(CNN)Norwegian multimillionaire Tom Hagen has been arrested on suspicion of killing his wife, Anne-Elisabeth Hagen, who disappeared 18 months ago.
Hagen’s lawyer denies the property and energy mogul was involved, and he has not yet been charged with any crimes.
Anne-Elisabeth Hagen, 69, disappeared in October 2018 and the family said a ransom had been demanded for her release, but on Tuesday Norwegian police arrested Hagen, 70, on suspicion of killing her, according to public broadcaster NRK.
Pittsburgh EMS, Fire, Police and Park Rangers responded to a report of a cyclist who had a struck a tree and gone down a hillside in Nine Mile Run Hollow around 6 p.m.The male was located and removed from a wooded area in a basket.
Medics transported him to UPMC Presbyterian in critical condition.During the rescue, a medic from Rescue 1 went into cardiac arrest. The medic was resuscitated on scene and transported to a local hospital in serious but stable condition.
ALLEGHENY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Police are investigating an alleged attack near a Westmoreland County walking trail.
Allegheny Township police are checking surveillance video after a woman said she was assaulted by a man last month near Tredway Trail, according to our news partners at TribLIVE.com.
The woman told police she was approached in the parking area near the Braeburn Docks.
Police don’t have any suspects, but tell TribLIVE.com investigators are working with the woman to develop a sketch.The woman was not taken to the hospital.
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized a shipment of 1,600 counterfeit Roku remotes in Pittsburgh.
(Photo Credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
Officials say the shipment of counterfeit remotes — worth $80,000 — arrived from China on April 13.
The remotes were headed to an address in Butler County.
“Customs and Border Protection officers remain committed to protecting the intellectual property rights of businesses while protecting consumers against potentially harmful counterfeit products,” said Kathleen Killian Schafer, CBP’s acting port director for the Port of Pittsburgh. “Consumers should be aware that counterfeit goods pose a health and safety threat and should protect their families by purchasing safe, authentic goods from reputable vendors.”
Pittsburgh Police responded to multiple Shotspotter alerts for gunfire on the 2100 block of Mission Street around 6:20 a.m.
Zone 3 officers came upon a male with a rifle. The male said he was practicing with his new rifle in a wooded area. Officers observed that the male was intoxicated. He was arrested without incident.
The suspect was charged with gun charges, public intoxication and reckless endangerment.
Governor Tom Wolf’s administration is expected to announce on Friday which parts of Pennsylvania will begin reopening on May 8.
However, the state is still determining how regions would be grouped when it comes to relaxing restrictions in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The state health department said Friday’s announcement will also come with a benchmark for widespread testing throughout the state.Meanwhile, PNC Bank is facing a class action lawsuit in which one of PNC’s customers claims the bank favored existing customers for the Paycheck Protection Program Loans that are part of Congress’ response to the pandemic.By law, banks are required to handle those loan applications on a first-come, first-serve basis.
PNC Bank shared a statement with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 on Wednesday morning, writing, “We have no comment on the lawsuit. All of us at PNC are squarely focused on supporting our customers during this challenging time. This includes efforts to process and register as many additional small business loans as possible with the next round of funding, which has been authorized for the Paycheck Protection Program.”
Gilead Sciences Inc. GILD, +3.80% on Wednesday morning announced data from two clinical trials testing its experimental drug remdesivir in severely ill COVID-19 patients. The drugmaker’s stock was halted in premarket trading on Wednesday in advance of company disclosures about remdesivir’s performance in the studies. Gilead said an open-label Phase 3 trial testing the therapy in severely ill patients found that those taking a 5-day or 10-day course of treatment led to similar results. At least 52% of participants taking either dosing regimen were discharged from the hospital after 14 days of treatment, and at least 53% of those patients were reported as reaching “clinical recovery.” “Multiple concurrent studies are helping inform whether remdesivir is a safe and effective treatment for COVID-19,” Gilead chief medical officer Merdad Parsey said in a statement. “The study demonstrates the potential for some patients to be treated with a 5-day regimen, which could significantly expand the number of patients who could be treated with our current supply of remdesivir.” Source: Gilead says shorter remdesivir regimen is effective and drug met main goal in government study – MarketWatch
With a little bit of luck and persistence, a Colorado man has hit the jackpot twice after playing the same numbers for 30 years.
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — With a little bit of luck and persistence, a Colorado man has hit the jackpot twice after playing the same numbers for 30 years.
Colorado Lottery officials identified “Joe B.” as the winner of two $1 million Powerball jackpots on March 25. He claimed the winnings on Friday, KUSA-TV reported.
Food bank offering drive-thru distribution at local pantries
DELMONT, Pa. —
The boxes sit stacked on pallets throughout the warehouse of the Westmoreland County Food Bank. Thanks to more than 1,000 volunteers, those boxes will soon be heading towards an area food pantry to be given to a family in need.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials at the Westmoreland County Food Bank knew they needed to adjust the way food was distributed. It’s a task that hasn’t been easy, as the need has continued to grow.
As nursing and personal care homes have been the hardest hit by the coronavirus throughout the country and state, precautions put in place have so far enabled the 400-bed Westmoreland Manor to be spared, officials said Tuesday.
