June 12, 2024 5:01 am
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A West Virginia man is facing charges after a loaded gun was found at Pittsburgh International Airport on Tuesday morning. TSA agents found the gun in a backpack at the alternate security checkpoint at 6:50 a.m. Franklin Barker, 58, was identified as the passenger carrying the gun. Allegheny County police said Barker did not have a valid concealed carry permit. Barker is charged with carrying a firearm without a license.
June 12, 2024 4:57 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — (WPXI) – A man is dead and two others are recovering after two shootings Tuesday afternoon in Uniontown. Uniontown police are leading the investigation into the initial, deadly shooting and Pennsylvania State Police are taking the lead on the second shooting. Investigators believe it’s too early to know whether they’re connected, or if the timing is simply coincidental. District Attorney Michael Auble says the two shootings unfolded within 90 minutes and half a mile apart. The first, he said, started with an argument outside a home on Dunlap Street just after 2 p.m. According to Auble, Joshua Stevens, 33, was shot and killed. “He attacked the defendant with a knife and apparently the defendant shot him and he fled the scene afterwards. He’s still at large at this time,” Auble said. While Uniontown investigators and the DA were on scene, around 3:30, p.m. they heard more gunshots ring out just a few streets over near the corner of Varndell and Liberty Streets. Auble said two people fired more than a dozen shots at this black sedan, shattering multiple windows. According to Auble, the car began driving toward the crime scene on Dunlap Street. Officers jumped in to help the two injured young men. One was flown to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown by helicopter, the other went by ambulance. Both are expected to survive, Auble said. Police have not publicly named any suspects or announced any arrests.
June 12, 2024 4:53 am
The Public Defender representing Nikolaus Breland, 34 of Monongahela against charges of false imprisonment, sexual assault and promotion of prostitution filed a motion to dismiss the case on Tuesday. The case centers on a November 2022 incident where a woman texted Washington County 9-1-1 that she was being held against her will and asked authorities to come and help her in a home on Main Street in Monongahela. The motion centered on accusations that the District Attorney did not properly disclose evidence to the defense with regards to a cell phone that was taken from the defendant during his arrest. The defense attorney argued that when they went to inspect the evidence, a cell phone and door key were present and not listed on an evidence ledger authored by the Pennsylvania State Police. The phone and key were taken by Monongahela Police when Breland was arrested and listed in a register authored by them that disclosed both sets of evidence. Prosecutors said they were unaware of the phone until it was disclosed by the defense. The defense argues that the case should be dismissed because the defendant was denied his right to a speedy trial because the phone was not properly disclosed, and even though prosecutors said they were ready for trial, they couldn’t be ready without examining the phone thus they were holding Breland beyond the time to begin trial. The defense said that examining the phone is vital to the case because the entire reason that the case began is from a text message from the victim to authorities asking to be rescued. The defense accused prosecutors of not performing their due diligence in gathering all pertinent evidence specifically the cell phone. The judge hearing the case will make a ruling via written order in the near future. Additionally, Breland will face a preliminary hearing on June 12 on charges of witness intimidation and other charges related to the case.
June 11, 2024 5:16 pm
(WPXI) – A man is dead and two others are hurt after two separate shootings in Uniontown on Tuesday afternoon. According to Uniontown police, a man was shot and killed on Dunlap Street. While police were on the scene of the first shooting, two males inside a car were injured when someone in another car opened fire on them. Both victims were taken to the hospital. One was flown via medical helicopter.
June 11, 2024 12:35 pm
(WPXI) – Emergency crews are on the scene of several buildings on fire in Etna. Allegheny County 911 said crews were called to 86 Vilsack Street at 11:42 a.m. At least two buildings were on fire. An explosion was reported in one of the buildings, and one of the buildings also collapsed. One of the buildings involved is an apartment building, possibly a duplex, while the other appears to be a home. One firefighter was taken to the hospital but there’s been no word on what type of injuries they suffered.
June 11, 2024 11:28 am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden has been convicted of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, he lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs. Jurors found Hunter Biden guilty of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application by saying he was not a drug user and illegally having the gun for 11 days.
June 11, 2024 5:07 am
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple has jumped into the race to bring generative artificial intelligence to the masses. During its World Wide Developers Conference Monday the tech giant spotlighted a slew of features designed to soup up the iPhone, iPad and Mac. Even as it tried to put its own stamp on the hottest area of technology, Apple tacitly acknowledged it needed help to catch up with companies like Microsoft and Google, which have emerged as the early leaders in the AI field. Apple is leaning on ChatGPT, made by the San Francisco startup OpenAI, to help make its often-bumbling virtual assistant Siri smarter and more helpful.
June 11, 2024 5:06 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — After Federal Reserve officials meet this week, a statement they will issue may suggest that they’ve seen meaningful progress on inflation this year — a prelude to eventual interest rate cuts. Yet it’s hard to say, because the officials themselves may not know for sure until they begin their meeting. That’s because the government’s latest snapshot of U.S. inflation will be released Wednesday morning, just before the Fed begins the second day of its policy discussions. At a news conference, though, Chair Jerome Powell will likely reiterate that Fed officials need further confidence that inflation is returning to 2% before they would consider rate cuts.
June 11, 2024 5:04 am
ATLANTA (AP) — Gun-control advocates and many Democrats see additional openings created by hardline positions of the gun lobby. President Joe Biden’s campaign says gun control could be a motivating issue for suburban college-educated women who may be decisive in several key battlegrounds this fall. The campaign and its allies have already circulated clips of former President Donald Trump saying after an Iowa school shooting in January that “we have to get over it.” Trump has also promised that he would impose no new restrictions on guns if elected again. About 7 in 10 college-educated women who voted in the 2022 midterm elections supported stricter gun control laws.
June 11, 2024 5:02 am
Hamas said that one of its commanders in the occupied West Bank was killed in a clash with Israeli forces. In a statement released late Monday, Hamas said Mohammed Jaber Abdo was killed along with three other fighters in a village near Ramallah, where the Western-backed Palestinian Authority is headquartered. A joint statement by the Israeli army and police earlier on Monday said undercover forces had tracked down a suspect wanted in an attack on a nearby Jewish settlement. Violence has surged in the West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza, which was ignited by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack into southern Israel.
