December 11, 2022 4:42 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. — Crews responded to a vehicle into a structure call early Saturday morning in the City of Washington. According to reports, a car went through the glass door and windows of the BP gas station around 1:30 a.m. on the 1300 block of West Chestnut Street. Reports say there were multiple occupants in the vehicle, but no entrapment. There was also no reported structural damage. The Pennsylvania State Police were on scene and are investigating. There was no word on injuries at this time. (Photo: Facebook)
December 11, 2022 4:23 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. — The two suspects allegedly involved with the killing of Jaisen Irwin outside of Bob’s Tavern in Finleyville faced their preliminary hearings on Friday. Maurissa Spencer, 24 of Library, is accused of driving away with an injured Irwin before allegedly dumping his body on the side of a road. She chose to waive her charges to court. She faces felony homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide and evidence destruction charges along with two misdemeanors. Keaunrdre Crews (Pictured), 29 of Charleroi, faced a hearing that took nearly five hours. Testimony began with Elijah White telling prosecutors and the judge that he intends to plead the fifth amendment guarding against self incrimination to any questions asked. He was dismissed as a witness. Police and eyewitness testimony was presented but the crux of the prosecution’s case came from video evidence and information downloads from cars driven by Spencer and Crews on the night of the shooting. Video evidence showed an argument that took place between Irwin and White at Jim’s Bar in Monongahela. Video and the information downloads tracked Spencer’s car and Crews’ car to Bob’s Tavern in Finleyville where witnesses testified to shots being fired there. Further evidence tracked Spencer’s car at her home with alleged bullet holes and blood stains in the car. Telephone download evidence seemed to tie Spencer and Crews together after the shooting. The judge dismissed a conspiracy homicide and possession of a weapon without a license charges against Crews. He faces felony homicide and possession of firearms charges. Both Crews and Spencer will be formally arraigned in January.
December 11, 2022 2:29 am
CANTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The Washington man killed following a shooting in Canton Township Friday night has been identified. According to reports, calls came in for a man found laying on the roadway at the intersection of Baird Avenue and Wilmington Street just before 8:00 p.m. The Washington County Coroner says 30-year-old Thomas Oliver Davis Jr. was found and was transported to Washington Hospital where he died of his injuries just before 9:00 p.m. The cause and manner of the victim’s death is pending an autopsy and investigation by the Pennsylvania State Police. There are currently no suspects named in this case.
December 10, 2022 4:52 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump are in federal court in Washington for sealed arguments as part of the ongoing investigation into the presence of classified information at the former president’s Florida estate. The proceedings were taking place before U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, the chief judge of the federal court in the District of Columbia. Defense lawyers were seen entering the courtroom around 2 p.m. and left over an hour later. A lawyer for The Associated Press and other news organizations had submitted a letter earlier Friday requesting media access to the hearing, but despite that, lawyers spoke behind closed doors.
December 10, 2022 4:51 am
DENVER (AP) — A California woman who warned a judge last year about the danger posed by the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooter says the deaths could have been prevented if earlier charges against the suspect weren’t dismissed. Jeanie Streltzoff, who is related to suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich, urged Colorado Judge Robin Chittum in a letter last November to incarcerate Aldrich. She told The Associated Press on Friday that Aldrich should have been in prison and prevented from obtaining weapons after the suspect’s 2021 arrest uncovered a stockpile of more than 100 pounds of explosive materials, firearms and ammunition.
December 10, 2022 4:50 am
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer who held down George Floyd’s back as one of his colleagues kneeled on the Black man’s neck has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison. J. Alexander Kueng pleaded guilty in October to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. He is already serving a federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights, and the state and federal sentence will be served at the same time. Kueng appeared at his sentencing via a video feed from a federal prison in Ohio. When given the chance to address the court, he declined.
December 10, 2022 4:48 am
PHOENIX (AP) — The challenges facing the Democratic Party heading into the next campaign have come into sharp relief just a few days after the party celebrated victory in the final Senate contest of the 2022 midterms. The decision by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona to leave the Democratic Party on Friday raised the prospect of a tumultuous three-way race in one of the most politically competitive states in the U.S. It set off a scramble among potential Democratic and Republican candidates to assess whether they could win their party’s nomination. And it prompted difficult questions about whether Democrats might financially and politically support Sinema over their own nominee if she decides to seek reelection. (Photo: AP)
December 10, 2022 4:47 am
NEW YORK (AP) — The impacts of climate change hit communities across the country, yet voters in rural areas are the least likely to feel Washington is in their corner on the issue. Rural Americans and experts suggest there’s a disconnect between the way leaders talk about climate change and the way these communities experience it. AP VoteCast, a sweeping survey of the 2022 midterm electorate, shows clear differences between urban and rural communities in voter sentiment on President Joe Biden’s handling of climate. Around 6 in 10 urban voters approve, but the figure drops to roughly 4 in 10 for rural voters.
December 10, 2022 4:46 am
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Chris Bullock has a lot to be grateful for as she decorates her new home for Christmas. One year ago Saturday, a massive tornado obliterated wide swaths of her Kentucky hometown of Dawson Springs. It left her homeless after a terrifying night of death and destruction. Things look much different now. In August, Bullock and her family moved into their new home. It sits on the same site where their home of 26 years was wiped out. The holiday season tragedy killed 81 people across Kentucky and turned buildings into rubble. On Saturday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear will lead commemorative events. (Photo: AP)
December 10, 2022 4:45 am
LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Grant Wahl, one of the most well-known soccer writers in the United States, died early Saturday while covering the World Cup match between Argentina and the Netherlands. U.S. media seated near him said Wahl fell back in his seat in a section of Lusail Iconic Stadium reserved for journalists during extra time of the game. The organizing committee said Wahl received immediate emergency medical treatment on site, which continued as he was transferred by ambulance to Hamad General Hospital. Wahl was covering his eighth World Cup. He wrote Monday that he had visited a medical clinic while in Qatar and was given antibiotics and cough syrup for a possible case of bronchitis.
