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Pittsburgh River Rescue recovered a body from the Allegheny River on Wednesday afternoon, public safety officials said.
River Rescue officers responded to the scene and recovered the body from the water.
A witness had reported seeing the body in the river, officials said.
The body has not yet been identified.
The medical examiner’s office will determine the cause and manner of death.
Source: Body found in Allegheny River in Pittsburgh
Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s first Supreme Court pick, will be sworn in as the 116th justice today at noon ET. She will be the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s high court.
Source: Ketanji Brown Jackson to be sworn in as first Black woman on the Supreme Court
An abortion rights rally is planned Wednesday in downtown Greensburg in the wake of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v. Wade and ending the federal right to an abortion. The rally is slated for 5:15 p.m. at Main and Otterman streets, according to a post
Source: Abortion rights rally slated in Greensburg
The long wait is almost over for fans of the Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival. Canceled in 2020 and 2021, the festival returns for its 48th year Thursday through Sunday at Twin Lakes Park, east of Greensburg. “It just keeps going and growing, so we’re very happy,” said Diane Shrader,
Source: Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival returns after 2-year hiatus
Airbnb on Tuesday announced it would officially ban parties in its short-term rental properties, but a Pittsburgh councilman said the city should still go ahead with further restrictions proposed following a mass shooting in the spring at a North Side gathering that killed two teenagers.
Two people were arrested after police responded to a shots fired call in downtown Pittsburgh on Tuesday afternoon.
Responding officers were directed to a female seen leaving the area on foot. She was detained, and officers located a firearm in her waistband.
Source: 2 people in custody after police respond to shots fired call in downtown Pittsburgh
Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Tuesday for carrying out a years-long scheme with her longtime confidante Jeffrey Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls.
(CNN)Three people are dead and at least 50 injured after an Amtrak train derailed Monday in Missouri, authorities said Monday evening.
Cpl. Justin Dunn, a spokesperson for Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop B, told reporters that two of the people who were killed were aboard the train while the third was in a dump truck that the train struck.Authorities said the tragic incident happened at an uncontrolled intersection — without warning lights or motion gates — where a gravel road crossed the railroad tracks southwest of town.Amtrak said the train collided with the dump truck at a public crossing near the city of Mendon at about 12:42 p.m. CT (1:42 p.m. ET).Eight cars and two locomotives left the track “after striking a truck that was obstructing a public crossing near Mendon, Missouri,” company officials said in an updated statement. Dunn told reporters that seven cars had derailed.
Source: Amtrak train derails in Missouri: Multiple people killed and at least 50 injured – CNN
NEW FLORENCE, Pa. —
Two residents were evaluated by paramedics, but not taken to the hospital, after fire broke out in a home in New Florence, Westmoreland County.
The fire was reported around 1:40 a.m. Tuesday at a house on 17th Street.
Crews were still on the scene three hours later.There was no initial word on how the fire started.
Source: Paramedics evaluate two residents after fire breaks out in Westmoreland County home
San Antonio (CNN)Fifty migrants are believed to have died after they and others were found in sweltering conditions in a semitruck in San Antonio, a federal law enforcement official said Tuesday, in a scene the mayor called a “horrific human tragedy.”
The death toll, which the city’s fire chief gave Monday as 46, includes migrants from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Their discovery Monday comes as US federal authorities have launched an “unprecedented” operation to disrupt human smuggling networks amid an influx of migrants at the US-Mexico border.“An alleged human smuggling event” was alerted by San Antonio police to the US Department of Homeland Security’s investigation unit, which is leading the probe, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said Monday. The incident appears to be among the most deadly in recent years for migrants near the southern border.Three people detained away from the trailer site are in police custody, though their connection to the situation is unclear, Police Chief Bill McManus said at a news conference Monday night.
Three people were killed Sunday afternoon when an Amtrak commuter train smashed into a car ín Northern California, authorities said.
Three people died at the scene. Two adults and a child were taken to hospitals but there was no immediate word on their conditions, KRON-TV reported.
The victims were inside the four-door sedan when it was struck. The car came to rest about 60 feet away from the tracks.
Source: 3 killed as Amtrak train hits car in Northern California
At least four people were killed and hundreds injured, about 30 of them seriously, after part of a stadium in El Espinal in Colombia’s western state of Tolima collapsed during a bullfight Sunday, government officials said.
Source: At least 4 dead, hundreds injured after collapse at stadium in Colombia | CNN
One person is dead and one is injured after reported shootings in Pittsburgh overnight.
