July 20, 2025 7:13 am
(WPXI) PITTSBURGH — A pickup truck was pulled from the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh on Saturday. Allegheny County dispatchers said emergency crews were called to South 18th Street in South Side Flats at around 6:30 p.m. The truck got pulled into the water while trying to pull a boat out of the water. The people inside the truck managed to get out before the truck was fully submerged, a Pittsburgh Police public information officer said. No injuries were reported.
July 19, 2025 9:37 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A vehicle rammed into a crowd of people waiting to enter a nightclub along a busy boulevard in Los Angeles early Saturday, injuring 30 people. Victims were transported to local hospitals and trauma centers, according to Capt. Adam Van Gerpen, public information officer for the Los Angeles City Fire Department. At least three were in critical condition after being injured along Santa Monica Boulevard in East Hollywood, the Fire Department said in a statement. Van Gerpen told ABC that a line of people — the majority female — were waiting to enter a nightclub when they were struck by a vehicle that also hit a taco truck and valet stand. The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating.
July 19, 2025 4:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under intense pressure from President Donald Trump’s own supporters, his administration now is asking a federal court to unseal secret documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case. It’s an effort to put to rest for good a political crisis largely of the administration’s own making. But even if those records eventually become public, it’s far from certain they will appease critics enraged over the administration’s unfulfilled promises of full transparency about the evidence against the wealthy financier. Meanwhile, the administration remains dogged by questions about its refusal to release other records in its possession.
July 19, 2025 4:19 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, a day after the newspaper published a story reporting on his ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. The lawsuit was filed Friday in federal court in Miami. It seeks at least $10 billion in damages. The move came shortly after the Justice Department asked a federal court to unseal grand jury transcripts in Epstein’s sex trafficking case. The Trump administration is trying to contain a firestorm that erupted after it previously announced it would not be releasing additional government files from the case.
July 19, 2025 4:20 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An explosion at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility killed three veteran deputies from the arson and explosives unit. Sheriff Robert Luna said it was the department’s worst loss of life since 1857. The blast occurred around 7:30 a.m. Friday at the Biscailuz Training Facility. Officials are investigating the cause, with assistance from the FBI and ATF. Luna said the scene took over four hours to secure. The deputies, with 19, 22, and 33 years of service, were described as highly trained experts. No one else was injured.
July 19, 2025 4:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department plans to release previously withheld grant money for after-school programs. This decision comes days after 10 Republican senators urged the Office of Management and Budget to release the funds. The Trump administration had withheld over $6 billion in grants on July 1, including $1.3 billion for after-school programs, as part of a spending review. On Wednesday, the senators emphasized that these programs have bipartisan support and are vital to local communities. They also said the funds did not support “radical left-wing programs.” The Trump administration is continuing to review some education grants for left-wing bias.
July 19, 2025 4:13 am
MAZRAA, Syria (AP) — U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack says that Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire following Israel’s intervention this week in fighting between Syrian government forces and . The announcement came as clashes continued between Druze groups and members of Bedouin clans in Syria’s southern Sweida province, leaving tens of thousands of people displaced in a worsening humanitarian crisis. Government forces had withdrawn from Sweida following a separate ceasefire agreed upon with Druze groups on Wednesday after Israel launched dozens of airstrikes on convoys of government fighters.
July 19, 2025 4:12 am
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela has released 10 jailed U.S. citizens and permanent residents in exchange for getting home scores of migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador months ago under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The arrangement represents a diplomatic achievement for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and helps President Donald Trump in his goal of bringing home Americans jailed abroad. El Salvador will send back some 300 Venezuelan migrants whom the Trump administration agreed to pay $6 million to house in a notorious Salvadoran prison. The arrangement drew immediate blowback when Trump invoked an 18th century wartime law to quickly remove men his administration had accused of belonging to the violent Tren de Aragua street gang.
July 19, 2025 1:13 am
On Friday, in front of a backdrop of a partially demolished wall and under the raindrops from a summer storm, local, county and state government officials gathered with members of the new owners and demolition team of the Washington Mall to celebrate the first steps in its demolition. Tony Rosenberger is a member of the development team 79/70 Associates that closed on the purchase of the mall two weeks ago for a purchase price of more than $12 million. He detailed the chronology of events that led up to the celebration of the demolition. Washington County Commissioner Nick Sherman described Washington County’s role in delivering $5.9 million in county blight mitigation funds to the project to spearhead the demolition. While everyone there was celebrating, one South Strabane Township resident did not share the same view. Thomas Lonich attended the event at the invite of Sherman. Lonich spoke out at the most recent commissioner’s meeting asking for transparency of the county’s involvement. He also questioned the logic in using taxpayer dollars for a demolition project that he feels could have been funded by the developers themselves. With no environmental issues to navigate, the project is set to begin. In addition to the funding. Washington County will be contributing debris from the Courthouse Square building demolition to use as fill on the Washington Mall site.
July 19, 2025 3:33 am
Washington County Commissioners authorized the release of the third round of opioid settlement funds on Thursday and one of the beneficiaries of the funds is a recovery house proposed for the City of Washington. The family of Shawn Patrick Nairn will be using $350,000 to set up the Shawn Patrick House. Shawn Nairn died as a result of his addiction in 2020 at the age of 28 in a recovery home. Shawn Nairn, Sr. said that their version of a recovery home will be different. They want to create a safe space that melds recovery, jobs, counselling, family support and prayer into their program to foster successful recovery. Shawn’s mother Melissa says that paternalistic views of recovery do not really work. She says the home will focus on partnerships that will hold residents accountable for their actions. Shawn Patrick’s best friend Devin Reed says that they will be partnering with an existing recovery home in Washington. This is their first effort and they hope to expand, offering addicts an environment of work, family involvement and the ability to participate in the community. Shawn Patrick’s brother Regis says they chose to name the home after his brother because hundreds of guys are clean because of Shawn Patrick and this allows the recovery community the ability to continue to learn from him.
