September 30, 2022 4:13 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea, U.S. and Japanese warships have launched their first anti-submarine drills in five years, after North Korea renewed ballistic missile tests this week. South Korea says Friday’s one-day trilateral training off the Korean Peninsula’s east coast is meant to cope with a North Korean push to advance its ability to fire missile from submarines. North Korea has been building bigger submarines including a nuclear-powered one and testing sophisticated missiles that can be fired from them in recent years. The North’s recent five missiles launches, the first such tests in a month, also came before and after U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited South Korea.
Small protests appear in Havana over islandwide blackout
September 30, 2022 4:11 am
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – A revived Hurricane Ian made landfall on coastal South Carolina on Friday. It’s threatening the historic city of Charleston with severe flooding after the deadly storm caused catastrophic damage in Florida and trapped thousands in their homes. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Ian’s center came ashore near Georgetown on Friday afternoon, with much weaker winds than when it crossed Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday as one of the strongest storms to ever hit the U.S. Sheets of rain whipped trees and power lines and left many areas on Charleston’s downtown peninsula under water even before the hurricane made landfall. áAt least nine people were confirmed dead in the U.S., but that number is expected to increase.
September 30, 2022 4:09 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – A Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least 23 people and wounded dozens, an official said Friday, just hours before Moscow planned to annex more of Ukraine in an escalation of the seven-month war. Zaporizhzhia Regional Governor Oleksandr Starukh made the announcement in an online statement Friday. He said there were at least 28 wounded when Russian forces targeted a humanitarian convoy heading to Russian-occupied territory.
September 30, 2022 4:07 am
WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. — (WPXI) – A few cats are still left roaming outside of a trailer affiliated with the Cat Aid Network — a rescue group now left in limbo after humane officers discovered a horrid situation inside a Derry Township trailer. “I didn’t even know that there was a trailer, let alone what was happening in the trailer,” foster Missy Lamonaca said. As many as 70 cats were saved by surrounding rescue groups like Ninth Life Rescue, Cat Rangers and Frankie’s Friends. “We saw conditions that were, of course, not suitable for the cats to be living in. There was typical of hoarding situations, a lot of fecal material, urine and kitties that needed some veterinary care,” Dr. Becky Morrow of Frankie’s Friends said. There are still over 160 cats in the rescue’s foster homes. Lamonaca fosters 13 cats for the rescue. She said she feels left in the dark by those who ran the organization. “They are unresponsive to any text messages, Facebook messages, any phone calls, anything like that,” Lamonaca said. The rescue’s founder and treasurer have since resigned. No criminal charges have been filed, but a humane officer with Frankie’s Friends is actively investigating the Cat Aid Network. Meanwhile, the surrounding agencies that responded are nursing these cats back to good health.
September 30, 2022 4:04 am
FAYETTE COUNTY, Pa. — (WPXI) – A Fayette County landlord and bar owner has been charged with sexually assaulting a tenant. According to the criminal complaint, James Delansky told the woman to come to his bar, The Brass Rail in Point Marion, back in May. After the woman had a few drinks, police said Delansky took her to his house. A witness told police that the woman did not seem intoxicated when she left the bar with Delansky. Once she was in his house, the woman told police that Delansky had handed her a drink. Delansky then allegedly told the woman he wanted to show her his home. The woman told police she remembered walking onto the back deck. The woman told police she couldn’t remember what happened after that. According to lab results, the victim’s blood alcohol concentration was 0.069. Police said that the sexual assault test kit results matched Delansky’s DNA. The criminal complaint said that Delansky denied any sexual intercourse and claimed the woman asked him to engage in intercourse with her. Delansky has been charged with raping an unconscious victim, raping a substantially impaired person, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of an unconscious person and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of a substantially impared person. He will go before a judge in a preliminary hearing on Oct. 13, 2022.
September 30, 2022 2:09 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Judah Samet, a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped a shooting rampage at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, has died. Samet died Tuesday at age 84. He was in the parking lot of Tree of Life synagogue during a rampage inside that killed 11 people. It was the deadliest attack on Jewish people in U.S. history. Born in Hungary, Samet and his family spent 10 months at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany during World War II. He moved to Pittsburgh in the 1960s and spoke about his Holocaust experience to tens of thousands of people at schools and other settings.
September 29, 2022 9:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits dropped last week, a sign that few companies are cutting jobs despite high inflation and a weak economy. Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Sept. 24 fell by 16,000 to 193,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Last week’s number was revised down by 4,000 to 209,000. First-time applications generally reflect layoffs. The current figures are very low historically and suggest Americans are benefiting from an unusually high level of job security.
September 29, 2022 4:26 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has appeared for a voluntary interview with the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. The committee has for months sought an interview with Thomas in an effort to know more about her role in trying to help former President Donald Trump overturn his election defeat. She texted with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and contacted lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin after the election. She did not answer questions when she arrived on Capitol Hill for the interview or later when she briefly left for a break. But Thomas did tell reporters she was looking forward to answering questions from the members of the committee.
September 29, 2022 4:22 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s with hits including “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” has died. Manager Jarez Posey tells The Associated Press that Coolio, whose legal name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died at the Los Angeles home of a friend on Wednesday. The cause was not immediately clear. Coolio was 59. He won a Grammy for best solo rap performance for “Gangsta’s Paradise,” the 1995 No. 1 hit from the soundtrack of the Michelle Pfeiffer film “Dangerous Minds” that sampled Stevie Wonder’s 1976 song “Pastime Paradise.”
September 29, 2022 4:12 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Congress is moving quickly to avoid a government shutdown. The Senate on Thursday passed a short-term spending bill that would finance federal agencies into mid-December. The legislation also provides another round of military and economic aid to Ukraine as it seeks to repel Russia’s invasion. The bill finances the federal government through Dec. 16, giving lawmakers time to agree on a larger government funding package after the midterm election. Assistance and money to help low-income families afford their heating bills this winter was also included in the bill, which now heads to the House for consideration.
