May 23, 2022 4:20 am
TOKYO (AP) – President Joe Biden is seeking to calm concerns about recent cases of monkeypox that have been identified in Europe and the United States. He says he does not see the need to institute strict quarantine measures. Biden spoke about the matter in Tokyo, one day after he had said the virus was something “to be concerned about.” Biden told reporters on Monday that he doesn’t think monkeypox rises to the level of concern that existed with COVID-19. He added that the smallpox vaccine works for monkeypox and the U.S. has enough stockpile of that vaccine to handle it.
May 23, 2022 4:19 am
TOKYO (AP) – President Joe Biden says he does not believe an economic recession in the U.S. is inevitable despite record high inflation and supply shortages partly caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Speaking at a news conference in Tokyo, Biden acknowledged that the U.S. economy has “problems.” But he said it was better positioned than the economies of other countries. Biden says his administration is working to ease the pain for U.S. consumers, but immediate solutions were unlikely. Biden spoke as he was set to launch a new trade pact between the U.S. and Indo-Pacific countries.
May 23, 2022 4:17 am
PITTSBURGH — (WPXI) – Pittsburgh Police and SWAT responded to a situation in Pittsburgh’s Hill District after a pizza delivery driver was robbed at gunpoint. Officers arrived at the area after the received a call at 6:18 p.m. They say they spoke with the victim of the robbery who told them that a man had pointed a long rifle at them while they were delivering a pizza. SWAT was called to the 2100 block of Bedford Avenue after the victim reported they saw the suspect run into a home in that location and believed they were barricaded inside. Authorities said that when they entered the residence they found a rifle but did not find the suspect.
May 23, 2022 4:12 am
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has been released from the hospital after a stay of more than a week following a stroke. The Democratic nominee in the state’s high-profile U.S. Senate contest said in a statement Sunday that he was headed home to Braddock. He says he is “feeling great” but plans to “continue to rest and recover.” The 52-year-old Fetterman had been at Lancaster General Hospital since May 13. He won the Democratic nomination while in the hospital and will face either heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz or former hedge fund CEO David McCormick.
May 23, 2022 2:49 am
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. — Police are investigating after an officer-involved shooting that left one man dead in Washington County on Saturday. According to police, troopers responded to a Washington County mall for a report of a theft from Rural King. Police gathered information on the suspect’s car that fled the scene. A trooper saw the car in Mount Pleasant Township and conducted a traffic stop at Westland Road at Main Street. Police said the driver was taken into custody during the traffic stop but the passenger, identified as 26-year-old Dennis Fonoimoana by the Washington County Coroner’s Office, refused to exit the car. Fonoimoana brandished a firearm during a verbal fight with the Trooper, also refusing to drop the gun when told to. The trooper fired their gun, which hit Fonoimoana. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The involved trooper has been placed on administrative duties as per Pennsylvania State Police’s regulations. The Washington County District Attorney’s Office was notified and responded to the scene. This investigation is ongoing.
May 23, 2022 1:43 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. — Washington City Police have arrested another alleged shooter in the murder of Kristin Barfield. Police Chief Dan Rush confirmed with WJPA News that Brandon Allen (Pictured Right), 30, was taken into custody without incident Friday night around 11:00 p.m. on the 500 block of Fayette Street. Earlier in the week, Police arrested and charged 15-year-old Tyriq Moss of Washington for his alleged role in the shooting. Barfield was sitting on the porch of her Ridge Avenue home with her boyfriend around five p.m. on May 11th, when a car drove by and multiple shots were fired, killing Barfield. Police have said the men in the vehicle were trying to shoot Barfield’s son Trey Willis. According to authorities, that car was being driven by Allen. There was also another person in the same area, believed to be Trey Willis. Police said that Moss and Allen agreed they were going to shoot that person. According to court documents, Moss and Allen fired shots that missed and ultimately hit and killed Barfield. Police say another man, 27-year-old Javarr Thomas, is still at large. Their car, a 2006 Chrysler 300, was found abandoned last weekend in Mt. Pleasant Township. Thomas is described as black, 5′4″ and weighing 130 pounds. Police say the Thomas should be considered armed and dangerous. Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh says Moss, whom they believe was one of the shooters, has been charged with homicide as an adult and is being held without bond in the Washington County Jail.
May 22, 2022 8:07 am
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — One is a restaurateur who fled Belarus when he learned he was about to be arrested for criticizing President Alexander Lukashenko. Another was given the choice of either denouncing fellow opposition activists or being jailed. And one is certain his brother was killed by the country’s security forces. What united them is their determination to resist Lukashenko by fighting against Russian forces in Ukraine. Belarusians are among those who have answered a call by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for foreign fighters to go to Ukraine and join the International Legion for the Territorial Defense of Ukraine. And volunteers have answered that call, given the high stakes in a conflict which many people see as a civilizational battle pitting dictatorship against freedom. For the Belarusians, who consider Ukrainians a brethren nation, the stakes feel especially high. Russian troops used Belarusian territory to invade Ukraine early in the war, and Lukashenko has publicly stood by longtime ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin, describing him as his “big brother.” Russia, for its part, has pumped billions of dollars into shoring up Lukashenko’s Soviet-style, state-controlled economy with cheap energy and loans.
May 22, 2022 8:05 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — One man was killed and eight people were wounded during an overnight shooting at a party that drew about 100 people to a Southern California hookah lounge, police said Saturday. San Bernardino police officers dispatched late Friday found a man shot in the parking lot outside the strip mall lounge, where the party had been advertised on social media in the city east of Los Angeles, Sgt. Equino Thomas said. The man, Allen Gresham, 20, was pronounced dead at the scene, a police statement said. Eight people who were shot and wounded were treated at hospitals. Some were taken by ambulance and others went on their own, he said. Police said their injuries did not appear to be life-threatening. Two people were detained and one was arrested on suspicion of possessing a stolen gun, the police statement said. They were not identified. The shooting involving at least two people started inside the hookah lounge after an argument and people spilled into the parking lot, where more shots were fired, Thomas and the statement said.
May 22, 2022 8:02 am
DENVER (AP) — A late spring Colorado snowstorm dumped several inches in the Denver metro area Saturday and knocked out electricity for about 210,000 customers, officials said. The wet snow weighed down tree branches and sent them toppling onto power lines, the KUSA television station reported. Much more snow fell in mountainous regions of Colorado. By Saturday night, power had been restored to 160,000 customers but about 50,000 still did not have it back, the Xcel Energy Colorado utility said in a statement. The small Colorado community of Cripple Creek near the base of Pike’s Peak got 20 inches (51 centimeters) of snow, KUSA reported.
May 22, 2022 8:01 am
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea (AP) — President Joe Biden said Sunday that recent cases of monkeypox that have been identified in Europe and the United States were something “to be concerned about.” In his first public comments on the disease, Biden added: “It is a concern in that if it were to spread it would be consequential.” The president was asked about the disease as he spoke to reporters at Osan Air Base in South Korea, where he visited troops before taking off for Japan to continue his first trip to Asia as president. “They haven’t told me the level of exposure yet but it is something that everybody should be concerned about,” Biden said. He added that work was underway to determine what vaccine might be effective. Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, told reporters aboard the flight to Tokyo that the United States has a supply of “vaccine that is relevant to treating monkeypox.”
