August 6, 2024 2:41 am
Activists gathered on the steps of the Washington County Courthouse to air their feelings about notification of deficient mail in ballots and ballot curing in upcoming elections in Washington County. The Center for Coalfield Justice hosted the rally about a hearing on arguments regarding the Washington County Board of Elections decision to not give mail in ballot users notice that their ballot contains errors and disallowing ballot curing in total. They want to make sure voters are aware that clerical errors may cause their vote not to count. Bracken Burns spoke on behalf of the Washington Branch of the NAACP in an address that went through the alphabet describing how the commissioner’s decision was unamerican, unpatriotic and unrepublican. Bruce Jacobs is one of those mail in ballot users that weeks after the April primary election, found out that his ballot was not counted and he considers himself disenfranchised. He said that the commissioner’s decision to not notify mail in voters of defects in their ballot was a deliberate act to disenfranchise. After the rally, the two dozen activists filled the courtroom of Judge Brandon Neuman to hear arguments in the case.
August 6, 2024 4:51 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ coronation as the Democrats’ standard-bearer for the 2024 presidential election is now official after the Democratic National Committee announced the formal results of the online voting by delegates on Monday night. It caps a tumultuous period for the party prompted by President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance and his subsequent withdrawal from the race. Harris is a daughter of immigrants who rose through the California political and law enforcement ranks to become the first female vice president in U.S. history. She is clinching the nomination more than four years after her first attempt at the presidency collapsed.
August 6, 2024 4:47 am
GREENE COUNTY, Pa. — (WPXI) – The Greene County Regional Police Department is searching for a man they think could be tied to a drug cartel. Police say the search for a stolen motorcycle led them to Jimmy Butterfield’s Morris Township home. At the house, police say they found more stolen bikes, a sawed-off shotgun, an assault rifle and a pound of meth they believe came from a drug lab across the southern United States border. “These are staging areas for a lot of the dealers to network their narcotics throughout the areas and into major cities like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia,” said Greene County Regional Police Department Chief William DeForte. Anyone with information on Butterfield’s whereabouts is asked to contact the Greene County Regional Police Department.
August 6, 2024 4:57 am
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Tropical Storm Debby has drenched coastal cities in Georgia and South Carolina and is not finished bringing heavy rain to region. Debby was centered just south of Savannah on Tuesday afternoon. The system has already stirred up tornadoes and submerged streets in waist-high floodwaters. The storm was forecast to move relatively slowly across southern states, with staggering totals of rain possible in some areas. The latest forecast says Debby could restrengthen over the Atlantic Ocean and then move inland again near Charleston, South Carolina, by Thursday. Debby made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast early Monday as a hurricane. At least five people have died.
August 6, 2024 4:58 am
Five Palestinians have been killed and seven wounded by Israeli fire during military raids in the occupied West Bank. World leaders are trying to stop tensions in the Middle East from boiling over into a regional war after the killings of a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and Hamas’ top political leader in Iran. The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says it launched a drone attack early Monday on northern Israel that the Israeli military said wounded two Israeli troops. Leaders in Egypt and Turkey say they are exhausting all avenues possible to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from becoming a wider regional conflict. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet over the weekend that Israel is already in a “multi-front war” with Iran and its proxies.
August 6, 2024 4:49 am
(AP) – Boeing factory workers say they were pressured to work too fast and asked to perform jobs that they weren’t qualified for, including opening and closing the door plug that later blew off an Alaska Airlines jet. Those accounts from inside the company were disclosed Tuesday, as federal investigators opened a two-day hearing into the blowout, which further tarnished Boeing’s safety reputation and left it facing new legal jeopardy. A Boeing door installer said he was never told to take any shortcuts but everyone faced pressure to keep the assembly line moving.
August 5, 2024 9:59 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly everything on Wall Street tumbled as fear about a slowing U.S. economy worsened and set off another sell-off for financial markets around the world. The S&P 500 sank 3% Monday for its worst day in nearly two years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 1,000 points, and the Nasdaq composite slid 3.4%. That followed a 12.4% plunge for Japan’s Nikkei 225, its worst since 1987. Treasury yields pared their losses after a report showed U.S. services businesses are continuing to grow. But worries are still high after Friday’s report showing U.S. employers pulled back on hiring last month by more than expected.
August 5, 2024 5:03 am
HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Tropical Storm Debby slammed Florida with torrential rain and high winds, contributing to at least four deaths as it turned menacingly toward the Eastern Seaboard’s low-lying regions and threatened to flood some of America’s most historic Southern cities. The storm made landfall on the Gulf Coast of Florida early Monday as a Category 1 hurricane. It is now a tropical storm, with top wind speeds around 50 mph. At least four people have died as the result of the storm and more than 300,000 customers are without power in Florida and Georgia. Local leaders in Savannah, Georgia, are preparing for high water in case Debby stalls out over the city. An official in Charleston, South Carolina, says Debby could be a “historic and potentially unprecedented event.”
August 5, 2024 5:08 am
SOUTH STRABANE TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – Five people were injured in a crash in South Strabane Township. Washington County dispatch said emergency crews were called to the intersection of Route 19 and Trinity Place at 4:21 p.m. on Sunday. South Strabane Township firefighters say the crash involved two vehicles. One had rolled onto its roof. Five people were taken to a hospital as a result of the crash. One person was flown to Allegheny General Hosptial and the other four were taken to local hospitals in ambulances. Their conditions are unknown at this time.
August 5, 2024 5:15 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — A man is dead after an early Saturday morning shooting at a Uniontown club. The Uniontown City Police Department says the shooting happened a little before 5 a.m. on Morgantown Street at Club Lux. A man was shot multiple times in “vital areas of his body,” according to Lt. Tom Kolencik. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital. The Fayette County Coroner identifies the man killed as Timothy Brooks, 24, of Uniontown. No arrests have been made, and no suspects have been identified yet. Lt. Kolencik says it’s still early in the investigation, and they are still interviewing witnesses. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Uniontown City Police Department or Crimestoppers of Fayette County.
