September 27, 2023 2:29 am
A Washington man pleaded guilty to aggravated assault charges on Tuesday. Brad Sumner, 39 of Washington will spend the next 4-10 years in state prison. Police were summoned to his Allison Avenue address in May. When police arrived, they found Sumner’s housemate who had been stabbed in the stomach and knee. Another roommate in the house detailed events to police while the victim was transported to a hospital. The victim did survive. In addition to Sumner’s prison sentence he will be subject to a 12 month reentry program once that sentence is complete.
September 26, 2023 1:57 pm
(AP) – The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorney generals filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon on Tuesday, alleging the e-commerce behemoth uses its position in the marketplace to inflate prices on other platforms, overcharge sellers and stifle competition. The complaint is the result of a years-long investigation into Amazon’s businesses and one of the most significant legal challenges brought against the company in its nearly 30-year history. The agency and states that joined the lawsuit are asking the court to issue a permanent injunction court that they say would prohibit Amazon from engaging in its unlawful conduct and pry loose its “monopolistic control to restore competition.”
September 26, 2023 10:24 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden is suing Rudy Giuliani and another attorney, saying the two wrongly accessed and shared his personal data after obtaining it from the owner of a Delaware computer repair shop. The lawsuit is the latest in a new strategy by Hunter Biden to strike back against Republican allies of Donald Trump who have traded and passed around his private data including purported emails and embarrassing images in their effort to discredit his father, President Joe Biden.
September 26, 2023 7:10 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says that it will expel a U.S. soldier who crossed into the country through the heavily armed border between the Koreas in July. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday that authorities have finished their questioning of Pvt. Travis King. It said that he confessed to illegally entering the North and quoted him criticizing the U.S. Verifying the authenticity of the comments attributed to King is impossible. The agency did not say when authorities plan to expel King or to where.
September 26, 2023 5:52 am
A Chartiers Township woman is facing numerous charges after police say she sent three photos of a nude, adult male to a 12 year old victim with that victim’s fathers face superimposed onto the picture. According to the criminal complaint, Courtney Cavanaugh, 44, sent those picture from her cell phone back in May. Police say a search of her Grace Avenue home turned up that phone. She faces charges that include; Dissemination of explicit sexual material, contact with a minor of obscene material, criminal use of a communication facility, unlawful dissemination of an intimate image, tampering with evidence, obstruction of law and harassment. The criminal complaint says Cavanaugh was in a former relationship with the juvenile’s father.
September 26, 2023 5:00 am
SIMI VALLEY, Calf. (AP) — Republicans are meeting for their second presidential debate as top rivals seek to blunt the momentum of Donald Trump. The former president is so confident that he will continue to cruise through the party’s primary that he’s again forgoing sharing a stage with his competitors. Seven GOP White House candidates are squaring off at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California for a debate Wednesday sponsored by Fox Business. Rather than attend, Trump will be in Detroit, delivering a primetime speech that will compete for airtime with the debate and take place before a crowd of current and former union members.
September 26, 2023 4:56 am
The field for the second Republican presidential debate will be smaller than the first. The Republican National Committee says seven candidates have qualified for Wednesday night’s debate in California. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson participated in the first debate but didn’t meet the heightened criteria to make the cut this time. Former President Donald Trump will also be missing from the stage and will instead hold events in Michigan. To qualify for the second debate, candidates needed at least 3% support in two national polls or 3% in one national poll as well as two polls from four early-voting states. The White House hopefuls also needed at least 50,000 unique donors.
September 26, 2023 4:55 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The deal is made, the pickets have been suspended, and Hollywood’s writers are on the verge of getting back to work after months on strike. Crucial steps remain for the striking writers, including a planned vote Tuesday from their union’s governing boards on the tentative agreement reached with Hollywood studios. After that comes a vote from the writers themselves, who have yet to learn what gains they’ve won after nearly five months on strike. Writers Guild of America leaders have halted their picket lines, but they’re encouraging writers to join the lines of actors, who are still on strike with no deal yet on the horizon.
September 26, 2023 4:53 am
VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — President Joe Biden has joined the United Auto Workers on the 12th day of their strike against major carmakers, a demonstration of support for organized labor apparently unparalleled in presidential history. It comes a day before former President Donald Trump makes his own visit to meet with striking UAW members. Biden has repeatedly sided with the UAW during their strike. Biden says the workers should participate in the carmakers’ riches “now that the industry is roaring back.”
September 26, 2023 4:51 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — With five days to go before a government shutdown, Congress returns to work in crisis mode. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces an insurgency from hard-right Republicans eager to slash spending even if it means closing federal offices to millions of Americans. On Tuesday evening, the House is expected to vote on a package of government funding bills, but it’s not at all clear that McCarthy has the support needed. Meanwhile, the Senate is trying to stave off a federal closure with its own bipartisan plan for a stopgap measure. It would buy some time and keep offices funded past Saturday’s deadline.
