July 25, 2025 4:45 am
CHARLEROI, Pa. — Looks like the shuttered Charleroi glass plant may have new life. Reports say a company is in the process of buying the former Corelle Brands Glass Plant, with plans to reopen it as an industrial glass facility by the end of the year. “Everybody said, ‘Oh, it’s dead now. Charleroi’s dead. They lost Corelle, they’re dead.’ Well, guess what…we are still alive,” said Mayor of Charleroi, Gregg Doerfler. “That’s all we’ve ever been known for is glass. So for it to continue, even though it’s not Pyrex or whatever, to know it’s still a glass factory is an amazing thing.” According to our news partners at Channel-11, sources said the new owners plan on investing 10’s of millions of dollars into renovating the plant. The news comes just over three months after the plant closed its doors after 132 years, leaving hundreds out of work. Daniele Byrne, the vice president of Local Union 53G, said she’s still waiting for details on the potential sale. “We took our little severance that we got, but…nobody has contacted anybody from the union,” said Byrne. “I talked to the president today, and she said no one contacted her either about the plant opening up.” Byrne and her husband both lost their jobs due to the closing. She said the plant workers were like family and that she would go back in a heartbeat. “If they called me tomorrow, I would go back,” said Byrne. Sources tell Channel 11 they are currently doing soil and environmental checks at the plant and will be looking to rehire over 250 workers soon.
July 24, 2025 4:50 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – Hot, humid weather sticks around Friday, along with scattered showers and storms that could bring heavy downpours and localized flooding. A few scattered showers will be possible early in the day, with a better chance for storms developing after lunch and into the evening. Some areas could see several rounds of storms, which could increase the threat of flash flooding. Scattered showers and storms stick around Saturday and Sunday, mainly during the afternoon and evening. Any thunderstorm through the weekend could bring heavy rain from time to time.
July 25, 2025 2:13 am
DUNBAR TOWNSHIP, Pa. — One of the survivors of a Fayette County house fire is speaking out after the harrowing incident. He hopes that, by sharing his story, he can encourage others to be prepared and have a plan. “I’m going to go on. I was there for a reason and I’m still here for a reason,” said Anthony Masterbray. Masterbray is the caretaker for a paralyzed man. He’s lived alongside the man, his father and his mother for 15 years. “They are my family,” said Masterbray. The fire began around 2 a.m. July 16 on Miles Road in Dunbar Township. Masterbray says that, when he and the father realized he physically could not carry the son out of the home, Masterbray told the father to get help and that he would stay inside the burning home with his son, sharing the son’s oxygen tank to stay alive. All four were taken to the hospital. The mother died in the days following the fire. State police say the fire is under investigation, but said it was accidental.
July 25, 2025 2:04 am
(WPXI) CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A second worker has been charged with abusing children at a local daycare. Charges were filed against Richa Gupte, 38, an assistant group supervisor at Allie Alligator Learning Center off Commerce Park Drive in Cranberry Township. Investigators say she broke a 2-year-old’s elbow in early June. According to the police report, the child was reaching for a toy when Gupte forcefully pulled on the child’s arm. About a month earlier, police arrested 26-year-old Joshua Branstetter. They said he pushed a 3-year-old’s face into a bed frame during nap time, causing swelling to the child’s head. Gupte is set to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on August 29, and Branstetter’s hearing is set for August 15.
July 25, 2025 11:31 pm
(WPXI) EAST MCKEESPORT, Pa. — A man is dead and another man is injured after a crash in East McKeesport. Emergency crews were called to the area where 5th Avenue and Penn Avenue meet at 6:49 p.m. on Friday. Allegheny County Police said the drivers of each vehicle, two men, were taken to hospitals from the scene. One of the men was later pronounced dead. There were no other passengers in either vehicle. The preliminary investigation shows that the vehicles were traveling toward each other when the crash happened. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Allegheny County Police Tip Line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS.
July 25, 2025 4:57 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of criticizing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump took the fight to the Fed’s front door on Thursday, publicly scorning the central bank chief over the ballooning costs of a long-planned building project. Powell pushed back, challenging the president’s latest price tag as incorrect. The visit represented a significant ratcheting up of the president’s pressure on Powell to lower borrowing costs, which Trump says would accelerate economic growth and reduce the government’s borrowing costs. Presidents rarely visit the Fed’s offices, though they are just a few blocks from the White House, an example of the central bank’s long-standing independence from day-to-day politics.
July 25, 2025 4:57 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department’s No. 2 official has met with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The meeting between Maxwell and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is part of a Justice Department effort to cast itself as transparent following backlash from parts of President Donald Trump’s base over an earlier refusal to release additional Epstein records. A lawyer for Maxwell says she “answered all the questions truthfully, honestly and to the best of her ability.” Maxwell was convicted of helping Epstein sexually abuse underage girls. Epstein died in a New York jail in 2019 awaiting trial.
July 25, 2025 4:55 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is cutting short Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar, saying the latest response from Hamas “shows a lack of desire” to reach a truce. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, said Thursday that mediators have made a great effort but Hamas does not appear to be acting in good faith. Witkoff says the U.S. will “consider alternative options to bring the hostages home and try to create a more stable environment for the people of Gaza.” The State Department offered no details at a press briefing on those “alternative options.” A breakthrough in talks on a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has eluded Trump’s Republican administration for months.
July 25, 2025 9:25 pm
PHOENIX (AP) — Lori Vallow Daybell has been sentenced to life in prison on two murder conspiracy convictions in Arizona. The punishments mark an end to a winding legal saga for the mother with doomsday religious beliefs who claimed people in her life had been possessed by evil spirits. Vallow Daybell is already serving life sentences in Idaho in the killings of her two youngest children and a romantic rival. She was convicted at separate trials this spring in Phoenix of conspiring to murder her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, and her niece’s ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux. Vallow was killed, while Boudreaux survived the attack.
July 24, 2025 2:41 am
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Hulk Hogan, the mustachioed, headscarf-wearing icon in the world of professional wrestling, has died at the age of 71, Florida police and WWE said Thursday. Hogan’s real name was Terry Bollea. He was perhaps the biggest star in WWE’s long history. He was the main draw for the first WrestleMania in 1985 and was a fixture for years, facing everyone from Andre The Giant and Randy Savage to The Rock and even company chairman Vince McMahon. Hogan was also a celebrity outside the wrestling world, appearing in numerous movies and television shows, including a reality show about his life on VH1, “Hogan Knows Best.” (Photo: AP)
