November 3, 2022 4:19 am
JERUSALEM (AP) – Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears set to return to power as head of Israel’s most right-wing government ever after winning this week’s national election. The current caretaker prime minister, Yair Lapid, conceded defeat on Thursday. Final results showed Netanyahu’s Likud Party and its ultra-nationalist and religious partners capturing a solid majority in Israel’s Knesset, or parliament. The strong showing promised to end the political gridlock that has paralyzed Israel for the past three and a half years. But the planned agenda of the new government expected to take office promises to further polarize a deeply divided nation and risks antagonizing Israel’s closest allies abroad. (Photo: AP)
November 3, 2022 4:15 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – As Russians seized parts of eastern and southern Ukraine in the opening stages of the war, mayors, civilian administrators and others, including nuclear power plant workers, say they have been abducted, threatened or beaten to force their cooperation. In some instances, they have been killed. Human rights activists say these actions could constitute a war crime. Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov said he was abducted from his office and “the bullying and threats did not stop for a minute. They tried to force me to continue leading the city under the Russian flag, but I refused.” After six days in detention and an intervention from Ukraine’s president, he was exchanged for nine Russian prisoners of war and expelled from the occupied city.
November 3, 2022 4:14 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea has added to its barrage of recent weapons tests, firing at least three missiles including an intercontinental ballistic missile that forced the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and temporarily halt trains. The launches on Thursday were the latest in a series of North Korean weapons tests in recent months that have raised tensions in the region. They came a day after Pyongyang fired more than 20 missiles, the most it has fired in a single day ever. The Japanese government initially said at least one of the missiles flew over its northern territory but later revised its assessment, saying there were no overflies.
November 3, 2022 4:14 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Six days before major midterm elections, President Joe Biden is imploring voters to save American democracy from Trump supporters’ election-denying lies and the violence that he says they have inspired. Biden shined a spotlight on “ultra MAGA” Republicans – a reference to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan – and mounting concerns over political violence. Wednesday night’s speech came a few days after a man seeking to kidnap House Speaker Nancy Pelosi severely injured her husband, Paul Pelosi, in their San Francisco home, and as physical threats have rattled members of Congress and election workers. Biden said this is no time to ignore what’s going on. He declared that “silence is complicity.”
November 3, 2022 4:11 am
A Carroll Township man whose house was raided by Pennsylvania State Police in May of 2021 has chosen to face a jury trial. Markeiz Johnson, 27 is facing fire arm and drug possession felonies in two unrelated cases. Police raided his home in 2021 finding suspected crack, cocaine, marijuana and a hand gun with ammunition. In a second 2022 incident Johnson was charged with similar felonies. In the 2021 case an accomplice, Jeremiah Johnson of Pittsburgh was also charged. He pleaded guilty to drug and firearm possession felonies earlier this year. He is currently serving a 3-8 year sentence in state prison. Markeiz Johnson is scheduled for a February 2023 trial. It is undetermined which of the two cases will be brought to trial. Johnson remains in the Washington County Jail.
November 3, 2022 4:09 am
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The bad news is that no one won Wednesday night’s huge $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot. The good news is that means the prize has grown even larger to $1.5 billion ahead of the next drawing Saturday night. That is the third-largest lottery prize in U.S. history. The numbers drawn Wednesday night were: 2, 11, 22, 35, 60 and the red powerball 23. No one has won the top Powerball prize since Aug. 3, making for 39 consecutive drawings without anyone matching all six numbers. What’s behind three months of lottery futility? It’s simple math. The odds of winning the jackpot are an abysmal 1 in 292.2 million.
November 3, 2022 2:47 am
A Washington man was killed in a traffic accident Thursday morning in East Finley Township. The Washington County Coroner’s Office say 43-year-old Matthew Rafferty died in the emergency room of Washington Hospital, shortly after the vehicle he was driving slammed into a tree around six-thirty on Cracraft Road. State Police are investigating.
November 2, 2022 5:23 pm
DALLAS (AP) – Pilots at another big airline are rejecting a contract offer to seek bigger pay raises. The Allied Pilots Association said Wednesday that its board voted 15-5 to reject an offer by American Airlines that included wage hikes of 19% over two years. Union spokesman Dennis Tajer says American’s management is focusing on keeping pay increases as low as possible. The pilots can’t legally strike unless federal mediators allow it, and that hasn’t happened. The decision by the union board at American follows rejection of a contract offer by United Airlines pilots and a strike-authorization vote by Delta Air Lines pilots.
November 2, 2022 4:56 pm
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz has been formally sentenced to life in prison without parole. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer sentenced him Wednesday for the 2018 murder of 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Scherer could not sentence him to death because the jury in his recently concluded trial could not unanimously agree that he deserved execution. Before Cruz was sentenced, parents and other relatives of Cruz’s victims spent two days telling him of their anger and hate toward him. They called him evil, a coward, a monster and a subhuman.
November 2, 2022 12:26 pm
(WPXI) – Two Pittsburgh men have been charged in connection with a North Side shooting that killed three people. Twenty-one-year-old Jaylone Hines and nineteen-year-old Charron Troutman have been charged and are being held in the Allegheny County Jail. Betty Averytt, Jacquelyn Mihalic and John Hornezes Jr. were killed in the 300 block of Cedar Avenue on Oct. 15th and another man was injured by the gunfire. Hines was charged with two counts of criminal homicide, two counts of aggravated assault and prohibited possession of a firearm. Troutman is charged with one count of criminal homicide, one count of aggravated assault, two counts of criminal conspiracy and one count each of persons not to possess a firearm and carrying a firearm without a license. Mehalic and Averytt were innocent bystanders who were killed as they waited for a bus. Police say Hornezes was one of the shooters. Six people were shot outside his funeral last week. The investigation is ongoing and police ask anyone with additional information to call VCU at 412-323-7161.