Source: One dead, one injured after shootings in Pittsburgh
The fire took a couple of hours to extinguish.
According to dispatch, a fire started at home on Elwood Street just after 11:30 a.m. and it took until nearly 2 p.m. to extinguish.
It’s unknown how many people were inside and what their conditions may be.
Source: Coroner called to the scene of house fire in Fayette County
The officer was wearing a ballistic vest, escaping serious injury.
Police say the suspect, identified as 21-year-old Julian Reese-Krasausky, shot an officer in the chest. The officer was wearing a ballistic vest, escaping serious injury. The officer was transported to the hospital.
Reese-Krasausky was arrested and police noticed he had sustained a gunshot wound to the shoulder. He is being treated at an area hospital and is in stable condition.
Police said Reese-Krasausky was in possession of a privately manufactured firearm.
Police say an initial investigation shows no officers fired their weapons.
Source: Suspect identified after multiple people, including Pittsburgh officer, are shot
A Monroeville man is suing UPMC after a misread COVID-19 test and a phone call that forced him to cancel his wedding.
Michael Martin says back in July of 2020, just days before he and his fiancée were set to be married, he didn’t feel well.
After going to UPMC Mercy South Side a test showed he had strep throat, but was later told he had COVID.
As a result Martin and his fiancée had to cancel their Aug. 1 wedding. Not long after, Martin learned that a physician assistant made an error with his test.
“I wasn’t positive,” Martin said. “It wasn’t a false negative. It wasn’t anything other than negligence on not doing what she was supposed to do on that computer.”
The couple eventually were able to get married.
UPMC Community Medicine Primary Care Partners of Monroeville, UPMC and the physician assistant who reported the positive test result are named in the lawsuit.
Source: COVID lawsuit: Man sues UPMC over test
Just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade case, Pittsburgh Catholics cheered the decision.
“Those of us who have worked and prayed to protect unborn children are profoundly grateful that the Supreme Court of the United States has determined that there is not a constitutional right for abortion,” Bishop David Zubik said in a statement Friday.
The 6-3 decision Friday to uphold a strict Mississippi state law reversed nearly 50 years of federal abortion protections. It came about two months after a draft of the opinion of overturning the case was released.
Friday’s news was hailed by area Catholic leaders and some parishioners, even though polls have shown that a majority of U.S. Catholics support abortion rights.
Source: Pittsburgh Catholics say Supreme Court’s abortion decision marks a day of ‘great happiness’
A few hundred yards away, families were burying loved ones and digging out belongings from their destroyed homes by hand. Of the more than two dozen civilians interviewed by The Washington Post in the area where the officials touched down, no one reported receiving any aid beyond sweets and juice handed out by wealthy business executives.
PENN HILLS, Pa. —
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified skeletal remains that were found in Penn Hills last year.
The remains were identified as those of Stacey Childs, 56.
The remains were found along Brushton Avenue in October.The cause and manner of Childs’ death have not yet been determined.
No additional information was immediately provided.
County police are investigating.
Source: Penn Hills: Human remains found along Brushton Avenue
OSLO, June 25 (Reuters) – The arrested suspected in a fatal shooting spree in Oslo is believed to be a radicalised Islamist who has a history of mental illness, Norway’s PST intelligence service said on Saturday.
The suspect, who was not named by police, has been known to security services since 2015, the PST added.
Source: Norway shooting suspect thought to be Islamist with mental health issues – police | Reuters
BREAKING NEWS: Three females were shot in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood overnight.
Two other females who were shot showed up at a local hospital, according to police. One had a gunshot wound to the hand that required surgery and the other was shot in the leg.
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Police said all three victims are believed to have been shot after an altercation that led to gunfire on South 12th Street.
The Mobile Crime Unit processed the scene. Several people were taken to police headquarters for questioning.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Source: 3 females shot in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood overnight – WPXI
The bill is the most significant gun measure to clear Congress in nearly three decades, though it falls short of more restrictive gun control proposals that Democrats favor.
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Saturday signed into law a bipartisan gun bill intended to prevent dangerous people from accessing firearms and increase investments in the nation’s mental health system, ending nearly three decades of gridlock in Washington over how to address gun violence in the United States.
Final passage of the legislation in Congress came one month after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, left 19 children and two teachers dead, a horror that galvanized a core group of bipartisan lawmakers to strike a narrow compromise.
