PITTSBURGH — If you want to be in a Tom Hanks movie, here’s your chance! Extras are needed for a project being filmed in the Pittsburgh area.
“A Man Called Otto” will be filmed in the greater Pittsburgh region and surrounding areas.
Kids, teens and adults are needed to portray town locals, army recruits, hospital staff, diner patrons, factory workers, train station employees, travelers and more.
Filming will take place from late February through early May.
CNN)Two campus officers were shot and killed Tuesday during an active shooter situation at Bridgewater College in Virginia, according to college spokesperson Logan Bogert.
“I can confirm that a campus police officer and a campus safety officer died from gunshot wounds today,” Bogert told CNN’s Josh Campbell.
A male suspect was taken into custody and an investigation is ongoing, according to Virginia State Police.
A news conference on the incident was planned for Tuesday evening.
About 82 million Americans woke up Tuesday to winter weather alerts and the threat of rain, snow, sleet and ice wreaking havoc from Colorado to Vermont in coming days.
This latest winter storm system will be a slow-moving blast impacting a massive swath of America, east from the Rockies to the I-95 corridor and New England, from now through Friday.
A shooting in the historic Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., prompted a massive investigation Monday evening after police found an unconscious man with a gunshot wound just a block away from the canal.
“This appears to be a targeted shooting,” the city’s Police Chief Robert Contee said during a news briefing.
Shortly after 6 p.m., police found a male victim unconscious and not breathing near the intersection of 33rd Street Northwest and M Street Northwest, according to FOX 5 DC. Contee said he later died in a hospital.
Alongside U.S. diplomatic efforts, leaders from Britain, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey and Canada are in Ukraine or planning to visit in the coming days.
National Hot Chocolate Day on January 31st is the perfect way to warm up on a cold winter’s day. Make a cup and enjoy!
NATIONAL HOT CHOCOLATE DAY
Each year on January 31st, National Hot Chocolate Day warms up people across the country by celebrating the timeless cold-weather beverage.
Hot chocolate is a warm beverage made with ground chocolate, heated milk or water, and sugar. In America, we often use the terms hot chocolate and hot cocoa interchangeably. However, the two beverages are different.
Cocoa vs Hot Chocolate
We make hot cocoa with cocoa powder, heated milk or water, and sugar. We’re able to do this thanks to a process developed by father and son chemists. For the thicker, more flavorful beverage, we make hot chocolate from ground chocolate containing cocoa butter. It is also called drinking chocolate. Hot chocolate has also been around longer than hot cocoa. In the early 1800s, Casparus van Houten Sr. developed a process to separate the cocoa solids from the butter. His son, Coenraad Johannes made those fats more soluble in water. Together their processes made cocoa powder possible.
The two-time Emmy nominee and improv veteran also played teacher Charlie Moore on ‘Head of the Class.’
Hesseman died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles of complications from colon surgery he first had last summer, his wife, actress and acting teacher Caroline Ducrocq, told The Hollywood Reporter.
A member of the San Francisco improv group The Committee and a real-life DJ back in the 1960s, Hesseman also was known for his stint as out-of-work actor turned history teacher Charlie Moore on the ABC comedy Head of the Class. (He quit that show after four seasons to aim for a movie career.)
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. — Even in the dead of winter, hiring season for Pittsburgh’s favorite summer destinations is heating up. Kennywood, Sandcastle Waterpark and Idlewild & SoakZone are seeking more than 2,000 seasonal workers.
With plans in place for banner seasons featuring new special events and expanded operating calendars, each park needs hundreds of individuals looking for rewarding and engaging work.
Kennywood will begin its multi-year 125th season celebration on April 23, and those who apply will be in the mix to operate the beloved classic attraction Kangaroo, as it makes a triumphant return this season. Ride operators, food and beverage attendants, park security officers and grounds and housekeeping roles are among the more than 1,000 positions available.
At Sandcastle Waterpark, aquatics staff and lifeguards are needed, including operators of the new Bombs Away drop slide coming this summer. Sandcastle is looking to hire approximately 300 people for seasonal roles within these departments, as well as food and beverage, park security, admissions and more.
Idlewild & SoakZone will hire roughly 700 individuals to welcome guests for its 145th season. The park has numerous exciting opportunities available, from character performers in Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and Story Book Forest to ride operators, lifeguards and food service staff in Olde Idlewild and the SoakZone waterpark.
