October 4, 2023 5:11 am
BALTIMORE (AP) — Officials say at least five people have been wounded, none critically, in a shooting at Morgan State University in Baltimore that happened as students were headed to a homecoming week campus ball. A shelter-in-place order was lifted around 12:30 a.m. Police Commissioner Richard Worley said the five victims, four men and one woman, are between the ages of 18 and 22, but police released no information on suspects and said they did not know how many shooters were involved. Morgan State University President David Wilson said he had canceled Wednesday’s classes, and would hold an emergency meeting Wednesday morning to decide whether to hold other homecoming week events.
October 4, 2023 5:09 am
HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – Three students at Hempfield Area High School are facing charges after two gun buys happened on campus Monday. According to state police, all of the students charged are 15-year-old boys. State police announced the charges Tuesday evening. All of the students are charged with firearms not to be carried without a license, receiving stolen property and causing or risking a catastrophe. These are all felony offenses. The three students are charged as juveniles. State police said several students came forward on Monday and reported “observing transactions” between students involving guns. Two firearms were recovered in two students’ backpacks by school resources offices. At this time, investigators have no reason to believe the three students were planning any sort of attack.
October 4, 2023 4:56 am
A Cokeburg Couple accused of aggravated assault of a minor are moving their cases through the courts. On Tuesday Matthew Mance, 34 and Shalee Schnore, 28 faced hearings about their present cases and previous cases. Mance had a probation revocation hearing continued as the district attorney recently presented a plea offer on that case. Mance pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and vehicular aggravated assault in 2019 and received 5 years probation. His current charges of aggravated assault of a minor violated that probation. His cases were continued November 1 to evaluate the plea offer. His co-defendant Shalee Schnore, was sentenced on an open plea to time served to 23 months for apprehension hindrance as it relates to her current case. She faces the exact same charges as Mance in the child assault case. At her hearing for that case Schnore requested a December jury trial. The couple is accused of beating a six year old child that was in their care in their home in 2022. Schnore is now free on parole, Mance remains in the Washington County Jail.
October 4, 2023 2:50 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Most Pennsylvania lawmakers want to move their state’s presidential primary election up from late April. But disagreements arose in the House on Tuesday over whether to embrace a Senate-backed plan that would shift the election to mid-March. A House committee first rejected, but later passed, a bipartisan Senate bill that seeks to hold the election on March 19. That second vote came hours after the committee approved its own bill to move the primary to April 2. Most lawmakers are motivated to move the primary from April 23 to avoid a conflict with the Jewish holiday of Passover and to make it earlier in the primary calendar.
October 4, 2023 1:24 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — If your cellphone was on at 2:20 p.m. Eastern time you should have heard a loud noise and seen a message flash across your screen. That’s when the U.S. government on Wednesday conducted its once-every-three-years nationwide test of the emergency alert system. Alerts also went out on radio and television. The cellphone alerts went off at the White House during press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s briefing. Ahead of the test, organizations that work with abuse survivors who have secret phones recommended they turn them off so as to not have the blaring noise tip off their abusers. The last nationwide test was Aug. 11, 2021.
October 4, 2023 1:17 am
HOLLSOPPLE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a mining company employee was crushed to death in an accident involving a shuttle car in a western Pennsylvania mine. LCT Energy said in a statement that the man became trapped between the car and an interior wall of the company’s Maple Springs mine near Hollsopple on Monday. The Somerset Count coroner, Cullen Swank, identified him as 37-year-old Brandon Frederick of Johnstown and said he sustained multiple blunt force injuries. The death was ruled accidental. The state Department of Environmental Protection has ordered the operators of the Conemaugh Township mine to temporarily cease operations in the affected section.
October 3, 2023 4:01 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former union leader and Democratic insider Laphonza Butler has been sworn in as the newest member of the U.S. Senate, replacing California Sen. Dianne Feinstein after her death and becoming only the third Black female senator in history. Butler was appointed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday, just two days after Feinstein died at her home in Washington. Butler is a longtime fundraiser and strategist in the state’s Democratic circles and was the head of Emily’s List, a national organization that raises money for women candidates who support abortion rights. Butler was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris, who served as the second Black female senator. (Photo: AP)
October 3, 2023 5:10 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors in Philadelphia say Monday that more suspects will be charged with smashing into stores last week as law enforcement officials review video of the social-media fueled mayhem. More than 70 people already face a range of charges, such as burglary, conspiracy and riot. The flash mob-style break-ins hit dozens of stores Tuesday night, including Foot Locker, Lululemon and Apple. Authorities say suspects used social media to target business in several parts of the city, including pharmacies, a hair salon, a cellphone store, and dozens of liquor stores. Authorities say they are looking for additional ringleaders in the thefts.
October 3, 2023 5:08 am
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.2 billion after no one beat the immense odds and won the giant prize. The winning numbers drawn Monday night were: 12, 26, 27, 43, 47 and the Powerball 5. The prize on the line for the next drawing Wednesday night has grown so massive because there have been 33 consecutive drawings since someone won the jackpot. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. The $1.2billion jackpot is for a sole winner who takes an annuity, paid annually over 30 years. Winners taking the cash option would receive an estimated $551 million.
October 3, 2023 5:05 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s court appearances are no longer distractions from his campaign to return to the White House. They are central to it. The dynamic was on full display Monday as the former president and GOP front-runner went to court in New York for the opening day of a civil fraud trial accusing him of grossly inflating the value of his businesses. Trump was under no obligation to appear, but he nonetheless seized the opportunity to create a media spectacle that put him back in the spotlight and once again portrayed himself as a victim of a politicized justice system.
