April 7, 2025 5:12 am
BROWNSVILLE, Pa. — (WPXI) – Another local school district will start a new ban on cellphones in the classroom. Brownsville Area School District’s new electronic devices policy is for grades six through 12. Students will be required to place their phones, watches, and other personal devices into special pouches during the school day. Parents are asked to contact the office if they need to reach their child. The new policy starts on Monday. Brownsville joins Penn Hills, Sto Rox and Washington schools, which have also banned phones in classrooms.
April 7, 2025 5:09 am
BRADENVILLE, Pa. — (WPXI) – A man robbed a gas station with a knife in Westmoreland County. Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli’s Office shared information, saying the ParMar gas station on Route 982 in Bradenville was robbed just after 1:15 p.m. on Sunday. Police said a man walked in, brandished a knife and demanded money before taking off on foot. He was last seen heading south on Route 982 and onto Latrobe Derry Road. The robber was described as a white man wearing a black hoodie, a blue t-shirt, blue jeans, a gray hat and white shoes. Anyone with information is asked to contact Pennsylvania State Police or call 911.
April 7, 2025 4:46 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates have reversed course after angering the family of the late Roberto Clemente by removing a sign honoring the franchise icon on the right-field wall at PNC Park. The sign featured Clemente’s name and his No. 21. Replacing it was an advertisement for Surfside, an alcoholic drink. However, the Clemente sign will be restored before Monday night’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals, according to Pirates president Travis Williams.
April 7, 2025 5:16 am
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump says he won’t back down on his sweeping tariffs on imports from most of the world unless countries even out their trade with the U.S. He’s digging in on his plans to implement the taxes that have sent financial markets reeling, raised fears of a recession and upended the global trading system. Speaking to reporters Sunday aboard Air Force One, Trump said he didn’t want global markets to fall, but also that he wasn’t concerned about the massive sell-off either, adding, “sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.” His comments came after Trump’s aides sought to soothe market concerns by saying more than 50 nations had reached out about launching negotiations to lift the tariffs.
April 7, 2025 5:18 am
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has traveled to the epicenter of Texas’ measles outbreak after a second school-aged child who was not vaccinated died from a measles-related illness. The death was confirmed Sunday by a spokesman for UMC Health System in Lubbock, Texas, and the Texas State Department of State Health Services. The state health department said the child died Thursday of “what the child’s doctors described as measles pulmonary failure.” The first measles death in the U.S. in a decade was in an unvaccinated school-age child in February in Lubbock. An adult in New Mexico who was unvaccinated became the second death in March. Kennedy says in a social media post Sunday that he is in Gaines County, Texas, to comfort the children’s families.
April 7, 2025 5:17 am
FRANKFORT, Kentucky (AP) — Rivers rose and flooding worsened across the U.S. South and Midwest, threatening communities already waterlogged and badly damaged by days of heavy rain and storms that killed at least 18 people. From Texas to Ohio, utilities scrambled to shut off power and gas, while cities deployed sandbags to protect homes and businesses. Forecasters warned that flooding could persist for days, especially in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. Some rivers that inundated towns rose to near-record levels and were expected to crest on Monday.
April 7, 2025 9:50 am
LAKE BUTLER, Fla. (AP) – Jay North, who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on TV’s “Dennis the Menace” for four seasons starting in 1959, has died. He was 73. North died Sunday at his home in Florida after battling colon cancer, according to Laurie Jacobson, a longtime friend, and Bonnie Vent, who was his booking agent. North was 6 when he was cast as the smiling troublemaker in the CBS sitcom adaptation of the popular comic strip. Often wearing a striped shirt and overalls, Dennis’ antics frequently frustrated his retired next-door neighbor George Wilson. The show ran on Sundays until 1963. After that it was a fixture for decades in syndication.
April 6, 2025 6:55 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Sending children back to school in new sneakers, jeans and T-shirts is likely to cost U.S. families significantly more this fall. That’s the warning from American industry groups after President Donald Trump put high tariffs on Asian countries that make most of the clothing purchased in the United States. Walmart, Gap Inc. and Nike are a few of the companies that get a majority of their clothing from China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and other leading garment producers. A trade group for U.S. footwear distributors and retailers estimates the price of a pair of athletic shoes made in Vietnam may rise from $150 to $220 if the new tariffs take effect as planned.
April 6, 2025 6:50 am
A district court judge has ruled in favor of four whistleblowers who said that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton retaliated against them for reporting bribery allegations, awarding his employees more than $6 million combined in damages. In her judgment, Travis County Judge Catherine Mauzy says that Paxton violated state law by firing the former employees after they brought forth bribery allegations against his office in 2020. Paxton was under federal investigation for accusations that he used his office to benefit a wealthy real estate developer. He was also impeached then later acquitted by the Texas Senate for the corruption allegations.
April 6, 2025 6:45 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Suspected U.S. airstrikes have killed at least two people overnight in a stronghold of Yemen’s Houthi rebels. That’s according to reports by the Houthis on Sunday. The strikes in Saada wounded nine others. Footage aired by the Houthis’ al-Masirah satellite news channel showing a strike collapsing what appeared to be a two-story building. The Iranian-backed Houthis aired no footage from inside the building, which they described as a solar power shop. The intense campaign of airstrikes in Yemen under U.S. President Donald Trump has reportedly killed at least 69 people. A bombing video posted online by Trump suggests casualties in the campaign may be higher than the rebels acknowledge.
