July 30, 2023 3:53 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A federal trial for a man who fatally shot 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue is approaching its conclusion as the defense makes its case that mental illness spurred the United States’ deadliest antisemitic attack. Lawyers for Robert Bowers are trying to persuade a federal jury to spare his life. A defense psychiatrist who met with Bowers testified Friday that Bowers has schizophrenia and acted out of a delusion that Jews were trying to cause a genocide of white people. Bowers’ relatives also testified, with his aunt saying he had a difficult childhood.
July 30, 2023 3:43 am
ALLEGHENY COUNTY -(WPXI)- A 17-year-old boy is dead after being found in the Monongahela River. Allegheny County dispatchers said the search for the boy began near the Mansfield Bridge at around 8:15 p.m. Friday night. Crews were staged across the river at the 200 block of Washington Avenue in Dravosburg. The Glassport police chief said the boy, later identified by the Medical Examiner’s Office as Benjerman T.N. Coleman, was swimming and fishing with other people when he went under the water and did not resurface. Coleman was pronounced dead at around 1:45 a.m. The people around him quickly called 911. The chief said the river is about 15-20 feet deep. Investigators said Glassport emergency crews were leading the investigation.
July 30, 2023 3:33 am
COLLIER TOWNSHIP, Pa. -(WPXI)- A woman was shot outside of a Texas Roadhouse in Collier Township. Allegheny County dispatchers say police and medics were called to the restaurant on Washington Pike at 3:50 p.m. on Friday. Restaurant employees say the business was not impacted and confirmed that the incident happened in the parking lot, not inside the building.The victim was taken to a hospital. “We pulled up and there were four or five police cars on scene,” said Carmela Weaver of Kennedy Township. The gunfire erupted as many people were making their way inside the restaurant to eat. “There was a lot of blood and when we got here there were two sandals, like flip flops,” said Rich Mitoch, a Texas Roadhouse patron. “I asked the policeman if I could go inside, he says, ‘Yeah.’” Weaver is thankful no one else was hurt. She said she and her family were on their way to Texas Roadhouse for dinner and got there just after the shooting happened. “Your daily activities, or things you do for regular enjoyment with your family, especially with a one-year old – take for granted that you’re going to be safe and that’s not always the case,” she said. The woman who was shot is expected to recover. Police are not yet releasing her name or the suspect’s name.
July 29, 2023 4:30 am
HAVRE, Mont. (AP) — A man in Montana was detained and questioned by police as authorities try to piece together the mysterious disappearance and sudden reappearance of Alicia Navarro. She was 14 when she vanished from her Arizona home four years ago. Police on Friday provided no details about Wednesday’s search or the identity of the man, who was released. But a man who lives in the apartment next to the one that was searched says for at least a year Navarro lived there with the man who was questioned. Navarro’s whereabouts were revealed Sunday when she showed up at the Havre police station and told officers she wanted her name removed from the missing persons list.
July 29, 2023 4:28 am
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford is recalling more than 870,000 F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. because the electric parking brakes can turn on unexpectedly. The recall covers certain pickups from the 2021 through 2023 model years with single exhaust systems. The company says in documents posted Friday by government safety regulators that a rear wiring bundle can come in contact with the axle housing. That can chafe the wiring and cause a short circuit, which can turn on the parking brake. The company says it doesn’t know of any crashes or injuries from the problem. Dealers will inspect the rear wiring harness. If protective tape is worn through, the harness will be replaced. If the tape isn’t worn, they’ll install a protective tie strap and tape wrap.
July 29, 2023 4:25 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday for the first time publicly acknowledged his seventh grandchild, a 4-year-old girl fathered by his son Hunter with an Arkansas woman, Lunden Roberts, in 2018. The president said in a statement that: “Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward.” It was the president’s first public acknowledgment of the child. The president added that he and first lady Jill Biden “only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.”
July 28, 2023 5:02 am
NEW YORK (AP) – Randy Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles who added high harmonies to such favorites as “Take It Easy” and “The Best of My Love” and sang and co-wrote the hit “Take It to the Limit,” has died at 77. Meisner. The Eagles said in a statement that Meisner died Wednesday from of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Called “the sweetest man in the music business” by former bandmate Don Felder, the baby-faced Meisner joined Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon in the early 1970s to form a quintessential Los Angeles band that is one of the most popular acts in history.
July 28, 2023 4:59 am
(AP) – Donald Trump has been indicted on three additional charges in a case that accuses him of illegally possessing classified documents. These new allegations, in a case stemming from a 2022 raid at his Florida estate, add fresh detail to the criminal case initially issued last month. The former president faces three new charges in a superseding indictment issued by federal prosecutors on Thursday. Trump is newly accused of asking a staffer at his Mar-a-Lago club to delete camera footage at his Florida estate in an effort to obstruct the federal investigation into his possession of classified documents. The employee is also now charged in the case.
July 28, 2023 4:58 am
(AP) – Nearly 200 million people in the United States are under either a heat advisory or flood warning of some kind, as high temperatures and severe storms are to continue blazing and battering the nation. The National Weather Service says a “dangerous” heat wave began blanketing the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic on Thursday and will continue into the weekend. Severe thunderstorms and flash floods are possible for parts of the Northeast and South, in New England and South Florida. And record-breaking temperatures will persist in the Southwest and Midwest. Due to the widespread extreme heat, many of the nation’s largest power grids are under stress.
July 28, 2023 4:55 am
ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities in Alabama say they have filed criminal charges against a woman who confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of the interstate. Carlee Russell turned herself in Friday on charges of false reporting to law enforcement and falsely reporting an incident. She was released on bond. Both charges are misdemeanors that carry up to a year in jail. Russell disappeared after calling 911 on July 13 to report a toddler wandering beside a stretch of interstate. She returned home two days later and told police she had been abducted. Her attorney later said she made the story up.
