April 28, 2024 7:32 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer says the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalized for a battery of tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape conviction. Attorney Arthur Aidala said Weinstein was moved to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan after his arrival on Friday to city jails. On Thursday, the New York Court of Appeals vacated his conviction after concluding that a trial judge permitted too much evidence not directly related to the charges he faced. The 72-year-old Weinstein has been ailing with a variety of afflictions, including cardiac issues, diabetes, sleep apnea and eye problems. (Photo: AP)
April 28, 2024 7:35 am
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The character performers at Disneyland in California have said they filed a petition for union recognition. The organizing effort comes more than four decades after their peers at Disney’s parks in Florida joined a union. Why now for the California character performers? A lot of it has to do with the Disneyland Resort workers’ proximity to Hollywood. Unlike in Florida where being a character often is a full-time job, many of the character performers in California have other gigs in movies and TV. When many of their Hollywood jobs dried up because of the pandemic and labor strikes, they wanted more dependable scheduling from Disney. (Photo: AP)
April 28, 2024 7:37 am
DETROIT (AP) — The NFL draft has a new attendance record after more than 775,000 fans flooded downtown Detroit for the three-day event. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer revealed at Campus Martius Park during the third and final day of the draft that Detroit had broken the record, and the league later released its estimate of the crowd size. While it will take years to know if this year’s picks delivered for their teams, there’s no doubt that Detroit made the most of an opportunity to host the football spectacle and show 50-plus million viewers the new-look city. Motown beat Music City’s three-day attendance record of 600,000 set in 2019, when fans filled Broadway in Nashville.
April 28, 2024 7:24 am
(WPXI) – An Ohio man is facing several charges after police say several guns were found hidden in his luggage at Pittsburgh International Airport. The Allegheny County Police Department (ACPD) says TSA found guns and ammunition concealed in a briefcase around 8:30 p.m. Friday. The briefcase, which was hidden inside another piece of checked luggage, was lined in roofing tape and sheet metal. In total, ACPD says TSA officers found three handguns, three boxes of ammunition and multiple magazines — all individually wrapped in foil. ACPD says it was determined the luggage belonged to Luis Rojas Cay, 26, of Youngstown, Ohio. Investigators learned he is currently on probation in Ohio and is not allowed to possess firearms. Police were able to locate Rojas Cay and take him to the Allegheny County Jail pending a preliminary arraignment on six firearm charges. The FBI was notified of the incident, and ACPD seized the guns found in the briefcase.
April 28, 2024 7:40 am
(WPXI) – A teenager has been arrested in connection to a deadly shooting at a playground in McKees Rocks. Delvon Johnson, 17, is charged in the shooting death of Ahsan Edwards, 15. Ahsan was shot multiple times at Third Street Park on Saturday, April 20. He died at a local hospital. Witness interviews and multiple videos led detectives to Johnson. Johnson was arrested Friday afternoon in Orlando, Florida. He is facing multiple charges including criminal homicide, aggravated assault and illegal possession of a firearm. Police said Johnson is still in Florida, pending extradition back to Allegheny County
April 28, 2024 7:28 am
(WXPI) – Pittsburgh Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing teen boy. Officers say Vaughn Malone Jr., 15, was reported missing after he did not return home on Thursday. He is 5 feet and 7 inches tall and about 130 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair. Malone is known to spend time in Beltzhoover, Knoxville and Arlington. Police say he could be on Kingsboro Street or Cologne Street. He was last seen wearing a black hoodie, black pants and black and silver shoes. Anyone who knows where he might be is asked to call 412-323-7141 or 911.
April 27, 2024 2:38 am
It was a busy Friday morning for law enforcement in Washington. Washington County Sheriff Tony Andronas says that in the early morning hours, the Sheriff’s Fugitive Warrant Unit, along with City of Washington Police, South Strabane Township Police, State Police, the Washington County Drug Task Force, Washington County Adult Probation, Pennsylvania Parole and the United States Marshal Fugitive Task Force, conducted a warrant sweep. Andronas says that out of some forty bench and probation warrants for various crimes, eleven arrest warrants were made. They ranged from firearms, drugs and probation violations, to the arrest of an individual who was wanted by Federal Parole officials for a firearms violation.
April 27, 2024 2:30 am
Two people are facing numerous charges and a large amount of dangerous drugs are off the street after a drug bust Friday morning in the City of Washington. Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh says his Drug Task Force served a search warrant at 596 East Maiden Street with the assistance of Regional SWAT and the Washington City Police Department. The search warrant was the result of a months-long investigation by undercover narcotics detectives. 38 year old Ryan Brown and 35 year old Marissa Brown were taken into custody and face a long list of charges including possession with the intent to deliver controlled substances. Walsh says the search turned up more than 1900 stamp bags containing suspected heroin, fentanyl and Xylazine, as well as, cash and drug paraphernalia.
April 27, 2024 5:10 am
ORLANDO, Fla. — (WPXI)- A teenager has been arrested in connection to a deadly shooting at a playground in McKees Rocks. Delvon Johnson, 17, is charged in the shooting death of Ahsan Edwards, 15. Ahsan was shot multiple times at Third Street Park on Saturday, April 20. He died at a local hospital. Witness interviews and multiple videos led detectives to Johnson. Johnson was arrested Friday afternoon in Orlando, Florida. He is facing multiple charges including criminal homicide, aggravated assault and illegal possession of a firearm. Police said Johnson is still in Florida, pending extradition back to Allegheny County.
April 27, 2024 5:14 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Student anti-war protesters at U.S. universities are digging in and vowing to keep their demonstrations going, while several school faculties have condemned university presidents for calling law enforcement. As Columbia University continues tenuous negotiations with the pro-Palestinian student encampment, the University’s senate criticized the schools’ president on Friday after more than 100 protesters were arrested last week. School faculties at universities in California, Georgia, and Texas initiated or passed votes of no confidence in their leadership. They are largely symbolic rebukes, without the power remove their presidents. But the tensions pile pressure on school officials, who are already scrambling to resolve the protests as May graduation ceremonies near.
