May 9, 2022 3:23 am
UZHHOROD, Ukraine (AP) – Jill Biden spent several hours in Ukraine on Sunday, driving from the border with Slovakia to a town 10 minutes away to see first lady Olena Zelenska on Mother’s Day. Biden is the latest high-profile American to enter Ukraine during the war, while Zelenska’s public appearance was her first since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. The first ladies met at a school being used to temporarily house Ukrainian migrants. Biden and Zelenska came together in a small classroom and greeted each other in front of reporters before they met in private. Zelenska and her two children have been staying at an undisclosed location for their safety.
May 9, 2022 3:22 am
NEW YORK (AP) – During his career, Mickey Gilley had 39 Top 10 country hits and 17 No 1 songs – and was in various TV shows. But in 2002, he told The Associated Press he thanked John Travolta every night before bed for keeping his career alive. Gilley says it was his association with the movie “Urban Cowboy” that “had a huge impact” on his career. The movie was based on the self-named nightspot Gilley ran in Texas featuring a mechanical bull. The movie made the club a tourist draw. Mickey Gilley has died at 86. He’d been performing as recently as last month, but was in failing health over the past week. (Photo: AP)
May 9, 2022 3:21 am
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) – Dozens of Ukrainians are feared dead after a Russian bomb destroyed a school sheltering about 90 people in eastern Ukraine. The governor of Luhansk province said Sunday that 30 people were rescued from the rubble of the school in the village of Bilohorivka but the rest probably didn’t survive. Elsewhere, more explosions rocked the Black Sea port of Odesa. Meanwhile, Ukrainian soldiers making a last stand at a steel mill in the besieged city of Mariupol said they wouldn’t surrender following the evacuation of civilians from the sprawling site. As the largest European conflict since World War II churned on, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. first lady Jill Biden made surprise visits to Ukraine.
May 9, 2022 3:16 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Mehmet Oz’s rivals in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate are escalating their attacks on the celebrity heart surgeon’s connections to his parents’ native country of Turkey, raising it as a possible national security issue. Oz, best known as TV’s Dr. Oz, has rejected any suggestions he is a threat to national security and has accused his opponents, particularly GOP rival David McCormick, of making “bigoted attacks.” If elected, Oz would be the nation’s first Muslim senator. The criticism of Oz and his ties to Turkey has mushroomed in the weeks after Oz won the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, who remains deeply popular with conservative voters.
May 9, 2022 3:15 am
WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. (WPXI)— Edward Zdobinski is back in the United States after more than a month spent in Poland with his exotic dancer girlfriend, and has turned himself into police. Zdobinski is the owner of Triple A Motorsports in Rostraver Township, and officials say he stole over $200,000 from a company he co-owns over a year-long period. Details in police paperwork show the office manager found a large amount of money from business accounts missing, allegedly being used by Zdobinski for his personal use. Police said he used the money on things like hotels, rent for his other business, alcohol and even a stripper. Initially, Zdobinski asked that office manager to cover up his wrongdoings. The company is cooperating and an attorney for the business said the business will remain dedicated to its customers and loyal employees. Zdobinski was arraigned yesterday and has a preliminary hearing on June 6.
May 9, 2022 1:42 am
OHIO COUNTY, W.Va. — A Brownsville couple has been identified as the victims in a four-vehicle accident that had Interstate 70 West closed for hours Tuesday. According to reports, Dr. Marc and Terri Tinstman died as a result of the accident near Triadelphia, just over the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border. Brishesh Kumar Yadav, 23, of Renton, Washington, faces two counts of negligent homicide for his alleged role in causing the accident. According to the criminal complaint, Yadav was driving a commercial motor vehicle on Interstate 70 West and had just crossed the state border. Yadav then came upon stopped traffic in a posted work zone, with signs posted in advance alerting drivers to that work zone. Witnesses reportedly said the vehicle in front of Yadav was stopped or nearly stopped. Roadway evidence at the scene allegedly showed that the brakes were applied on Yadav’s vehicle only within 51½ feet of the point of impact. The braking evidence and witness statements, according to the complaint, showed a delayed response to the stopped traffic, which resulted in a chain-reaction collision. The complaint also says Yadav’s vehicle hit a pickup hauling a trailer, which then hit an SUV, which caused a collision with a stationary tractor-trailer. The Tinstmans were in the SUV according to reports. One other individual was hospitalized because of the accident.
May 9, 2022 1:17 am
PennDOT will have single-lane restrictions on I-70 east and westbound between Beau Street and the South Junction with I-79 (towards Morgantown), that is Exits 20 and 21, starting Monday, May 9 through Friday, May 27, from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Workers will be repairing and replacing seals in the concrete roadway.
May 9, 2022 1:12 am
WASHINGTON, Pa. — The search for a wanted Washington man is over after the suspect turned himself in Saturday evening. According to City of Washington Police, 20-year old Martez Thomas Jr. was on the run stemming from an incident on May 3rd. Thomas was wanted for two counts of criminal attempt homicide, two counts of aggravated assault and numerous counts of recklessly endangering another person. Officials say Thomas turned himself into State Police Saturday after a plea to turn himself was sent from Washington Police Friday. Thomas faces a preliminary hearing in front of Magisterial District Judge Curtis Thompson on May 20th. Officials say this incident remains under investigation. If you have any information regarding it Washington Police ask that you call the department at 724-223-4226 or send them a message via messenger on Facebook.
May 8, 2022 2:45 pm
KYIV, Ukraine — Leaders from the Group of Seven developed democracies pledged Sunday to phasing out or banning the import of Russian oil, as they met with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for online talks to stress their support and to display unity among Western allies on Victory in Europe Day, which marks Nazi Germany’s surrender in 1945. Cutting out Russian oil supplies “will hit hard at the main artery of (President Vladimir) Putin’s economy and deny him the revenue he needs to fund his war,” the G-7 countries, which include the U.S., Britain, Canada, Germany, France and Italy and Japan, said in a statement. “We will ensure that we do so in a timely and orderly fashion, and in ways that provide time for the world to secure alternative supplies,” they added. Casting a look back at World War II, the leaders stressed unity in their resolve that Putin must not win. “We owe it to the memory of all those who fought for freedom in the Second World War, to continue fighting for it today, for the people of Ukraine, Europe and the global community,” they said. U.S. President Joe Biden’s call with the G-7 leaders and Zelenskyy lasted about an hour.
May 8, 2022 6:12 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A San Francisco judge tossed out former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit challenging his permanent ban from Twitter. U.S. District Judge James Donato said Friday that Trump failed to show Twitter violated his First Amendment right to free speech. Free speech rights don’t apply to private companies and Trump failed to show Twitter was working as a state actor on behalf of Democrats, the judge wrote. “The amended complaint merely offers a grab-bag of allegations to the effect that some Democratic members of Congress wanted Mr. Trump, and ‘the views he espoused,’ to be banned from Twitter because such ‘content and views’ were ‘contrary to those legislators’ preferred points of view,’” Donato wrote. “But the comments of a handful of elected officials are a far cry from a ‘rule of decision for which the State is responsible.’ Legislators are perfectly free to express opinions without being deemed the official voice of ‘the State.’” Trump sued Twitter, Facebook and Google’s YouTube in July 2021, claiming they illegally censored him.
