March 22, 2022 4:13 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson will face senators’ questions for the first time as Democrats push to quickly confirm the only Black female justice in the court’s history. Jackson listened to more than four hours of senators’ opening statements on Monday as the Judiciary Committee hearings on her nomination got underway. As senators begin 30-minute rounds of grilling on Tuesday, Jackson will respond to their specific points. Those include charges by some Republicans that she has been too lenient in sentencing on criminal matters.
March 22, 2022 4:11 am
DETROIT (AP) – General Motors is recalling more than 740,000 small SUVs in the U.S. because the headlight beams can be too bright and cause glare for oncoming drivers. The recall announced Tuesday comes after U.S. safety regulators turned down a request from the Detroit automaker to avoid the recall. The company is recalling GMC Terrain SUVs from 2010 through 2017. Documents posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration say reflections caused by the headlight housings can illuminate some areas with too much light. The agency says this can reduce visibility for other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash. GM hasn’t come up with a repair yet. The company expects to notify owners by letter starting April 23rd.
March 22, 2022 4:10 am
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) – Civilians making the dangerous escape from Ukraine’s embattled southern port of Mariupol describe fleeing through street-to-street gun battles and past unburied corpses as a steady Russian bombardment tries to pound the city into submission. While Russian forces carry on with the siege after Ukraine’s leaders defied their demand to surrender, Russian ground offensive in other parts of the country advanced slowly or not at all. It was knocked back by lethal hit-and-run attacks by the Ukrainians. The Ukrainian army said early Tuesday that it had forced Russian troops out of a strategically important Kyiv suburb after a fierce battle.
March 22, 2022 4:05 am
The Zoning Hearing Board of Chartiers Township met Monday and denied a controversial proposal to erect a 150 foot tall cell phone tower in a residential neighborhood. The board voted unanimously to deny Vogue Towers Partners VII permission to build the tower for Verizon Communications on Ridge Road. Vogue Towers tried to acquire conditional use for the tower on four different scenarios including a substantive validity challenge and special exceptions in the R-2 zoning district. Each one was voted down 5-0. The plan has come under fire for reasons of health, adding to possible landslides on property that is adjacent to the proposed site and residential property devaluation. Roughly a dozen residents turned out for the meeting and all were pleased with the decision. The zoning hearing board had no comment on their decision. Attorneys for Vogue Towers Partners indicated that they will appeal the decision to common pleas court.
March 22, 2022 2:43 am
A Strabane man already facing trial for attempted homicide will face a second trial for aggravated assault. Dee Frazee, 27 waived charges of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, false imprisonment and others to court at his preliminary hearing Tuesday morning. Frazee is accused of confronting a man on December 1 in the Home Depot parking lot in South Strabane Township. Frazee trapped the victim, Mike Tedeschi, by cutting him off from leaving his parking space, leaving his truck and beating on the victim’s truck with his gun. Tedeschi testified that a second man blocked him by standing behind his vehicle not letting him back out of the slot. Frazee ordered the victim out of his truck and held him at gunpoint briefly before both aggressors realized that Tedeschi is not the man that they thought had jumped them at another time. All seven charges were held for court. Frazee is being held in the Washington County Jail on a separate set of charges stemming from a shooting he was allegedly involved in at Frankie I’s Restaurant on New Year’s Eve. Frazee will be arraigned on April 28.
March 22, 2022 2:27 am
A Washington man will face trial for his alleged role in the robbery of a South Strabane Township convenience store in 2017. Darnell Brown, 22 waived felony robbery charges to court at his preliminary hearing Tuesday. Brown is accused of entering the BP store on Murtland Avenue wearing a sweatshirt and Guy Fawkes mask, pointing a gun at the employee behind the counter and demanding money. Police found the mask and sweatshirt outside a nearby hotel. DNA samples taken from the mask and from Brown identified Brown as the alleged robber. Brown is free on bond and will be arraigned on April 28.
March 21, 2022 3:20 pm
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Crews are searching for a Kentucky miner who was working alone when a roof collapsed deep underground. A statement from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet says 33-year-old James D. Brown of Lynch began his shift as a roof bolter operator late Sunday. It says the collapse happened about a half hour later, about 14,000 feet down into the coal mine. The D-29 Darby Fork mine in Harlan County is owned by Inmet Mining LLC, of Knoxville, Tennessee. The statement says the Kentucky Division of Mine Safety sent investigators early Monday to the mine, which has suspended operations while the search continues.
March 21, 2022 1:28 pm
TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) – Continental Mills has issued a recall for a single lot of Great Value Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix, UPC 078742370828, Lot code KX2063, Best By Date of 09/01/2023, due to a potential foreign material contamination. Fragments from a cable used to clear the processing line were discovered in a limited amount of product. The affected product was distributed nationwide where consumers purchased product through retail Walmart stores. No contaminated product or injuries have been reported by consumers to date. If you have recently purchased any of the products noted above, please dispose of the product or please return the product to your store for a replacement or refund. For more information or to receive a refund, please call the Recall Phone Hotline at 1-800-578-7832 Monday – Friday 7 am to 4 pm PT. (Photo: AP)
March 21, 2022 1:17 pm
CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) – Kao USA Inc. is asking consumers to check their Jergens® Ultra Healing Moisturizer 3 oz and 10 oz products to determine if it is part of a voluntary recall of the product. Select units of Jergens® Ultra Healing Moisturizer could show the presence of Pluralibacter gergoviae, a bacterium which typically poses little medical risk to healthy people. However, people who have certain health problems such as weakened immune systems may be more susceptible to infections. Kao USA is urging consumers to discontinue use of the recalled lotion as a precautionary measure. (Photo: ABC)
March 21, 2022 4:23 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. Marine Corps has identified the four Marines who died when their Osprey aircraft crashed Friday night in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise. All four were assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261, Marine Aircraft Group 26, 2d Marine Aircraft Wing stationed on Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina. They are Capt. Matthew J. Tomkiewicz, 27, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Capt. Ross A. Reynolds, 27, of Leominster, Massachusetts; Gunnery Sgt. James W. Speedy, 30, of Cambridge, Ohio; and Cpl. Jacob M. Moore, 24, of Catlettsburg, Kentucky. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
