September 8, 2025 10:55 am
NEW YORK (AP) — PNC Financial plans to buy Colorado-based FirstBank for $4.1 billion. The acquisition gives PNC a substantial presence in the Colorado banking market and Arizona. FirstBank, typically branded as 1stBank, is a midsized bank with 120 retail branches and roughly $26 billion in assets. The banks disclosed that stockholders owning 45.7% of FirstBank shares have already voted in favor of the merger. PNC has been on an acquisition streak in recent years, aiming to become a major player in retail banking. This deal will make PNC the largest bank in the Denver market and expand its presence in Arizona.
September 8, 2025 5:10 am
CHICAGO (AP) — As Chicago braces for an influx of federal immigration agents and possibly National Guard troops, churches citywide are turning up their response from the pulpit. Some are working to quell fears about deportation while others are addressing the looming possibility of more law enforcement on the streets of the nation’s third-largest city. President Donald Trump has threatened federal intervention in Democratic strongholds including Chicago, over the objections of local leaders and many residents. Churches are telling people to carry identification, stay in touch with family and attend protests ahead of the expected federal intervention.
September 8, 2025 5:09 am
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin in the trial of a man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump while he played golf last year in South Florida. The court has blocked off four weeks for the trial of Ryan Routh, but attorneys are expecting they’ll need less time. Jury selection is expected to start on Monday and take three days, with opening statements planned for Thursday. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has signed off on Routh’s request to represent himself but said court-appointed attorneys need to remain as standby counsel. Prosecutors have said Routh methodically plotted to kill Trump for weeks before aiming a rifle through the shrubbery as Trump played golf at his West Palm Beach country club.
September 8, 2025 5:06 am
JERUSALEM (AP) — Paramedics said at least five people were killed in a shooting attack in Jerusalem after attackers opened fire at a bus stop at a busy intersection in north Jerusalem. It was the country’s deadliest shooting attack in nearly a year. Paramedics said at least 12 other people were injured in the Monday morning attack, with six in serious condition. Police said a security officer and civilian who were at the scene shot and killed the two attackers soon after the attack began. The war in Gaza has sparked a surge of violence in both the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel. Palestinian militants have attacked and killed Israelis in Israel and the West Bank, while there has also been a rise in settler violence against Palestinians.
September 7, 2025 5:10 am
PARIS (AP) — France risks losing its third prime minister in 12 months on Monday, with François Bayrou facing a parliamentary confidence vote. Bayrou, appointed by President Emmanuel Macron nine months ago, hopes to unite lawmakers behind proposed public spending cuts. However, opposition lawmakers are determined to topple Bayrou and his coalition government. The National Assembly is holding an extraordinary session for the vote. If Bayrou loses, he must resign, plunging France into renewed crisis. Macron’s previous attempts to stabilize his government have failed, leaving him with no dominant political bloc in parliament and ongoing financial challenges.
September 8, 2025 2:19 pm
LONDON (AP) — Rick Davies, the singer and co-founder of British band Supertramp, has died at 81 after a long battle with cancer. The band said he died Saturday after battling multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, for more than a decade. Davies co-wrote the band’s music with Roger Hodgson. The group said he was “the voice and pianist behind Supertramp’s most iconic songs, leaving an indelible mark on rock music history.” The band’s 1979 album “Breakfast in America” topped charts in the United States and Canada, won two Grammys and sold over 18 million copies. (Photo: AP)
September 7, 2025 8:00 pm
MONONGAHELA, PA (WPXI) – One person was injured, another taken into custody after a stabbing at a youth football event at Ringgold High School’s Joe Montana Stadium Sunday afternoon. A 911 supervisor said a 19-year-old man was injured. Washington County 911 dispatchers say that police, fire and medics were called were dispatched shortly after 1:30 pm. Neither the victim, nor the person in custody was identified. The police investigation is continuing.
September 7, 2025 3:25 pm
Police are investigating a shooting that occurred Saturday night just after eleven-thirty in the 500 block of Giffin Avenue in Canonsburg. Washington County Coroner Tim Warco says 25-year-old Brady Hugh Paul of Canonsburg was shot while at a friend’s house. Warco says his friend sought help from a neighbor who called 911. No further information has been made available.
September 7, 2025 8:03 am
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Powerball players in Missouri and Texas have won the estimated $1.8 billion jackpot, overcoming astronomical odds to end the lottery game’s three-month drought without a big winner. The winning numbers were 11, 23, 44, 61, and 62, with the Powerball number being 17. The prize, which was the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot in history, followed 41 consecutive drawings in which no one matched all six numbers. The last drawing with a jackpot winner happened May 31. Powerball’s terrible odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to generate big jackpots, with prizes growing as they roll over when no one wins. (Photo: AP)
September 7, 2025 8:11 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The American job market, a pillar of U.S. economic strength since the pandemic, is crumbling under the weight of President Donald Trump’s erratic economic policies. Uncertain about where things are headed, companies are reluctant to hire, leaving agonized jobseekers unable to find work and worrying the consumers (70% of U.S. economic activity) whose spending has driven impressive growth for the world’s biggest economy since the COVID-19 disruptions of 2020. The Labor Department reported Friday that U.S. employers — companies, government agencies and nonprofits — added just 22,000 jobs last month, down from a 79,000 in July and well below the 80,000 that economists had expected. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3% last month, the highest since 2021.
