December 24, 2022 4:39 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors in Los Angeles have found rapper Tory Lanez guilty of three felonies in the 2020 shooting of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion. The verdict was announced in Los Angeles Superior Court Friday after the jury deliberated for a day. Megan was wounded with bullet fragments in her feet after getting out of an SUV she was riding in with Lanez in the Hollywood Hills and testified that Lanez shot her. Lanez’ attorneys argued she was shot by another woman. Lanez could get more than 20 years in prison and faces deportation to his native Canada. Lanez’s father leapt up in court and condemned what he called a “wicked” verdict. (Photo: AP)
December 24, 2022 4:37 am
BAZHOU, China (AP) — As China grapples with its first-ever national COVID-19 wave, emergency wards in small cities and towns southwest of Beijing are overwhelmed. Intensive care units are turning away ambulances, relatives of sick people are searching for open beds, and patients are slumped on benches in hospital corridors and lying on floors for a lack of beds. Even as the young go back to work and lines at fever clinics shrink, many of Hebei’s elderly are falling into critical condition. As they overrun ICUs and funeral homes, it could be a harbinger of what’s to come for the rest of China.
December 24, 2022 4:35 am
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (WPXI) — Thousands of people were without power and road conditions were deteriorating after snow fell, winds picked up and temperatures plummeted. PennDOT announced speed limit reductions on multiple major roadways in Allegheny, Beaver, Lawrence, Washington and Westmoreland counties. First Energy and Duquesne Light are both reporting outages in multiple counties. In Washington County, there are just under 400 homes in the dark, with most of them in Canton and Blaine Townships. The City of Washington is dealing with some at this time as well. All outages are expected to be resolved by 11:00 p.m. Saturday night.
December 24, 2022 4:30 am
FAYETTE COUNTY, Pa. (WPXI) — Crews were called to a house fire in Fayette County on Friday evening. According to Fayette County Dispatchers, emergency crews were called to Locks Hill Road in German Township at 5:17 p.m. No injuries have been reported at this time.
December 24, 2022 4:23 am
MONONGAHELA, Pa. — Multiple fire departments were dispatched to the 500 block of Ridge Avenue in the City of Monongahela for an overnight house fire. According to reports, the blaze may have originated in the basement and took crews nearly two hours to get under control. Reports say a firefighter became disoriented during the incident and was checked by EMS but was not injured. The fire tore through the house from the basement and reached the first and second floors. Mon City Fire Crews were joined by Donora, Fallowfield, Gallatin Sunnyside, Carroll Township, and Valley Inn Fire Departments on scene. There is no word on the cause of the fire or any injuries.
December 24, 2022 4:13 am
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Millions of Americans are facing blinding blizzards, freezing rain, flooding and life-threatening cold through Christmas as a winter storm of unprecedented scope smashes its frigid way through most of the country. The storm that arrived earlier in the week downed power lines, littered highways with piles of cars in deadly accidents and created mayhem for holiday air travelers through mass flight cancellations. The storm was nearly unprecedented in its scope, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico. About 60% of the U.S. population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning.
December 24, 2022 1:44 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Democratic-led House has passed a $1.7 trillion government spending bill. The bill will finance federal agencies through September and provide more aid to a devastated Ukraine. It passed by a vote of 225-201. The bill represents the closing act for Democrat Nancy Pelosi’s second stint as House speaker. The person hoping to replace her, Republican Kevin McCarthy, led opposition to the bill. That’s a sharp contrast to the Senate, where the leaders from both parties supported the measure. The House chamber was half-empty for the vote with many lawmakers casting proxy votes, having left Washington early to ensure they made it home for Christmas.
December 24, 2022 1:33 am
Pittsburgh, PA – PennDOT District 11 is announcing the closure of Millers Run Road (Route 978) structure over Dolphin Run is underway in South Fayette Township, Allegheny County. A recent inspection of the Millers Run Road Bridge, located between Mohawk Road and Battle Ridge Road (Route 978), found advanced deterioration of the structure, and requires an immediate closure. The bridge will remain closed until further notice and all traffic will be detoured.
Posted Detour
West of the Bridge
- Follow Millers Run Road (Route 978) westbound to Route 50
- Turn left onto Route 50
- Turn left onto Millers Run Road (Route 3026)
- Follow Millers Run Road back to Route 978
- End Detour
East of the bridge
Same detour in reverse
December 23, 2022 4:21 am
PHOENIX (AP) – Lawyers for Arizona election officials say Republican Kari Lake didn’t offer evidence to back her claims of widespread, intentional misconduct on Election Day in challenging her loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs in the governor’s race. A lawyer for Hobbs, who won by just over 17,000 votes, told a judge Thursday that Lake never established her claim that printer problems at Maricopa County polling places were intentional acts that would have changed the race’s outcome had they not occurred. Lake’s attorneys say officials tried to downplay the effects of the printer problems in Maricopa County. Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson didn’t say when he would issue a ruling.
December 23, 2022 4:20 am
NEW YORK (AP) – Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried has left Manhattan federal court after his parents signed a $250 million personal recognizance bond. He wore an electronic monitoring bracelet as he rushed to a car Thursday to head with his parents to their California home to await trial. Bankman-Fried is accused of swindling investors and looting customer deposits on his FTX trading platform. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos said that the 30-year-old Bankman-Fried “perpetrated a fraud of epic proportions.” Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein largely agreed to bail terms proposed by lawyers on both sides. Bankman-Fried is scheduled to return to court on Jan. 3.
