January 2, 2025 5:00 am
CALIFORNIA, Pa. — The Washington County District Attorney has charged a man with attempted homicide in the assault of a 1-year-old child he was supposed to be babysitting. Jason Walsh tells Channel 11 the child remains at Children’s Hospital five weeks after he was found unconscious in his California Borough home. The mother’s boyfriend, Lyndon Henderson, was originally arrested and charged with assault, but that has now been upgraded to attempted homicide. According to state police, the California Borough Police Department was originally called to a home along 3rd Street after the 1-year-old stopped breathing. The little boy was rushed to the hospital where he was put onto a ventilator. The little boy also suffered a stroke and has a broken vertebra in his neck. Police say the mother’s boyfriend, Lyndon Henderson had been watching Kybrel while his mother was at work. When questioned by Belle Vernon troopers, the 24-year-old told authorities that he watched the child when his girlfriend went to work early Saturday morning. Henderson told authorities that the child fell off the couch onto the floor after spinning him around in circles and placing him on the couch. The criminal complaint quotes the doctor who treated Kybrel saying: “The brain injury sustained by the victim is 100% unequivocally the result of child abuse.” Henderson was arrested Sunday night for assaulting the child. He remains in the Washington County Jail under no bond.
January 1, 2025 5:08 am
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is pressing ahead with plans to reopen the city’s famed Bourbon Street as investigators keep digging into the background of the U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers, killing 15 people. The FBI said the attack occurred early Wednesday when 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar steered around a police blockade. It’s being investigated as a terrorist act. Investigators believe the driver was inspired by the Islamic State group. Jabbar, who was killed by police, was a U.S. citizen from Texas.
January 2, 2025 5:13 am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say the highly decorated soldier inside a Tesla Cybertruck packed with fireworks that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas shot himself in the head just before detonation. The explosion caused minor injuries to seven people but virtually no damage to the hotel. Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger likely planned a more damaging attack but the steel-sided vehicle absorbed much of the force from the crudely built explosive. Livelsberger was an active-duty member of the elite Green Berets. The Pentagon said he had served in the Army since 2006, rising through the ranks, and was on approved leave when he died.
January 2, 2025 5:04 am
SOUTH BEAVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – A man and woman were found dead in the garage of their home just before 3 p.m. on New Year’s Eve in an apparent murder-suicide. Police were called to the home just before 3 p.m. Tuesday. Sources say they found two people shot in the garage. The Beaver County Coroner said Joyce Kostandin, 41, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds to the head and chest. John Kostandin, 48, died from a self-inflicted gunshot. State police are continuing to investigate.
January 2, 2025 5:10 am
President Joe Biden is bestowing the second highest civilian award on Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson — the lawmakers who led the congressional investigation into the violent Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot by Donald Trump’s supporters. Trump has said both should be jailed. Biden will award the Presidential Citizens Medal to 20 people Thursday, including Americans who fought for marriage equality, a pioneer in treating wounded soldiers, and former Sens. Ted Kaufman of Delaware and Chris Dodd of Connecticut, two of the president’s longtime friends and allies.
January 2, 2025 5:14 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, in a message to conservative supporters rallying outside his Seoul residence, vowed to “fight to the end” against “anti-state forces,” while his legal team warned that police officers attempting to detain him could face arrest by his presidential security service or even civilians. Yoon’s statement came as the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials prepares to execute a detainment warrant against him that was issued by a Seoul court. The warrant was issued after Yoon evaded multiple requests to appear for questioning and blocked searches of his office, hindering an investigation into whether his short-lived power grab on Dec. 3 amounted to rebellion.
January 2, 2025 5:42 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Wayne Osmond, a singer, guitarist and founding member of the million-selling family act The Osmonds, has died. He was 73. Sibling Merrill Osmond posted on his Facebook page that Wayne died this week at a Salt Lake City hospital after suffering a “massive stroke.” Wayne Osmond was the second oldest of nine children raised in a Mormon household in Ogden, Utah. The siblings’ musical career began in the late 1950s when Wayne, Alan, Merrill and Jay formed a barbershop quartet. The Osmonds were known for such 1970s teen hits as “One Bad Apple,” “Yo-Yo” and “Down By the Lazy River.”
January 1, 2025 8:22 am
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S. Army veteran driving a pickup truck that bore the flag of the Islamic State group has wrought carnage on New Orleans’ raucous New Year’s celebration. He killed 15 people as he steered around a police blockade and slammed into revelers before being shot dead by police. The FBI says it is investigating early Wednesday’s attack as a terrorist act and does not believe the driver acted alone. President Joe Biden says the FBI found videos that the driver had posted to social media hours before the attack in which he said he was inspired by the Islamic State group and expressed a desire to kill. The FBI has identified the driver as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar. Authorities say the driver went around a police car that was positioned to block vehicular traffic and protect Bourbon Street revelers.
January 1, 2025 4:15 am
NEW YORK (AP) — From Sydney to Mumbai to Paris to Rio de Janeiro, communities around the world are welcoming 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges. Auckland became the first major city to celebrate. Countries in the South Pacific Ocean were the first to ring in the New Year, with midnight in New Zealand striking 18 hours before the ball dropped in Times Square in New York. Conflict muted acknowledgements of 2025 in places like the Middle East, Sudan and Ukraine. American Samoa will be among the last to welcome the New Year, a full 24 hours after New Zealand.
January 1, 2025 4:12 am
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump calls his Mar-a-Lago resort the “center of the universe.” Famous figures such as Elon Musk, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pop up at events held daily at the opulent club. Over the weekend, Mike Love of the Beach Boys performed the band’s hits under a tent at Mar-a-Lago as Trump wandered through the crowd and swung his fists to the music. Sightings of those passing through offer a glimpse into the workings of Trump’s incoming White House, how he is setting priorities for his administration and what some VIPs are doing to curry favor.
