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Nikki Haley has been swamped in Nevada’s symbolic Republican presidential primary as GOP voters resoundingly picked the “none of these candidates” option on the ballot.

Source: Nikki Haley is trounced by the ‘none of these candidates’ option in Nevada’s Republican primary

The incline was shut down on Jan. 2 because of a malfunction that prevented the cars from stopping at the stations.

It was shut down back on Jan. 2 because of a malfunction that prevented the cars from stopping at the stations. The work is covered by the contract for last year’s $8.2 million rehabilitation project, so it will not cost PRT or taxpayers any additional money.

Cars started running again at 5:30 a.m. Saturday.

Source: The wait is over: Mon Incline reopens after five-week closure for repairs

 The defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs are attempting to become the first NFL franchise in 20 years to win back-to-back Super Bowl championships, but they’ll have to get past Christian McCaffrey and the Niners to do it.

While Kyle Shanahan and Andy Reid tighten up their teams’ schedules and playbooks, this is the perfect time for fans to get ready for Super Bowl LVIII. Whether you’re hosting the ultimate Super Bowl LVIII watch party at home or watching the game at your favorite local sports bar, you’re going to want to know when the big game starts, how long it runs and all the logistics for the day so you don’t miss a single snap, pass or play –not to mention Usher’s smooth Super Bowl halftime show moves.

Super Bowl 2024 kickoff and game schedule: Starting at 6:30 p.m., the San Francisco 49ers face the Kansas City Chiefs with musical performances by Reba McEntire, Usher, Post Malone and more.

• 6:10 p.m. ET (approximately): Post Malone is expected to sing “America the Beautiful”, followed by the national anthem sung by Reba McEntire. Singer Andra Day will also perform her rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Actor Shaheem Sanchez will sign along with Day. (Sanchez will also perform the ASL version of Usher’s halftime performance.)
• 6:30 p.m. ET: Super Bowl LVIII begins. Jim Nantz and Tony Romo are scheduled to call the game, with reporters Tracy Wolfson, Evan Washburn and Jay Feely and rules analyst Gene Steratore. Armando Quintero and Benny Ricardo call the Network’s SAP coverage in Spanish.

• 8:00 p.m (approximately): The Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show will begin. Music sensation Usher will take the stage to perform a medley of his top hits.

2024 Super Bowl postgame coverage: When the game is over, the action continues with CBS’ postgame coverage, including the presentation of the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the winners.

• 9:30 p.m -10:00 p.m. (approximately): Postgame coverage begins. “The NFL Today” team will recap the Super Bowl and Jim Nantz will present the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the winner of Super Bowl LVIII.

Source: When does the 2024 Super Bowl start and end? Full timeline for Sunday’s game

Chinese New Year 2024: The festival is marked with pomp by many Asian countries.

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This year, the Chinese New Year falls on February 10. Generally, the festivities often last for 15 days, beginning a week ahead of the New Year. People make festive cakes and puddings to boost their growth in the upcoming year, hang red banners (Nian) at their homes, clean their homes, and hold family reunion dinners on Lunar New Year’s Eve.

A famous mythology says that there was a well-known underwater beast called Nian who used to crawl onto the land every New Year’s Eve to feast on human flesh and attack villages. It is said that Nian feared the colour red, loud noises, and fire. To ward off the monster, people put up red paper dragons on their doors, burned red lanterns all night and set off firecrackers. To this day, the Lunar New Year celebration is centred around removing bad luck and welcoming prosperity. Therefore, red is considered an auspicious colour to ring in the New Year. People dress up in red attire, decorate their homes with red paper lanterns and use red envelopes to give loved ones and friends money for the new year, symbolizing good wishes for the year ahead.

Source: Chinese New Year 2024: When is Lunar New Year? Know date, history, significance, traditions of the Year of the Dragon

Allegheny County police said the woman was found shot inside her apartment on Youngridge Drive.

She was pronounced dead at the scene. The medical examiner’s office identified her as Ramiah Griffin, 20.

Police have not announced any arrests or suspects.

Anyone with information is asked to call the county police tip line at 833-ALL-TIPS. Anonymous calls will be accepted.

This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for updates.

Source: Shooting in Baldwin Borough, Allegheny County

The fire happened on Boy Scout Road in South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County.

The fire broke out at a large structure in the 200 block of Boy Scout Road around 11 a.m.

Sky 4 flew over the scene Friday afternoon where flames and smoke could still be seen.

It was not immediately clear if anyone had been injured in the fire.

This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for updates.

Source: House fire in South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County

The mom of two made her debut as a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit rookie while her husband, Patrick Mahomes, gears up for the Super Bowl.

Source: Brittany Mahomes hits back at haters after making Sports Illustrated…

The president rejects findings he disclosed classified material and denies he forgot when his son died.

Source: ‘My memory is fine’ – Biden hits back at special counsel

Home invasion happened early Thursday morning

Pittsburgh Public Safety said three to five people forced their way into a home with three of them carrying firearms.

A man in the home was pistol-whipped and the woman suffered facial injuries.

