November 26, 2022 4:59 am
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A mass shooting at a popular gay club in Colorado Springs has resurfaced questions about the city’s past and future among its residents. Though the suspect facing possible murder and hate crime charges is not from Colorado Springs, the targeting of LGBTQ people has reminded some of the 1990s, when the city was known as an epicenter of religion-infused, family-values conservatism unfriendly to the LGBTQ community. Colorado Springs has increasingly become a diverse and vibrant city, and, like anywhere a mass shooting occurs, the shocking act of violence in a space considered a refuge for LGBTQ people has sent residents reeling.
November 26, 2022 4:57 am
PHOENIX (AP) — Kari Lake, the defeated Republican candidate for Arizona governor, has filed a public records lawsuit demanding Maricopa County hand over a variety of documents related to the election. Lake has refused to acknowledge that she lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs and has for weeks drawn attention to voters who said they experienced long lines and difficulties while voting on Election Day in Arizona’s largest county. Her lawyer, Tim LaSota, says in the suit filed Wednesday that the county has not fulfilled public records requests filed on Nov. 15 and 16. The requests seek to identify voters who may have had trouble casting a ballot.
November 26, 2022 4:55 am
NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s tradition of going out to lunch, shopping and watching a Christmas tree lighting in downtown Nantucket with his family became mostly about keeping his 2-year-old grandson from having a meltdown. Every member of the Biden family seemed to be doing whatever they could think of to keep baby Beau happy for a few hours until the tree was lit. The Bidens have been spending Thanksgiving on Nantucket for decades. The day after the turkey dinner, they go out to lunch, browse a bookstore and other shops before they watch the Christmas tree lighting on Main St.
November 26, 2022 4:32 am
AMWELL TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Multiple Departments were dispatched to a chimney fire in Amwell Township Friday afternoon. Amwell Fire crews responded along with Lone Pine, North Franklin and South Strabane Fire Departments as well as the Washington County Department of Public Safety. There were no reported injuries. That fire broke out around 2:00 p.m.
November 26, 2022 4:28 am
SOUTH STRABANE TOWNSHIP, Pa. –Emergency Crews were busy Friday afternoon in Washington County with multiple incidents taking place around the area. South Strabane Fire Crews were called to the intersection of Trinity Point Drive and Washington Road for a two-vehicle accident with entrapment around 4:00 p.m. When crews arrived, one of the vehicles was flipped onto its roof. Fire and EMS crews removed the patient from the SUV and transferred them to a waiting ambulance. Assisting on scene included South Strabane Police, State Troopers, Ambulance and Chair EMS and the North Strabane Fire Department. Crews were at this scene for about 45 minutes. The South Strabane Fire Department says that the was company’s 900th call of 2022, making it the busiest year on record. Later that night, the City of Washington Fire Department and other emergency crews responded to the intersection of East Beau Street and South Wade for another car rolled onto its side. There was no word on any injuries in that incident. (Photo: South Strabane Township Fire Department Facebook Page)
November 26, 2022 1:59 am
GLASSPORT, Pa. — (WPXI) – Investigators have released the name of the woman who died after crashing her SUV on Thanksgiving morning in Glassport. Allegheny County police said Ennis Jorden Davis, 31, of Mckeesport, died in the crash that happened on Monongahela Avenue. Her car crashed into a concrete barrier near the Mansfield Bridge. Inside that car, police found Davis’ body behind the wheel and a 7-year-old child who was still alive. Accident reconstructionists from Allegheny County police remained at the scene throughout the morning, trying to figure out what led up to the crash. Neighbors told our news partners at Channel 11 crashes like this have become somewhat of the norm. Police said the child was taken to the hospital and is stable.
November 26, 2022 1:12 am
NEW YORK (AP) – Black Friday marks a return to familiar holiday shopping patterns, but inflation is weighing on consumers. Elevated prices for food, rent, gasoline and other household costs have taken a toll on shoppers. As a result, many are reluctant to spend unless there is a big sale and are being more selective with what they will buy – in many cases, trading down to cheaper stuff and less expensive stores. Shoppers are also dipping more into their savings, turning increasingly to “buy now, pay later” services like Afterpay that allow users to pay for items in installments, as well as running up their credit cards at a time when the Federal Reserve is hiking rates to cool the U.S. economy.
November 26, 2022 1:11 am
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Authorities investigating the fatal shootings of six people at a Walmart said that the shooter bought the gun just hours before and left a note on his phone listing grievances against coworkers. Police in Chesapeake, Virginia, issued a news release Friday that says they conducted a forensic analysis of Walmart supervisor Andre Bing’s phone. Police say he was the shooter and was found dead at the scene of the shooting late Tuesday of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. In the note released by police, he said coworkers harassed him and mocked him. Police said in their release that he used a 9mm handgun legally purchased on Tuesday morning, hours before the shooting. The release said he had no criminal history.
November 25, 2022 5:16 am
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – New Twitter owner Elon Musk says he is granting “amnesty” for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation. The billionaire’s announcement Thursday came after he asked in a poll posted to his timeline to vote on reinstatements for accounts that have not “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam.” The yes vote was 72%. After a similar highly unscientific poll last weekend, Musk reinstated the account of former President Donald Trump, which Twitter had banned for encouraging the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. Trump has said he won’t return to Twitter but has not deleted his account.
November 25, 2022 5:14 am
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – The co-owner of Colorado Springs’ Club Q said that anti-LGBTQ hate has evolved from prejudice to incitement. In one of his first interviews since Saturday night’s mass shooting, Nic Grzecka told the Associated Press that politicians calling transgender people “groomers” breeds violence. Grzecka built Club Q into an enclave that sustained the LGBTQ community in the conservative-leaning Colorado Springs. On Saturday, a shooter killed five and injured 17 in Club Q. Grzecka and community leaders are working to reconstitute an LGBTQ support system to facilitate healing.
