January 16, 2024 5:06 am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Pittsburgh company’s lunar lander will soon burn up in Earth’s atmosphere after a failed moonshot. Astrobotic Technology says its lander is now headed back from the vicinity of the moon. Company officials expect the mission to end Thursday. They stress that the lander poses no safety risk during its fiery reentry. The lander rocketed from Florida last week. It quickly developed a fuel leak that forced Astrobotic to abandon its attempt to make the first U.S. lunar landing in more than 50 years.
January 16, 2024 5:05 am
PITTSBURGH — Dangerously cold wind chills of -15 to -5 will make for a brutal start to your Wednesday morning and a Wind Chill Advisory continues for all areas through noon. Icy spots will also be possible as treated surfaces refreeze, so watch sidewalks, driveways and parking lots. Many Washington County Schools are operating either on two-hour delays or have switched to remote learning. Tune to WJPA 95.3FM/1450AM for the very latest. Temperatures will stay below freezing for the rest of the week and more snow moves in Thursday and again Friday. More rounds of snow are likely Thursday and Friday with fresh coatings on the ground heading into the weekend.
January 16, 2024 2:22 am
A Burgettstown man who drove drunk causing an accident that killed his wife pleaded guilty on Tuesday. Stewart Wilson, 47, will serve five and a half years on probation for pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter and DUI charges. Wilson was driving on Stuebenville Pike in April of 2022 when according to police he did not see a vehicle trying to make a turn. He tried to avoid the vehicle by passing it but sideswiped it, over-corrected his maneuver and crashed his car directly into a guide-rail. Both Wilson and his wife Denise Pierce-Wilson were ejected from the vehicle. Pierce-Wilson died of her injuries at Weirton Hospital, Wilson was flown to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. A blood draw at the hospital showed Wilson had a blood alcohol content of .088%, over the limit of .08% that assumes intoxication. A state police accident reconstruction unit determined that Wilson was driving at 65 mph at the time of the accident. Wilson avoided more serious homicide by vehicle charges. Several people wished to make victim impact statements before final sentencing. A sentencing hearing for Wilson is scheduled for March 25.
January 16, 2024 2:20 am
A Washington Man avoided arson charges in his plea court hearing on Tuesday. Ryan Johnson, 38 pleaded guilty to an amended charge of failure to report or control a dangerous fire and reckless endangerment. First responders were called to Johnson’s home in November after he got into an argument and lit a Steelers jersey on fire and it quickly got out of control. He told police that he was responsible for the incident. Johnson was sentenced to time served to two years in jail on the fire charge. He will be on probation for three years for the reckless endangerment charge. Johnson was released from jail after the hearing.
January 15, 2024 4:52 pm
CHICAGO (AP) — A plane taxiing for departure clipped another aircraft at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Sunday evening, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. No injuries were reported, both planes were of Boeing design, and the FAA will investigate the incident. The left wing tip of Flight 11 from All Nippon Airways, a Japanese airline, struck the rear of Delta Air Lines Flight 2122 on Sunday around 6:30 p.m. Boeing is facing increasing scrutiny following mechanical failures and the subsequent grounding last week of its Boeing 737 Max 9 model — a different model than the planes involved in Sunday’s collision. It was not immediately clear what caused the incident on Sunday and whether it was related to a manufacturing flaw.
January 15, 2024 4:50 pm
ATLANTA (AP) — Communities across the nation have been celebrating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with acts of service, prayer services and parades. But with the November presidential election as a backdrop, some events on Monday took on an overtly political turn. In Atlanta, Liz Cheney spoke at the the annual commemorative service at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King served as pastor. The former U.S. Representative who served on the U.S. House Committee that investigated the Jan. 6 insurrection, had especially harsh words for Trump. She referred to him only as “a former president” and said he “threatens the foundations of our nation and everything Dr. King persevered to save.”
January 15, 2024 5:20 am
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Dangerously cold wind chills are continuing to affect much of the Rockies, Great Plains and Midwest, with wind chills below minus 30 degrees being recorded Tuesday in many parts of the central U.S. About 110,000 U.S. homes and businesses were without power late Monday, the bulk of them in Oregon after widespread outages that started Saturday. Classes were canceled Tuesday for students in Portland and other major cities including Chicago, Denver, Dallas and Fort Worth. The storms and frigid temperatures were affecting everything from air travel to NFL playoffs games to Iowa’s presidential caucuses, and were also the cause of several deaths around the country.
January 15, 2024 5:18 am
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump has scored a record-setting win in the Iowa caucuses with his rivals languishing far behind. Trump’s victory sends a resounding message that the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination is his to lose. He is on track to smash the record for a contested Iowa Republican caucus with a margin of victory exceeding the nearly 13 percentage points that Bob Dole won by in 1988. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis finished second over former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. Caucus voters endured life-threatening cold and dangerous driving conditions to meet in hundreds of schools, churches and community centers across the state.
January 15, 2024 5:18 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea. The American military says a U.S. fighter jet shot the missile down in the latest attack roiling global shipping amid Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The attack on Sunday marks the first U.S.-acknowledged fire by the Houthis since America and allied nations began strikes Friday on the rebels following weeks of assaults on shipping in the Red Sea. The Houthis have targeted that crucial corridor linking Asian and Mideast energy and cargo shipments to the Suez Canal onward to Europe over the Israel-Hamas war. The attacks threaten to widen that conflict into a regional conflagration.
January 15, 2024 5:17 am
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A dangerous Arctic blast will continue sweeping across the U.S. and prolong a bitter cold that has set record-low temperatures in parts of the country and threatens to further disrupt daily life, including an NFL playoff game and the first-in-the-nation presidential nominating contest in Iowa. The National Weather Service says wind chills are expected to push down temperatures through at least midweek, possibly to 30 degrees below zero from the Northern Rockies to northern Kansas and into Iowa, testing the hardiness of caucusgoers willing to brave the deep chill on Monday. Arctic storms have left at least four dead and knocked out electricity to tens of thousands in the Northwest, brought snow to the South and walloped the Northeast with blizzard conditions.
