April 1, 2024 5:05 am
NORTH STRABANE, Pa. — North Strabane Police say a missing 15-year-old girl has been located. The Department had been searching for Jocelyn Penatzer, 15, after she was last seen on Saturday. She had been classified as a runaway. No other details have been released.
April 1, 2024 5:09 am
PITTSBURGH — A Powerball ticket bought in Pennsylvania won a second-tier prize during Saturday’s drawing. According to the Pennsylvania Lottery, a single ticket purchased in the state matched five of five numbers but not the Powerball, winning $1 million. Three other tickets sold in Illinois, Louisiana and Michigan also won the second-tier prize, according to Powerball’s draw results. Saturday’s numbers for the grand prize worth $935 million were 12-13-33-50-52 and the Powerball was 23. The Power Play was 3X. For the 38th consecutive drawing, no one won the jackpot — so the grand prize inched closer to $1 billion. A couple of other Powerball tickets sold in Pennsylvania took home notable prizes. Two players matched four of five numbers and the Powerball, winning $50,000 each. A ticket with Double Play was one of three tickets nationwide to win $50,000 in Saturday’s drawing.
April 1, 2024 5:13 am
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian residents say the Israeli military has withdrawn from Gaza’s main hospital after a two-week raid, leaving behind a vast swath of destruction. Hundreds of people returned to Shifa Hospital and the surrounding area after the withdrawal early Monday, where they found bodies inside and outside of the facility. The military has described the raid as one of the most successful operations of the nearly six-month war, saying it killed scores of Hamas and other militants, as well as seizing valuable intelligence. The head of the World Health Organization said late Sunday that 21 patients died during the raid and more than 100 were in dire conditions.
April 1, 2024 5:15 am
BALTIMORE (AP) — Officials say the U.S. Coast Guard has opened a temporary alternate channel for vessels clearing debris at the site of the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. Capt. David O’Connell is the federal on-scene coordinator. He said in a statement Monday that it is “an important first step along the road to reopening the port of Baltimore.” The White House says President Joe Biden will visit the site Friday. Also, the ship’s owner and manager have filed a court petition seeking to limit their legal liability at under $44 million.
April 1, 2024 12:31 pm
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for stealing from clients and his law firm. The 55-year-old disbarred attorney is already serving a life sentence without parole in a state prison for killing his wife and son. He also pleaded guilty to similar financial crime charges in state court. Before his sentencing Monday, Murdaugh apologized again to his victims and blamed drug abuse. A judge says his schemes were too complex for an addict. The 22 counts are the final charges outstanding for the disgraced attorney. (Photo: AP)
April 1, 2024 5:14 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A racially biased test delayed Black patients from getting a kidney transplant and now more than 14,000 are part of a move to make amends. The U.S. transplant system ordered hospitals to quit using a test that made Black patients’ kidneys appear healthier than they really were. Next hospitals had to dig through years-old records to determine which patients should have been put on the transplant list sooner and give them credit for lost time. It’s part of a huge problem — formulas embedded in treatment guidelines, risk calculators and other medical decisions that put people of color at disadvantage.
April 1, 2024 5:16 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — In Donald Trump’s speeches and online posts, the Republican presidential candidate has ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric and his messaging often relies on falsehoods about migration. But it’s resonating with many of his core supporters going back a decade, to when “build the wall” chants rang out at his campaign rallies. President Joe Biden portrays the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border as a policy dispute that Congress can fix. He criticizes Republicans in Washington for backing away from a border security deal after facing criticism from Trump. But Trump’s message appears to be resonating with key elements of the Democratic coalition that Biden will need to win over this November. That could be a concern for the Democratic president.
April 1, 2024 5:17 am
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has rallied from respiratory problems to lead some 60,000 people in Easter celebrations and make a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine. Francis presided over Easter Sunday Mass in a flower-decked St. Peter’s Square. He then delivered a heartfelt prayer for peace in his annual roundup of global crises, delivered from the loggia overlooking the piazza. Gaza’s people, including the small Christian community there, have been a source of constant concern for Francis and Easter in the Holy Land overall was a somber affair this year given the war.
March 31, 2024 8:01 am
(WPXI) – AT&T on Saturday revealed that personal data from 73 million current and former account holders had been compromised and “released on the dark web. In a statement, the Dallas-based company said that it reset the passcodes of 7.6 million customers. The telecommunications giant also said the codes of 65.4 million former account holders were also affected, The Dallas Morning News reported. The company added that “information varied by customer and account,” but that it may have included a person’s full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, Social Security number, date of birth, AT&T account number and passcode, according to The New York Times. “Our internal teams are working with external cybersecurity experts to analyze the situation,” AT&T said in its statement. “To the best of our knowledge, the compromised data appears to be from 2019 or earlier and does not contain personal financial information or call history. AT&T said that the data was released onto the dark web about two weeks ago, the Morning News reported. It is not known if the data “originated from AT&T or one of its vendors,” WFAA-TV reported. AT&T officials said they would be “reaching out to individuals with compromised sensitive personal information separately and offering complimentary identity theft and credit monitoring services,” according to the Times.
March 31, 2024 8:02 am
DUQUESNE, Pa. — A man is dead after a shooting in Duquesne. Allegheny County dispatchers say police and medics were called to the 25 block of N 2nd Avenue at 6:14 p.m. on Saturday. When police arrived, they found a man who had been shot in the chest. He died at the scene. The Office of the Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the man killed as Lamont Nichols, 30, of Pittsburgh. The Allegheny County Police Department detained two people at the scene and later charged Latiya Demeaterce Hicks, 24, of Braddock, with criminal homicide. Hicks is being held at the Allegheny County Jail without bond while awaiting arraignment.
