April 19, 2024 5:04 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has fired air defenses at a major air base and a nuclear site near its central city of Isfahan after spotting drones. The commotion early Friday raised fears of a possible Israeli retaliatory strike following Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on the country. It was unclear if the country had come under attack, as no Iranian official directly acknowledged the possibility and Israel’s military did not respond to a request for comment. However, tensions have remained high in the days since the Saturday assault on Israel amid its war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip and its own strikes targeting Iran in Syria. U.S. officials declined to comment as of early Friday, but American broadcast networks quoting unnamed U.S. officials said Israel carried out the attack.
April 19, 2024 5:06 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The cases are detailed in federal documents obtained by The Associated Press and raise serious questions about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the U.S. Federal law requires emergency rooms to stabilize patients who are in active labor and provide a medical transfer to another hospital if they don’t have the staff or resources to treat them. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next week in an Idaho case that could weaken those federal protections.
April 19, 2024 5:07 am
SYDNEY (AP) — Shoppers and workers have returned to a “really quiet” Sydney mall, where six days earlier an assailant stabbed six people to death in an attack that police believe targeted women. Westfield Bondi Junction mall had opened Thursday for a “community reflection day” while the shops inside the mall reopened Friday. There was a large police and security presence, with guards wearing black stab-proof vests posted on each level of the mall. Visitors numbered in the hundreds, but were fewer than the usual expected on a Friday during school holidays. One visitor said the atmosphere was somber and another said it was really quiet. Authorities said counseling services were available for retail workers and visitors.
April 19, 2024 5:09 am
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Five Japanese autoworkers have narrowly escaped an attack by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosive-laden vest near their vehicle in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi. The local police chief said the van carrying the Japanese nationals was heading to an industrial area where they worked at Pakistan Suzuki Motors when it was targeted Friday. He said guards escorting the Japanese workers returned fire after coming under attack and all the Japanese who were the target of the attack were safe. Another official said police were escorting the van after receiving reports of possible attacks targeting foreigners and that the timely response from guards and police foiled the attack.
April 18, 2024 1:38 pm
A Monongahela man faces trial in connection with a fire at The Main Street Tavern in March. Following his preliminary hearing, 29-year-old Hunter McMahon was held for court on multiple charges, including arson, aggravated assault of an officer and public drunkenness. Authorities say he was seen setting fire to a dumpster behind the Great Wall Chinese Restaurant and then behind the bar. Police say there is a video of McMahon at the tavern. Police also say they found two lighters on him. McMahon remains in the Washington County Jail in lieu of two-hundred and fifty-thousand-dollars bond.
April 18, 2024 5:02 am
An Avella man was killed in a one-vehicle crash Wednesday evening in Independence Township. The Washington County Coroner’s office say 29 year old Cody Hukill was pronounced dead at the scene in the 2-thousand block of Avella Road (Route 50). The crash occurred just after 7 p.m. Investigators say he lost control while traveling east and struck a tree. He was not wearing a seatbelt. A cause and manner of death are pending. State Police are investigating.
April 17, 2024 2:56 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — President Joe Biden has told an audience of cheering unionized steelworkers that his administration will block the acquisition of U.S. Steel by a Japanese company, potentially. And he’s calling for a tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel. The Democratic president is seeking to use trade policy to win over working-class votes in Pennsylvania, an election-year battleground. He said Wednesday that U.S. Steel “has been an iconic American company for more than a century and it should remain totally American.” His administration is reviewing the proposed acquisition by Japan’s Nippon Steel. On the tariff front, Chinese imports account for only a small percentage of the steel products coming into the United States so the higher fees are largely symbolic. Washington Mayor Jo Jo Burgess was among those to attend the rally and was acknowledged by the President during the event. Burgess was also a guest of the President at his State of the Union Address (Photo: AP)
April 18, 2024 2:37 am
A Burgettstown man has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges, including allegedly assaulting law enforcement officers with a weapon during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Thirty-one-year-old Joshua Lee Atwood is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with felony offenses of civil disorder; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon; entering, remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; and an act of physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Authorities say a man, later identified as Atwood, was seen in police body-worn camera and open-source video footage attacking law enforcement officers defending the Lower West Terrace Tunnel between approximately 4:51 p.m. and 5:03 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021. The Tunnel was the site of some of the most violent attacks against law enforcement that day. The FBI arrested Atwood Wednesday in Burgettstown and he made his initial court appearance in the Western District of Pennsylvania.
April 17, 2024 2:25 am
A Washington man will be sentenced in July for his role in the drug related deaths of two people. Thirty-seven-year-old Lorenzo Brian Lloyd pleaded guilty to two counts of drug delivery resulting in death, for helping to supply a deadly batch of fentanyl to the individuals in February of 2021. Lloyd was one of three men accused of helping to supply stamp bags of fentanyl to David and Nannette Dennick. They were found dead in their home in Canton Township. As for the other two men involved in the case, 22-year-old Zaeshown Jaheim Kimbrew of Aliquippa pleaded guilty two years ago to two counts of drug delivery resulting in death and was sentenced to six to twelve years in prison. The third man, 31-year-old Mitchell William Logan, of Washington, is free on bond while awaiting trial. Lloyd remains in the Washington County Jail on five-hundred-thousand-dollars bond.
April 18, 2024 5:09 am
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury of 12 people has been seated in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York. Alternates are now being selected. The rapid progress Thursday afternoon propels the case closer to opening statements and weeks of testimony in a case charging the Republican with falsifying business records to suppress stories about his sex life in the final days of the 2016 election. The jury includes a sales professional, a software engineer, an English teacher and multiple lawyers. The case centers on $130,000 Trump’s lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen paid to porn actor Stormy Daniels. Trump faces 34 felony counts. He denies any wrongdoing.
