March 21, 2022 1:17 pm
CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) – Kao USA Inc. is asking consumers to check their Jergens® Ultra Healing Moisturizer 3 oz and 10 oz products to determine if it is part of a voluntary recall of the product. Select units of Jergens® Ultra Healing Moisturizer could show the presence of Pluralibacter gergoviae, a bacterium which typically poses little medical risk to healthy people. However, people who have certain health problems such as weakened immune systems may be more susceptible to infections. Kao USA is urging consumers to discontinue use of the recalled lotion as a precautionary measure. (Photo: ABC)
March 21, 2022 4:23 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. Marine Corps has identified the four Marines who died when their Osprey aircraft crashed Friday night in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise. All four were assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261, Marine Aircraft Group 26, 2d Marine Aircraft Wing stationed on Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina. They are Capt. Matthew J. Tomkiewicz, 27, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Capt. Ross A. Reynolds, 27, of Leominster, Massachusetts; Gunnery Sgt. James W. Speedy, 30, of Cambridge, Ohio; and Cpl. Jacob M. Moore, 24, of Catlettsburg, Kentucky. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
March 21, 2022 4:21 am
BEIJING (AP) – Shanghai Disney has closed as the city tries to control its biggest coronavirus flareup in two years, while the southern business center of Shenzhen allowed shops and offices to reopen after a weeklong closure. Meanwhile, the cities of Changchun and Jilin in the northeast began more citywide virus testing following a surge in infections. Jilin tightened anti-disease curbs, ordering its 2 million residents to stay home. China’s case numbers in its latest infection wave are low compared with other major countries, but authorities are enforcing a “zero tolerance” strategy that has suspended access to some major cities.
March 21, 2022 4:20 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate Judiciary Committee has kicked off Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated for the nation’s highest court. At Monday’s hearing, Democrats sought to preemptively rebut Republican criticism of her record on criminal matters as a judge and before that, as a federal public defender and a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Barring a significant misstep by áJackson, Democrats who control the Senate by the slimmest of margins intend to wrap up her confirmation before Easter. Jackson is expected to answer questions from the committee’s 11 Democrats and 11 Republicans beginning Tuesday.
March 21, 2022 4:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden has added a stop in Poland to his upcoming trip to Europe for urgent talks with NATO and European allies. The trip comes as Russian forces concentrate their fire upon cities and trapped civilians in their nearly month-old invasion of Ukraine. White House officials say Biden will first travel to Brussels, and then travel to Poland, where he will meet with leaders there. Poland neighbors Ukraine and has taken in more than 2 million refugees from the fighting. It’s been one of the most vocal countries in asking fellow NATO members to consider getting more involved to rein in the bloodshed.
March 21, 2022 4:17 am
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian officials have defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in Mariupol lay down arms and raise white flags in exchange for safe passage. Russian troops have surrounded and are barraging the strategic southern port city. Ukrainian officials say the Russian military hit an art school sheltering some 400 people only hours before offering to open two corridors out of Mariupol in return for the capitulation of its defenders. Fighting for Mariupol has been intense, even as the Russian offensive in other areas has floundered to the point where Western governments and analysts see the broader conflict grinding into a war of attrition. Shelling also continued in Kyiv as Russian forces work to surround the Ukrainian capital.
March 21, 2022 4:15 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – A man was killed after being shot in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood late Saturday night. Officers arrived at the 1000 block of Freyburg Street around 10:30 p.m. Saturday night and found one male victim with gunshot wounds to his chest. The victim has been identified as 29-year-old Adam Cloud of New Kensington. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A Pittsburgh Public Information Officer says the shooting stemmed from an altercation outside of a skate club. Police were talking to people who were inside the skate club at the time of the shooting, to see if they witnessed anything. Police have not made any arrests yet.
March 21, 2022 4:05 am
DENVER (AP) – The surprising advantage Democrats gained during the torturous process of rewriting the nation’s congressional maps may be short lived. Two major states – North Carolina and Ohio – are already poised to redraw their maps in the next few years. Several cases at the U.S. Supreme Court, meanwhile, could dramatically alter the rules that govern mapmaking nationwide. Those twists could ultimately transform the redistricting process from a once-a-decade process into a regular political brawl that consumes state capitals already gripped by partisan tensions.
March 21, 2022 2:27 am
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources stopped by Rolling Hills Park in Peters Township to officially deliver a grant announced last December. DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn detailed to the group of state and local officials the criteria the department considered in awarding Rolling Hills Park and its aquatic facility the $631,000 Keystone Recreation, Park and Conservation Fund grant. Dunn said that the department is looking to try and achieve park availability within a 10 minute walk or bicycle ride from every residence in Pennsylvania. The open and green design of the park and aquatic facility lends itself to residents enjoying a climate friendly activity and teaching youngsters how to swim. The aquatic facility has yet to be authorized by township officials. Bids for the project have come in over budget and redesigns and revenue projections have been restudied. If approved, the aquatic center is expected to open on Memorial Day weekend 2024.
March 21, 2022 2:22 am
The Washington County District Attorney’s office has announced the arrests of three individuals in connection with an investigation of suspected heroin/fentanyl by 47 year old John Beebe III of Fallowfield Township. Members of the District Attorney’s Drug Task Force and Charleroi Regional Police served the arrest warrant and search warrant on Saturday. Beebe was taken into custody without incident. Also, 26 year old Jobe Franks and Donald Franks of Charleroi were both arrested as being fugitives on outstanding felony drug warrants, which were the result of a previous investigation. All three were arraigned before District Justice Kelly Stewart and lodged in the Washington County Jail after failing to post bond. Preliminary hearings are scheduled for March 31. Task Force detectives seized a large bulk quantity of suspected fentanyl/heroin, repackaging material, numerous firearms and more than $40,000 in cash. Additional charges are expected to be filed in the near future.
