May 6, 2023 9:16 am
MOULTRIE, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia say a man who killed his workplace manager, mother and grandmother before taking his own life had been involved in a gunfight less than 48 hours earlier. Moultrie Police investigator Nathan Cato says a former co-worker opened fire on 26-year-old Kentavious White on Tuesday. White fired back, police say, but no one was injured. Law enforcement say by predawn Thursday, he was shooting at family homes and a McDonald’s where he had worked. Police have arrested another man on aggravated assault and gun possession charges. The McDonald’s where White was recorded shooting his manager and then himself reopened Friday.
May 6, 2023 9:13 am
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian state news agency Tass says the car of a prominent pro-Kremlin novelist exploded in Russia on Saturday, injuring him and killing his driver. The agency cited emergency and law enforcement officials. The incident involving the car of Zakhar Prilepin, a well-known nationalist writer and an ardent supporter of what the Kremlin calls “a special military operation” in Ukraine, took place in the region of Nizhny Novgorod, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow. Prilepin became a supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014, after Putin illegally annexed the Crimean peninsula. He was involved in the conflict in eastern Ukraine on the side of Russia-backed separatists. Last year, he was sanctioned by the European Union.
May 6, 2023 9:10 am
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III was crowned at Westminster Abbey, receiving the bejeweled St. Edward’s Crown in a ceremony built on ancient traditions at a time when the monarchy is striving to remain relevant in a fractured modern Britain. Trumpets sounded inside the medieval abbey and the congregation shouted “God save the king!” at a ceremony attended by more than 2,000 guests, including world leaders, aristocrats and celebrities. Outside, thousands of troops, tens of thousands of spectators and a smattering of protesters converged. It was the culmination of a seven-decade journey for Charles from heir to monarch.
May 6, 2023 3:59 am
The Washington County Chamber of Commerce held a luncheon on Friday to announce their 2023 Athena Leadership Award winner. Dr. Kacey Marra was honored this year. Marra is the Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Plastic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. She also is an instructor in the Department of Bioengineering. Marra is also the founder and CEO of the medical device company Nerve Repair Technologies. Her company is focused on developing a biodegradable device that will revolutionize nerve regeneration for those with traumatic injuries. Marra has mentored over 300 students in high school, college, graduate and medical students. Kacey lives in Canonsburg with her husband and three children. The Athena Award is presented by Chambers of Commerce, women’s organizations and universities to individuals who demonstrate leadership qualities consistent with the Athena Leadership Model and have attained the highest level of professional excellence.
May 5, 2023 3:26 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is resigning. Dr. Rochelle Walensky says the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic is a good time to make a transition. She sent a resignation letter to President Joe Biden and announced the decision at a CDC staff meeting Friday. Her last day will be June 30. Walensky was previously an infectious-diseases specialist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She had no experience running a government health agency when she was sworn in on the first day of the Biden administration. (Photo: AP)
May 5, 2023 12:53 pm
(WPXI) – Gateway High School students were evacuated and then dismissed early – due to two threats received this morning. According to a notice on Gateway’s website, the school received a Safe to Say alert – indicating a social media threat was circulating across western Pennsylvania that didn’t specify a district or school. That threat was determined to be a swatting incident. Then, the high school principal received a follow-up Safe to Say alert indicating a bomb was placed inside the high school. The building was then evacuated around eleven o’clock and Monroeville police were called in to search the building.
May 5, 2023 9:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added a healthy 253,000 jobs in April, evidence of a labor market that still shows surprising strength despite rising interest rates, chronically high inflation and a banking crisis that could weaken the economy. The unemployment rate dipped to 3.4%, matching a 54-year low. But the jobless rate fell in part because 43,000 people left the labor force, the first drop since November, and were no longer counted as unemployed. The government said that while hiring was solid in April, it was much weaker in February and March than it had previously estimated. And hourly wages rose last month at the fastest pace since July, which may alarm the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve.
May 5, 2023 4:28 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has met with the heads of Google, Microsoft and two other companies developing artificial intelligence. President Joe Biden briefly dropped by the meeting in the White House’s Roosevelt Room and told the CEOs, “What you’re doing has enormous potential and enormous danger.” The Biden administration is rolling out initiatives meant to ensure the rapidly evolving AI technology improves lives without putting at risk people’s rights and safety. The Democratic administration announced a $140 million investment to establish seven AI research institutes. The White House Office of Management and Budget intends to issue guidance in the next few months on how federal agencies can use AI tools.
May 5, 2023 4:26 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right extremist group have been convicted of a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol to keep Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election. A jury in Washington, D.C., found Tarrio guilty of seditious conspiracy after hearing from dozens of witnesses over more than three months. It is one of the most serious cases brought in the stunning attack that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021, as the world watched on live TV. Jurors cleared a fifth defendant, Dominic Pezzola, of the sedition charge, though he was convicted of other serious felonies.
May 5, 2023 4:24 am
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police said early Friday they had arrested a suspect in a series of shootings that killed at least eight people and wounded 14, the nation’s second such mass shooting in two days. The arrest followed an all-night search by hundreds of police, who sealed off an area south of Belgrade where the shooting took place. The shooting came a day after a 13-year-old boy used his father’s guns to kill eight fellow students and a guard at a school in Belgrade in the nation’s first mass shooting in ten years.
