February 10, 2024 4:53 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump told thousands of members of the National Rifle Association that “no one will lay a finger on your firearms” if he returns to the White House, and bragged that during his time as president he “did nothing” to curb guns. “During my four years nothing happened. And there was great pressure on me having to do with guns. We did nothing. We didn’t yield,” he said as he addressed the NRA’s Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg Friday evening. The Republican presidential nominating campaign Trump has dominated is turning toward South Carolina, where the Feb. 24 GOP primary may prove to be the last chance for Nikki Haley to blunt Trump’s march to the nomination.
February 10, 2024 4:50 am
HONOLULU (AP) — A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the world’s largest active volcano. The Friday quake that struck Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii knocked items off shelves in nearby towns, but no major damage has been reported. No tsunami is expected. The earthquake was centered on Mauna Loa’s southern flank at a depth of 23 miles, 1.3 miles southwest of Pahala. The U.S. Geological Survey initially reported it as a magnitude 6.3 quake but downgraded it a short time later. Mauna Loa last erupted in late 2022. It’s one of five volcanoes that make up the Big Island.
February 10, 2024 4:47 am
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has hit back at criticism over the conduct of its parliamentary elections, which were held amid sporadic militant attacks and an unprecedented suspension of all mobile phone services. It insists the vote was peaceful and successful. Saturday’s strongly worded reaction from the Foreign Ministry came after the U.S. State Department said Thursday’s vote was held under undue restrictions on freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly. The European Union has also said it regrets the lack of a level playing field. No political party has gained a simple majority in the election but independent candidates backed by imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan took a lead in the vote count.
February 10, 2024 4:03 am
BALDWIN BOROUGH, Pa. — (WPXI)-A woman was shot and killed in Baldwin Borough on Friday afternoon. According to Allegheny County Police, emergency crews were called to the 5400 block of Youngridge Drive at 4:32 p.m. Once on scene, police found a woman who had been shot multiple times inside her apartment. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim has been identified as Ramiah Griffin, 20. Anyone with information is asked to call 1-833-ALL-TIPS.
February 9, 2024 5:10 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems poised to reject attempts to kick former President Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot. A definitive ruling for the leading Republican candidate for president would largely end efforts in Colorado, Maine and elsewhere to prevent his name from appearing on the ballot. In more than two hours of arguments Thursday, both conservative and liberal justices raised questions of whether Trump can be disqualified from being president again because of his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election. Their main concern was whether Congress must act before states can invoke a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office again.
February 9, 2024 5:08 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A special counsel report has found evidence that President Joe Biden “willfully” retained and shared highly classified materials when he was a private citizen, including documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan. The Justice Department report nonetheless says no criminal charges are warranted for Biden or anyone else. In remarks at the White House Thursday evening, Biden denied that he improperly shared classified information and angrily lashed out at special counsel Robert Hur for questioning his mental acuity. The report from Hur, released earlier Thursday, represents a harshly critical assessment of Biden’s handling of sensitive government materials and includes unflattering characterizations of his memory.
February 9, 2024 5:07 am
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has bombed targets in Rafah, after U.S. officials warned Israel against expanding its Gaza ground offensive to the southern city where more than half of the territory’s 2.3 million people have sought refuge. Airstrikes overnight and into Friday in Rafah and a central area of Gaza killed 12 people, including women and children. Meanwhile, widening disagreements between Israel and the United States were on display over the future of the war, now in its fifth month. U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack was “over the top.” Israel’s stated intentions to expand its ground offensive to Rafah also prompted a harsh backlash in Washington.
February 9, 2024 5:05 am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Donald Trump has won Nevada’s Republican presidential caucuses after he was the only major candidate to participate. The former president handily won Thursday’s contest run by the state Republican Party and wins Nevada’s 26 delegates as he seeks to accrue enough to become the party nominee. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley skipped the caucuses, blaming what she considered an unfair process that favored Trump. She instead was listed on the ballot in Nevada’s symbolic state-run presidential primary on Tuesday, finishing behind the “none of these candidates” option.
February 9, 2024 5:03 am
EAST LANSDOWNE, Pa. (AP) — Six members of a family are feared dead at a house in suburban Philadelphia that went up in flames as two police officers who responded to the scene were shot. Among those feared dead are three children. Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer says some remains of a body and a rifle were recovered from the home in East Lansdowne. He’s cautioning that the probe is in its early stages as investigators seek clues to the fire and the shooting, which took place Wednesday afternoon. One of the wounded officers was discharged from the hospital Thursday.
February 9, 2024 5:01 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — (WPXI) – A grocery store in Fayette County was closed last week when the landlord had sheriff’s deputies put locks on the door. When the owners of the building went inside, they found expired food on the shelves and rotting meat in the cooler. The abrupt closure of Save Well grocery store last week happened because the store had not been paying rent to the building’s owner. “When they became delinquent for, in the end, four months, which is $8,000 a month, $32,000 dollars, I filed suit, had them ejected, got a $97,000 judgment against them, had the sheriffs come and padlock the building, and had them escorted out the door,” said attorney Thomas Shaffer. When the landlords went inside, they were hit with an awful smell. In fact – a lot of the products on the shelves still today are expired. The building’s owners say they’ve hired a company to help clean and have thrown out 8 dumpsters of bad food so far. The landlords tell Channel 11 they hope to get a new grocery store in the building soon.