The county-owned nursing home, the largest of the 66 nursing home or personal care facilities in Westmoreland County, has yet to record a single case among residents and staff as the pandemic has circulated throughout the community.
“It’s a combination of proper planning and managers and staff taking their job seriously,” Commissioner Sean Kertes said.
Nearly all of the Manor’s roughly 500 staffers are county employees. The facility is run by Quest Healthcare Development Inc., a private company based near Murrysville that owns and operates nursing homes throughout Pennsylvania.
A Rhode Island woman charged this month with prostitution told Greensburg police a city woman paid for her to fly to Western Pennsylvania for a visit and to “make some money,” police said.
Greensburg police this week arrested Nicole Vickers, 28, on charges that she was promoting prostitution following an undercover sting on April 28. Investigators said they responded to an advertisement on the website, “Skip the Games,” which police allege is used to promote prostitution.
Also arrested was Nicole M. Moynihan, 32, of Greensburg. She is charged with promoting prostitution and running a prostitution business.
Vickers told police she lives in Rhode Island, but Moynihan paid for her flight and transportation to Greensburg so she could “visit her and make some money,” according to court documents.
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Tuesday that he would declare meat processing plants “critical infrastructure” to ensure that facilities around the country remained open as the government tried to prevent looming shortages of pork, chicken and other products as a result of the coronavirus.
The action comes as meat plants around the country have turned into coronavirus hot spots, sickening thousands of workers, and after the head of Tyson Foods, one of the country’s largest processors, warned that millions of pounds of meat would simply disappear from the supply chain.
While Mr. Trump said the step would ensure an ample supply of meat, the announcement provoked swift backlash from unions and labor advocates, who said the administration needed to do more to protect workers who often stand shoulder to shoulder in refrigerated assembly lines. At least 20 workers have already died of coronavirus, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union said.
If Nancy Pelosi didn’t have double standards, she wouldn’t have any standards at all. At least, that’s what the speaker of the House’s Monday endorsement of Joe Biden for president suggests.
“Now more than ever, we need a forward-looking, battle-tested leader who will fight for the people: a president with the values, experience, and the strategic thinking to bring our nation together and build a better, fairer world for our children,” Pelosi said as she unveiled her endorsement in a video message. “I’m proud to endorse Joe Biden for president. A leader who is the personification of hope and courage, values, authenticity, and integrity.”
Georgia is one of the first states in the country to significantly ease social distancing restrictions.
“A lot of people, I think, want to get back to the new normal, which will be social distancing and all that,” Chris Heithaus, manager of 87 Waffle House restaurants in Georgia and the Carolinas, told the Associated Press, adding, “But they will be able to eat inside the restaurant.”
The majority of restaurants did not reopen but a few—including Waffle House’s 330 chain restaurants and more than twelve other restaurants in the Atlanta metro area—did, despite backlash from health officials and users online; “This is a really bad idea—I hope you are paying your workers extra and protect them,” said one user in response to a post on Instagram from Rocky Mountain Pizza announcing their reopening.
For those that did reopen, though, it wasn’t life as normal: Restaurants are required to adhere to a set of 39 guidelines laid out by the state government, including a mandate that all employees wear masks, owners screen employees for signs of illness, and restrictions on the amount of customers allowed inside at the same time.
Many owners that refused to allow dine-in service did so because they felt it was too early or unsafe, while others said they were waiting for more guidance from the state.
Executives from the companies in recent days tentatively settled on the timeline following talks with United Auto Workers (UAW) leaders and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s office, the Journal said on Monday, citing people familiar with the plans.
A SWAT situation is unfolding Tuesday morning in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood.Team called out to investigate shots fired in the area of Sickle Street.
With a stay-at-home order in effect statewide, fewer people are driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
With fewer drivers, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is generating a lot less money from tolls. From March 22 through April 18, the turnpike commission has seen a 50 percent drop in revenue from tolls.
The drop in revenue poses serious challenges for the turnpike commission. Turnpike Commission CEO Mark Compton said the commission is cutting costs and scaling back repair projects.
FLEETVILLE, Pa. — Authorities are investigating a fisherman’s discovery of a truck at the bottom of a northeastern Pennsylvania lake.
WNEP-TV reports that someone on a fishing boat noticed what appeared to be a vehicle on the bottom of the Benton Township lake in Lackawanna State Park in Lackawanna County.
The fisherman contacted authorities who confirmed the presence of some sort of truck at the bottom of the lake. Officials decided it was too difficult to remove the vehicle or send divers to investigate at night. The investigation was to continue Sunday.
SALT LAKE CITY — State and local governments across the United States have obtained about 30 million doses of a malaria drug touted by President Trump to treat patients with the coronavirus, despite warnings from doctors that more research is needed.
At least 22 states and Washington, D.C., secured shipments of the drug, hydroxychloroquine, according to information compiled from state and federal officials by The Associated Press. Sixteen of those states were won by Trump in 2016, although five of them, including North Carolina and Louisiana, are now led by Democratic governors.
