May 6, 2025 5:00 am
Russia said it intercepted more than 100 Ukrainian drones fired at almost a dozen of its regions in an attack that forced all four airports around Moscow to temporarily suspend flights. The overnight assault came two days ahead of a unilateral 72-hour ceasefire in the more than three-year war announced by President Vladimir Putin to coincide with celebrations in Moscow marking Victory Day in World War II. The day celebrating Moscow’s defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 is Russia’s biggest secular holiday when foreign dignitaries will gather in the Russian capital.
May 6, 2025 4:57 am
Rite Aid is again seeking bankruptcy protection as the struggling drugstore chain says it will try to sell substantially all of its assets. The company said Monday that its stores will remain open as it starts Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Major drugstore chains and independent pharmacies have been closing stores and struggling with several challenges. Rite Aid initially filed for bankruptcy protection in October 2023, with plans to sell parts of its business and restructure. Rite Aid said then the voluntary Chapter 11 reorganization would help slash debt and resolve litigation.
May 6, 2025 4:55 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy has retracted his offer to at least one of two customers to tour a former Nazi concentration camp after he says the person denied responsibility for antisemitic behavior at a Barstool pub in Philadelphia. A video posted online over the weekend shows a sign with an antisemitic message that had been ordered along with bottle service. Portnoy says he fired two servers who were involved. Portnoy, who is Jewish, said he had hoped to turn the event into a teachable moment but said the customer who initially took responsibility for the actions changed course Monday saying he had nothing to do with it. Police are investigating the incident.
May 6, 2025 4:51 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The 20-year-old man who fell from the top of a 21-foot-high wall onto the warning track at PNC Park during a Pittsburgh Pirates game last week has taken his first steps since the accident. Kavan Markwood still has a long way to go in his recovery after Monday’s steps. He slipped off a railing and onto the field during the seventh inning of Pittsburgh’s 4-3 win over the Chicago Cubs last Wednesday. Jennifer Phillips, the organizer of a GoFundMe page for Markwood, says seeing him up and moving lifted everyone’s spirits. She says he is dealing with a broken neck, clavicle and back.
May 6, 2025 2:59 am
Cecil Township Supervisors spent a large part of their meeting considering actions that will help their Fire Department. Currently, the three volunteer fire departments are working on guidelines and bylaws to combine their efforts and become one unified department within the township with volunteer and paid firefighters working in unison. In Monday’s meeting, supervisors approved the creation of the Cecil Volunteer Fire Department 501(c)(3) organization. The organization will allow the current volunteer units to fundraise and write grants to help them acquire turnout gear and any other apparatus equipment that they need under one unified organization. In other related business, Supervisor Chairman Tom Casciola introduced the idea of reinstituting the Township Fire Tax. Currently, fire department expenses are paid as line items within the general budget. Casciola suggests that a flat fee, equal to what is currently spent by the township be introduced as, possibly a flat fee, so residents would pay an equal amount for fire department services and they would be cognizant of the amount of money being spent on the fire department. The idea is in its infancy and no decision is imminent. Additionally, the home security website Safewise recognized Cecil Township as the number one safest municipality in Pennsylvania for the year 2025.
May 6, 2025 2:55 am
Washington City Police, in a release issued on Monday, say they are investigating the discovery of human remains Sunday morning around ten-thirty as a criminal investigation, as is their protocol. Police say they were called to 104 East Wylie Avenue at the Get Go to speak with a woman who claimed she found a human skull along a fence line behind 150 Terrace Avenue. The Detective Unit notified Washington County Coroner Tim Warco who said that, at this time, he doesn’t believe the death was suspicious but won’t be able to make a final determination until the remains are looked at. At t this point in time, authorities say they can not say whether the remains are male or female or what the cause of death may have been. Police say they called in the Mercyhurst Forensic Anthropology group, who specializes in the recovery of human remains. Authorities say determining gender, identity and cause of death could take day, weeks or even months.
May 5, 2025 5:48 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army is pausing helicopter flights near a Washington airport after two commercial planes had to abort landings last week because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was flying to the Pentagon. The commander of the 12th Aviation Battalion directed the unit to pause flight operations around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport following Thursday’s close calls, two Army officials confirmed to The Associated Press. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details not publicly announced. The unit is continuing to fly in the greater Washington, D.C., region. The pause comes after 67 people died in January when a passenger jet collided in midair with a Black Hawk helicopter at Reagan airport.
May 5, 2025 5:46 pm
(AP) – The Trump administration says it will pay immigrants in the United States illegally $1,000 plus travel costs if they leave voluntarily as it accelerates its mass deportation agenda. The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that people who use the CBP Home app to announce their “self-deportations” would get the money and be “deprioritized” for detention and removal. Trump announced on social media that he’s ordered federal agencies to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious and crumbling former island prison in San Francisco Bay. And he threatened a 100% tariff on foreign-made films, leaving unclear how that could possibly be implemented.
May 5, 2025 5:45 pm
LEETSDALE, Pa. (AP) — Cleveland Browns linebacker Devin Bush faces charges of harassment and misdemeanor simple assault after allegedly chasing a woman through his suburban Pittsburgh house and smashing her cellphone. Officers said they responded to a 911 call on Sunday from Bush’s home in Sewickley. The woman, who was identified only as his girlfriend, alleges Bush assaulted her, took her car keys and broke her phone to prevent her from calling for help. Investigators say Bush admitted he smashed the phone but denies getting physical with the woman. Police say they saw injuries on her wrist and foot.
May 5, 2025 5:12 am
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett shocked an arena full of his shareholders by announcing that he wants to retire at the end of the year. Buffett said he will recommend to Berkshire Hathaway’s board that Greg Abel should become CEO at the end of the year. Previously the 94-year-old investor has always said he had no plans to retire. But Abel has been his designated successor for years, and Abel has already been managing all of Berkshire’s non-insurance businesses. He will now take on the responsibility for running Berkshire’s insurance businesses and investing its cash. Able said he was “humbled and honored to be part of Berkshire as we go forward.”
