May 30, 2025 11:16 am
(WPXI) WEST HOMESTEAD — Sandcastle Waterpark has postponed its opening for the second time this year due to weather. The waterpark in West Homestead announced over social media that its opening has been pushed back to Sunday, June 1, because of “unseasonably chilly temperatures.” Originally set for May 24, the park’s 2025 season kickoff was delayed to Saturday, May 31, due to inclement weather. Sandcastle now says the park will be closed on Saturday. However, all 2025 Sandcastle passholders can visit Kennywood for free on Saturday. “We know, Mother Nature has not been cooperating… but we’re getting there,” the park stated on social media. Sandcastle also announced it has extended its opening sale.
May 29, 2025 11:30 am
SAO PAULO — (AP) — Videos featuring emotional moments with hyper-realistic baby dolls have sparked both online fascination and political debate in Brazil, with lawmakers even bringing the lifelike dolls into legislatures. Influencers have staged situations such as birth simulations and strolls in shopping malls with the hand-crafted baby figures, known as “reborn” dolls, creating videos that have gone viral. In Rio de Janeiro, the city council has passed a bill honoring those who make the lifelike dolls, pending Mayor Eduardo Paes’ signature. Meanwhile, legislators elsewhere across the country have debated fines for those seeking medical help for such dolls, following a video allegedly showing a woman taking one to a hospital. Lawmakers have brought the dolls into legislative chambers. On Tuesday, Joao Luiz, a state lawmaker from Amazonas, appeared with a doll at the State House to announce plans to ban reborn dolls from receiving care in the state’s public health system. However, local media reported that health authorities had never recorded any such cases.
May 30, 2025 11:40 am
ABUJA, Nigeria — (AP) — At least 111 people were confirmed dead in central Nigeria on Friday after floods submerged the market town of Mokwa in the country’s Niger State following torrential rains, officials said. The heavy rains lasted for several hours Thursday, and media reports quoting local government officials said a dam collapse in a nearby town had worsened the situation. The flooding displaced large amounts of people, the reports said. Rescuers continued to find more bodies into the afternoon Friday. Earlier reports said 88 people had died, but then at least 23 more bodies were found, Niger State emergency agency spokesman IIbrahim Audu Husseinit told The Associated Press in the afternoon. That brought the toll to 111, but that could go higher as the search continued. “More bodies have just been brought and are yet to be counted, but we have at least 111 confirmed already.”
May 30, 2025 4:12 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy Awards playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding head nurse of a behind-the-lines surgical unit during the Korean War on the pioneering hit TV series “M.A.S.H.,” has died. She was 87. Publicist Harlan Boll says Swit died Friday at her home in New York City, likely from natural causes. Swit and Alan Alda were the longest-serving cast members on “M.A.S.H.,” which was based on Robert Altman’s 1970 film, which was itself based on a novel by Richard Hooker, the pseudonym of H. Richard Hornberger. The CBS show aired for 11 years from 1972 to 1983, revolving around life at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, which gave the show its name. The two-and-a-half-hour finale on Feb. 28, 1983, lured over 100 million viewers, the most-watched episode of any scripted series ever. (Photo: AP)
May 29, 2025 5:38 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has audaciously claimed virtually unlimited power to bypass Congress and impose sweeping taxes on foreign products. Now a federal court has said: Not so fast. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday that Trump overstepped his authority when he invoked the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to declare a national emergency and plaster taxes – tariffs – on imports from almost every country in the world. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday allowed the president to temporarily continue collecting the tariffs under the emergency powers law while he appeals the trade court’s decision. (Photo: AP)
May 28, 2025 4:52 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court is blocking President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law. The ruling from a three-judge panel came after several lawsuits arguing Trump has exceeded his authority, leaving U.S. trade policy dependent on his whims. At least seven lawsuits are challenging the levies, the centerpiece of Trump’s trade policy. Trump says he has the power to act because the country’s trade deficits amount to a national emergency. The court found the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize the use of tariffs. The plaintiffs argued that the trade deficit is not an emergency because the U.S. has run a trade deficit with the rest of the world for 49 consecutive years.
May 29, 2025 1:00 am
In a public hearing that lasted well over two hours, Mt. Pleasant Township residents voiced their opposition to the construction of a tank pad by Range Resources. The proposed site of the tank pad would be on the Yonker well site on Baker Road near the intersection of Fort Cherry Road and Walnut Road. That intersection is governed by a four way stop sign configuration. During the presentation of the project, it was stated that the tanks on the pad would be temporary structures housing fresh and reused water. The total operational time would be 30-60 days twice each year with operations being conducted 24 hours a day. Late summer construction would then lead to first usage in the fall. Residents that spoke during the hearing largely support gas drilling in the township. Most people pre-qualifying their statements with that support. Most of the arguments centered on safety. It was stated that the intersection is deficient for large trucks. People were concerned about the proximity of the site to nearby schools. Paul Salansky, whose farm is adjacent to the would be site, called on supervisors to not just “do the lawful thing, how about we do the right thing.” Supervisors now have 45 days to render their decision.
May 29, 2025 4:46 am
State Police say they investigated 756 crashes that resulted in 140 injuries and five deaths over the four day Memorial Day holiday weekend. Total crashes were down from 849 in 2024. Intoxicated drivers were a factor in 57 of those crashes, two of which were fatal. Troopers also arrested 519 motorists for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. That’s up from 456 last year. More than 27-thousand citations were issued. More than 7-thousand for speeding, 977 for failing to wear a seat belt and 166 for not securing children in safety seats.
May 29, 2025 5:54 am
Uniontown, PA – Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) District 12 is announcing the closure of Route 3026 (Enon Church Road) between Jackson Road and the Consol Bailey Prep Plant in West Finley Township, Washington County, will be extended from today until late June. Detour:
· Route 3037 (West Finley Road)
· Route 3035/3029 (Burnsville Ridge Road)
· Route 231 (East Finley Drive)
The Washington County maintenance department is conducting slide repairs – an infrastructure investment of $120,000. All work depends on weather and operational conditions. Remain alert and follow the posted signs and speed limits. Safety is everyone’s responsibility.
May 28, 2025 4:55 am
ROUNDUP, Mont. (AP) — Mining company Signal Peak Energy sits atop a billion-ton coal reserve beneath Montana’s rugged Bull Mountains and ships 98% of the fuel it mines to Japan and South Korea. Congressional Republicans last week advanced a plan to approve a long-stalled permit for the mine, just as President Donald Trump looks to further boost coal exports. Yet Trump’s own tariffs make more exports an iffy proposition for most U.S. coal. Countries retaliating against tariffs might price U.S. coal out of competition altogether. In effect, an escalating trade war could undermine Trump’s goal of saving coal.
