December 8, 2025 5:03 am
Two dogs were rescued from a snowy roof in Washington County. According to the Washington Area Humane Society, the dogs were found at an abandoned home on the 5000 block of Prospect Pike in Morris Township. Firefighters with the Morris Township Fire Department said they cleared brush and trees to safely set up ladders to get to the animals. The humane society is asking the owner, or anyone who knows the owners, to call 724-222-7387.
December 8, 2025 4:58 am
Washington Police have arrested a city man following a domestic-related incident downtown Sunday evening. Police say 65 year old William Coles has been charged with aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person and prohibited possession of a firearm. Police say they were called to N. Main Street just after 7:30 p.m. for a report of shots fired and a man experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder. He was taken into custody and transported to the Washington County Jail. He is to undergo a mental health evaluation. Police say they shut down the roadway in that area and Washington and Jefferson College issued a shelter-in-place alert for its campus community.
December 8, 2025 2:55 am
Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt certified the results of Pennsylvania’s 2025 municipal election Monday after county officials confirmed the accuracy of their reported results through two pre-certification audits. “After reviewing the certified results from all 67 counties, I have formally certified the outcome of the Nov. 4 municipal election,” Schmidt said. “I extend my thanks to county election officials, who spent the last few weeks diligently counting eligible votes and confirming that Pennsylvania held yet another free, fair, safe, and secure election.” Roughly 42.45% of registered Pennsylvania voters cast a ballot in the November election, which is well above the 36.77% turnout for the 2023 municipal election. Schmidt emphasized that counties again successfully conducted two audits of their vote tallies before they certified their results. “Both audits confirmed the accuracy of the reported results, again showing Pennsylvanians that they can have confidence in the accuracy and integrity of our electoral system,” Schmidt said. The two audits take different approaches to reach the same goal: confirming whether all results have been reported correctly. One audit is a statutorily required statistical recount in each county of a random sample of at least 2% of all ballots cast – or 2,000 ballots, whichever is fewer. All counties must perform this audit after every election. The other is a statistically based risk-limiting audit, known as an RLA. RLAs involve randomly chosen counties hand-tallying votes for one randomly chosen statewide race in randomly selected batches of ballots.
December 7, 2025 6:45 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has defended U.S. military strikes on alleged drug cartel boats, saying President Donald Trump has the right to take military action “as he sees fit.” The comments were made Saturday at a national security forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. It comes as the Trump administration faces intense questioning over the deadly strikes and whether they violate international law. Hegseth also compared Trump to Reagan, saying the current president is the “true and rightful heir” to Reagan.
December 7, 2025 6:43 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request from the Trump administration to toss a lawsuit challenging the detention of migrants at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan denied the federal government’s motion to dismiss the case and has set a hearing for next week for both sides to discuss next steps in this case. President Donald Trump in January announced his administration would use a detention center at Guantánamo to hold tens of thousands of the “worst criminal aliens,” as part of his wider immigration crackdown.
December 7, 2025 6:40 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has launched a major missile and drone attack on Ukraine, targeting energy infrastructure and triggering air raid alerts. Ukrainian forces shot down many of the drones and missiles, but several locations were struck, wounding at least eight people. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant temporarily lost power during the assault. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has discussed peace talks with American officials in Florida, aimed at ending the nearly four-year war. Progress has been made, but any agreement depends on Russia’s commitment to peace. Talks continue as Ukraine and its allies work toward agreement on a security framework for postwar Ukraine
December 7, 2025 6:37 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has presented medals to the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees during an Oval Office ceremony. The recipients are actor Sylvester Stallone, singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait, the rock band Kiss and actor-singer Michael Crawford. The Republican president said the group was “perhaps the most accomplished and renowned class of Kennedy Center Honorees ever assembled.” Songs by Gaynor and Kiss were played on a sound system in the Rose Garden patio just outside the Oval Office as reporters waited to be admitted. Trump also joined the honorees at a traditional dinner at the State Department on Saturday.
December 7, 2025 6:34 am
HONOLULU (AP) — Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base’s waterfront. But today only 12 are still alive. All are centenarians, and this year none is able to make the pilgrimage to Hawaii to mark the event, scheduled for Sunday. That means no one attending will have firsthand memories of having served during the attack, which killed more than 2,300 troops and catapulted the U.S. into World War II. The development comes as the survivors fade from the scene and their descendants and the public increasingly turn to other ways to learn about the bombing.
December 7, 2025 6:29 am
A man from Morgantown, West Virginia is facing charges after TSA officials found him carrying a loaded gun at Pittsburgh International Airport security checkpoint early Saturday morning. According to Allegheny County Police, TSA officials located the gun inside the passenger’s carry-on bag. County officials identified the man as 37 year old Donovan Pearson. Police say that Person did not have a valid concealed carry permit. He has been charged with carrying a firearm without a license. Allegheny County Police and the FBI were notified of the incident.
December 7, 2025 5:17 am
The Republican who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee says a video of a U.S. military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean that killed two survivors of the initial attack shows “nothing remarkable.” Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton says he would not oppose its public release if the Pentagon were to declassify it. Cotton is partially aligning himself with President Donald Trump and top Democrats in favor of releasing the video of the Sept. 2 attack. But he is splitting with Democrats over whether military personnel acted lawfully in carrying out a second strike to kill the two survivors. Cotton spoke Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
