May 20, 2023 3:54 am
CARROLL, Iowa (AP) — Harrowing video of a driver fleeing from Iowa police with an officer on his hood and roof has emerged as the motorist was sentenced this month to up to five years in prison. Twenty-nine-year-old Dennis James Guider Jr. was sentenced last week after pleading guilty to serious injury by vehicle, a felony. Video shows the officer approaching Guider on March 5, 2021. Guider is from the Chicago area and had an outstanding arrest warrant in an Illinois forgery case. His attorney argued that as a Black man Guider was fearful of a white officer, noting the murder of George Floyd less than a year earlier.
May 20, 2023 3:52 am
ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — Police say the driver of a semitruck that slammed into a passenger van on Interstate 5 in western Oregon has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, DUI and other charges. Oregon State Police say 11 people were in the van when it was struck. Six people died at the scene, one more died after being airlifted to a hospital and four were injured. Police say Lincoln Clayton Smith was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of intoxicants, reckless driving, manslaughter and assault. He was arraigned Friday. The state public defender’s office did not immediately say whether an attorney had been assigned to his case yet. Thursday’s crash near Albany is one of Oregon’s deadliest in recent years.
May 20, 2023 3:49 am
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WPXI) — Our news partners at WPXI report that two people are behind bars after police say a drug test showed their six-month-old baby tested positive for cocaine. In March, Pennsylvania State Troopers were called to a home on Third Street in Jefferson Township for a child welfare check. When they got to the home, they found there had been a domestic dispute between Howard Bland and Angel Friend. Court documents say Friend had facial injuries, and Bland was arrested for simple assault and other related charges. Police say they responded to the home with Children and Youth Services. From there, investigators say they found a six-month-old baby sleeping. She was also very lethargic. A teenager in the home told police the baby was last fed more than 12 hours before. The baby was taken to Uniontown Hospital for medical attention. That’s when police say Friend became erratic. She was also taken to the hospital. A drug test was done on the baby’s urine, which tested positive for narcotics. On April 5, a search warrant was executed for the WVU Medicine records, which showed the baby had tested positive for cocaine. Both Friend and Bland are being held in the Fayette County Prison. They have a court hearing set for May 31.
May 20, 2023 3:44 am
A 22-year-old man was shot at Washington’s 8th Ward playground in the West End. The man was shot around 8 p.m. Wednesday night, sending children and teenagers running for cover. The victim, identified as Zackary Harmon of Washington, showed up at Washington Hospital a short time later with a gunshot wound. Two men from Ohio were arrested and questioned about the shooting. Tyler Shrieve, 20, and T’Kai Jett, 20, are facing weapons charges. Neighbors called 911 giving a description of a suspect seen running from the scene. A short time later, a man called 911 saying someone fitting that description was getting into a vehicle in the McDonald’s parking lot. That Good Samaritan followed at a safe distance until police caught up and made arrests. Washington Police Chief Dan Rush says more charges are expected. (Photo: WPXI)
May 20, 2023 3:44 am
Washington County Commissioners voted to approve broadband expansion that is expected to provide high-speed internet services to some twenty-two-hundred new customers in the county. The board, at their meeting Thursday, gave their approval to two separate bids totaling over twelve-million-dollars, that will provide broadband services to more than fourteen-hundred under-served and unserved locations in the Bentworth, Beallsville and Deemston areas, plus rural sections of South Strabane and Amwell Townships. The county’s share of the funding will be a little over six-million-dollars and will be paid out of the federal American Rescue Plan stimulus money. Vendors will pay the remaining costs.
May 20, 2023 3:43 am
Washington County 911 tells WJPA News that authorities were called out around one o’clock Friday afternoon to a vehicle into a house at 159 Francis Mine Road near Burgettstown. They say one person was transported from the scene but there’s been no word on what type of injuries the individual suffered or how severe they were. The home reportedly sustained quite a bit of damage.
May 20, 2023 3:43 am
The intersection of State Routes 18 and 50 in Hickory will reopen this weekend, on schedule. The intersection has been closed for the past 12 days as crews rebuilt the roadway, and the newly-constructed section faced not one but two wayward drivers who ignored road closed signage on Monday and drove onto the still-wet cement. The Observer-Reporter reports that Mount Pleasant Township Police responded to a tractor-trailer headed south on Route 18 that went around road closed signs and caused deep ruts in the newly-poured cement. Just hours later, a motorcycle with two occupants got stuck after moving signs and then driving onto the wet cement. Police say charges are pending against both drivers.
May 19, 2023 4:12 pm
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina made it official Friday: He’s running for president. The Senate’s only Black Republican has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Committee declaring his intention to seek his party’s nomination. His candidacy will test whether a more optimistic vision of America’s future can resonate with GOP voters who have elevated partisan brawlers in recent years. The deeply religious 57-year-old former insurance broker has made his grandfather’s work in the cotton fields of the Deep South a bedrock of his political identity. Scott is scheduled to make a formal announcement on Monday in his hometown of North Charleston.
May 19, 2023 4:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll finds that most U.S. adults say they are highly concerned about the impact on the national economy if the U.S. debt limit is not increased and the government defaults on its loans. That’s according to a survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll shows 6 in 10 adults say they want any increase in the debt limit to be coupled with agreed-upon terms for reducing the federal budget deficit. At the same time, Americans are more likely to disapprove than approve of how President Joe Biden and congressional negotiators on both sides of the aisle are handling negotiations. Still, slightly more approve of Biden’s handling of the situation than of congressional Republicans.
May 19, 2023 4:15 am
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will join leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies in Hiroshima, Japan, making his furthest trip from of his war-torn country as leaders are set to unveil new sanctions on Russia for its invasion. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, confirmed on national television that Zelenskyy would attend the summit. Danilov said Zelenskyy would be wherever Ukraine needed him and that important matters will be decided at the summit in Japan.
