April 29, 2024 2:02 am
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. (WPXI) — Two men who are facing charges in relation to a deadly double shooting that happened in Washington County are now in custody. Pennsylvania State Police filed homicide charges against Karon Whitlock, 20, and Windale Barfield Jr., 19, on Monday. State troopers said the two turned themselves in on Sunday. Annalaya Wilkerson, 18, was killed and another 17-year-old girl was hurt in a shooting on a rural road in South Franklin Township around 11 p.m. on April 13th. Both men are being held without bond in the Washington County jail and are to face preliminary hearings May 10th.
April 28, 2024 7:40 am
(WPXI) – A teenager has been arrested in connection to a deadly shooting at a playground in McKees Rocks. Delvon Johnson, 17, is charged in the shooting death of Ahsan Edwards, 15. Ahsan was shot multiple times at Third Street Park on Saturday, April 20. He died at a local hospital. Witness interviews and multiple videos led detectives to Johnson. Johnson was arrested Friday afternoon in Orlando, Florida. He is facing multiple charges including criminal homicide, aggravated assault and illegal possession of a firearm. Police said Johnson is still in Florida, pending extradition back to Allegheny County
April 28, 2024 7:37 am
DETROIT (AP) — The NFL draft has a new attendance record after more than 775,000 fans flooded downtown Detroit for the three-day event. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer revealed at Campus Martius Park during the third and final day of the draft that Detroit had broken the record, and the league later released its estimate of the crowd size. While it will take years to know if this year’s picks delivered for their teams, there’s no doubt that Detroit made the most of an opportunity to host the football spectacle and show 50-plus million viewers the new-look city. Motown beat Music City’s three-day attendance record of 600,000 set in 2019, when fans filled Broadway in Nashville.
April 28, 2024 7:35 am
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The character performers at Disneyland in California have said they filed a petition for union recognition. The organizing effort comes more than four decades after their peers at Disney’s parks in Florida joined a union. Why now for the California character performers? A lot of it has to do with the Disneyland Resort workers’ proximity to Hollywood. Unlike in Florida where being a character often is a full-time job, many of the character performers in California have other gigs in movies and TV. When many of their Hollywood jobs dried up because of the pandemic and labor strikes, they wanted more dependable scheduling from Disney. (Photo: AP)
April 28, 2024 7:32 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer says the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalized for a battery of tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape conviction. Attorney Arthur Aidala said Weinstein was moved to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan after his arrival on Friday to city jails. On Thursday, the New York Court of Appeals vacated his conviction after concluding that a trial judge permitted too much evidence not directly related to the charges he faced. The 72-year-old Weinstein has been ailing with a variety of afflictions, including cardiac issues, diabetes, sleep apnea and eye problems. (Photo: AP)
April 28, 2024 7:30 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Student anti-war protesters at U.S. college campuses are digging in and vowing to keep their demonstrations going, while some universities have moved to shut down encampments and protests. Washington University in St. Louis locked some campus buildings and arrested protesters Saturday, including Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein. The University of Southern California says it has temporarily closed its University Park Campus to nonresidents. Police in riot gear cleared an encampment at Northeastern University in Boston, Arizona State University says 69 people were arrested and 23 people were arrested at Indiana University. Columbia University in New York City says students and administrators have engaged in negotiations.
April 28, 2024 7:28 am
(WXPI) – Pittsburgh Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing teen boy. Officers say Vaughn Malone Jr., 15, was reported missing after he did not return home on Thursday. He is 5 feet and 7 inches tall and about 130 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair. Malone is known to spend time in Beltzhoover, Knoxville and Arlington. Police say he could be on Kingsboro Street or Cologne Street. He was last seen wearing a black hoodie, black pants and black and silver shoes. Anyone who knows where he might be is asked to call 412-323-7141 or 911.
April 28, 2024 7:24 am
(WPXI) – An Ohio man is facing several charges after police say several guns were found hidden in his luggage at Pittsburgh International Airport. The Allegheny County Police Department (ACPD) says TSA found guns and ammunition concealed in a briefcase around 8:30 p.m. Friday. The briefcase, which was hidden inside another piece of checked luggage, was lined in roofing tape and sheet metal. In total, ACPD says TSA officers found three handguns, three boxes of ammunition and multiple magazines — all individually wrapped in foil. ACPD says it was determined the luggage belonged to Luis Rojas Cay, 26, of Youngstown, Ohio. Investigators learned he is currently on probation in Ohio and is not allowed to possess firearms. Police were able to locate Rojas Cay and take him to the Allegheny County Jail pending a preliminary arraignment on six firearm charges. The FBI was notified of the incident, and ACPD seized the guns found in the briefcase.
April 27, 2024 5:15 am
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A tornado has plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, demolishing homes and businesses as it moved for miles through farmland and into subdivisions. Some injuries have been reported but there were no immediate reports that anyone was killed in the Friday storms. Multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska and Iowa, but the most destructive storm moved from a largely rural area into suburbs northwest of Omaha, a city of 485,000 people. Photos from social media show damaged homes and shredded trees. Photos on social media also show heavily damaged homes in Minden, Iowa, about 30 miles northeast of Omaha. The National Weather Service forecast for Saturday is ominous, with tornado watches across parts of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
April 27, 2024 5:14 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Student anti-war protesters at U.S. universities are digging in and vowing to keep their demonstrations going, while several school faculties have condemned university presidents for calling law enforcement. As Columbia University continues tenuous negotiations with the pro-Palestinian student encampment, the University’s senate criticized the schools’ president on Friday after more than 100 protesters were arrested last week. School faculties at universities in California, Georgia, and Texas initiated or passed votes of no confidence in their leadership. They are largely symbolic rebukes, without the power remove their presidents. But the tensions pile pressure on school officials, who are already scrambling to resolve the protests as May graduation ceremonies near.
