November 11, 2024 5:16 am
ATLANTA (AP) — A shooting during homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama has left one person dead and injured 16 others, a dozen of them by gunfire. Authorities announced an arrest on a weapons charge. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says Jaquez Myrick was arrested while leaving the scene of the shooting early Sunday and was found with a handgun with a machine gun conversion device. The agency did not accuse him of using the gun in the shooting or provide additional details. The shooting erupted as the historically Black university’s 100th Homecoming Week was winding down. Authorities said an 18-year-old man who died was not a university student but that some of the injured were students. Tuskegee canceled classes Monday.
November 11, 2024 5:14 am
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — New Israeli strikes have killed dozens of people including children in Lebanon and northern Gaza. The strikes happened on Sunday. The world is watching for signs of how the U.S. election might affect the war against Iranian-backed militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has spoken three times with Donald Trump since Tuesday’s election and they “see eye-to-eye regarding the Iranian threat and all of its components.” Israel’s president is set to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday. The deadline is approaching for a U.S. ultimatum for Israel to allow more aid into Gaza or risk possible restrictions on military funding.
November 10, 2024 8:03 am
(WPXI) – Firefighters in western Pennsylvania are urging residents to avoid burning outdoors due to an elevated risk of brush fires. A combination of dry air and very dry brush is creating an increased risk of wildfire spread. “When you have these heavy drought conditions it runs rampant,” said South Strabane Assistant Fire Chief Paul Winter. Winter said his department has responded to multiple brush fires recently. “We’ve been having a lot of high volume calls with brush fires turning into wildland fires,” he said. “We’ve had wind-driven conditions so any small embers can easily travel and can consume large properties of land. It can spread 30-40 feet in seconds. He said these fires can become extremely dangerous for crews to extinguish. “We run a lot of risk. The fire can easily jump and spread around you. Your resources are stretched thin trying to get water and personnel into the areas depending on location can get rather difficult.. On Friday, one of his firefighters was hit by a falling tree while working a brush fire in Amwell Township. That firefighter was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital, and released Saturday morning. Winter said it takes multiple departments and resources to fight these fires, and many of these departments are volunteer based or stretched thin to begin with. “The biggest thing we ask is for community support,” he said. “Not only for not burning but to also help support their local fire departments because without their support we can not continue.” “We advise people to please stop burning trash,” he said. “Stop burning brush. Don’t even have a small contained brush fire because once an ember gets into leaves or brush it’s going to spread very fast.” (AP File Photo)
November 10, 2024 8:24 am
(WPXI) – Two people were hurt, including a child, in a fire at a New Castle apartment complex Saturday evening. Firefighters were called to the building on Pin Oak Drive shortly after 9 p.m. on Saturday. New Castle Fire Chief Mike Kobbe tells Channel 11 that when firefighters got on scene, all residents of the eight-unit building had escaped. Two people were hurt in the fire — an adult woman and a child. The woman suffered smoke inhalation, and the child was flown to a hospital with serious burns. Kobbe says the fire appears to have started in a bedroom. The fire marshal is investigating the cause of the fire. Most of the units in the building sustained smoke and water damage.
November 10, 2024 8:09 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host President-elect Donald Trump for a traditional postelection meeting in the Oval Office on Wednesday, the White House said Saturday. Such a meeting is customary between the outgoing president and the incoming president, and is meant partly to mark the start of a peaceful transfer of power under America’s democracy. But Trump, a Republican, did not host Biden, a Democrat, for a sit-down after the 2020 election, when Trump lost his reelection bid. Trump sought the presidency four years later, and this week he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat. Trump is the first former president to return to power since Grover Cleveland regained the White House in the 1892 election. The White House said Biden called Trump this past Wednesday to congratulate him and invite him to meet in the Oval Office. In a speech Thursday, Biden said he had assured Trump “that I would direct my entire administration to work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition. That’s what the American people deserve.” Their upcoming meeting is set for 11 a.m. (Photo: AP)
November 10, 2024 8:15 am
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes have killed dozens of people in Lebanon and the northern Gaza Strip. An Israeli airstrike on Sunday killed at least 23 people and wounded six in the village of Aalmat, north of Beirut and far from the areas in southern and eastern Lebanon where the militant Hezbollah group has a major presence. In northern Gaza, an Israeli strike on a home sheltering displaced people in the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya killed at least 17 people, according to the director of a nearby hospital that received the bodies. Israel has been waging a major offensive in northern Gaza for more than a month that aid groups say has further worsened the humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave.
November 10, 2024 8:21 am
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Officials say one of 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina has been recovered unharmed. Police said in a statement on Saturday that many of the others are still located a few yards from the property. Officials say the Rhesus macaques made a break for it Wednesday after an employee at the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee didn’t fully lock a door as she fed and checked on them. The monkeys are about the size of a cat. Alpha Genesis, federal health officials and the police all say the monkeys pose no risk to public health. Efforts to recover the remaining animals are ongoing. (Photo: AP)
November 10, 2024 8:19 am
(AP) – A representative of actor Tony Todd, known for his haunting portrayal of a killer in the horror film “Candyman” and its sequels says he has died at his home in California. He was 69. Todd was known for roles in many other films and television shows. Longtime manager Jeffrey Goldberg says he was lucky to have been able to work with such an amazing actor, and that he will miss him “every single day.” Todd’s film career included roles in award-winning films such as the Oliver Stone-directed classic “Platoon,” released in 1986. (Photo: AP)
November 10, 2024 8:13 am
(WPXI) – A Tarentum man is facing several charges after police said his dogs ran loose on Halloween and attacked three people. Brandon Baynes, 36, of Tarentum is charged with 3 counts of recklessly endangering another person and animal neglect. According to a criminal complaint, the dogs did not have adequate food and water and were kept in “deplorable” conditions. Neighbors described that Halloween night as horrific and said the dogs were out for blood. Cell phone video taken from inside a neighbor’s house showed Shawn Flynn running out of his friend’s house to help a man, Michael Shutack, who was being viciously attacked by two Pit bulls when the dogs suddenly turned on him. “Instinct took over,” Flynn said. “I ran out this house. I didn’t have a plan. I looked to see to grab anything. I grabbed this old carpet and ran up and tried to get them off. Eventually, they broke away and two started going after me.” Flynn said he was still traumatized by that night. “If I hear a dog bark, I jump,” he said. Police said three Pit bulls broke through the screen door of their 6th Avenue home and chased after trick-or-treaters in the street. Their neighbor, Shutack got the kids out of harm’s way when two of the dogs started biting his face, neck and legs. The dogs then targeted Flynn, sinking their teeth into his hands and leg.
November 9, 2024 9:29 am
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a suicide bomber blew himself up at a train station in restive southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 26 people, including soldiers, and wounding 62 others. Saturday’s attack happened when about 100 passengers were waiting for a train to travel to the garrison city of Rawalpindi from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, a senior government administrator said. A separatist group, the Balochistan Liberation Army, claimed the attack in a statement, saying a suicide bomber targeted troops present at the railway station. The outlawed BLA has long waged an insurgency seeking independence from Islamabad.
