August 1, 2024 9:24 am
DUNBAR TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – Authorities are investigating the cause of a fatal fire in Fayette County. Two people are dead after a fire in Fayette County. Fayette County Coroner Bob Baker said two people were pronounced dead at the house. They have been identified as 53-year-old Lori Cossell and 72-year-old David Brooks Sr., both of Dunbar. Emergency crews were called to the area of 100 Hardy Hill Road Sunday morning. Investigators say no one was taken to a hospital. A dog was rescued from the house.
August 1, 2024 8:44 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Russia have made their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history. Moscow on Thursday released U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan along with dissidents including Vladimir Kara-Murza in a multinational deal officials say has set two dozen people free. The trade follows years of back-channel negotiations despite relations between Washington and Moscow being at their lowest point since the Cold War after Russia invaded Ukraine. Among those the Russians got back is Vadim Krasikov, who was convicted in Germany of killing a former Chechen rebel in a Berlin park. President Joe Biden heralds the diplomatic achievement in the final months of his administration.
July 31, 2024 5:01 am
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. — A dump truck hit a bridge in West Brownsville Borough on Wednesday afternoon. The crash happened along Route 40 between the Mon-Fayette Expressway and Blaine Hill Road. Route 40 was closed to traffic but has since reopened. A single-lane restriction is still in place on the Route 2079 (Knob Road) overpass between Wilson Road in California Borough and Old National Pike in West Brownsville Borough.
August 1, 2024 5:04 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — (WPXI) – A man who pleaded guilty to shooting a teenager in Uniontown last year has been sentenced. Nathan Glasscock, 37, was sentenced to 40-80 years on Wednesday. He pleaded guilty to criminal attempted homicide, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, firearms not to be carried and burglary in June. Glasscock shot a 16-year-old girl, allegedly his ex-girlfriend, in the head in November. Police said he was trying to shoot her grandmother because he was angry she was keeping the teenager away from him. The girl reportedly stepped in front of her grandmother when Glasscock pulled the trigger. Fayette County District Attorney Mike Aubele says the girl still has a long road of recovery ahead of her.
July 31, 2024 5:06 am
ROSTRAVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – A hangar caught fire at Rostraver Airport Wednesday. Westmoreland County dispatch said the call for the fire came in just after 9:40 a.m. No one was injured in the blaze, Rostraver Central Fire Department said. Airport officials say three privately owned planes were heavily damaged. The manager was also damaged, but the official expects it can be rebuilt. State police are investigating the cause of the fire being electrical. Officials don’t think it’s suspicious.
August 1, 2024 5:11 am
(AP) – As Vice President Kamala Harris prepares to announce her running mate, a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that several of the top potential contenders for the role are largely unknown to voters. The survey, which was conducted after President Joe Biden announced he was withdrawing from the race and Harris became the likely Democratic presidential nominee, highlights the strengths and weaknesses that different politicians could bring to the ticket. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly stands out as a prospect who has more name recognition — and higher favorability, particularly among Democrats. And others, like Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, while less known nationally, could draw on a deeper well of support in their home states and regions.
August 1, 2024 5:13 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump is used to defending himself. But as JD Vance’s rocky rollout continues, the Republican presidential nominee is in the rare position this week of having to defend someone else’s controversial comments. Trump said on Wednesday that Vance is “strongly family-oriented” when asked repeatedly to explain Vance’s well-documented history of criticizing childless Americans. Trump’s latest defense of his vice presidential pick came more than two weeks after he announced Vance’s selection. Since the announcement, Trump’s team has been confronted with multiple reports of the Ohio senator’s controversial statements that have made his rollout among the most turbulent in recent history. A senior Trump adviser says there has been “zero conversation” about replacing Vance as his running mate.
July 31, 2024 5:08 am
A group of nearly 70 people allege they were sexually abused as children while housed in detention centers in Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs filed suit in state or federal court Wednesday against 10 different juvenile facilities across Pennsylvania, three of them state-operated. Some of the plaintiffs said they were repeatedly raped by staff members and threatened with harm if they reported it. Others said their reports of sexual abuse were ignored. Their lawyers say none of the facilities protected the children in their care. The litigation adds to earlier lawsuits targeting what the accusers’ lawyers say is Pennsylvania’s broken juvenile justice system.
August 1, 2024 5:15 am
CHICAGO (AP) — Donald Trump falsely suggested Kamala Harris had misled voters about her race as the former president appeared Wednesday before the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago in an interview that quickly turned hostile. The Republican former president wrongly claimed that Harris, the first Black woman and Asian American to serve as vice president, had in the past only promoted her Indian heritage. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump said while addressing the group’s annual convention.
August 1, 2024 5:14 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The F-16 fighter jets that have been delivered to Kyiv by Western countries will be flying sorties in Ukrainian skies and helping the country’s current fleet of Soviet-era jets to counter Russia’s invasion. Analysts say the used F-16s will enhance Ukraine’s military strength, especially by upgrading its air defenses. But they won’t turn the tide of the war on their own. Ukraine faces a series of challenges using the complex F-16s and protecting them from Russian attacks when they are on the ground. The planes also require numerous support personnel. Ukrainian pilots have been on training courses in the U.S. and Europe. Russia will be looking to destroy the F-16s.
