January 13, 2025 4:58 am
HENRY CLAY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – State police are looking for the person who damaged multiple vehicles belonging to a business in Fayette County with a pellet gun. Troopers said windshields on multiple vehicles had been shot with a pellet gun. The vehicles belonged to The U Company LLC and the incident happened at the 400 block of Mae West Road in Henry Clay Township. Multiple company trucks and a skid steer had been shot. The damage was valued at $3,800. A suspect has not been identified at this time. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact Pennsylvania State Police’s Uniontown barracks by calling 724-439-7111.
January 13, 2025 4:57 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith says in a new report that his team “stood up for the rule of law” as it investigated President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Smith says he stands fully behind his decision to bring criminal charges against the president-elect and says he believes Trump would have been convicted had he not won the 2024 election. The report, coming just days before Trump is to return to the White House on Jan. 20, focuses fresh attention on his frantic but failed effort to cling to power in 2020. The Justice Department sent the report to Congress early Tuesday after a judge refused to block its release.
January 13, 2025 4:55 am
Another blast of arctic air is heading our way. Temperatures slowly dropped through Monday afternoon, bringing much colder air for the overnight hours. Tuesday and Wednesday highs will only make it to the upper teens with subzero wind chills expected and snow showers are possible again on Tuesday afternoon and night. Meanwhile, the National Weather Service has issued a Cold Weather Advisory for the ridges of Westmoreland, Indiana and Fayette counties along with eastern Preston and Garrett counties in Maryland from 1 a.m. Tuesday through 10 a.m. Wednesday, where wind chills could get as low as -11 degrees. Snow showers will also be around at times starting Tuesday afternoon from lake effect snow. On and off snow showers are possible through Thursday. The big headline is the cold stretch that will continue through midweek, Wednesday morning wind chills will be back below zero. Make sure to limit time outdoors, wear warm layers if you are heading out, and keep pets inside.
January 13, 2025 1:52 am
One person was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital Monday morning after an accident near the Longhorn Steakhouse on Route Nineteen in South Strabane Township. Fire Chief Jordan Cramer says they were called out around eight-thirty for reports of a vehicle over an embankment with entrapment. When firefighters arrived, Cramer says they found that a vehicle had gone through a fence in the Longhorn parking lot and had dropped about twenty-feet over a retaining wall and into a retention pond. Cramer says the vehicle landed on its roof and the driver, the sole occupant of the vehicle, was trapped. There’s been no information released on the nature of their injuries or the severity. (Photo courtesy of South Strabane Fire Department)
January 12, 2025 6:09 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after submitting his investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump. It was an expected move that comes amid legal wrangling over how much of that document can be made public in the days ahead. The department disclosed Smith’s departure in a court filing Saturday, saying he had resigned one day earlier. The resignation, 10 days before Trump is inaugurated, follows the conclusion of two unsuccessful criminal prosecutions against Trump that were withdrawn following Trump’s White House win in November. At issue now is the fate of a two-volume report that Smith and his team had prepared about their twin investigations on Trump.
January 12, 2025 6:07 am
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, many elected officials in Republican and Democratic states are preparing to either aid or oppose his policies. From immigration to education to transgender rights, a red-state blue-state divide has become common. For example, Republican state officials are pledging to aid Trump’s deportation efforts while many Democratic state officials remain wary or vocally resistant. Democratic attorneys general also are preparing to sue over a variety of other expected Trump administration policies. In most states, one party controls both the legislature and governor’s office.
January 12, 2025 6:03 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office says the confirmed death toll from the wildfires ravaging the area has risen to 16. The coroner’s office says Saturday evening in a statement that five of the deaths have been attributed to the Palisades Fire and 11 are the result of the Eaton Fire. Firefighters are racing to cut off the spreading wildfires before potentially strong winds return that could push the flames toward the world famous J. Paul Getty Museum and the University of California, Los Angeles. New evacuation warnings are leaving homeowners on edge while a fierce battle against the flames is underway in Mandeville Canyon. Firefighters are using hoses to beat back leaping flames as thick smoke blankets the hillside.
January 12, 2025 5:59 am
ATLANTA (AP) — Snow and ice across the U.S. South are expected to relinquish their grip only slowly as the weekend continues. Major airports including Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina continued to report disruptions Saturday,. Temperatures are expected to plunge after sundown Saturday, raising the risk that melting snow will refreeze, turning roadways treacherous. The storm that brought snow to the South was forecast to move out to sea off the East Coast on Saturday, leaving behind snow showers in the Appalachian Mountains and New England. Richmond, Virginia, lifted its boil-water advisory Saturday, nearly a week after an earlier snowstorm cut power and caused a malfunction to the city’s water system.
January 12, 2025 5:56 am
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar in a sign of progress in talks on the war in Gaza. It wasn’t immediately clear on Saturday when David Barnea would travel to Qatar’s capital for the latest round of indirect talks between Israel and the Hamas militant group. But there is U.S. pressure for a deal before the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20. Just one brief ceasefire has been achieved in 15 months of war, and that was in the early weeks of fighting.
January 12, 2025 5:51 am
(WPXI)-A cyber attack on a program that parents use to track their kids’ grades could have exposed the personal information of local families. The student information system impacted by the attack is called PowerSchool, and it stores some sensitive information for 60 million students across roughly 18,000 organizations around the world. In a statement, a PowerSchool spokesperson says the company learned of a “potential cybersecurity incident” on Dec. 28. That incident involved unauthorized access to PowerSchool information through a community-focused customer portal. Three local districts use the program: Fox Chapel, Mount Lebanon and Canon-McMillan. Canon-McMillan, in a letter to parents, further explains that a PowerSchool employee’s credential was compromised and used to access data through a backend support system. Canon-McMillan does not store teacher, student or parent social security numbers on PowerSchool, so that information is still protected. Contact information, health alerts, and grades for current and former students may have been accessed. Parent/guardian names and addresses may also be compromised. The Fox Chapel Area School District also sent a letter to families about this incident, saying that some of the district’s data was accessed. Either the district or PowerSchool will contact families when more information is available. PowerSchool’s spokesperson says it’s committed to providing affected customers, families, and educators with the resources and support they need.
