March 30, 2023 2:38 am
(WPXI) – An investigation is underway after a train derailed in northern Butler County. The derailment happened Wednesday morning in the area of Hallston Road and St. John Road in Brady Township, according to Butler County 911. A spokesperson from Canadian National Railways told our news partners at Channel 11 that around 15 rail cars went off the track in the accident. The train was transporting iron ore and nothing it was carrying is considered to be dangerous, the spokesperson said. Officials with CN also that no one was hurt and there were no fires involved in the accident.
March 30, 2023 2:18 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A person close to Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman says he’ll return to the Senate in April, two months after the freshman Democrat sought inpatient treatment for clinical depression. The person, who was not authorized to discuss Fetterman’s plans and spoke on condition of anonymity, said Wednesday that Fetterman will return the week of April 17. It wasn’t immediately clear when Fetterman will leave Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he checked in Feb. 15. The 53-year-old Fetterman was still recovering from the aftereffects of a stroke he suffered last May when he went to Walter Reed. Doctors say post-stroke depression is common and treatable.
March 29, 2023 5:24 pm
(AP) – Meteorologists are warning of a series of severe storms that could rip across America’s Midwest and South over the next couple of weeks, with the first and perhaps most dangerous outbreak forecast to strike Friday. They expect tornadoes and damaging winds in a barrage of three or four bursts of storms through mid-April. The weather service says more than 66 million people are at risk for tornadoes and damaging winds Friday. Big cities in the highest-danger area include Memphis, St. Louis, Des Moines and Little Rock. Meteorologists say the weather is stuck in a pattern that makes this one-two-three punch of storms more likely.
March 29, 2023 4:45 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple is getting into the buy now, pay later space with a few tweaks to the existing model, including no option to pay with a credit card. The company will roll out the product to some consumers this spring, and will begin reporting the loans to credit bureaus in the fall. Since the start of the pandemic, the option to “buy now, pay later” has skyrocketed in popularity, especially among young and low-income consumers who may not have ready access to traditional credit.
March 29, 2023 4:41 pm
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis will be hospitalized for several days for treatment of a respiratory infection after experiencing difficulty breathing in recent days. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni says Francis, 86, does not have COVID-19, but requires several days of therapy. He said Wednesday that Francis had been suffering some breathing trouble in recent days and went to the Gemelli hospital for tests. “The tests showed a respiratory infection (COVID-19 infection excluded) that will require some days of medical therapy,” Bruni’s statement said. Francis had part of one lung removed when he was a young man due to a respiratory infection, and he often speaks in a whisper.
March 29, 2023 12:35 pm
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) is investigating a series of phone calls made to 911 centers about schools across the Commonwealth involving threats of an active shooter situation or bomb threat. These phone calls were made to several schools in different counties. All calls have had similar content. All calls are being thoroughly investigated and responded to by law enforcement. These calls have created lock downs and/or evacuations of the schools with a large response from police and emergency services. The PSP has responded to all incidents in our primary coverage areas and has been in contact with municipal law enforcement partners investigating these incidents in their coverage areas. At this time, all claims in these calls have been determined to be false. All schools involved have been cleared or are in the process of being cleared by law enforcement. The investigation is ongoing.
March 29, 2023 7:52 am
DAISYTOWN, Pa. — (WPXI) – The sound of rushing water is the new normal for Daisytown residents. The water isn’t flowing down the creek, but rather deep into a newly opened hole. “I saw the sinkhole and found out that it had collapsed from the mine,” said Barbara Huey who lives in Daisytown. According to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), a section of the old Vesta 4 Mine that hasn’t been used since before 1920 collapsed. The water is now going into the mine shaft and has traveled half a mile underground, shutting down another road where the water is spewing out. Residents like Huey are asking the DEP for transparency on what’s going on. “Our concerns are how deep is it? Are there mine maps? Can they have a meeting, can they tell us to what extent it’s undermined? Has anyone determined how deep the hole is? What’s the time frame if you know on when this is going to be resolved?” Huey questioned. A spokesperson for the DEP says workers are attempting to divert the water away from the hole so they can fill it with cement to close off the opening by the end of the week. Huey, however, is looking down the line. “It’s like you have a big cut on your arm but you only have a little bit of a Band-aid. We still have to make do. We are going to do the little fix because we don’t know what else to do,” Huey said. Her concern is about where the water is going, and if it could it have eroded other mine shafts off the main branch, causing potential for future collapses. All her questions have gone unanswered by the state, she said.
March 29, 2023 4:22 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the federal budget standoff, the majority of U.S. adults are asking lawmakers to pull off the impossible: Cut the overall size of government, but also devote more money to the most popular and expensive programs. Six in 10 U.S. adults say the government spends too much money, but majorities also favor more funding for things like infrastructure, health care and Social Security. The findings from a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research suggest efforts to shrink the government may be politically risky ahead of the 2024 elections.
March 29, 2023 4:20 am
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — When smoke began billowing out of a migrant detention center in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Venezuelan migrant Viangly Infante Padrón was terrified because she knew her husband was still inside. The father of her three children had been picked up by immigration agents earlier in the day, part of a recent crackdown that netted 67 other migrants, many of whom were asking for handouts or washing car windows at stoplights in this city across from El Paso, Texas. What she saw in those first minutes has become the center of a question much of Mexico is asking itself: Why didn’t authorities attempt to release the men before smoke filled the room and killed so many?
March 29, 2023 4:19 am
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police say the Nashville school shooter legally bought seven firearms in recent years and hid the guns from their parents before killing three children and three adults at a Christian school. Police on Tuesday said the shooter did not specifically target their victims during the shooting at The Covenant School on Monday. The victims included three 9-year-olds and the head of the school. Shooter Audrey Hale was a former student at the school. Authorities say Hale was not known to them before the attack. Police say Hale was under a doctor’s care for an undisclosed emotional disorder.
