June 13, 2024 2:15 am
DONORA, Pa. — (WPXI) – One house is destroyed and two others are damaged after flames tore through the homes on Thompson Avenue in Donora, Wednesday. Fire crews were called to the scene just before 4 p.m. “It’s hard to wrap my head around this. I’ve never had this happen,” Edward Povrzenich said. He owns that home. He tells Channel 11 he was at work when a neighbor called him and told him his house was on fire. His sister-in-law was inside babysitting three kids at the time. The babysitter says she heard kids screaming then saw a door light up orange. He says the family has no insurance. No one was in either of the other two homes. The state police fire marshal is investigating.
June 12, 2024 1:48 pm
(AP) – Jerry West, a native West Virginian and WVU legend, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, has died. The Los Angeles Clippers say West died Wednesday morning with his wife, Karen, by his side. He was 86. West was nicknamed “Mr. Clutch” for his late-game exploits as a player, and he won both NBA and Olympic titles. He was an All-Star in all 14 of his NBA seasons and won the 1972 championship with the Lakers. West was later the general manger of eight Lakers championship teams. (Photo: AP)
June 12, 2024 11:50 am
(WPXI) – One man has been charged with arson for a fire that damaged two buildings and sent a firefighter to the hospital. The fire broke out around noon on Tuesday at 86 Vilsack Street in Etna. Everyone who lived in the three-story duplex made it out safely. When he was interviewed, police said a resident, Elmer Lewis, 74, admitted to pouring gasoline throughout the duplex and in the garage, and lighting an area in a second-floor bedroom. About 20 fire companies in the North Hills showed up to help extinguish the flames. A resident was treated for minor injuries and a firefighter was treated for heat exhaustion. Officials say a garage door that was blown off the building almost hit a police officer and two firefighters before striking a fire truck. Lewis is charged with several counts of aggravated arson, arson, causing or risking a catastrophe and criminal mischief. He is being held in the Allegheny County Jail.
June 12, 2024 8:43 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation in the United States eased last month in a hopeful sign that a pickup in prices that occurred early this year may have passed. The trend, if it holds, could move the Federal Reserve closer to cutting its benchmark interest rate from its 23-year peak. Consumer prices excluding volatile food and energy costs — the closely watched “core” index — rose 0.2% from April to May. That was down from 0.3% the previous month and was the smallest increase since October. Measured from a year earlier, core prices rose 3.4%, below last month’s 3.6% increase. Fed officials are scrutinizing each month’s inflation data to assess their progress in their fight against rising prices.
June 12, 2024 5:15 am
DETROIT (AP) — If Tesla shareholders vote against restoring Elon Musk’s $44.9 billion pay package Thursday, the CEO could deliver on threats to take artificial intelligence research to one of his other companies. If they approve the all-stock compensation that was thrown out by a Delaware judge this year, that would likely keep him at the company so he can shift to AI and robotics, which Musk says is Tesla’s future. But even with reapproval at the annual shareholders’ meeting there would be uncertainty. Musk has threatened on X, his social media platform, to develop AI elsewhere if he doesn’t get a 25% stake in Tesla.
June 12, 2024 5:14 am
A Peters Township man accused of possessing child pornography and inappropriate interaction with a minor from Ashland County Ohio waived his charges to court on Tuesday. Zachary Nee, 24 is facing 91 charges of child pornography and three charges of criminal use of a communications device. In September of 2023, Ashland County Ohio Sheriffs contacted Peters Township Police about their investigation into Nee having inappropriate contact with a 13 year old girl. Ohio police found explicit messages sent to Nee on the victim’s phone. Peters Township Police obtained a search warrant and seized several electronic devices that had child pornography stored on them. It also revealed text messages between Nee and the victim, however no pictures of the victim were discovered. Nee is free on $150,000 bond. He will be formally arraigned on July 18.
June 12, 2024 5:11 am
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah has fired scores of rockets into northern Israel to avenge the killing of a top commander. The massive barrage on Wednesday escalated regional tensions as the fate of an internationally-backed plan for a cease-fire in Gaza hangs in the balance. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in the region to push a cease-fire proposal with global support that has not been fully embraced by Israel or Hamas. The militant group submitted its first official response late Tuesday, requesting “amendments” to the deal. Hezbollah, an Iran-backed ally of Hamas, has traded fire with Israel nearly every day since the 8-month-long Israel-Hamas war began and says it will only stop if there is a truce in Gaza. That has raised fears of a wider war.
June 12, 2024 5:10 am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden’s legal woes are not over after his conviction on three felony firearms charges in a trial that put a spotlight on his drug-fueled past. Now, President Joe Biden’s son faces sentencing, and another trial on tax charges in the middle of his father’s reelection campaign. Jurors found Hunter Biden guilty on Tuesday after three hours of deliberations over two days in Wilmington, Delaware. The case stemmed from a gun Hunter Biden bought in 2018 while, prosecutors say, he was in the throes of a crack cocaine addiction. Defense attorney Abbe Lowell said after the verdict that they will “continue to vigorously pursue all the legal challenges available.”
June 12, 2024 5:07 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is making a triumphant return to Capitol Hill to meet with House and Senate Republicans for the first time since the Jan. 6, 2021 attack. GOP lawmakers find themselves newly energized and reinvigorated by Trump’s bid to retake the White House. This is despite the federal charges against Trump for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election and his recent guilty verdict in an unrelated hush money trial. He is expected to visit House and then Senate Republican campaign headquarters near the Capitol to discuss party priorities. It’s his first as the party’s presumptive nominee. He’s also speaking at the Business Roundtable.
June 12, 2024 5:04 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight individuals from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State group have been arrested in the United States in recent days. That’s according to multiple people familiar with the matter. The people say the arrests took place in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles and the individuals, who entered the U.S. through the southern border, are being held on immigration violations. The nature of their suspected connections to IS was not immediately clear, but the men were tracked by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. They were in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which made the arrests, pending removal proceedings.
