September 5, 2023 5:09 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – Dozens of schools within the Pittsburgh Public Schools district will move to remote learning for two days this week due to forecasted high temperatures. Superintendent Dr. Wayne N. Walter activated the district’s Extreme Heat Protocol on Monday. A total of 38 schools will learn remotely on Tuesday and Wednesday. The district implemented the new protocol back in May and began monitoring heat anytime temperatures go above 85 degrees. The city has also announced that it will be opening its cooling centers on Tuesday and Wednesday as well.
September 5, 2023 5:03 am
KARNS CITY, Pa. — (WPXI) – The family of the Karns City High School quarterback who collapsed on the field last week posted an update on his health. The Karns City Gremlin Football page shared the update from Mason Martin’s family. In it, they say within the last 24 hours, he has moved his arms, his eyes slightly reacted to light and he’s moved his legs when pinched. They say his chest tube has also been removed. “This is the first positive step in an extremely long journey,” the post said. “The prayer vigils held at the hospital and at Karns City have overwhelmed us with joy and support.” (PHOTO; Holly Mead Photography)
September 5, 2023 4:59 am
Gary Wright, whose ethereal song “Dream Weaver” wafted through the airwaves and up the music charts in 1976, died Monday. He was 80. Wright had been battling Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia for the past six years, the singer’s son, Justin Wright, told KABC-TV. Gary Wright died at his home in Palos Verdes Estates, California, according to the television station. “Dream Weaver,” which utilized a haunting synthesizer, debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on Jan. 3, 1976. It spent 20 weeks on the Hot 100 and peaked at No. 2 on March 27, 1976. The song spent eight weeks in Billboard’s Top 10. Wright’s follow-up single, “Love is Alive,” also reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching the runner-up spot on July 31, 1976. The single spent 27 weeks in the Hot 100 and seven weeks in the top 10. The singer had six singles chart on the Hot 100 between 1976 and 1981, according to Billboard.
September 5, 2023 4:56 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Steve Harwell, the longtime frontman of the Grammy-nominated pop rock band Smash Mouth, has died. He was 56. The band’s manager, Robert Hayes, says Harwell “passed peacefully and comfortably” on Monday morning, surrounded by family and friends at his home in Boise, Idaho. Hayes says Harwell died of acute liver failure. Smash Mouth released two platinum albums, the 1997 ska-fueled debut “Fush Yu Mang” and 1999’s “Astro Lounge,” featuring some of the band’s biggest hits, including the platinum single “All Star.” That appeared in the movie “Shrek,” alongside the band’s cover of the Monkees’ “I’m a Believer.” The band’s other hits include “Walkin’ on the Sun” and “Then the Morning Comes.”
September 5, 2023 4:53 am
MCKEESPORT, Pa. — (WPXI) – A 42-year-old man was taken into custody early Tuesday morning after an hours-long standoff with officers that started when police say he shot a woman, Allegheny County Police tell our news partners at Channel 11. Allegheny County SWAT was called to an active stand-off situation in McKeesport. According to police, emergency crews were called to the 1200 block of Pirl Street. Police said a woman was found with multiple gunshot wounds outside of a residence around 7:30 p.m. McKeesport police reported additional shots were fired at responding officers. The woman was pulled to safety and taken to a local hospital.
September 4, 2023 11:52 am
DETROIT (AP) — A 46% pay raise. A 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay. A restoration of traditional pensions. The demands that a more combative United Auto Workers union has pressed on General Motors, Stellantis and Ford are edging it closer to a strike when its contract ends Sept. 14. The automakers, which are making billions in profits, have dismissed the UAW’s wish list. They argue that its demands are unrealistic at a time of fierce competition as the world shifts from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles. The wide gulf between the sides could mean a strike against one or more of the automakers, which could send already-inflated vehicle prices even higher.
September 4, 2023 11:46 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden has told a crowd gathered in Philadelphia for a Labor Day parade he’s “celebrating jobs, good-paying jobs, jobs you can raise a family on, union jobs.” The Democratic president was at the Tri-State Labor Day Parade on Monday, speaking about the importance of unions. Labor Day comes this year against the backdrop of increasingly emboldened U.S. unions and a potential strike by 146,000 United Auto Workers union members. Biden likes to say he’s the most pro-union president in history. Biden has used executive actions to promote worker organizing and has authorized federal funding to aid union members’ pensions. Monday’s event was hosted by the Philadelphia AFL-CIO.
September 4, 2023 4:56 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler wants his fans to visit the Hawaiian island of Maui to help its economy recover from last month’s devastating wildfires. Tyler, who has a home on Maui, told the audience at the opening night of the band’s farewell tour in Philadelphia on Saturday night not to be afraid to book a vacation on the island. While fires destroyed the town of Lahaina, other tourist resort spots elsewhere on Maui were untouched and remain open. But they are struggling with reduced bookings after Hawaiian officials initially told tourists to stay away. Officials reversed that guidance after it became apparent how much the fires had impacted Maui’s tourist-based economy.
September 4, 2023 4:51 am
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — There may be no place like home but President Joe Biden says his is off-limits. Unprompted, Biden approached reporters Sunday in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, to say he was not on vacation. He says the U.S. Secret Service has been doing work on his longtime primary residence in Wilmington, Delaware, to make it more secure. It’s been months since he’s spent a night there. Biden arrived at his home on the Delaware coast on Saturday night from Florida after he surveyed hurricane damage. He told reporters he’s not on vacation and is in Rehoboth Beach because “I can’t go home-home.”
September 4, 2023 4:50 am
BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. (AP) — An unusual late-summer storm turned a week-long counterculture fest into a sloppy mess, with tens of thousands of partygoers stuck in foot-deep mud and with no working toilets in the northern Nevada desert. The gathering in the Black Rock Desert about 110 miles (177 kilometers) north of Reno attracts nearly 80,000 artists, musicians and activists and for a mix of wilderness camping and avant-garde performances. More than a half-inch of rain fell at the festival site on Friday, the National Weather Service in Reno said, with more coming Saturday and Sunday. Organizers closed the festival to vehicles after one death was reported. Officials provided no details of the fatality.
