September 10, 2024 5:04 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s presidential race is a genuine contest of ideas between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. There are clear differences on taxes, abortion, immigration, global alliances, climate change and democracy itself. Since replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee, Harris has pledged to chart a new way forward even as she has embraced many of his ideas about the middle class and abortion access. Trump wants to accomplish much of what he couldn’t during his past term in the White House. He wants deeper corporate tax cuts, higher tariffs and more support for American fossil fuel development.
September 9, 2024 2:39 am
(WPXI) – Two handguns were intercepted at the Pittsburgh International Airport main security checkpoint over the weekend. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers found the guns inside carry-on bags on September 7th and 8th. The gun found on Sept. 7 was a 9mm handgun loaded with 12 bullets brought to the airport by a man from West Virginia. The second gun was a .45 caliber firearm loaded with nine bullets packed alongside nine more bullets. The bag belonged to a man from Houston, Pa.“These guns were intercepted at our checkpoint just days before the 23rd anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on our nation,” said Karen Keys-Turner, TSA’s Federal Security Director for the airport. “Let’s be clear, guns are prohibited on planes. People who own firearms always need to know where their guns are. And 23 years after 9/11, everyone should know that you are not allowed to carry any weapons past our checkpoints. Our officers are good at what they do and everyone who works for TSA is very mindful of how the terrorist attacks of 9/11 impacted our nation.” Bringing a gun to an airport checkpoint carries a federal civil penalty.
September 10, 2024 5:01 am
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza has killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others. Israel says it targeted “significant” Hamas militants and disputes the death toll. Gaza’s Civil Defense said it had recovered 40 bodies from the strike in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone known as Muwasi and was still looking for people. It said entire families were killed as they huddled in tents. An Associated Press camera operator saw three large craters at the scene, where first responders and displaced people were sifting through the sand and rubble with garden tools and their bare hands by the light of mobile phones.
September 10, 2024 5:03 am
Officials say over 140 Ukrainian drones targeted multiple Russian regions overnight, including Moscow and surrounding areas, in one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian soil in the 2 1/2-year war. A Russian regional governor says drones hit two multistory residential buildings and started fires in the town of Ramenskoye just outside Moscow. A woman was killed and three people were injured. He says five residential buildings were evacuated due to falling drone debris. The attack also prompted the authorities to temporarily shut down three airports just outside Moscow. A total of 48 flights were diverted.
September 10, 2024 5:00 am
TASITOLU, East Timor (AP) — The Vatican says some 600,000 people have attended Pope Francis’ Mass in East Timor, or nearly half the country’s population. It’s held Tuesday on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed in 1989 during the nation’s fight for independence from Indonesia. While other papal Masses have drawn millions of people in more populous countries and there were certainly other nationalities attending Tuesday’s Mass, the crowd in small East Timor is believed to represent the biggest turnout for a papal event ever, in terms of the proportion of the population.
September 10, 2024 4:55 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — When Donald Trump and Kamala Harris meet onstage in Philadelphia, they’ll both know there’s little debate that Pennsylvania is critical to their chances of winning the presidency. The most populous presidential swing state has sided with the winner of the past two elections, each time by just tens of thousands of votes. The stakes may be especially high for Harris because no Democrat has won the White House without Pennsylvania since 1948. The debate Tuesday night takes place before voting starts, in Pennsylvania and everywhere else. The debate is set for the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia
September 11, 2024 7:00 am
Washington County Tourism Promotion Director Jeff Kotula says Washington County Pennsylvania is home to some of the country’s finest historical and cultural attractions, and continues to lead the southwestern Pennsylvania region in both economic and tourism growth. To support this growth and leverage tourism’s impact on economic development, he says the Washington County Tourism Promotion Agency (WCTPA) – as part of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce – has awarded $150,230 in new tourism investments, bringing the agency’s 2024 grant total to $533,205. Kotula says the grants are awarded to public and private organizations for both marketing and capital projects in the 2025 tourism season. Historical, cultural and entertainment organizations such as the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Washington County Historical Society, Canonsburg Educational and Cultural Institute, Sarris Candies, National Pike Trail Council, and others are receiving grants to promote their events and for capital improvements.
TOURISM GRANT PROGRAM AWARDS
Borough of Burgettstown: To promote cycling in Hillman State Park & the Panhandle Trail $ 6,750.00
Canonsburg Educational & Cultural Institute: Comprehensive site evaluation & developmental plan $ 40,000.00
County Home Shows: To promote visitation to the 2025 Washington Co. Home Show $ 8,480.00
National Pike Trail Council: To install lighting within a 1,000 ft curved tunnel along the trail $ 20,000.00
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum: To install swinging door operators to meet ADA standards $ 20,000.00
Sarris Candies, Inc.: To promote visitor interest and events at new production facility $ 35,000.00
Washington County Historical Society: To restore the main hallway & staircase of the LeMoyne House $ 20,000.00
September 9, 2024 3:55 pm
(WPXI) – Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a bomb threat to an Indiana County school district. Authorities say troopers were sent to Penns Manor Area School District just before 10 a.m. Monday after a note was found in the high school indicating there was a bomb in the building. Students were dismissed early while troopers, including the Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Emergency and Special Operations Explosives Detection K9 Unit, were investigating. Police say no explosive devices were found during a sweep of the building. Anyone with information on this bomb threat should contact police by calling 724-357-1960.
September 9, 2024 5:07 am
ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. — (WPXI) – There was an increased police and security presence at Woodland Hills’ Edgewood Elementary School on Monday. In a letter sent to families on Sunday afternoon, Woodland Hills School District Superintendent Dr. Daniel Castega said this was being done out of an abundance of caution due to a social media post threatening a shooting at a school named Edgewood High School. Castenga says the Edgewood Police Department contacted him on Sunday morning because Edgewood Elementary School was formerly Edgewood High School. The post, which has since been taken down, was made just before midnight Saturday and was traced to Fayette County by Pennsylvania State Police. Police do not think there is a threat to Edgewood Elementary School or the Woodland Hills School District.
September 9, 2024 2:23 am
A McMurray woman was killed in a car crash Sunday afternoon just after twelve o’clock in Peters Township. Washington County Coroner, Tim Warco, tells WJPA News that 77-Year old Sandra Zuraw was the driver and sole occupant of a vehicle traveling north on Washington Road when she somehow lost control of the vehicle and and crashed near 4007 Washington Road. There were no other vehicles involved. Police, who are investigating the crash, say she died in the emergency department at Canonsburg Hospital. An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death. Warco, meanwhile, says his office is investigating it as a probable medical event.
