November 17, 2024 4:04 am
After years of planning and development the Mon Valley Business Resource Center is officially open. The center aims to help support future and existing small businesses within the mid Mon Valley region expand and grow through training, collaboration and support. The BRC is designed as both a program and a physical space, providing educational opportunities and support for local small organizations to succeed. The programs range from a partnership for business ideas with W&J College, job training, networking opportunities and access to resources. The BRC says the center will help local businesses bridge the geographical gap the Mon Valley faces being about 30 mins from both Pittsburgh and Washington – where a majority of the region’s business transactions occur. The center is located in the former Community Bank Building at 235 West Main Street in Monongahela and is open Monday through Friday from 9a to 5p.
November 17, 2024 5:59 am
BRENTWOOD, Pa.-(WPXI)- The driver of a pickup truck was rescued after the vehicle went over a hillside in Brentwood. Members of the Brentwood Volunteer Fire Company said they were called to the 400 block of Jacobson Drive at 4:10 p.m. on Saturday. A Nissan pickup truck had crashed over a hill and into an embankment in the backyard of a house on E Garden Road. The driver of the truck could not get out of the vehicle. Brentwood Police officers worked with firefighters and Baldwin medics to get the driver out. They were treated by medics. Emergency crews took around two and a half hours to get the truck removed.
November 16, 2024 4:28 am
LIMA, Peru (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to use his final meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping to urge him to dissuade North Korea from further deepening its backing of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Saturday’s talks on the sidelines of an international summit come with about two months to go before Biden leaves office. Biden met with the leaders of South Korea and Japan and expressed alarm with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s decision to send thousands of troops to help Moscow battle Ukrainian troops. Biden administration officials believe Beijing could be doing more to urge Pyongyang against involving itself in Russia’s war.
November 16, 2024 4:24 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Friday that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Trump’s choice to head the Interior Department, will also head a newly created National Energy Council that will seek to establish U.S. “energy dominance” around the world. Trump said Burgum will oversee a panel that crosses all executive-branch agencies involved in energy permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation and transportation. Earlier Friday, Trump said Steven Cheung will serve as his White House communications director and Sergio Gor will run the personnel office. Both positions could be influential in the new administration.
November 16, 2024 4:22 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member due to a tattoo on his bicep that’s associated with white supremacist groups. Hegseth has said he was pulled by his National Guard unit from guarding Joe Biden’s January 2021 inauguration, saying he was unfairly identified as an extremist due to a cross tattoo on his chest. This week, however, a fellow Guard member shared with The Associated Press an email he sent to the unit’s leadership flagging a different tattoo reading “Deus Vult” that’s been used by white supremacists, concerned it was an indication of an “Insider Threat.”
November 16, 2024 4:19 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — After one of the most chaotic and least productive U.S. House sessions in modern history, voters made a surprising choice in elections — they overwhelmingly stuck with the status quo. Republicans will hold onto a thin majority in the House. While the chamber’s exact partisan divide is still coming into focus as votes are tallied in a handful of remaining races, the results of 435 House races nationwide produced hardly any change to the makeup of the chamber. In fact, the election results so far have ended in a stalemate. Republicans and Democrats have each flipped seven seats. Just eight incumbents nationwide have lost their races.
November 16, 2024 4:16 am
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two men are accused of helping illegally smuggle Indian nationals across the U.S.-Canada border and into Minnesota, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in 2022. Their federal trial is set to start Monday. Prosecutors say the two, who have both pleaded not guilty, were well aware of the brutal cold that winter and the dangers migrants could face. The men are accused of being part of a sophisticated human smuggling operation feeding a fast-growing population of Indians living illegally in the U.S.
November 16, 2024 3:42 am
Firefighters were called to a structure fire in Hickory Friday night. According to County 9-1-1 dispatchers, an Amazon delivery driver reported an ongoing fire inside a home where he was to make a delivery. The fire occurred at 142 Main Street at about 8:00 PM. Several fire companies responded to the fire. Everyone inside the house escaped without injury.
November 15, 2024 4:27 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Friday that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Trump’s choice to head the Interior Department, will also head a newly created National Energy Council that will seek to establish U.S. “energy dominance” around the world. Trump said Burgum will oversee a panel that crosses all executive-branch agencies involved in energy permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation and transportation. Earlier Friday, Trump said Steven Cheung will serve as his White House communications director and Sergio Gor will run the personnel office. Both positions could be influential in the new administration.
November 16, 2024 1:50 am
Washington County 911 dispatchers tell WJPA News that emergency crews were called out to a fire at the Allenport steel mill on Wheeling-Pittsburgh Drive Friday morning just before noon. Photos from the scene showed smoke billowing from the site, which officials say is in the process of being torn down. Dispatchers say one firefighter was transported from the scene with minor, non-life threatening injuries. They say the cause of the fire isn’t known at this time, but it appears that the State Police Fire Marshal has not been called in to investigate. According to dispatchers, crews were on the scene for several hours, wrapping up shortly before four o’cock. (Photo: WPXI)
