May 4, 2022 5:39 pm
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Primary elections in Ohio have set the stage for a more competitive phase of the midterm primary season, with closely watched races in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia scheduled for later this month. In Ohio on Tuesday, “Hillbilly Elegy” author JD Vance, buoyed by Donald Trump’s endorsement, won the contentious Republican Senate primary. Vance’s win ends a bitter contest that, at one point, saw two candidates nearly come to blows on a debate stage. Ohio was seen as a test of Trump’s hold on his party. The former president has staked his reputation as a GOP kingmaker on his ability to pull his chosen candidates across the finish line.
May 4, 2022 5:37 pm
UNDATED (AP) – In the end for Dolly Parton, resistance was futile. The country music icon is among those being inducted into the latest class at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She was voted in despite first saying she shouldn’t be considered because there were others more deserving in rock. She later relented after learning she had no say-so in the matter – and that the Hall accepts all genres of music. Others who are getting in prove that. This year’s inductees include Eminem, Lionel Richie, Carly Simon, Eurythmics, Duran Duran and Pat Benatar. The induction ceremony is set for Nov. 5 in Los Angeles. (Photo: AP)
May 4, 2022 4:55 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Dave Chappelle (shuh-PEHL’) was attacked – but not injured – during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl last night. The comedian was finishing his set when someone ran at him and tried to tackle him. Security guards overpowered the man, dragging him off stage – and Chappelle finished his performance. The man who rushed him was taken away in an ambulance. The Los Angeles Police Department says the 23-year-old man was carrying a fake handgun with a real knife blade inside it. Police say the alleged attacker was treated for an unspecified injury and arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. Jamie Foxx was in the wings of the Hollywood Bowl and during his curtain call, Chappelle thanked him for responding to the attack. Chris Rock was also there; he jokingly asked if the attacker was Will Smith, who slapped Rock during the Oscars.
May 4, 2022 3:54 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve intensified its drive to curb the worst inflation in 40 years by raising its benchmark short-term interest rate by an sizable half-percentage point. The half-point hike in the Fed’s key rate – its largest since 2000 – raised it to a range of 0.75% to 1%, the highest point since the pandemic struck two years ago. The Fed will likely follow Wednesday’s move with the fastest pace of hikes in 30 years. The Fed also announced Wednesday that it will start reducing its huge $9 trillion balance sheet, which consists mainly of Treasury and mortgage bonds. Reducing the Fed’s holdings will have the effect of further raising loan costs throughout the economy.
May 4, 2022 12:14 pm
One man is dead after a tree fell onto several cars at a Sunoco Station in Upper St. Clair Tuesday evening. The gas station is located on the corner of McMurray Road and Bethel Church Road and authorities say the cars had been stopped at a red light when the tree came down. The man was taken to an area hospital in critical condition. He later died. Power lines were down in the area and the Sunoco’s roof was ripped off. His wife and a family of six in the other car were not injured. (Photo: WPXI)
May 4, 2022 5:34 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the missile was fired from the North’s capital region and flew to the waters off its eastern coast. The Japanese Coast Guard urged vessels traveling off Japanese coasts to stay away from any possible fragments. The launch comes days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his nuclear arsenal and threatened to use them against rivals. The launch came six days before a new conservative South Korean president takes office. North Korea has a history of raising animosities with weapons tests when Seoul and Washington inaugurate new governments.
May 4, 2022 5:28 am
BEIJING (AP) – Beijing is closing some 10% of the stations in its vast subway system as an additional measure against the spread of coronavirus. The subway authority in a brief message said only that the measure to shut 40 mostly downtown stations was being taken as part of epidemic control measures and would take effect from Wednesday. No date for resumption of service was given. Beijing has been on high alert for the spread of COVID-19, with restaurants and bars limited to takeout only, gyms closed and classes suspended indefinitely. City residents are required to undergo three tests throughout the week. Authorities aim to detect and isolate cases without imposing the sort of sweeping lockdowns seen in Shanghai and elsewhere.
May 4, 2022 5:27 am
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces have unleashed artillery fire on towns in eastern Ukraine, killing and wounding dozens of civilians, and began storming the bombed-out steel mill in Mariupol. Scores of people were evacuated from the steelworks after enduring weeks of shelling against the city’s last pocket of resistance. The governor of the eastern Donetsk region says Russian attacks left 21 dead on Tuesday, the highest number of fatalities in almost a month. Thanks to the evacuation effort over the weekend, 101 people emerged from the bunkers under Mariupol’s Azovstal steelworks. U.N. and Ukrainian officials are hoping to organize more evacuations if the security situation allows it. The EU leader meanwhile called on the 27-nation bloc to ban Russian oil imports.
May 4, 2022 5:24 am
A Los Angeles protest over the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that would throw out Roe v. Wade briefly turned into a skirmish with police, who say one officer was injured. A citywide police tactical alert was declared after a Tuesday night confrontation downtown. Authorities say about 250 people had been marching peacefully for abortion rights before the clash. LAPD Chief Michel Moore says some demonstrators threw rocks and bottles at officers. The crowd later mostly dispersed. It was the only violence reported among protests held around the country. The largest, in Washington D.C., drew about 1,000 people to a rally in front of the Supreme Court.
May 4, 2022 4:26 am
Two people are dead following that crash on Interstate 70 Westbound Tuesday near the border with West Virginia. According to WTRF Television, a truck pulling a trailer slammed into a vehicle that was stopped behind a tractor trailer. The truck pulling the trailer went on top of the vehicle killing two people inside. The Ohio County Sheriff’s office says a male and a female from Pennsylvania were killed but no identities have been released. The investigation into the crash continues.
