January 14, 2024 6:49 am
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israel-Hamas war has quickly shattered many records when it comes to the history of conflicts between the bitter enemies. It’s the deadliest, the most destructive, and the longest. Israel has razed large swaths of the Gaza Strip, where researchers assess that nearly half of all buildings are likely damaged or destroyed. Nearly 24,000 people in the Gaza Strip have been killed, which amounts to more than 1% of Gaza’s population. Meanwhile, the Hamas attack on Israel that spurred the war was the single deadliest day in Israeli history.
January 14, 2024 5:16 am
JERUSALEM (AP) — The White House says “it’s the right time” for Israel to scale back its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, even as Israeli leaders vow to intensify their operation against the territory’s ruling Hamas militant group. The U.S. comments on Sunday exposed the growing differences between the close allies on the 100th day of the war. Also Sunday, Israeli warplanes struck targets in Lebanon following a Hezbollah missile attack in northern Israel that killed two Israeli civilians — an older woman and her adult son. The exchange of fire underscored concerns that the Gaza violence could trigger wider fighting across the region.
January 14, 2024 5:07 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. — City of Washington Police are renewing a push to solve several homicides from the past decade. The Department posted on Facebook that it continues to investigate the murders of Matthew “Miz” McGlone (October 2014), Marius “Pryce” Chatman (March 2015), Travis Larson (November 2017) and Connor Brock (November 2021). Police say their killers are still at large. Newly elected Washington Mayor Jojo Burgess said he hand-picked the new police chief who is working to solve these cases. Our news partners at Channel 11 say investigators have said repeatedly people have information that could solve the cases but aren’t coming forward. “One thing needs to change. This so-called ‘code of the streets, I’m no snitch.’ There are families out there hurting because of people doing bad things. We live in Washington PA, we are not in the big city like some of these guys think, with their little gangs, we are in Little Washington for a reason. We want to be a tightknit town.” Anyone with information on these cases can contact Washington police at (724) 223-4226. You can also message them on their Facebook page.
January 14, 2024 12:54 am
NORTH STRABANE TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – The North Strabane Police Department is looking for a man facing several charges, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, after they say he hit a woman with his car. According to the criminal complaint, Christopher Michael Holt and a woman got into an argument in the Meadows Casino parking lot and Holt ran her over. He sped off from the lot and she didn’t know where he went. Surveillance video showed Holt’s black sedan aggressively accelerating at the woman before making a sharp right turn onto the roadway, driving over the curb and hitting her, according to the complaint. The impact tossed her body up onto the hood of the car and onto the ground. Holt, 43, is wanted on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person. Holt is described as being 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds. He’s bald and has brown eyes. Police said Holt’s last known location is Parkersburg, West Virginia. Police are asking you to not approach Holt if you see him. Instead, call 911. You can also contact North Strabane police at 724-746-8474 or tips@nstpd.com.
January 14, 2024 12:42 am
State Police are investigating after a robbery Friday night at the Sunoco Station in the 15-hundred block of W. Chestnut Street in North Franklin Township. According to Washington County 9-1-1, a white male in a yellow jacket walked into the store just after 9 p.m. and robbed the store. No weapon was shown and no injuries were reported. It’s unclear what the man got away with. He fled on foot.
January 14, 2024 12:38 am
Cecil Township Police are investigating a stabbing Friday night. Washington County 9-1-1 dispatchers tell WJPA News it happened just before 10 p.m. in the area of 44 Georgetown Road. Dispatchers say an Uber driver had picked up two men for a ride. A short time later, one of those men began stabbing the other. The driver jumped out of the vehicle. The individual stabbed was transported by ambulance to a Pittsburgh Hospital by ambulance because weather conditions did not allow for a helicopter to be used. No identities have been released and there is no word on the condition of the individual that was stabbed.
January 13, 2024 5:19 am
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Forecasters say brutally cold weather could prove a deadly challenge this weekend as a continuing wave of Arctic storms hammers much of the country with blinding snow, freezing rain and whipping winds. Governors from New York to Louisiana have declared states of emergency ahead of predicted snow and subzero temperatures. In St. Louis, the National Weather Service warned of rare and “life-threatening” cold. The fierce weather has forced GOP presidential nominees to shuffle their schedules in Iowa, the leadoff caucus state. And near-record cold in Kansas City will make for a frigid NFL playoff game Saturday night, when the Chiefs host Miami. In Chicago, authorities say a man died of exposure on Thursday in a suburb.
January 13, 2024 5:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a few months after he took office, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a moratorium to halt federal executions — a stark contrast after his predecessor carried out 13 in six months. Under Garland’s watch and a president who vowed to abolish the death penalty, the Justice Department took on no new death penalty cases. That changed Friday as federal prosecutors said they would seek capital punishment for a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket. The decision doesn’t change the halt on federal executions, but Garland’s first approval of a new capital prosecution opens a new chapter in the long and complicated history of the death penalty in the U.S.
January 13, 2024 5:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has struck another Houthi-controlled site in Yemen that it had determined was putting commercial vessels in the Red Sea at risk. That’s according to a statement released by U.S. Central Command. The first day of strikes on Friday hit 28 locations and struck more than 60 targets, and President Joe Biden had warned that the Houthis could face further strikes. U.S. Central Command says the “follow-on action” early Saturday local time against a Houthi radar site was conducted by the Navy destroyer USS Carney using Tomahawk land attack missiles. Associated Press journalists in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, heard one loud explosion.
January 13, 2024 5:14 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a new twist in the abortion access fight, congressional Republicans are trying to block a Biden administration spending rule that they say will cut off millions of dollars to anti-abortion counseling centers. The rule would prohibit states from sending federal funds earmarked for needy Americans to so-called “crisis pregnancy centers,” which counsel against abortions. Millions in federal funding currently flow to the organizations through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, a 1996 block grant program created to give cash assistance to poor children and prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancies. Republicans have introduced legislation to block the Health and Human Services Department from restricting funds for the centers, though it has no chance of becoming law this year.
