June 11, 2024 2:21 am
A Washington woman charged in an August 2023 accident on Interstate 79 that took the life of a New York man faced her preliminary hearing on Monday. Rachel Phillips, 35 is accused of killing 58 year old Gary Reinhardt of Lancaster, New York. Witness testimony from Mindy Burgess recalled how Phillps passed her on I-79 North going faster than the 65 miles per hour that she was travelling. She stated that Phillips’ SUV drifted into the right shoulder of the road and dramatically swerved left and crossed two lanes of traffic and the median before striking Reinhardt’s vehicle, killing him and causing the wreckage of two other vehicles. First responder testimony reported the odor of alcohol inside Phillips’ car while they extricated her and the presence of several unopened cans containing alcohol. After being flown to a Pittsburgh hospital, Phillips’ had a blood draw that showed no alcohol but did show marijuana and cocaine in her system. All charges were held for court, Phillips is facing homicide by vehicle and reckless endangerment charges among others. Phillips is free on $175,000 bond.
June 11, 2024 1:48 am
Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh announced on Monday that warrants have been issued for the arrest of two individuals from Wellsburg, West Virginia, in connection with the robbery on Wednesday, of the First National Bank on Route Nineteen in North Strabane Township. Walsh says the warrants are out for Kayla Pruett and Brandon Scerri. Authorities say they believe Scerri was the one who entered the bank and demanded money. They say the two were identified using their tattoos and driver’s license photos, along with the description of their car, a blue-colored Ford Focus. Walsh says Scerri got away with more than seventy-four-hundred-dollars in the robbery. Walsh stressed that these warrants are for the First National Bank robbery and not the one at Washington Financial in Washington two days earlier. He says though, there are similarities and the investigation is continuing. (PHOTO; North Strabane Twp Police)
June 10, 2024 5:59 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. James Lawson Jr., has died. He was 95. His family said Monday that Lawson died peacefully on Sunday. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called Lawson “the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.” Lawson and King were both 28 years old when they bonded over the ideas of Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi. Lawson schooled civil rights activists to withstand brutal treatment from white authorities. He shaped the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to organize the sit-in movement, and he organized the sanitation workers strike that brought King to Memphis. Lawson said a lifetime after King’s assassination that he was still anxious and frustrated, because their work remains unfinished.
June 10, 2024 5:00 pm
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors have begun deliberating to decide whether Hunter Biden is guilty of federal firearms charges over a gun the president’s son bought when prosecutors say he was in the throes of a crack cocaine addiction. President Joe Biden’s son faces three felony charges stemming from the purchase of the revolver in 2018. Prosecutors say Hunter Biden lied on a gun purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs. Defense lawyers argue prosecutors failed to prove Hunter Biden was using drugs in the 11 days he possessed the gun.
June 10, 2024 4:58 pm
(WPXI) – Sen. John Fetterman and his wife Gisele were involved in a car crash on Sunday morning. The crash happened at the Interstate 70 and Interstate 68 interchange in Maryland. Fetterman was evaluated at a local hospital and was treated for a bruised shoulder. He and his wife were discharged from the hospital on Sunday afternoon.
June 10, 2024 5:06 am
Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference on Monday is expected to herald the company’s move into generative artificial intelligence, marking its late arrival to a technological frontier that’s expected to be as revolutionary as the invention of the iPhone. The widely anticipated display of AI to be embedded on the iPhone a will be the marquee moment at an event that previews the next version of software that powers the company’s hardware lineup. And Apple’s next generation of software is expected to be packed with an array of AI designed spruce up its virtual assistant Siri and make many other tasks a more satisfying and perhaps even revelatory experience.
June 10, 2024 5:05 am
BRUSSELS (AP) — Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union with major gains in parliamentary seats, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to French President Emmanuel Macron, who called snap legislative elections. Some ballots in the vote for the European Parliament were still being counted Monday, but the outcome showed the 27-nation bloc’s parliament membership has clearly shifted to the right. The Christian Democrats of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen remained by far the biggest group and de facto brokers of the ever-expanding powers of the legislature. But the surge by nationalist and populist parties will make it much harder for the assembly to approve legislation on issues ranging from climate change to agriculture policy.
June 10, 2024 5:03 am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors have started their second day of deliberations in the criminal case against Hunter Biden over a gun President Joe Biden’s son bought in 2018 when prosecutors say he was in the throes of a crack cocaine addiction. Jurors deliberated for less than an hour Monday before leaving the federal courthouse in Delaware. They resumed deliberations Tuesday. Jurors are weighing whether Hunter Biden is guilty of three felonies in the case pitting him against his father’s Justice Department in the middle of the Democratic president’s reelection campaign. Hunter Biden’s lawyers have argued he did not consider himself an “addict” when he bought the gun.
June 10, 2024 5:02 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – A man was shot and killed in Pittsburgh’s Uptown neighborhood on Sunday. Pittsburgh police say officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert near Fifth Avenue and Vine Street around 11:15 a.m. Officers found a man shot in the chest. The man was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. Violent Crime Unit detectives took a man who stayed on scene to police headquarters for questioning. Police officials say there aren’t any outstanding suspects for this shooting or ongoing danger to the public. The investigation into the shooting is ongoing.
June 10, 2024 4:58 am
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say human remains have been found in the former residence of a man convicted last week of murder in the death of his wife. The (Johnstown) Tribune-Democrat reports that 48-year-old Brian Giles lived with Nancy Giles in an apartment in the Johnstown house before she went missing in October 2018. Her remains were found in May 2019, and on Thursday he was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated assault in the her death. On Friday, authorities said human remains were found in the basement of the home, and officials are trying to identify them and determine the case and manner of death. Giles’ attorney declined comment.
