November 7, 2022 4:17 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI)- A Pitt football player is facing assault charges. According to court documents, police were dispatched to an apartment on East Hills Drive after dispatchers received a call of what appeared to be a struggle over the phone. Officers said a woman told them she had been fighting over the phone with her boyfriend and child of her father, 21-year-old Dayon Hayes. Court documents say Hayes allegedly grabbed a fistful of the woman’s hair and pulled her head back. The woman was able to free herself since she was wearing a wig. Hayes then allegedly began to force the woman’s head to the wall and hold her there. The woman told police she attempted to leave the room after Hayes let her go, but he refused to let her leave. Hayes allegedly slammed the door into the woman’s leg while trying to prevent her from leaving, court documents say. Hayes has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Nov. 22.
November 7, 2022 4:14 am
EAST HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – A man was killed in an motorcycle crash in Westmoreland County. According to Pennsylvania State Police, the crash happened on state Route 31 at residence 1291 in East Huntingdon Township at around 12:51 a.m. Police said the driver, identified as 28-year-old Timothy Lee Glover Jr., from Roscoe, was driving along state Route 31 when he lost control after negotiating a left curve. According to police, the motorcycle went onto the right shoulder traveling west, before driving through three yards and rotating in a counterclockwise direction. As the motorcycle rotated, it hit a utility pole, speed limit sign and mailboxes, police said. The motorcycle tumbled and stopped in the driveway at residence 1291, according to police. Glover Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene.
November 7, 2022 2:57 am
SOUTH STRABANE, Pa. — Officials went door to door in a Washington County neighborhood after two homes tested positive for methane last week. According to the South Strabane Fire Department, 42 homes along Scout Drive in South Strabane Township were metered after a confirmed methane release in two homes on the street. The department said they received no positive results in any of the other homes. Columbia Gas notified the fire department Friday gas was detected on Scout during a routine metering the week before. The gas company monitored the situation and noted positive readings inside a home. They notified Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and South Strabane Fire and Emergency Services. Columbia Gas sent samples for testing, according to the department, and they don’t believe it’s natural gas at this point. The samples are believed to include low levels of methane, a colorless, odorless, potentially explosive gas. The department said the state DEP will continue to investigate.
November 7, 2022 2:47 am
SMITH TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A Burgettstown man died Sunday after an early morning off-road vehicle crash. Washington County Coroner Tim Warco says Cole Shergi, 20, was the operator of a side-by-side that lost control traveling east on Joffre Cherry Valley Road in Smith Township around 2:00 a.m. Reports say Shergi was not wearing the vehicle’s safety belt harness and was ejected during the crash. Another passenger in the side-by-side was taken to an area hospital for injuries. Ambulance and Chair Service was assisted by the Midway Fire Department and PennDOT. The accident is under investigation by the Smith Township Police.
November 7, 2022 2:41 am
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -The estimated $1.9 billion Powerball jackpot is nearly $400 million larger than the previous record jackpot and will keep growing until someone finally wins the prize. The jackpot started at $20 million back on Aug. 6 and over three winless months has grown to be 95 times as large ahead of Monday night’s drawing. That’s a long time without a winner but this is how the game is designed. With odds of 1 in 292 million, that means it’s unlikely anyone will win the prize until a growing jackpot attracts more players. And more ticket sales mean the lottery can raise more money for public programs, which is the point of the state lotteries.
November 7, 2022 2:39 am
ROSTRAVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WPXI) — One person is dead after a shooting near a shopping plaza in Westmoreland County. Westmoreland County dispatchers say police and medics were called to 203 Sara Way in Rostraver Township at around 7:20 p.m. Police say they are looking for a suspect but they do not believe there is any threat to the public. There were no other reported victims.
November 6, 2022 8:08 am
IDABEL, Okla. (AP) — Residents in southeastern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas began assessing damage and working to recover Saturday after tornadoes tore through the region and killed at least two people. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt toured the town of Idabel Saturday where buildings were flattened and a 90-year-old man was killed in nearby Pickins. In Morris County Texas, County Judge Doug Reeder said one person died as a result of the storm. Oklahoma authorities say a 6-year-old girl drowned and a 43-year-old man is missing after their vehicle was swept off a bridge near Stilwell but the death has not yet been officially attributed to the storm that also produced hail from Dallas to northwestern Arkansas.
November 6, 2022 8:07 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Aaron Carter, the singer-rapper who began performing as a child and had hit albums starting in his teen years, was found dead at his home in Southern California. He was 34. Representatives for Carter’s family confirmed the singer’s death Saturday. They did not provide any immediate further comment. A sheriff’s official says deputies responding to reports of a medical emergency found a person deceased at the home in Lancaster. Aaron Carter, the younger brother of Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, performed as an opening act for Britney Spears as well as his brother’s boy band, and appeared on the family’s reality series, “House of Carters.
November 6, 2022 8:05 am
The discourse was never all that civil on Twitter. The loudest voices often drown out softer and more nuanced takes — after all, it’s much easier to rage-tweet at a perceived enemy than to try to find common ground, whether the argument is about transgender kids or baseball. While some amount of chaos is expected after a corporate takeover, Elon Musk’s murky plans for Twitter — especially around misinformation and hate speech — are raising alarms about where one of the world’s most high-profile information ecosystems is headed. All that seems certain is that for now, at least, as Elon Musk goes, so goes Twitter.
November 6, 2022 8:04 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say Russian forces are stepping up their strikes in a fiercely contested region of eastern Ukraine. They say the attacks are worsening the already tough conditions for residents and the defending army following Moscow’s illegal annexation and declaration of martial law in Donetsk province. The region’s Ukrainian governor says the strikes have almost completely destroyed the power plants that serve the city of Bakhmut and the nearby town of Soledar. The Russians have spent months trying to capture the entire province. While Russia’s “greatest brutality” was focused in the Donetsk region, “constant fighting” continued elsewhere, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address.
