November 9, 2022 5:19 pm
(AP) – Facebook parent Meta is laying off 13% of its employees as it contends with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes. The move that comes just a week after widespread layoffs at Twitter under its new owner, billionaire Elon Musk. Meta, like other social media companies, enjoyed a financial boost during the pandemic lockdown era because more people stayed home and scrolled on their phones and computers. But as the lock-downs ended and people started going outside again, revenue growth began to falter. An economic slowdown and a grim outlook for online advertising have contributed to Meta’s woes.
November 9, 2022 3:45 pm
(WPXI) – SWAT and police units are on the scene in Scott Township after a man was shot and killed inside of a bank following a dispute. There is a heavy police presence in the area of 1900 Cochran Road, where several businesses are located. Units from multiple municipalities responded to the area, which borders Mount Lebanon Township. SWAT units arrived shortly after. Greentree and Cochran roads were shut down and employees from some of the businesses were evacuated. During a press conference, police said the victim was shot and killed during a dispute and that the victim and suspect knew each other. The victim was pronounced deceased at the scene. Police said the suspect followed the victim in to Northwestern Mutual on Cochran Road and shot him. Mount Lebanon police are looking for a light-skinned Black male with yellow hair, dark clothing and facial hair in the area of Benihana, 2100 Greentree Road. Police said the suspect is armed and they’re not sure where the suspect went.
November 9, 2022 12:23 pm
(WPXI) – At least ten people were injured when a Jeep slammed into a PRT bus this morning near the University of Pittsburgh campus near Allequippa Street and Sutherland Drive. A Pittsburgh Public Safety official says their injuries ranged from minor to moderate but medics said there were more minor complaints. The bus driver was taken to a hospital with knee pain and the the driver of the Jeep was taken to a hospital with neck and back pain. The official said he may also have a concussion. Public Regional Transit police’s initial investigation found that the driver of the Jeep crossed the center line.
November 9, 2022 4:23 am
Twitter’s new owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold nearly $4 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to regulatory filings. Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion, sold 19.5 million shares of the electric car company from Nov. 4 to Nov. 8, according to Tuesday’s filings. He sold $7 billion of his Tesla stock in August as he worked to finance the Twitter purchase he was trying to get out of at the time.
November 9, 2022 4:22 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Someone who bought a Powerball ticket in Southern California has won a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot. The winning numbers drawn Tuesday morning at the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee were: white balls 10, 33, 41, 47 and 56, and the red Powerball was 10. The jackpot ticket was sold at Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, northeast of Los Angeles. The business will receive a maximum Powerball bonus of $1 million. The Multi-State Lottery Association said Monday night’s scheduled drawing was delayed by nearly 10 hours until Tuesday because a participating lottery had issues processing sales. The jackpot was by far the largest lottery jackpot ever won, topping the previous record $1.586 billion prize won by three Powerball ticketholders in 2016.
November 9, 2022 4:20 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Control of Congress hangs in the balance as Democrats have shown surprising strength, defeating Republicans in a series of competitive races and defying expectations that high inflation and President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings would drag the party down. In the most heartening news for the party, Democrat John Fetterman flipped a Republican-controlled Senate seat that is key to the party’s hopes of maintaining control of the chamber. It is too early to call critical Senate seats in Wisconsin, Nevada, Georgia and Arizona which could determine the majority. In the House, Democrats kept seats in districts from Virginia to Kansas to Rhode Island, while many districts in states like New York and California have not been called.
November 9, 2022 4:19 am
FAYETTE COUNTY, Pa. — (WPXI) – A young girl is lucky to be alive after police said she got ahold of fentanyl inside her Fayette County home and overdosed. It happened last year when she was just 1 year old, but troopers said the investigation stalled because of lies the parents told. “The parents — the mother and father — ended up lying throughout this investigation of where the child was exposed it. It did happen at their residence. Initially they said it was Bailey park in Uniontown,” Trooper Kalee Barnhart said. Police said the toddler’s overdose happened inside their Franklin Avenue home in South Union Township. Gabrielle Arnold was charged last week, and the child’s father, Deondre Richardson, was just charged on Monday. Troopers said the baby girl was unresponsive, limp and needed to be intubated last October. She tested positive for fentanyl and had to be revived with naloxone, a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose“Additionally, the parents decided to wait before taking the child to the hospital, so that was a very big issue investigators found,” Barnhart said. Richardson allegedly told police a friend dropped heroin inside his car and he brought into the house and forgot about it. The girl is doing OK and remarkably recovered.
November 9, 2022 4:12 am
Republicans have swept local State House races in both Washington and Greene Counties. Incumbent Natalie Mihalik rolled to victory over Democratic challenger Chris Todd in the 40th Legislative District. Incumbent Bud Cook easily defeated Democrat Doug Mason in the new 50th District. In the 39th Legislative District, Andrew Kuzma was the winner over Democrat Rick Self. All other State House and Senate races were uncontested and won by Republican incumbents.
November 9, 2022 4:04 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrat Josh Shapiro won the race for governor of Pennsylvania, securing the office for four years in a state where the future of abortion rights is on the line, along with management of the 2024 election in a battleground that is often decisive in choosing presidents. Shapiro, the state’s two-term elected attorney general, ran to the middle on several key issues and smashed Pennsylvania’s campaign finance record in a powerhouse campaign, swamping Republican Doug Mastriano in a deluge of TV ads. He had led polls from the start over Mastriano, and his victory — in a year in which Democrats nationally faced headwinds, including high inflation — made him the first governor to be elected to succeed a member of his party since 1966.“Tonight, voters from Gen Z to our seniors, voters from all walks of life, have given me the honor of a lifetime, given me the chance to serve you as Pennsylvania’s next governor,” Shapiro told a cheering crowd of hundreds in his home of Montgomery County, in suburban Philadelphia. Shapiro thanked his family and supporters and went on to tell the crowd that “real freedom won tonight” and “Democracy endured” in a race he characterized as, in part, a fight to preserve the right to vote, the right to organize a union and the right to an abortion. He also thanked Republicans he said had voted for a Democrat for the first time, and said that with their vote “comes a responsibility to govern by bringing people together and getting things done.”
November 9, 2022 4:02 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrat John Fetterman won Pennsylvania’s pivotal race for U.S. Senate, flipping a Republican-held seat as he recovered from a stroke during the bare-knuckled campaign and giving Democrats hope they can retain control of the closely divided chamber to boost President Joe Biden’s agenda for two more years. Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s towering and plainspoken lieutenant governor, who became a progressive hero as mayor of a downtrodden steel town, defeated Dr. Mehmet Oz, the smooth-talking and wealthy heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity who had just moved to the presidential battleground state to run for Senate. Fetterman credited his “every county, every vote” campaign strategy, in which the tattooed and hoodie-wearing candidate sought to bring the Democratic Party back to predominantly white working-class areas that have increasingly rejected it, even as he ran on a progressive platform. “And that’s exactly what happened,” Fetterman, 53, told a cheering crowd early Wednesday at a concert venue in Pittsburgh. Fetterman spent much of the campaign fending off attacks by Oz that questioned whether he was honest about the stroke’s effects and was fit to serve. He vowed to be the Democrats’ “51st vote” to pass foundational legislation to protect rights to abortion, health care, same-sex marriage, unions and voting, as well as to raise the minimum wage.
