September 1, 2023 4:50 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – A man was killed and two people were hospitalized after a shooting in Downtown Pittsburgh Thursday night. According to Allegheny County 911, the shooting happened on Smithfield Street near 6th Avenue at around 10:38 p.m. Pittsburgh police said an officer working at Mellon Square Park heard shots fired in the area and found two people down near Strawberry Way. A man who was shot was pronounced dead. Another man and a woman were taken to the hospital in stable condition after being shot in the foot. A man police identified as the suspect is currently at police headquarters being questioned. Police said another person may have been involved in the shooting.
September 1, 2023 2:52 am
The co-defendant in a child rape case from 2018 entered a guilty plea on Thursday. Joanna Wheatley, 34 of Fredericktown was charged along with her boyfriend, 33 year old Russell Jolliffe of Fredericktown of raping a child in their care. Wheatley pled guilty to one charge of child endangerment. She faced conspiracy charges of child rape, aggravated assault and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse as well. She was sentenced to one year minus one day to two years minus two days in jail plus 3 years probation to be served after her release. Wheatley has been in jail for more than 800 days so she was immediately released. Her probation begins immediately. Wheatley’s plea comes one week after her co-defendant, Jolliffe was convicted in a jury trial. Jolliffe will be sentenced in November on child rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child and aggravated assault of a child charges.
September 1, 2023 2:46 am
ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty and says he’ll skip a hearing next week in the case accusing him and others of illegally trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. Trump’s decision Thursday to waive arraignment means he won’t have to show up for the hearing a Fulton County Superior Court judge set for Sept. 6, averting the dramatic arraignments that accompanied Trump’s other criminal cases. Trump and 18 others were charged earlier this month in a 41-count indictment outlining an alleged scheme to subvert the will of Georgia voters who had chosen Democrat Joe Biden over the Republican incumbent in the presidential election.
September 1, 2023 2:19 am
Police in Washington are investigating a shooting Thursday morning around ten-thirty in the one-hundred block of Hart Avenue in the city’s West End. Chief Dan Rush says a black male shot an eighteen-year-old white male who was sitting in a car. Rush says the teen suffered an insignificant injury and refused treatment. Police have not identified the victim or the shooter.
September 1, 2023 2:18 am
Emergency responders were called out late Thursday afternoon for an accident in Amwell Township involving a school bus. Washington County 911 reported that a school bus went off the road and landed on its side on Hackney Station Road. There were no students on board and there was no word on injuries. Earlier Thursday morning – Washington County 911 reported that a GG&C School Van was involved in a rollover crash, also in Amwell Township. It happened at 38 Sturge Hollow Road. There were no children on board but the driver reportedly was hurt. There’s been no word on the extent of the injuries.
August 31, 2023 5:25 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for spearheading the U.S. Capitol attack to try to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election. Zachary Rehl got the sentence Thursday in Washington, D.C. Rehl was a Proud Boys chapter leader from Philadelphia. Prosecutors say Rehl helped lead group members and associates on Jan. 6, 2021, before they joined the mob’s Capitol assault. The judge who sentenced Rehl also sentenced Proud Boys organizer Joseph Biggs to 17 years in prison. Defense attorneys say prosecutors unfairly hold their clients responsible for the violent actions of other Trump supporters.
August 31, 2023 4:58 am
PERRY, Fla. (AP) — Tropical Storm Idalia is barreling through the Carolinas on its way to the Atlantic Ocean after leaving a trail of flooding and devastation throughout the Southeast. Idalia was a hurricane when it made landfall Wednesday in a remote area of Florida, where it shredded homes and submerged streets. It weakened to a tropical storm but still packed 60-mph winds as it raced into Georgia and then into South Carolina. In Charleston, a surge from Idalia topped the seawall that protects the downtown, sending ankle-deep ocean water into wealthy and famous neighborhoods. There’s no immediate word on the full extent of damage and injuries but authorities say at least one person died in Georgia when a tree fell on him.
August 31, 2023 4:56 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says its latest missile launches were a simulation of “scorched earth” nuclear strikes on South Korea. The North’s state media said Thursday it’s also conducted a command post drill to rehearse occupying its rival’s territory in a conflict. South Korea and Japan had detected the two short-range ballistic missiles launches Wednesday night. North Korea has been increasing its protests of ongoing South Korean-U.S. military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal. It has previously tested nuclear-capable missiles and described how it would use them in its war plans to intimidate its rivals. But the repetition is likely a warning that the country can use nuclear weapons preemptively in times of war.
August 31, 2023 4:51 am
ERIE, Pa. (AP) — The country’s largest locomotive manufacturer and its striking union workers have reached a tentative agreement that could end a two-month strike that saw about 1,400 people walk off the job at its Pennsylvania plant. Pittsburgh-based Wabtec announced the agreement with Local 506 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America on Wednesday. The company said it calls for wage increases, improves the grievance process and provides other benefits, but it didn’t disclose specific details. The tentative agreement also maintains a two-tier wage system at the Erie plant that allows the company to pay new hires less money. The company says a vote on ratification is expected Thursday.
August 31, 2023 4:49 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Senate returned for an unusual August session mired in a two-month budget stalemate with the Democratic-controlled House. Two budget-related bills passed Wednesday, primarily on party lines, as Senate Republicans advanced provisions that have bipartisan support and others that do not. Neither bill has the agreement of House Democratic leaders. The House is not scheduled to reconvene until after a Sept. 19 special election that is expected to restore the chamber’s one-seat Democratic majority. Some programs were left without legislation on how to distribute funds after a fight over creating a $100 million program to send students to private schools.
