September 11, 2022 8:00 am
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II’s flag-draped coffin is passing through the rugged Scottish countryside on a final journey from her beloved summer estate Balmoral Castle to London. The coffin of the late monarch is on a six-hour road journey to Edinburgh on Sunday. Mourners in Scotland are lining roads and some tossing flowers to honor the monarch who died Thursday at Balmoral after 70 years on the throne. Also Sunday, King Charles III will be formally proclaimed king in the other nations of the United Kingdom — Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — after a similar ceremony in Britain a day earlier.
September 11, 2022 7:59 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will mark the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon. Sunday’s somber commemoration comes a little more than a year after the Democratic president ended the war in Afghanistan launched by the U.S. and its allies in response to the terror attacks. Biden upheld a campaign pledge to bring home U.S. troops from the country’s longest conflict. But the war ended in chaotic fashion last August as the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says Biden will recognize the impact the Sept. 11 attacks had on the U.S. and the world and honor the nearly 3,000 people killed that day.
September 11, 2022 7:58 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are remembering 9/11 with moments of silence, readings of victims’ names, volunteer work and other tributes, 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. Victims’ relatives and dignitaries will convene Sunday at the places where hijacked jets crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. President Joe Biden plans to speak and lay a wreath at the Pentagon, while first lady Jill Biden is scheduled to speak in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband are due at the World Trade Center in New York, but by tradition, no political figures speak at the ground zero ceremony. Other communities around the country are holding their own commemorations. Locally, the South Strabane Police and Fire Departments held their annual service in front of the memorial at the Washington Mall parking lot Sunday morning.
September 11, 2022 7:53 am
INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — Frank Cignetti, a Hall of Fame coach who turned Indiana University of Pennsylvania into a Division II power, has died. He was 84. Cignetti starred at IUP in the late-1950s then returned as head coach in 1986. He spent 20 years leading the Crimson Hawks, twice leading them to the Division II national title game. Cignetti won 199 games as a college coach at West Virginia University and IUP. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2013.
September 11, 2022 7:49 am
PITTSBURGH (WPXI) — A man was taken to the hospital after an incident in a Pittsburgh neighborhood. Allegheny County dispatchers said emergency crews were called to the 200 block of Charles Street in Knoxville at around 9:25 p.m. Saturday night. According to Pittsburgh police, responding officers found a male with a grazed gunshot wound who they believe crashed his car into a house during the shooting. The victim was taken to a local hospital. The investigation is ongoing.
September 11, 2022 1:30 am
Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh announced that Joshua Otey, 41, of North Strabane has been sentenced to prison for his open plea of guilty to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and aggravated indecent assault. Judge Brandon Neuman sentenced Otey to 12 1/2 to 25 years in state prison. Otey had an intimate relationship with his minor stepchild in North Strabane that lasted for several years before he was captured on camera engaging in sexual acts with the minor. All of the incidents occurred in the family’s home.
September 10, 2022 3:48 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department and Donald Trump’s legal team have proposed candidates to serve as an independent arbiter in the investigation into top-secret information found in an FBI search of the former president’s Florida home. Lawyers for Trump say the so-called special master should review all documents seized by the FBI, but the Justice Department says it does not believe the arbiter should be permitted to inspect classified records or to take into account potential claims of executive privilege. The Justice Department submitted the names of two retired judges, Barbara Jones and Thomas Griffith. The Trump team proposed one retired judge, Raymond Dearie, and prominent Florida lawyer Paul Huck Jr.
September 10, 2022 3:47 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian forces are claiming new success in their counteroffensive against Russian forces in the east, taking control of a sizeable village and pushing toward an important transport junction. The United States’ top diplomat and the head of NATO noted the advances, but cautioned that the war is likely to drag on for months. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy commended the military for its gains, saying that more than 30 settlements in the Kharkiv region have been reclaimed. The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog, meanwhile, says conditions at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant are increasingly precarious. He says a safety zone needs to be established immediately around the plant to prevent a nuclear accident.
September 10, 2022 3:46 am
LONDON (AP) – Mourners streamed to the gates of Buckingham Palace in London to mourn a queen they lost this week after she spent 70 years on the throne. But beyond its size, the pilgrimage was remarkable for what it underscored – the many roles that visitors said the monarch occupied in the lives of those she could never know. Flowers, notes and tributes dotted the landscape around the palace on the day that Queen Elizabeth’s son, Charles, first addressed the nation as king. And those who brought the memorials in miniature each told a different story about their relationship with their queen. They called her a role model, a dutiful leader and – in recent years – a national grandmother.
September 10, 2022 3:39 am
Daily bridge washing in Allegheny County is requiring lane restrictions today between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. The restrictions will be on I-79 around the Ewing Road bridge in Collier Township; on Route 22/30 at Oakdale Road in North Fayette Township; Steubenville Pike between Enlow Road and Montour Church Road, also in North Fayette; and on Kelso Road, between Old Steubenville Pike and the eastbound Route 22 exit ramps. Be aware of delays and use caution.