A speeding driver killed 8 people and left 6 injured after they ran a red light and plowed into multiple vehicles, police in North Las Vegas said Sunday.
Young juveniles were among those killed in the crash which happened at around 3 p.m. local time (6 p.m. ET), Alexander Cuevas, a public information officer with the North Las Vegas Police Department told NBC News.
He added that the driver of the Dodge Challenger had also been killed in the crash
“Speed is a factor,” Cuevas said, adding that it was unknown whether the driver had been impaired.
“The driver ran the red light striking multiple vehicles,” he said.
Cuevas said two people had been transported to the University Medical Center hospital and one had died there.
The Pittsburgh bridge that collapsed Friday morning ahead of President Biden‘s arrival in the Iron City was not known to be compromised and was not scheduled for maintenance via the federal infrastructure bill, according to governmentrecords.
The disaster left three hospitalized and 10 others injured near Frick Park early Friday morning. While no fatalities have been reported and all victims are in stable condition, the massive collapse shook the city and surrounding area.
The city’s 2021 Transportation Improvement program, which was commissioned to allocate federal funds for transportation infrastructure, did not account for the Frick Park bridge.
A court says Pennsylvania’s expansive 2-year-old mail-in voting law violates the state constitution.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A court declared Friday that Pennsylvania’s expansive 2-year-old mail-in voting law violates the state constitution, agreeing with challenges by Republicans who soured on the practice after former President Donald Trump began baselessly attacked it as rife with fraud in his 2020 reelection campaign.
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration swiftly appealed to the state Supreme Court, immediately putting the party-line decision by a panel of three Republican and two Democratic judges on hold and stopping it from overturning the law.
President Joe Biden stopped to look at a Pittsburgh bridge that collapsed just hours before he arrived for a scheduled visit to the city on Friday, dramatically underscoring the urgency of his drive to rebuild the United States’ creaky infrastructure.
“The idea that we have been so far behind on infrastructure, for so many years — it’s just mind-boggling,” the president told them.
One emergency worker described the scene after the collapse as loud as a jet engine. Biden praised the work of rescuers, noting a natural gas leak that was not stopped until some 30 minutes after first responders arrived at the scene.
PITTSBURGH — A bridge collapsed Friday morning in Pittsburgh near Frick Park, causing several vehicles and a bus to crash down into a ravine, Channel 11 News has learned.
UPDATE 8:30 a.m.: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf tweet the following about the bridge collapse:
“We are monitoring the situation in Pittsburgh and prepared to provide support as needed. Pittsburgh residents: Please stay safe and continue to avoid the area.”
UPDATE 8:25 a.m.: The Port Authority of Allegheny County is detouring near Frick Park.
UPDATE 8:20 a.m.: Some Pittsburgh Public Schools are moving to remote learning because of the bridge collapse. The district released the following statement:
“Due to the impact of a bridge collapse in the East End and high call-offs among bus drivers, all K-5, K-8 and 6-8 and Special Schools will transition to remote learning. High schools and 6-12 schools will continue in-person learning. The District will still operate on a 2 hour delay schedule. Pittsburgh Public Schools transportation is canceled. There will be no Grab and Go meal service available today.”
UPDATE 8:15 a.m.: The Port Authority of Allegheny County said a driver and two passengers were on the bus that was on the bridge when it collapsed. All three people are OK.
ORIGINAL STORY: A bridge collapsed Friday morning in Pittsburgh near Frick Park, causing several vehicles and a bus to crash down into a ravine, Channel 11 News has learned.
The collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge in the area of South Braddock and Forbes avenues happened shortly before 7 a.m. This is at the border of the city’s Point Breeze neighborhood.
Officials said a handful of people were on the bus and most have been rescued.
Pittsburgh City Councilman Corey O’Connor said a handful of people were on the Port Authority of Allegheny County bus and most have been rescued.
No fatalities have been reported.
There was strong smell of natural gas in the area, Pittsburgh Public Safety officials said. The gas line was cut as a result.
Stay with Channel 11 News and WPXI.com for updates.
Pittsburgh’s Public Safety Department is making preparations for a visit by President Joe Biden, who will be coming to Pennsylvania for the second time this month.
Houston (CNN)Houston Police were in a standoff Thursday evening with a suspect they say fled the scene after three officers were shot and wounded, an incident recorded on dramatic surveillance video.
