June 5, 2022 4:47 am
CECIL TOWNSHIP, Pa. — In less than a year, residents and workers will have a way to reach the Montour Trail through the Southpointe business park. Multiple Washington County officials and groups were on hand for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Montour Trail Southpointe Connector Friday morning. The organizations broke ground on Phase 1 of the connector, that will run from the existing trail along Cecil Henderson Road, to Reserve Drive near Klinger Park in Southpointe. The work for this half-mile stretch of new trail is now out for bid, with construction set to begin in late July or early August. The Gateway Engineers, who created the plans for the project, says the connector should be opened sometime in the fall. Phases two and three of the project will place a trail along Reserve Drive and Klinger Road so that the trail itself runs right into the existing sidewalks along corporate drive in Southpointe.
June 5, 2022 1:10 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — David McCormick concedes to Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate race, says he can’t make up deficit in recount. McCormick said he had called Oz to concede. “It’s now clear to me with the recount now largely complete that we have a nominee,” McCormick said at a campaign party at a Pittsburgh hotel. He added, “Tonight is really about us all coming together. Before the recount, Oz led McCormick by 972 votes out of 1.34 million votes counted in the May 17 primary. The Associated Press has not declared a winner in the race because an automatic recount is underway and the margin between the two candidates is just 0.07 percentage points. Friday’s development sets up a general election between Oz, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, and Democrat John Fetterman in what is expected to be one of the nation’s premier Senate contests. The result could help determine control of the closely divided chamber, and Democrats view it as perhaps their best opportunity to pick up a seat in the race to replace retiring two-term Republican Sen. Pat Toomey.
June 4, 2022 4:56 am
HOUSTON (AP) – Residents of the small Texas town of Centerville remained vigilant for three weeks while authorities searched for a murderer who escaped a prison bus and stabbed and wounded the driver last month near their rural community. The search for 46-year-old Gonzalo Lopez ended late Thursday night when he was killed in a shootout with officers about 220 miles away in Atascosa County, south of San Antonio. But just hours earlier, authorities discovered that Lopez had killed a man and his four grandsons at their ranch near Centerville. Family members and residents of the small community say they are devastated by the killings. Lopez had a long violent history that included killing for Mexican drug cartels.
June 4, 2022 4:55 am
SELMA, Ala. (AP) – A newspaper is reporting that a public airport in Alabama could be home to the first remote air traffic control center in the United States. Advanced ATC Inc. is an air traffic control academy based in Valdosta, Georgia. The Selma Times-Journal quotes the company as saying Thursday that it will invest about $4.7 million at Craig Air Field in Dallas County, southeast of Selma. The remote tower uses cameras, real-time video and other features, allowing air traffic controllers to remotely accomplish the duties they previously had to carry out in a traditional control tower. The company’s five-year plan seeks to bring nearly 120 jobs to Selma.
June 4, 2022 4:53 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Authorities say a man walked into a Los Angeles emergency ward, stabbed a doctor and two nurses, then holed up for four hours before a SWAT team took him into custody. Los Angeles police say the man walked into Encino Hospital Medical Center shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, seeking treatment for anxiety, then stabbed the medical staff. Authorities say one victim underwent surgery and all three are in stable condition. Police say the man was confined to a room in the hospital as officers tried to talk to him. He was finally captured and taken to another hospital for treatment of self-inflicted injuries.
June 4, 2022 4:51 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department has declined to charge former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and another aide to former President Donald Trump, Dan Scavino, for contempt of Congress for their defiance of subpoenas in the Jan. 6 congressional investigation. That’s according to a person familiar with a letter sent by the Justice Department to a lawyer for the House of Representatives on Friday. The action came the same day the Justice Department said a grand jury had indicted Peter Navarro, a trade adviser in the Trump White House, for his refusal to cooperate with the committee’s investigation. The New York Times first reported the decision not to prosecute Meadows and Scavino.
June 4, 2022 4:50 am
TRONA, Calif. (AP) – The Navy says one of its fighter jets has crashed in the Southern California desert, killing the pilot. The Navy says an F/A-18E Super Hornet based at Naval Air Station Lemoore went down at about 2:30 p.m. Friday in the area of Trona, an unincorporated Mojave Desert community in San Bernardino County. Nobody on the ground was hurt. The pilot’s identity and details of the crash weren’t immediately released. Last October, another Navy Super Hornet went down during a training mission in Death Valley National Park but the pilot safely ejected. However, a 2019 Super Hornet crash in the park killed the pilot and injured seven people on the ground.
June 4, 2022 4:49 am
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – Much of the Florida peninsula, along with parts of Cuba and the Bahamas, are under a tropical storm warning as a system that battered Mexico moves through the Gulf of Mexico, killing at least two in Cuba and bringing threats of heavy rain and wind for the weekend. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Friday data from a hurricane hunter plane indicate the system’s maximum sustained winds increased overnight and was expected to strengthen later Friday. The storm, once known as Agatha in the Pacific Ocean, will be known as Alex in the Atlantic Ocean basin.
June 4, 2022 4:40 am
HOPWOOD, Pa. — Two people are dead following an apparent murder-suicide in Fayette County. State Police were called Friday to Hopwood around 3 p.m. on Atlas Road. Police say the victim was outside George R. Smalley Company when he was shot multiple times. That victim was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Officials later found the suspect dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The relationship between the victim and the suspect is not known at this time. A motive is also not clear at this time. Police said there is no threat to the public. Both the victim and the suspect have not been identified.
June 4, 2022 4:37 am
TAYLORSTOWN, Pa. — Two separate tractor-trailer accidents caused major delays for hours Friday on Interstate 70 West in Washington County. The first accident reportedly around 1:00 p.m. involving a twin trailer big rig that rolled onto its side (pictured.) There is no word on what caused that accident, but cleanup did take hours according to reports. The second accident reportedly involved three tractor trailers and turned into a hazmat situation around 7:30 p.m. near the Taylorstown interchange. This accident was a rear end collision that sent hazardous liquids over the westbound lanes and one of the trucks involved was reportedly on fire. No one was seriously hurt in this accident. Both incidents are under investigation by the Pennsylvania State Police at this time. (Photo: Justin Gordon — Facebook)
