyed or suppressed 199 aerial targets.
September 1, 2026 5:00 am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury has found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. The verdict Monday marks the first and only conviction in a case that has gripped hip-hop fans for years. In 1996, Shakur was on his way to perform at a club in Las Vegas when a Cadillac pulled up beside him and music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight. Gunfire erupted. Shakur was shot multiple times and died a week later. Davis is the only person ever charged in Shakur’s death. The case went cold until recent years, when interviews Davis gave and his 2019 tell-all memoir revived it.
August 31, 2026 5:12 am
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — The bodies of a Texas chiropractor and at least one other person have been found after a major weekend flash flood swept through the Grand Canyon, and forecasters warned more flooding was possible as heavy rain shrouded the canyon walls. Saturday’s flash flood severely damaged the only water pipeline into the canyon. Officials have barred tourists from staying at lodges and hotels inside Grand Canyon National Park and issued emergency water restrictions for year-round residents. More than a dozen hikers, including two on a dream trip with their chiropractor friend, remain missing Monday following waves of rain in the Bright Angel Creek area of the tourist destination that hosts 4.4 million visitors a year.
August 31, 2026 2:14 pm
Gas prices are a penny lower in Western Pennsylvania this week at $4.332 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is one cent lower than last week at $4.08, but there’s been little movement on the crude oil front. Due to continued volatility in the Strait of Hormuz, crude oil prices remain in the $85 per barrel range. For the first time ever, the national average in August has been above $4 per gallon every day. This month is poised to set a new record as the most expensive August at the pump, surpassing the previous August record set in 2022. The average price per gallon in Washington is four-dollars and thirty-four cents.
August 31, 2026 2:49 am
An elderly Woman in Monongahela was pronounced dead Sunday, after being found, following a house fire Saturday. Washington County Coroner Tim Warco says seventy-five-year-old Linda Pankiewicz died in a fire at a home in the five-hundred block of Warne Street Extension. Warco says a passerby reported the fire just before ten p.m. Emergency Responders reportedly thought the home was vacant, however, human remains were discovered during the State Police Fire Marshal’s investigation on Sunday. The Monongahela Fire Department said two firefighters were taken to local hospitals after suffering injuries in a fall. Their injuries were minor, and they have since been released. The cause and manner of death is pending. The investigation continues. (Photo: Charleroi Fire Department)
August 30, 2026 2:00 am
A Smith Township man was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital Saturday morning following an accident in which a part of a roof fell on him. According to Washington County 911, a 67-year-old man was part of a small crew who were working on the roof along Shin Hill Street around 8:30 when it collapsed on him, trapping him under the debris. Emergency crews arrived and got him from underneath the roof. Smith Township Police are investigating.
August 31, 2026 5:02 am
SEWICKLEY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A homicide investigation is underway in Westmoreland County. State Troopers responded to a home on Herminie West Newton Road in Sewickley Township for an unresponsive female Sunday morning. The Westmoreland County Office of the Coroner identified the female as Christin E. Hamilton of West Newton. An age was not provided. A cause and manner of death have not yet been determined. State police initially said they were searching for Jakob Michael Korber, who was in the area. According to our news partners at WPXI, state police confirmed that Korber was taken into custody without incident. State police were conducting an investigation in the 1100 block of Herminie West Newton Road Sunday evening.
August 31, 2026 5:11 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing the White House to continue construction on President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom project while his administration appeals a judge’s order halting the work. The justices intervened Monday after lower courts found work must stop because the project doesn’t have congressional approval. The decision replaces a temporary order signed by Chief Justice John Roberts hours before a court-ordered halt was set to go into effect. It allows the construction to continue as the lawsuit plays out, a potentially lengthy process. It’s a win for Trump as he flexes unprecedented executive power and remakes the capital in his image, and he says he is “pleased” with the ruling.