The officers were taken to a hospital and are in stable condition, police said. Mayor Sylvester Turner said the injuries are non-life threatening.
The suspect crashed one car, the video shows, and police said the suspect fled the scene in another vehicle.
The person is barricaded in a home, Houston Police Officers’ Union President Douglas Griffith said. Authorities believe the person has multiple weapons, Griffith said.
Griffith said the officers were very fortunate. The officers had one gunshot wound each, according to Griffith. One was shot in the arm, another in the leg and another in the foot.
State troopers are urging a man to surrender after they charged him Tuesday in connection with a hit-and-run in Derry Township that left a Latrobe woman seriously injured.
Trooper Steve Limani said authorities had not been successful Wednesday in locating Bobby Paul Bryer, 30, who might be driving the same red Dodge pickup police believe was involved in Saturday’s hit-and-run outside Union Mission.
“He knows we’re looking for him; there’s no doubt about that … it’s just a matter of at what point in time do you realize that it’s in (his) best interest to turn (himself) in,” Limani said. “That’s where we’re at, and that’s what we’re hoping he does.”
Bryer has an address on Vernon Avenue listed on court papers, but Limani said the man is transient and has family across the country. The 2018 red Dodge pickup has registration plate ZNR-3449. The vehicle is believed to have sustained damage to the right front side.
Bryer is charged with aggravated assault by vehicle, accidents involving death or personal injury and several related offenses, including speeding.
Mary Bathurst, 42, was seriously injured when a truck hit her outside Union Mission, where she works as a facility attendant. She was walking along the berm of Harrison Avenue before 6 p.m. to take out the trash with two shelter residents. Police said the collision knocked her 40 feet away, where she slammed into a wooden fence. The driver stopped briefly at the scene just outside of Latrobe and then fled. Bathurst remains in a hospital, though she is expected to survive.
A rapidly intensifying storm known as a bomb cyclone could bring crippling winter weather across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic this weekend. Snow, ice, strong winds and flooding are all on the table, giving rise to potentially hazardous travel conditions in those regions.
State police said a 50-year-old man attacked a woman and two children inside a home Saturday evening after he woke up and discovered his methamphetamine had been destroyed.
Jason Bingaman, 50, is charged with multiple counts of aggravated assault and one count of making terroristic threats.
According to police, Bingaman was asleep in the bathtub in his home along Evans Street in Sewickley Township.
When he woke up, police said he discovered a woman in the home had destroyed his stash of methamphetamine and became irate. Bingaman is accused of attacking the woman with a pair of scissors. She was able to escape the attack, police said.
Police said Bingaman then turned his attention to a 17-year-old girl in the home, striking her in the head and upper body area with a shovel.
Police said the victims were able to get outside and a man nearby helped stop the assault. According to the criminal complaint, Bingaman then went back into the home and grabbed a crossbow, firing it in the direction of the woman.
Wednesday and Thursday will both be impact days due to the cold temperatures.
It will get much colder overnight and temperatures will be in the single digits on Wednesday morning with wind chill values below 0 degrees, according to Pittsburgh’s Action Weather meteorologist Kasey Reigner.
Outside of the bitter cold air, it will be quiet for the next two days. There will be some sunshine until we get to Friday when some snow showers are expected, Reigner said.
(CNN)Rescue crews with the US Coast Guard are searching for 39 people whose boat reportedly capsized on Saturday night near Fort Pierce, Florida, the agency said on Tuesday.
At approximately 8 a.m. on Tuesday, the Coast Guard Miami Sector received a report from a good Samaritan who said he rescued a man clinging to a capsized vessel approximately 45 miles east of Fort Pierce Inlet, officials tweeted.
In pulling the rule, the Biden administration acknowledged what most businesses expected: the plan to make companies mandate vaccines-or-tests is over.
The pilot of a US F-35 jet ejected as his jet crashed on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier in the South China Sea, injuring seven, the US Pacific Fleet said in a statement Monday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Two moderate earthquakes shook southwest Haiti on Monday, killing two people, injuring dozens of students and damaging hundreds of homes as it created panic in a region that was rocked by a powerful tremor that killed more than 2,000 last summer.
A magnitude 5.3 quake at 8:16 a.m. (1316 GMT) was followed by a magnitude 5.1 quake nearly an hour later. Both were centered on Haiti’s southern peninsula, west of the capital, Port-au-Prince, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It said both occurred about 10 kilometers (6 miles) below the surface.
