February 1, 2024 10:19 am
A tanker truck hauling brine water overturned in a two-vehicle accident Thursday morning in Buffalo Township. Washington County 9-1-1 tells WJPA News it happened just before 9 a.m. in the 29-hundred block of S. Bridge Road. Dispatchers say no one was transported from the scene but HAZMAT was called because the tanker was leaking material. The crash did shut down the roadway in both directions.
February 1, 2024 5:11 am
(WPXI) – State police are investigating a deadly stabbing in Fayette County. A man was stabbed around midnight outside a home on Hilltop Avenue in Redstone Township. The victim was identified as 24-year-old Shawn Hriscisce. State police said another person was taken to Uniontown Hospital for a stab wound to the arm. They were released and are cooperating with the investigation. State troopers said the people involved got into a verbal altercation which turned physical and led to the stabbing. The investigation is ongoing.
February 1, 2024 5:01 am
Superstar Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, have become the focus of a raft of false claims and political conspiracy theories on social media this week as the team advances to the Super Bowl on Feb. 11. Baseless posts range from allegations that Swift has played a part in Pentagon psychological operations to the idea that she and Kelce, a two-time Super Bowl champion, are key assets in a secret plot to help President Joe Biden get reelected in 2024, and that the Chiefs’ success was rigged as part of the plan.
February 1, 2024 4:56 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. adults are only feeling slightly better about the economy, despite stocks being near record highs and surprisingly strong growth last year. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 35% of U.S. adults call the national economy good. That’s an uptick from 30% who said so late last year and up from 24% who said so a year ago. While 65% still call the economy poor, that’s an improvement from a year ago, when 76% did. Voters’ confidence in the economy could be the pivotal factor in this year’s election. President Joe Biden is running for reelection in part on the economy. The poll puts his overall approval rating at 38%.
February 1, 2024 4:52 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll shows half of U.S. adults believe Israel’s war in Gaza has “gone too far.” The poll by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found growing disapproval among Republicans and political independents for Israel’s conduct of its military offensive in Gaza. And notably for President Joe Biden, about 7 out of 10 young people in Biden’s Democratic Party disapprove of his approach to the conflict. Overall, 31% of U.S. adults approve of Biden’s handling of the conflict, including just 46% of Democrats. The U.S. has become increasingly isolated in its support of Israel as the Palestinian death toll rises.
February 1, 2024 4:50 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military said North Korea has fired multiple cruise missiles into waters off its western coast, extending a provocative series of weapons tests in the face of deepening tensions with the United States, South Korea and Japan. The launches came hours after state media reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reiterated his focus on strengthening his naval forces as he inspected the construction of new warships at a western shipyard, calling such projects crucial to the country’s war preparations. There was no immediate information on the exact number of missiles fired or how far they flew.
February 1, 2024 4:49 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — New data from automatic voter registration at Pennsylvania driver’s license centers shows that sign-ups have grown but remain almost evenly divided between the political parties in the presidential battleground state. The latest data was published Wednesday. It tallies just over four months of new voter registrations since Gov. Josh Shapiro announced the change in September. There has been an increase of about 45% in sign-ups at driver’s license centers compared with a similar period two years ago. The data also shows little change in the partisan mix of those signing up under the new system. That’s despite accusations by Donald Trump that Democrats would use automatic registration to “steal Pennsylvania.”
February 1, 2024 2:52 am
LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man in suburban Philadelphia has been charged with first-degree murder and abusing a corpse after his father was found decapitated. Police are investigating a video on social media that allegedly shows him holding up the head. The father was found decapitated in the bathroom of his home in Levittown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday night. Police have identified the son as 32-year-old Justin Mohn. He was arrested about 100 miles away in Fort Indiantown Gap. Mohn was arraigned early Wednesday and held without bail. No attorney for Mohn is listed in court records. A message seeking comment on his behalf was left at a phone listing for him.
January 31, 2024 4:50 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has attributed the drone attack that killed three U.S. service members in Jordan to the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias that includes the militant group Kataib Hezbollah. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says the U.S. believes the attack was planned, resourced and facilitated by the group. The Sunday drone attack on a military base in Jordan killed the three troops and injured at least 40 others. Kirby said Wednesday that President Joe Biden will continue to weigh response options to the attack but “the first thing you see won’t be the last thing.”
January 31, 2024 3:25 pm
Pittsburgh, Pa. – Governor Josh Shapiro and Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Secretary Rick Siger joined legislative and business leaders during a visit to Mill 19 in Pittsburgh to highlight the important role of robotics and advanced manufacturing in the Commonwealth’s new Economic Development Strategy, the first plan of its kind to guide the Commonwealth in almost 20 years. Governor Shapiro unveiled the ten year strategy Tuesday at OraSure Technologies in the Lehigh Valley. Shapiro says the new economic development strategy will capitalize on the commonwealth’s strengths and reignite the economy by focusing on the agriculture, energy, life sciences, manufacturing, and robotics and technology sectors, where data-driven analysis reveals a significant potential for growth over the next ten years. Shapiro says that compared to neighbor states, the commonwealth is being outspent on economic development incentives, with states like New York and Ohio leveraging as much as 16 times our total incentive spend and for Pennsylvania to maintain and advance economic competitiveness, we must double down on our strengths while investing in those areas where we need to grow. This strategy seeks to do just that by capitalizing on our substantial strengths in the robotics and technology industries.
