March 23, 2022 3:59 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A woman has been charged with third-degree murder and vehicular homicide while driving under the influence in an early morning crash on a Philadelphia interstate that claimed the lives of two Pennsylvania troopers and a civilian. State police said Tuesday that the charges against 21-year-old Jayana Tanae Webb of Eagleville would also include second-degree manslaughter of a law enforcement officer. Police said troopers Martin Mack III and Branden Sisca were trying to get 28-year-old Reyes Rivera Oliveras of Allentown off I-95 when all three were struck by a vehicle “traveling at a high rate of speed.” It’s unclear whether Webb has an attorney.
March 23, 2022 3:47 am
A Greene County man had involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, indecent assault and corruption of minors charges held for court without testimony. Benjamin Crawford, 31 of Washington Township is accused of sexually assaulting a juvenile since 2018. The alleged assaults took place in the city of Washington and Canton Township. Pennsylvania State Police state that they were called by the victim in January. Crawford first denied the allegations when interviewed by police but in a second interview he confessed to an event when the victim was nine or ten years old. Crawford is being held in the Washington County Jail unable to post bond. Crawford will be arraigned on April 28.
March 23, 2022 2:54 am
The current Russian invasion of Ukraine has many implications for domestic energy providers here in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Daniel Weaver, who serves as the President and Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association, spoke during a webinar on the situation Wednesday through W&J’s Center for Energy Policy and Management. Weaver says that policies both globally and domestically give U.S. natural gas companies issues exporting their product globally. Weaver explained shut down pipelines, capped wells, and policies like the Jones Act keep American companies from easily exporting liquefied natural gas. Weaver worries that sanctions placed on Russia’s supplies will disrupt the markets, and it could take the rest of the year to implement America’s supply worldwide, but is confident that it will eventually happen, likely by the end of 2022.
March 23, 2022 2:24 am
(WPXI) – A Sewickley Township woman who was killed when the vehicle she was driving was struck by a train in Westmoreland County on Wednesday morning. According to the Westmoreland County Coroner, 76-year-old Mary Ann Keegan of Sutersville was killed in the crash. Her death has been ruled accidental. Dispatchers said the crash happened at 4th Street Crossing at Sutersville Road in Sutersville around 10:35 a.m. CSX released the following statement: “CSX extends its deepest sympathies to everyone impacted by this tragic incident, and we will work on scene to support local law enforcement as they investigate. There were no reported injuries to the crew.”
March 22, 2022 5:36 pm
(AP) – Scientists worry that a contagious coronavirus variant may soon push cases up in the United States just as it has in Europe and Asia. One reason? After about two months of falling cases in the U.S., COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted across the nation. People are taking off their masks and returning to indoor spaces. At the same time, immunity from vaccines is waning and the amount of the variant called BA.2 is rising in the U.S. Experts are also monitoring another variant: a rare delta-omicron hybrid that they say is not posing much of a threat at this point.
March 22, 2022 4:51 pm
There were reportedly no major injuries this afternoon, when a Fort Cherry School Bus ran off the road in McDonald. Washington County 911 says police, fire and EMS units were called out just after three o’clock to Laurel Hill at Robinson Run Road. There were reportedly five children on the bus but none were injured. The bus driver reportedly suffered a minor injury and was checked at the scene by medics but didn’t need any further medical attention.
March 22, 2022 12:54 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – The show that entertained generations, fueled numerous paternity tests -and launched many “The test results reveal: that was a lie” memes – is leaving TV. Veteran daytime talk show host Maury Povich is hanging up his mic. NBC Universal has announced the last of his original episodes of “Maury” will air in September. Povich is 83 and his show will have been on for 31 years by the time it’s done. Povich says he’s proud of the work he has done and the people he’s worked with on the show. But now he wants to echo the words he often says to his guests: “enough already.”
March 22, 2022 12:36 pm
HARLAN, Ky. (AP) – Officials say crews have recovered the body of a Kentucky coal miner missing after a roof collapsed deep underground. INMET Mining CEO Hunter Hobson told WYMT-TV on Monday night that it was with “deepest sorrow” that he was confirming the death of 33-year-old James D. Brown of Lynch. The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet said crews searched Monday for Brown, who began his shift as a roof bolter operator late Sunday at the D-29 Darby Fork mine in Harlan County. The cabinet said an equipment operator was nearby when the roof collapsed about an hour later, some 14,000 feet from the entrance. An investigation is continuing.
March 22, 2022 4:17 am
DETROIT (AP) – Ford is recalling nearly 215,000 pickup trucks and large SUVs in the U.S. and Canada because brake fluid can leak and cause longer stopping distances. The recall covers the F-150 pickup from 2016 through 2018, as well as Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs from 2016 and 2017. All have 3.5-liter turbocharged six-cylinder engines. U.S. safety regulators say in documents released Tuesday that fluid can leak from the brake master cylinder. That can increase brake pedal travel, requiring greater effort and longer stopping distances. Dealers will replace the master cylinder and front brake booster if needed. Owners are to be notified by letter starting April 25.
March 22, 2022 4:15 am
KUNMING, China (AP) – No survivors have been found as rescuers search the scattered wreckage of a China Eastern plane carrying 132 people that crashed on a wooded mountainside in China’s worst air disaster in more than a decade. State broadcaster CCTV says wreckage has been found but “none of those aboard the plane with whom contact was lost have been found.” The Boeing 737-800 crashed near Wuzhou in the scenic, semitropical Guangxi region, leaving a deep, charred pit on the mountain. The plane was nearing the point when it would begin its descent when it pitched downward in a steep, fast dive. Soldiers and helmeted rescue workers were combing the charred crash site and surrounding heavily dense vegetation.