Neither needed to be taken to the hospital.

Pittsburgh Public Safety said the people involved in the home invasion stole $200 in cash, a handgun and car keys before taking off in the victims’ blue Honda Accord.

That vehicle was later found in Arnold but the suspects had already taken off.

As of Thursday morning, no arrests had been announced.

Source: Car stolen during home invasion in Pittsburgh is found in Westmoreland County

The victim was shot multiple times and taken to the hospital in critical condition.

Brentwood Borough police officers have arrested a man they say was wanted in connection to a shooting.

Joseph Luman, 45, is in custody Tuesday.

According to investigators, he was wanted in connection to a shooting that happened Wednesday along Hillson Avenue.

The victim was shot multiple times and taken to the hospital in critical condition.

Brentwood police thanked officers in Pittsburgh for their help in Tuesday’s arrest.

Source: Suspect arrested in Brentwood shooting that sent schools into lockdown last week

National security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday did not rule out the possibility of strikes in Iran in saying the U.S. will continue its military action in Iraq and Syria in response to last weekend’s deadly attack against U.S. troops in Jordan.

“I would just say, from the perspective of Tehran, if they chose to respond directly to the United States, they would be met with a swift and forceful response from us,” Sullivan said to host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”

Source: US declines to rule out hitting targets in Iran, Jake Sullivan says

Police said he was shot while taking out the trash.

PITTSBURGH —

A convenience store employee was shot while taking out the trash late Saturday night on the city’s South Side.

Police responded just before 10:30 p.m. along the 2100 block of East Carson Street. They said they found the man inside the store.

He had been shot in the chest as he was taking out the trash. Medics took him to the hospital in critical condition.

The update from police did not mention any suspects or arrests.

Source: South Side convenience store employee shot

The so-called Pineapple Express was the second in a week for the inundated state and 40 million people were under flood watch from the Bay Area to Sacramento, all the way south to San Diego.

Source: Second atmospheric river in a week drenches already-saturated California

JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran issued a warning Sunday to the U.S. over potentially targeting two cargo ships in the Mideast long suspected of serving as forwarding operating base for Iranian commandos, just after America and the United Kingdom launched a massive airstrike campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

The statement from Iran on the Behshad and Saviz ships appeared to signal Tehran’s growing unease over the U.S. strikes in recent days in Iraq, Syria and Yemen targeting militias backed by the Islamic Republic.

Those attacks, themselves a retaliatory campaign for the killing of three U.S. soldiers and wounding of dozens of others in Jordan, all stem back to Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which has escalated tensions across the wider Middle East and raised fears about a regional conflict breaking out.

Source: After new US strikes hit Yemen, Iran issues a warning about suspected spy ships in the Mideast

Much of “Rustin” was shot in Allegheny County. The manager of Cinelease Studios says more productions would come to Pennsylvania if the tax credit was higher.

PITTSBURGH —

Much of the Oscar-nominated movie “Rustin” was shot in Warrendale, Allegheny County. Names of Pittsburgh neighbors are in the credits.

“Production office staff, the art department, all the construction workers — and that is a whole subsection of people as well because then there’s a paint department,” said Paul Haller, Pittsburgh studio manager for Cinelease Studios.

“Somewhere in the ballpark of about $2 billion spent locally, and those are dollars that aren’t going back to California or going into an actor’s pocket or sent over to foreign seas,” Cinelease general manager Gannon Murphy said. “Those are dollars that are going into local dry cleaners, those are dollars that are going into diners, those are dollars that are going into lumber mills, right? So it’s materials and it’s people, and that’s a significant amount of money.”

Cinelease has locations all over the country. Murphy says more productions would come to Pennsylvania if the tax credit was higher.

In April 2021, when Gov. Josh Shapiro was the state attorney general, he posted on social media that Pennsylvania’s film tax credit should be unlimited, or uncapped, like it is in Georgia, where the movie business is booming.

In 2022, Hollywood spent $200 million in Pennsylvania. Hollywood spent 22 times that amount in Georgia.

Source: Pennsylvania film tax credit below surrounding states

One person was injured after an incident in Pittsburgh’s South Side.

PITTSBURGH — One person was injured after an incident in Pittsburgh’s South Side.

Allegheny County dispatchers say emergency crews were called to the intersection of S 22nd Street and E Carson Street at 10:28 p.m. on Saturday.

Police were investigating a convenience store at that location.

Source: 1 person injured after incident in Pittsburgh’s South Side Flats

PITTSBURGH —

A baby shower in Pittsburgh’s Fairywood neighborhood turned deadly Saturday evening.

One person is dead and two others wounded after gunfire broke out at the Westside Salvation Army community center at 1831 Broadhead Fording Road.

Pittsburgh Public Safety said one male was pronounced dead at the scene and another was hospitalized in critical condition. A third was located in in the 3000 block of Glen Mawr Street in Sheraden and taken to a hospital in stable condition.

Police said six or seven shots were fired around 615 p.m. There was word on what led to the gunfire.