Supporters say having a supply on hand makes sense in case the drug is shown to be effective against the pandemic that has devastated the global economy and killed nearly 200,000 people worldwide, and to ensure a steady supply for people who need it for other conditions like lupus.
New Zealand’s Director-General of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, said the low number of new cases in recent days “does give us confidence that we have achieved our goal of elimination”.
Cambria County, Pa. (WJAC) — Everyone is trying to find creative ways to stay busy while staying home as the statewide shutdown continues because of the coronavirus.
One hobby seems to be budding in popularity, gardening. Local nursery owners say more people have been paying them a visit to get their gardens going.
Jesse Stuver, the owner of Stuver’s Riverside Nursery in Johnstown, says this time have made people want to become more self sufficient and grow their own food instead of relying on the store.
“It’s a good opportunity to put food on your plate and there’s nothing like the taste of a tomato or apple pie that you’ve grown the tree yourself or the plant yourself,” said Stuver.
Stuver says it’s also a safe and easy way to social distance while getting some fresh air and may be giving people a new perspective on life.
“You get to see thing that you’re obviously not going to see in an office and it’s kind of nice to stop and smell the roses sometimes, I think that’s important,” said Stuver.
Even though people won’t be working from home or unable to see friends and family forever. Stuver says he believes this trend will continue past this time.
“When people do go back to work I think they’re going to have a little more time, I think it’s been a reset button for people. They’re spending more time with family and gardening is a family thing, you can get the kids out and they can help till the garden, help pull weeds and whatever needs to be done,” said Stuver.
And if you are looking to get a green thumb during the pandemic, Stuver says to make sure you have fertile soil and keep weeds away from your garden. But most importantly, he says to have fun with it.
READE TWP., CAMBRIA CO., Pa. (WTAJ) — State Police in Ebensburg are looking for information after 10 beer kegs and two rolls of welder leads were stolen from a home on Executive Drive in Reade Township.
Police report the theft happened sometime between April 9 and April 25, 2020.
State Troopers are asking anyone with any information to call PSP Ebensberg at 814-471-6500.
Stolen:
10 Beer Kegs, Value $300
2 Welder Leads, Value $600
New York (CNN Business)Tyson Foods (TSN) is warning that “millions of pounds of meat” will disappear from the supply chain as the coronavirus pandemic pushes food processing plants to close, leading to product shortages in grocery stores across the country.
“The food supply chain is breaking,” wrote board chairman John Tyson in a full-page advertisement published Sunday in The New York Times, Washington Post and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
US farmers don’t have anywhere to sell their livestock, he said, adding that “millions of animals — chickens, pigs and cattle — will be depopulated because of the closure of our processing facilities.”
“There will be limited supply of our products available in grocery stores until we are able to reopen our facilities that are currently closed,” Tyson wrote.
Gasper Vallejo, visiting the city from Miami, was zipping north in a 2016 Mercedes Benz on Bruckner Blvd., underneath the elevated Bruckner Expressway, when he slammed into a support pillar about 3:35 a.m.
The facility, located in Robards, in Henderson County, will be closed for at least four days, per a statement from the plant’s manager.
PITTSBURGH —
Gilead Sciences Inc. GILD, +3.80% on Wednesday morning announced data from two clinical trials testing its experimental drug remdesivir in severely ill COVID-19 patients. The drugmaker’s stock was halted in premarket trading on Wednesday in advance of company disclosures about remdesivir’s performance in the studies. Gilead said an open-label Phase 3 trial testing the therapy in severely ill patients found that those taking a 5-day or 10-day course of treatment led to similar results. At least 52% of participants taking either dosing regimen were discharged from the hospital after 14 days of treatment, and at least 53% of those patients were reported as reaching “clinical recovery.” “Multiple concurrent studies are helping inform whether remdesivir is a safe and effective treatment for COVID-19,” Gilead chief medical officer Merdad Parsey said in a statement. “The study demonstrates the potential for some patients to be treated with a 5-day regimen, which could significantly expand the number of patients who could be treated with our current supply of remdesivir.” Source: Gilead says shorter remdesivir regimen is effective and drug met main goal in government study – MarketWatch
With a little bit of luck and persistence, a Colorado man has hit the jackpot twice after playing the same numbers for 30 years.
Food bank offering drive-thru distribution at local pantries
Georgia is one of the first states in the country to significantly ease social distancing restrictions.
Executives from the companies in recent days tentatively settled on the timeline following talks with United Auto Workers (UAW) leaders and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s office, the Journal said on Monday, citing people familiar with the plans.
“The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified’,” the Pentagon wrote in a statement Monday.
A SWAT situation is unfolding Tuesday morning in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood.Team called out to investigate shots fired in the area of Sickle Street.
The incident was reported Monday night at a senior living facility in Canton Township, Washington County.
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Gasper Vallejo, visiting the city from Miami, was zipping north in a 2016 Mercedes Benz on Bruckner Blvd., underneath the elevated Bruckner Expressway, when he slammed into a support pillar about 3:35 a.m.
Jerry Bishop, the longtime veteran radio personality who was the off-camera announcer for the courtroom show
