March 15, 2022 4:11 am
CALIFORNIA, Pa. — (WPXI) – A hit-and-run suspect accused of hitting a 7-year-old boy turned himself into police on Monday. California Borough police said 26-year-old Allen Csonka was under the influence of drugs and speeding when he hit the boy. First-grader Chevy Marody was playing tag on the sidewalk near his parents’ skateboard shop. Witnesses said he leaned over to tie his shoe, with his head sticking out from the sidewalk, when he was hit by the car. Police said before he fled, Csonka picked up Chevy and carried him to safety before fleeing the scene. The boy was flown by medical helicopter to Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital. “By the time we got down there my son was calmed down and pretty excited to go in a helicopter. It’s the first thing he said whenever I seen him with a big smile on his face,” said Chevy’s father Dillion Marody. Csonka has been charged and is currently in the Washington County Jail.
March 15, 2022 2:55 am
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania’s former top state prosecutor was arrested over the weekend and is expected to be formally charged with driving under the influence. Scranton police said Monday that 55-year-old Kathleen Kane was involved in a two-vehicle crash in the city at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Police haven’t released details about the crash. Until charges are filed there’s no paperwork with information about the investigation. Kane, 55, was the first Democrat and remains the only woman to have been elected as the state’s attorney general. While in office, she leaked grand jury documents about a civil rights leader and a jury found she lied to the grand jury investigating the leak. She served more than eight months.
March 15, 2022 2:55 am
Water is slowly coming back on for many residents around the Park Avenue area of Washington and North Franklin Township. Pennsylvania American Water Company spokesman Gary Lobaugh tells WJPA News that crews have been working since Monday morning on emergency repairs and they expect them to be completed by Tuesday evening. Lobaugh says the affected residents and businesses were notified that their water service could be affected in various forms, including discolored or cloudy water, low water pressure or no water service at all.
March 14, 2022 2:46 pm
FAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) – Several West Virginia towns will get assistance from five new AmeriCorps teams for projects that include tax preparation, park and river cleanups and rural infrastructure upgrades. The AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps teams will go to Fairmont, Thomas, Mullens, Gandeeville and Elkview. U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced the plan. The programs include Tygart Valley United Way in Fairmont, Friends of Blackwater in Thomas, Rural Appalachian Improvement League in Mullens, Roane County Commission in Gandeeville and Elk River Trail Foundation in Elkview.
March 14, 2022 2:41 pm
(AP) – Dolly Parton has announced she is pulling out of this year’s nominations for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, saying she hasn’t “earned that right.” The music icon who has been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame explained her decision in a statement posted on her official social media pages Monday, noting she did not want to take votes away from the remaining nominees. Parton was named in the shortlist last month, alongside fellow first-time nominees Eminem, Lionel Richie, Duran Duran and A Tribe Called Quest. (Photo: AP)
March 14, 2022 1:13 pm
(WPXI) – The CEO of Pfizer says a fourth dose of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine will be needed to strengthen the immune system to be able to fight off other variants of the virus that will inevitably come in the months and years ahead. “Many variants are coming, and Omicron was the first one that was able to evade — in a skillful way — the immune protection that we’re giving,” Albert Bourla told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “The protection we are getting from the third (dose) it is good enough — actually quite good for hospitalizations and deaths,” Bourla said. Bourla appeared on the show two days after the second anniversary of the declaration of the pandemic that has killed more than 6 million people worldwide. According to Bourla, a fourth dose is needed because protection against the disease after three doses is “not that good against infections” and “doesn’t last very long” when new variants such as omicron emerge. (Photo: AP)
March 14, 2022 4:23 am
NEW YORK (AP) – William Hurt, the Oscar-winning actor of “Broadcast News,” “Body Heat” and “The Big Chill,” has died. He was 71. Hurt’s son said in a statement that Hurt died Sunday of natural causes. Deadline first reported Hurt’s death. In a long-running career, Hurt was four times nominated for an Academy Award, winning for 1985’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” Hurt’s laconic charisma and self-assured subtlety as an actor made him one of the 1980s foremost leading men. Later, he would transition into a character actor in movies such as “A History of Violence,” while also appearing in several Marvel films.
March 14, 2022 4:18 am
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – A judge in Florida has agreed to make permanent an order that prohibits the release of photos, video or other records related to the investigation into the death of comedian Bob Saget. Circuit Judge Vincent Chiu said Monday during a court hearing in Orlando that he would issue a permanent injunction requested by Saget’s widow and his three daughters. The family members had filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the release of any records from the local medical examiner’s office and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office involving the investigation into Saget’s death. The medical examiner says the 65-year-old comedian died from an accidental blow to the head, likely from a fall backward. (Photo: ABC News)
March 14, 2022 4:16 am
DOVER, Del. (AP) – A trial to determine whether the Boy Scouts of America’s proposed reorganization plan should be approved is beginning more than two years after it sought bankruptcy protection amid an onslaught of child sex abuse allegations. The trial starts Monday and is expected to last several weeks as attorneys and witnesses battle over a host of complex issues. They include insurance rights, liability releases and the value of some 80,000 child sex abuse claims. The reorganization plan includes contributions from the BSA, its roughly 250 local councils, insurance companies and others into a victims compensation fund of more than $2.6 billion. In return for the contributions, the parties would be released from any further liability for Scouting-related abuse claims.
March 14, 2022 4:15 am
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) – A pregnant woman and her baby have died after Russia bombed the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth. Images shot by Associated Press journalists of the woman being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher had circled the world. They epitomized the horror of an attack on humanity’s most innocent. The woman was rushed to another hospital, where doctors labored to keep her alive. But surgeon Timur Marin found the woman’s pelvis crushed and hip detached. Medics delivered the baby via cesarean section, but it showed no signs of life, the surgeon said. They then tried to save the mother but she also died.