Source: Man killed in baby shower shooting in Pittsburgh’s Fairywood neighborhood

Pittsburgh police have located a vehicle believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run of a child in the city’s Hill District. Public Safety spokeswoman Emily Bourne said charges are forthcoming in connection with the incident that injured a 4-year-old boy Thursday afternoon along the 2600 block of Webster Avenue.

Source: Pittsburgh police locate car involved in hit-and-run

Punxsutawney Phil – the famous groundhog weather watcher – woke up and did not see his shadow Friday morning, calling for an early spring.

Source: What did the groundhog see? Punxsutawney Phil’s winter predictions are in | CNN

Pittsburgh Public Safety officials said the driver did not stop at the scene on Webster Avenue.

The 4-year-old boy was with a parent when he was struck, officials said. He was initially in serious condition but has been upgraded to stable condition.

Source: Pittsburgh hit-and-run in Hill District

The actor is charged over the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a film set.

Source: Alec Baldwin pleads not guilty to new involuntary manslaughter charge over Halyna Hutchins’s Rust shooting

A hangar under construction on the grounds of the airport in Boise, Idaho, collapsed Wednesday, killing three people and injuring nine more, officials said.

Authorities responded at about 5 p.m. local time to a private business located at the Boise Airport for a steel framed hangar that collapsed, Boise Fire Department Operations Chief Aaron Hummel said during a news briefing.

Everyone who had been at the site had been accounted for as of Wednesday evening, he said. Hummel wouldn’t immediately comment on the condition of those injured or say whether anyone had died.

However, in a statement late Wednesday night, the city of Boise confirmed that three people were pronounced dead at the scene. Of the nine people injured, five were hospitalized in critical condition, the city said.

The names of the victims were not immediately released.

Source: 3 killed, 9 injured in hangar collapse at Boise airport, officials say

Police said the shooting in the 100 block of Hillson Avenue sent a man to the hospital in critical condition.

Brentwood schools were in a modified lockdown Wednesday as police investigate an incident near the high school.

There was a heavy police presence in the area of Hillson Avenue, with Allegheny County Sheriff’s deputies, Pittsburgh police and Baldwin police on the scene.

Source: Search for shooting suspect continues after Brentwood schools sent into modified lockdown

Johnstown, PA (WJAC) — Emergency officials in Cambria County say Johnstown police are investigating a late night crash that injured two people.

Dale Borough fire officials say they were among several departments who were dispatched to the single-vehicle crash around 9:30 p.m. Monday.

Authorities say the crash occurred at the intersection of David Street and Messenger Street.

Officials say both occupants were reportedly trapped inside the vehicle and crews had to remove the roof in order to extricate them.

Source: GALLERY | JPD investigating late night rollover crash that injured 2

PITTSBURGH — The Steelers are expected to hire former Atlanta Falcons head coach Arthur Smith as their next offensive coordinator, league sources confirmed to ESPN.

“We’re looking forward to have someone come in and take a fresh approach who can help our young players grow and perform and have the offense perform at a consistently high level,” Steelers owner Art Rooney II said Monday about an impending hire at the position, saying the hire would be made sooner rather than later.

Smith was fired by the Falcons earlier this month after compiling a 21-30 record in three consecutive 7-10 seasons without a playoff berth. Before his stint in Atlanta, Smith was the Tennessee Titans‘ offensive coordinator from 2019-20. Smith initially joined the Tennessee staff in 2011 as a defensive quality control coach and also worked as an offensive quality control coach, offensive line coach, assistant tight ends coach and tight ends coach before his promotion to offensive coordinator.

Source: Steelers to hire Arthur Smith as OC, sources say

Biden said the United States “will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner of our choosing.”

Source: Biden says US ‘shall respond’ after drone strike by Iran-backed group kills 3 US troops in Jordan

There’s new interest in one of the past century’s most alluring mysteries and a grainy sonar image is at the heart of both excitement and skepticism.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A grainy sonar image recorded by a private pilot has reinvigorated interest in one of the past century’s most alluring mysteries: What happened to Amelia Earhart when her plane vanished during her flight around the world in 1937?

Numerous expeditions have turned up nothing, only confirming that swaths of ocean floor held no trace of her twin-tailed monoplane. Tony Romeo now believes his new South Carolina-based sea exploration company captured an outline of the iconic American’s Lockheed 10-E Electra.

Archaeologists and explorers are hopeful. But whether the tousled-haired pilot’s plane lies at the roughly 16,000-foot (4,800-meter) depth remains to be seen. And debates abound about the proper handling of whatever object is discovered.

Source: A grainy sonar image reignites excitement and skepticism over Earhart’s final flight

The Pittsburgh area ended 2023 with another historic low unemployment rate as the total number of jobs rose by nearly 11,000 for the year, signaling a continuing tight labor market.

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the seven-county Pittsburgh metro area decreased one-tenth of a percentage point over December to a new record low of 3.4% while the national rate was unchanged from 3.7% from November, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry.

Source: Record low unemployment rates continue for Pittsburgh area