August 15, 2022 4:19 am
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has met with a delegation of U.S. Congress members, in a further sign of support among American lawmakers for the self-governing island that China claims as its own territory. The meeting on Monday comes less than two week after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit, which prompted days of threatening military exercises by China, including the firing of missiles over the island and into the Taiwan Strait. China has also sent warplanes and navy ships across the median line that has long been a buffer between the sides that separated amid civil war in 1949. China regards such contacts with the island as support for its independence from Beijing.
August 15, 2022 4:15 am
OHIOPYLE, Pa. — (WPXI) – A woman died after the raft she was on overturned at Ohiopyle State Park in Fayette County Saturday afternoon. Park Operations Manager Ken Bisbee said that a 51-year-old woman from Ohio fell overboard when her raft overturned in one of the rapids on the Lower Youghiogheny River. She was rescued quickly by river guides, who began CPR on her. Bisbee said medics transported her to Uniontown Hospital, where she was pronounced dead around 6:30 p.m.
August 15, 2022 4:13 am
SALTLICK TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – A 16-year-old boy from Connellsville was killed and two others were taken to the hospital after a crash in Fayette County Saturday afternoon. State police said they were called to reports of an accident at the intersection of Indian Creek Valley Road and Calvary Church Road in Saltlick Township at around 2:58 p.m. Saturday. State police say that a 19-year-old man was driving a 1993 Ford Mustang at a high rate of speed and the 16-year-old boy who died was a passenger in that car. Police say they crashed into a 2016 GMC Sierra operated by a 28-year-old man. Both the driver of the Mustang and the Sierra were taken to the hospital. The 16-year-old Mustang passenger was pronounced dead on scene. The boy’s name has not been released. Charges are pending investigation.
August 15, 2022 4:10 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa. – (WPXI) – One person is dead after being shot outside of a bar in Fayette County early Sunday. Lt. Tom Kolencik with the Uniontown City Police Department told our news partners at Channel 11 officers were called to the VFW in the 300 block of East Main Street in Uniontown around 12:30 a.m. for a fight inside the bar. According to police, the fight then moved outside of the bar. Surveillance video shows an argument between two people when police said one of them brandished a gun. Police said the second person then pulled out a gun and shot the victim, identified as 47-year-old Terrell Poole, multiple times. Poole was flown to a hospital where he died. Police said no arrests have been made. Uniontown police are still investigating.
August 15, 2022 1:12 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. — The Borough of East Washington announced the passing of Mayor Matthew Boice after a medical emergency on Friday. Boice resided in the borough for 34 years, serving on council as the borough president, and sworn in as mayor in 2022. A retired high school teacher, officials say Boice was involved with numerous organizations. He was the Director of Music and Organist at First Presbyterian Church in Washington. He volunteered as the coach of a girls softball team and with the Washington High School Band. Boice was very active in the Masonic Fraternities and the Shriners raising money to benefit Muscular Dystrophy, The Eye Foundation, Special Olympics, and Shriners Hospitals for Children. Officials say he was a prominent member of the borough and his death is a tragic loss to the community. (Photo: Borough of East Washington)
August 14, 2022 7:59 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi oil company Aramco’s half-year profits peaked just shy of $88 billion as oil prices remain high globally. The oil and gas company, which is nearly entirely state-owned, said Sunday it also saw a 90% surge in net profits for the second quarter of 2022 compared to the same time last year. Aramco said the results set a new quarterly earnings record for the company since it floated around 5% of the company on the Saudi stock market in late 2019. Aramco said the profits were driven primarily by higher crude oil prices and volumes sold, and higher refining margins.
August 14, 2022 7:58 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have fired rockets on the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine. At least one person has been killed. And a Russian diplomat has called on Ukraine to offer security assurances so that international inspectors can visit a nuclear power station that has come under fire. The Mykolaiv region is just to the north of the Russian-occupied city of Kherson which Ukrainian forces have vowed to retake. Concern has grown sharply about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as fighting steps up in southern Ukraine. The facility has been held by Russian forces and has been hit by sporadic shelling. Both Ukraine and Russia blame each other for the shelling.
August 14, 2022 7:57 am
Facing prison time and dire personal consequences for storming the U.S. Capitol, some Jan. 6 defendants are trying to profit from their participation in the deadly riot, using it as a platform to drum up cash, promote business endeavors and boost social media profiles. A Nevada man jailed on riot charges asked his mother to contact publishers for a book he was writing about “the Capitol incident.” A rioter from Washington state helped his father hawk clothes and other merchandise bearing slogans such as “Our House” and images of the Capitol building. A Virginia man released a rap album with riot-themed songs and a cover photograph of him sitting on a police vehicle outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Those actions are sometimes complicating matters for defendants when they face judges at sentencing as prosecutors point to the profit-chasing activities in seeking tougher punishments. The Justice Department, in some instances, is trying to claw back money that rioters have made off the insurrection. In one case, federal authorities have seized tens of thousands of dollars from a defendant who sold his footage from Jan. 6. In another case, a Florida man’s plea deal allows the U.S. government to collect profits from any book he gets published over the next five years. And prosecutors want a Maine man who raised more than $20,000 from supporters to surrender some of the money because a taxpayer-funded public defender is representing him.
August 14, 2022 7:55 am
MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — “The Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie was taken off a ventilator and able to talk Saturday, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New York. Rushdie remained hospitalized with serious injuries, but fellow author Aatish Taseer tweeted in the evening that he was “off the ventilator and talking (and joking).” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, confirmed that information without offering further details. Earlier in the day, the man accused of attacking him Friday at the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat center, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called a “preplanned” crime. An attorney for Hadi Matar entered the plea on his behalf during an arraignment in western New York. The suspect appeared in court wearing a black and white jumpsuit and a white face mask, with his hands cuffed in front of him. A judge ordered him held without bail after District Attorney Jason Schmidt told her Matar, 24, took steps to purposely put himself in position to harm Rushdie, getting an advance pass to the event where the author was speaking and arriving a day early bearing a fake ID.
August 14, 2022 7:53 am
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A delegation of American lawmakers is visiting Taiwan just 12 days after a visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that angered China. China responded to Pelosi’s visit by sending missiles, warships and warplanes into the seas and air around Taiwan. The five-member delegation is led by Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts and is in Taiwan on Sunday and Monday as part of a visit to Asia, the American Institute in Taiwan said. They will meet senior leaders to discuss U.S.-Taiwan relations, regional security, trade, investment and other issues. A Taiwanese broadcaster showed video of a U.S. government plane landing about 7 p.m. at Songshan Airport in Taipei, the Taiwanese capital. China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its territory and objects to it having any official contact with foreign governments.