“God willing,” Mr. Biden said as he put his pen down on Saturday morning, “it’s going to save a lot of lives.”
For lawmakers, advocates and survivors of gun violence, the law is the culmination of decades of work, building on repeated failed efforts to overcome Republican opposition and overhaul the nation’s gun laws in response to mass shootings across the country. But the law’s enactment came the same week that the Supreme Court struck down a New York law limiting where gun owners could carry a firearm outside the home, citing the Second Amendment.
Source: Biden Signs Gun Bill Into Law, Ending Years of Stalemate
The House gave final approval to the Senate-passed compromise, ending nearly three decades of congressional inaction.
Source: Congress Passes Bipartisan Gun Legislation, Clearing It for Biden
The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that enshrined abortion as a constitutional right in the U.S. for almost half a century.
KEY POINTS
- The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion.
- Roe since 1973 had permitted abortions during the first two trimesters of pregnancy in the United States.
- Almost half the states are expected to outlaw or severely restrict abortion as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision on a Mississippi case known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
- Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion. The court’s other five conservatives, including Chief Justice John Roberts, joined in the judgment, which was opposed by the three liberal justices.
Source: Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, ending 50 years of federal abortion rights
If you’re arriving at Do the Universe with the basic need for entertainment and to spend 86-minutes worth of comfort viewing with these classic characters (including some Cornholio spice), then Judge’s film certainly scores.
Beavis and Butt-Head have always been the dirtier, animated cousins to Bill & Ted. They’re two metal enthusiasts, dim-witted losers who find real comfort in each other’s company. There are, of course, other easy similarities: The blond and brunette pairing and their never-ending search for babes. But never has the kindred spirits shared by these duos been more felt than in creator-director Mike Judge’s time-travel movie “Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe.”
Source: Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe movie review (2022) | Roger Ebert
About 200,000 people will have roughly $6 billion worth of student loan debt canceled under a deal reached by the Biden administration this week.
The agreement covers more than 150 schools, including DeVry University, the University of Phoenix, and the recently defunct ITT Technical Institute.
Another 68,000 borrowers who did not attend eligible colleges will have their applications for relief fast tracked under the deal.
Source: Biden administration canceling $6 billion in student loan debt for 200,000 borrowers | Fox Business
McKees Rocks police have arrested three men following a drug raid in McKees Rocks.
Cocaine, fentanyl, heroin, marijuana, packaging material, manufacturing contraband, edible narcotics and several stolen firearms were recovered from the suspects’ residence, according to police.
The raid occurred after a search warrant was issued in a narcotics investigation.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, Allegheny County Housing Authority Police and Stowe Township Police Department assisted with the arrests.
Source: Arrests made in McKees Rocks drug raid
Pittsburgh Regional Transit police are looking for two men accused of firing a gun inside a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus while passengers were inside.
The incident was captured on video. According to Pittsburgh Regional Transit, the video shows one of the men taking the gun out of a backpack, placing it on his lap and pulling the trigger. The bullet hit a window at the back of the bus. The driver stopped the bus and opened the front door when he heard the shot and both men ran off.
A rider said she’s going to be extra cautious now when riding the bus.
“I look around when I’m on the bus all the time just to make sure nothing is happening,” said Cristal McConnell. “It is terrifying. I don’t like it. I wouldn’t think it would happen here.”
Source: Police investigating gunfire on Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus – WPXI
A group of local amusement parks are changing the way guests experience their summer fun by going cashless next week.
Parkgoers can make payments with cards and secure mobile payment systems like Apple Pay and Good Pay. Guests who prefer cash can use the Cash to Card Kiosks throughout each park to load cash onto a prepaid card.
“By transitioning to solely accepting cards or secure mobile payments, we can provide a better, more efficient experience to our guests,” says Kennywood and Sandcastle General Manager Mark Pauls in the release. “We expect to see wait times decrease for food and retail stores, and have added several Cash to Card Kiosks throughout each park to provide guests a simple and easy way to convert their cash onto a card.”
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Guests can use card to pay for parking, admission into the parks, food and gift shop items.
All three parks accept all major credit and prepaid debit cards, including MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover.
Kennywood and Sandcastle will be making the switch on Tuesday, June 28, while Idlewild visitors will be the change go into effect Wednesday, June 29.
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Source: Local amusement parks going cashless starting next week – WPXI
The major decision by the US high court is expected to allow more people to carry guns legally.
Source: Supreme Court ruling expands US gun rights
