December 9, 2024 5:17 am
MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says Russia has granted political asylum to former Syrian President Bashar Assad. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally made the decision to offer asylum to Assad. Peskov wouldn’t comment on Assad’s specific whereabouts. He said that Putin wasn’t planning to meet with Assad.
December 9, 2024 5:15 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – One person was hurt after a tractor-trailer crashed in Downtown Pittsburgh. Allegheny County dispatchers say the crash happened at the intersection of Stanwix Street and Fort Pitt Boulevard at 8:26 p.m. One person was taken to a hospital from the scene. The vehicle had crashed on top of a barrier, causing the trailer to be at risk of rolling over. Channel 11 has reached out to Pittsburgh Police for more information and is waiting to hear back.
December 9, 2024 5:11 am
CANONSBURG, Pa. — A local borough is bringing back “old-fashioned Christmas.” It’s the seventh year Canonsburg has held the event. It began as a community tree lighting and has since grown into a holiday spectacle that draws thousands of visitors. “It takes over 200 volunteers to pull this together. We have people from all walks of life — I have elves here dancing around, we have all the characters, everyone’s done a great job to pull it together for us — we’re just thrilled with the attendance, and everyone just had a great time here tonight,” organizer Gloria Dunkle said. Despite the chilly weather, Dunkle estimates up to 20,000 people came out to enjoy the festivities. On top of the main event — the tree lighting ceremony — Canonsburg’s Old Fashioned Christmas featured a holiday market, kids games, food trucks, photos with Santa, stories with Mrs. Claus and visits from the Grinch. The event wrapped up with a holiday drone light show.
December 9, 2024 5:07 am
A man and a woman are dead after a crash in West Bethlehem Township. The Washington County Coroners office say it happened in the 100-block of Clarksville Road in Marianna. 36 year old Brittany Crile was the driver of the vehicle that left the roadway and traveled down an embankment. She was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected. Officials say the crash occurred between 4:15 p.m. Saturday and 9:20 a.m. Sunday when the crash was first reported. 46 year old Joseph Crile was believed to have been the front seat passenger in the vehicle. Evidence showed that he was ejected but was able to leave the scene. Marianna firefighters conducted a search with State Police and discovered his body in an empty home along that same roadway around 2:30 p.m. A cause and manner of death for both is pending. State Police are handling the investigation.
December 9, 2024 4:45 am
ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — Court records show New York prosecutors have charged a man with murder in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO. Luigi Nicholas Mangione is currently being held without bail in Pennsylvania after he was arrested and arraigned on gun, forgery and other charges on Monday. He’s expected to be extradited to New York eventually. It’s unclear whether 26-year-old Mangione has an attorney who can comment on the allegations. Authorities say he was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a McDonald’s customer noticed another patron who resembled the man in security-camera photos that New York police had publicized.
December 8, 2024 8:48 am
(AP) – The U.S. government has ordered testing of the nation’s milk supply for bird flu to better monitor the spread of the virus in dairy cows. The Agriculture Department on Friday said raw or unpasteurized milk from dairy farms and processors nationwide must be tested on request starting Dec. 16. Testing will begin in six states — California, Colorado, Michigan, Mississippi, Oregon and Pennsylvania. The move is aimed at eliminating the virus, which has infected more than 700 dairy herds in 15 states.
December 8, 2024 8:47 am
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The parents of a 14-year-old Missouri boy who fell to his death from a Florida amusement park ride has won a $310 million verdict against the attraction’s Austrian builder. The Orlando jury on Thursday ordered Funtime to pay Tyre Sampson’s parents $155 million each. The trial lasted only a day as Funtime never appeared in court to defend itself. Icon Park had already settled with Sampson’s family for an undisclosed amount. Sampson stood 6 foot, 2 inches tall and weighed 380 pounds. He fell from the Orlando Free Fall ride at Icon Park because the harness did not fit him and he wasn’t warned.
December 8, 2024 8:45 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, shortly after a meeting in Paris with French and Ukrainian leaders. He claimed Kyiv “would like to make a deal” to end the more than 1,000-day war. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump claimed that Moscow and Kyiv have both lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers in a war that “should never have started.” Trump’s remarks came after a meeting Saturday with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and France’s Emmanuel Macron, that Zelenskyy later described as “constructive.” Speaking to reporters later in the day, Zelenskyy insisted that any peace deal “should be just” for Ukrainians,
December 8, 2024 8:44 am
NEW YORK (AP) — As the search for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killer stretches into a fourth day and beyond the New York City limits, investigators are reckoning with a tantalizing dichotomy. They have troves of evidence, but the shooter remains an enigma. Retracing his steps using surveillance video, it now appears he left the city on a bus soon after the shooting Wednesday morning outside the New York Hilton Midtown. He was seen on video at an uptown bus station about 45 minutes later. The FBI announced late Friday that it was offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Late Saturday, police released two additional photos of the suspected shooter that appeared to be from a camera mounted inside a taxi. (Photo: AP)
December 8, 2024 8:40 am
(AP) – The remains of a woman who fell into a sinkhole were recovered Friday, four days after she went missing while searching for her cat, a state police spokesperson said. Trooper Steve Limani said the body of 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard was sent to the Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office for an autopsy after rescuers used machinery to bring her to the surface. Limani told reporters Pollard was found at about 11 a.m. approximately 30 feet (9 meters) underground, some 12 feet (4 meters) from the opening of the sinkhole. Limani said Pollard apparently fell onto a cone-shaped pile of debris created by the crumbling mine, then rolled or otherwise moved toward the southwest to where her body was recovered. The autopsy may help determine whether Pollard was killed by the fall, Limani said. The announcement came in the fourth day of the search for Pollard, who had last been seen Monday evening, looking for the cat near a restaurant half a mile (0.8 kilometers) from her home in the village of Marguerite. (Photo: AP)
