July 4, 2023 9:12 am
JENIN, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian man drove his car into a crowded bus stop in Tel Aviv and then began stabbing people, wounding eight. The attack was praised by the Islamist militant group Hamas as a response to Israel’s ongoing military operation in the occupied West Bank. Police chief Kobi Shabtai told reporters at the scene that an armed civilian shot and killed the assailant. The attack came as Israeli troops pressed ahead with their hunt for Palestinian militants and weapons in a refugee camp. Thousands of residents have fled to safety. The two-day Palestinian death toll rose to 10. The large-scale raid of the Jenin camp is one of the most intense military operations in the occupied West Bank in nearly two decades.
July 4, 2023 4:19 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say a gunman in a bulletproof vest has opened fire on the streets of Philadelphia, killing five people and wounding two boys before he surrendered to responding officers. The shootings took place over several city blocks, and dozens of spent shell casings were found. No connection was immediately known between the victims and the shooter. Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a news conference Monday night that the gunman had an “AR-type” rifle, multiple magazines, a handgun and a police scanner. The violence marks the country’s 29th mass killing in 2023, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. That’s the highest on record.
July 4, 2023 4:14 am
PITTSBURGH —(WPXI)-Sheetz will celebrate the Fourth of July by offering all grades of gas for $1.776 a gallon.This limited-time promotion will begin at 12:01 a.m. on July 4 and will last all day, or while promotional gallons last. The discounted price will apply to regular, E85 (flex fuel), Unleaded 88, mid-grade and premium fuel grades at all of Sheetz locations in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.It will not apply to diesel or Ethanol Free (E0) fuel. The price commemorates the year 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
July 4, 2023 4:09 am
Gas prices are a slight bit lower in Western Pennsylvania according to AAA. This week gas prices averaged $3.63 per gallon. Last week they were $3.64 per gallon. Nationally, gas prices are $3.53 per gallon, two cents less than a month ago. Last year, drivers were paying $1.28 more per gallon. In Western Pennsylvania, drivers last year were paying $4.93 per gallon of gas.
July 4, 2023 4:01 am
Monday night, the Cecil Township Board of Supervisors held their monthly meeting. Two public hearings were announced. The first is for Cluster Home development on Profio and King Road. That hearing is scheduled for August 7th at 6 PM, an hour before the August monthly meeting. The second is for proposed amendments to a zoning ordinance in the township on August 14th at 7 PM. According to Supervisor Chairwoman Cindy Fisher, the zoning ordinances are for 3 to 4 mixed-use properties for residential, commercial, and industrial zoning. All five members of the board adopted an ordinance to protect six farmland owners under the Agricultural Area Security Act. The law has covered 4,000 acres of land and now at least 106 known tracts of land, according to Assistant Township Manager Jack King.
July 3, 2023 5:07 am
NEW DELHI (AP) — President Vladimir Putin will participate this week in his first multilateral summit since an armed rebellion rattled Russia. Analysts say his participation at a virtual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Tuesday is an opportunity to show he is in control after a short-lived insurrection by Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. The security forum was founded by Russia and China in a bid to counter Western alliances from East Asia to the Indian Ocean. This year’s event is hosted by India as a way to burnish its global credentials. The group also includes the Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, where Russian influence runs deep, as well as Pakistan. Iran is set to officially join at the summit.
July 3, 2023 5:06 am
PARIS (AP) — Unrest across France sparked by the police shooting of a 17-year-old appeared to slow on its sixth night, but still public buildings, cars and municipal trash cans were targeted nationwide by fires and vandalism overnight into Monday. In all, according to the Interior Ministry, there were 157 arrests overnight, out of a total of 3,354 arrests in all since June 27, and two law enforcement stations were attacked, among other damage. Around 45,000 officers were deployed nationwide to counter anger over discrimination against people who trace their roots to former French colonies and live in low-income neighborhoods. Nahel, the teenager killed last Tuesday, was of Algerian descent and was shot in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.
July 3, 2023 5:05 am
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli drones have struck targets in a stronghold of militants in the occupied West Bank and hundreds of troops are deployed in the area. Monday’s incursion resembled the wide-scale military operations carried out during the second Palestinian uprising two decades ago. Palestinian health officials said at least five Palestinians were killed and 27 injured. It came at a time of growing domestic pressure for a tough response to a series of attacks on Israeli settlers including one last week that killed four people. Jenin, the area of the raid, has been a flashpoint as Israeli-Palestinian violence escalated since the spring of 2022.
July 3, 2023 5:01 am
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Three of nine people have pleaded guilty to federal charges in a burglary ring that authorities in northeastern Pennsylvania say stole art, sports memorabilia and other items from museums and other institutions over two decades. Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania announced charges in June against nine Lackawanna County residents in 18 heists across six states between 1999 and 2019. The thefts included Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock art taken from one museum. Other artwork, antique weapons and gems and gold nuggets were taken from other institutions along with valuable sports championship rings, belts and trophies.
July 3, 2023 4:59 am
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — (WPXI) – A man is dead and a woman is critically injured after a shooting in Uniontown on Saturday. According to investigators, first responders were called to the scene along Pershing Court at 2:16 p.m. Police say the shooting stemmed from an apparent home invasion. Uniontown Police said three people forced their way into the apartment Saturday afternoon and an unknown number of people started firing. Police said a teenage girl and a man were inside the home at the time. They are not releasing their names for their protection. Police said the teen was flown to a nearby hospital. Detectives said one of the suspects, who forcibly made his way into the home, was 19-year-old Elijah Fitzgerald. He was shot and killed. The other two suspects got away on foot, according to police. The investigation is ongoing.
