November 29, 2024 4:19 am
ALLENPORT, Pa. —(WPXI)- One home was destroyed, another significantly damaged in a fire on Main Street in Allenport, Washington County, Wednesday evening. Fire officials got the call around 6:30 p.m. “I heard three big booms. Next thing you know, the house is engulfed,” neighbor Brandon Veschio told us. “When I got outside, the front of the house was completely engulfed. I was speechless.” He raced over to warn his neighbors, but they were already outside. They told Channel 11 off-camera that a stranger driving by had knocked on the door to tell them to evacuate. The homes were owned by members of the same family. The brother owned the one in the middle. That’s where the fire started and spread to the sister’s home on the right and a vacant home on the left. All of the family members had been in the sister’s home watching the news when the stranger knocked on the door. Everyone did make it out of the house safely. Firefighters were even able to rescue a cat. Neither of the houses were insured. “It’s just the worst thing that could happen on the night before Thanksgiving,” Veschio said. The fire marshal is investigating.
November 29, 2024 2:00 am
A huge thank you to Washington County! Our 2000 Turkeys campaign has surpassed its goal and has raised more than $204,000. This is the 40th year of the program that puts a complete Thanksgiving day meal on the table of needy families throughout the county. Earlier this year, it was projected that the goal would be around $188,000 to help some of the 16-thousand residents who are considered ‘food insecure’. Donations are still being accepted. If you would like to donate, you can send a check to; 2000 Turkeys P.O. Box 2000 Washington, Pa. 15301 or go to Range Resources Facebook Page and click on the link for the Pittsburgh Food Bank.
November 28, 2024 4:34 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three American citizens imprisoned for years by China have been released. That word comes Wednesday from the White House and it’s a rare diplomatic agreement with Beijing in the final months of the Biden administration. The three are Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung. Each had been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained. Swidan had been facing a death sentence on drug charges while Li and Leung were imprisoned on espionage charges. The White House says the men will soon “return and be reunited with their families for the first time in many years.” China also announced Thursday that the U.S. had returned four people to China, including three citizens it said had been held for “political purposes.”
November 28, 2024 4:31 am
NEW YORK (AP) — A century after the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the annual holiday tradition kicks off Thursday in New York City with new Spider-Man and Minnie Mouse balloons, zoo and pasta-themed floats, performances from Jennifer Hudson and Idina Menzel, and more. This year’s parade features 17 giant, helium-filled character balloons, 22 floats, 15 novelty and heritage inflatables, 11 marching bands, 700 clowns, 10 performance groups, award-winning singers and actors, and the WNBA champion New York Liberty. The parade begins at 8:30 a.m. on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and ends 2.5 miles away around noon at Macy’s Herald Square flagship store on 34th Street, which serves as a stage and backdrop for performances.
November 28, 2024 4:27 am
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — In the remotest reaches of Alaska, there’s no relying on DoorDash to have Thanksgiving dinner delivered. But some residents living well off the grid nevertheless have turkeys this holiday, thanks to the Alaska Turkey Bomb. For the third straight year, a resident named Esther Keim has been dropping frozen turkeys from an airplane to those who can’t simply run out to the grocery store. She launched her turkey delivery mission a few years back after she found out a family of three had only one squirrel to split for Thanksgiving. She planned to drop 32 turkeys this year and more in years to come.
November 28, 2024 4:25 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has conducted what officials called a “massive” missile and drone attack against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. The assault added to fears that the Kremlin aims to cripple Ukraine’s power generation capacity before winter. Ukraine’s energy minister says attacks on energy facilities were happening all across the country on Thursday. He says emergency power outages are being implemented nationwide. Ukrainian officials have warned that Russia is stockpiling cruise and ballistic missiles, presumably for another pre-winter aerial campaign against Ukraine’s power grid. Ukrainian officials have in the past accused Russia of “weaponizing winter.” Around half of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been destroyed during the war with Russia, and rolling electricity blackouts are common.
November 28, 2024 1:00 am
A California Borough man is facing felony aggravated assault and other charges after State Police say a one-year old baby in his care suffered severe injuries. State Police were called to 24 year old Lyndon Henderson’s Third Street apartment last weekend. The child’s mother told police that she had left her son in Henderson’s care. Henderson claimed the child fell off the couch but appeared to be fine. The child was transported to UPMC Children’s Hospital. Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh says the baby was on a ventilator. Henderson was arraigned and is being held in the Washington County Jail without bond. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for December 11.
November 27, 2024 5:15 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The worst November snowstorm in half century has hit Seoul, grounding hundreds of lights countrywide and disrupting commuter traffic in the capital. South Korea’s weather agency said 20 centimeters (7.8 inches) of snow fell on Wednesday in northern areas of the capital of Seoul and some nearby areas. The agency said it was the heaviest snowstorm Seoul has seen in November since November 28, 1972, when 12 centimeters (4.7) fell on the capital.
November 27, 2024 5:12 am
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has suggested Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own, after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on Mexican goods if the country doesn’t stop the flow of drugs and migrants across the border. Sheinbaum says she is willing to engage in talks on the issues, but said drugs were a U.S. problem. She says “one tariff would be followed by another in response, and so on until we put at risk common businesses,” referring to U.S. automakers that have plants on both sides of the border.
November 27, 2024 5:11 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is threatening tariffs on Mexico and Canada as he seeks to portray them as responsible for illegal immigration and drug smuggling. Over its tenure, the Biden administration has struggled with growing numbers of migrants arriving at the southern border. But this year, the number of people crossing the border without documents has actually been falling. That’s due in part to stricter enforcement by Mexican authorities as well as asylum restrictions announced earlier this year by the Biden administration. When it comes to fentanyl smuggling, much of the deadly supply comes from Mexico though statistics show more than 86% of those sentenced for fentanyl trafficking crimes in the 12 months ending September 2023 were U.S. citizens.
