WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A tornado that barreled through parts of Kansas destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes and buildings, injured several people and left more than 15,000 people without power, officials said Saturday.
In addition to wreckage from the tornado itself, three University of Oklahoma meteorology students traveling back from storm chasing in Kansas were also killed in a crash Friday evening, according to officials.
Nicholas Nair, 20, of Denton, Texas; Gavin Short, 19, of Grayslake, Illinois; and Drake Brooks, 22, of Evansville, Indiana, died in the crash shortly before 11:30 p.m. Friday, according to an Oklahoma Highway Patrol report.
The three were in a vehicle being driven by Nair southbound on Interstate 35 when the vehicle hydroplaned and was struck by a tractor-trailer rig in Tonkawa, about 85 miles (137 kilometers) north of Oklahoma City, the report said.
Vijaya Gadde, who earned $17 million last year as Twitter’s top legal counsel, could be on the chopping block as Musk is reportedly planning to slash jobs and reduce executive pay.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Naomi Judd, whose family harmonies with daughter Wynonna turned them into the Grammy-winning country stars The Judds, has died. She was 76. Her daughters, Wynonna and Ashley, announced her death on Saturday in a statement provided to The Associated Press.
Margo Malone made a name for herself as a distance runner at North Hills High School before continuing to raise her game at Division I Syracuse where she won an ACC title and earned All-American recognition in the 10,000 meters. She moved to Boston to join a professional running team
Thousands of runners and others participated in virtual runs and other activities in 2020 and last year to keep the Pittsburgh Marathon spirit alive in the face of the covid-related in-person cancellations.
Runners from all 50 states and 11 countries will descend on Pittsburgh this weekend and run Sunday in what is expected to be rainy conditions with temperatures in the mid 50s.
“It is great to be back,” said Troy Schooley, the CEO of P3R, the engine behind some of the biggest races in Pittsburgh throughout the year.
“Through the pandemic, we felt a responsibility to keep people moving and active. But there is nothing like Liberty Avenue on race morning. There’s nothing like running with 30,000 others across our bridges and through city neighborhoods. Many people the past two years were running solo on trails and in their neighborhoods. But to have the masses come back and showcase the city, it’s going to be really special.”
The handcycle division starts everything off Sunday morning at 6:50, followed by the half-marathon elite start, featuring a trio of U.S. Olympians, at 6:55.
The full marathon, half-marathon and marathon relay will go off at 7:05.
More than $100,000 in prize money will be doled out to the top finishers in several men’s and women’s races.
“It’s a great field overall and quite an impressive elite field headlined by the Olympians and also a former Boston Marathon winner,” Schooley said. “There is a wide array of ability levels, and our mission statement is to inspire and support any and all to move. We have some of the best movers in the world, and we have some new movers who are going to come out and move with us.”
Pittsburgh police are warning residents and visitors of the rising number of catalytic converter thefts from vehicles.
So far in 2022, police said as many as 65 catalytic converters have been reported stolen, many of them from box trucks and a large number from Toyota Prius vehicles.
They contain three precious metals — platinum, palladium and rhodium. The metals are recovered and sold on the underground market.
Police are warning vehicle owners to be observant, as these thefts are being reported in every police zone in the city, with the majority of them taking place sometime between midnight and 5 a.m.
The public should also be aware of any vans or trucks they don’t normally see in their neighborhoods, as thieves often work in tandem.
They also encourage neighbors to share information and, where possible, train any home security cameras toward parked vehicles.
Police are investigating multiple cases, pending arrests. Any suspicious activity should be reported to 911 immediately.
Farmers markets are springing up in the region, including a sale this Saturday in Greensburg. About 15 vendors will be selling their homemade products at the farmers market from 9 a.m. to noon at Lynch Field in Greensburg, said Paul Sarver, manager of the Farmers Market Association of Central Westmoreland,
Few business leaders have ever wielded as much power as Elon Musk.
Musk, who was already recognized by Bloomberg as the world’s richest man, will soon add one of the world’s most influential media platforms to his purview when he buys Twitter, adding to a business empire thatalready includes the leading private space company (SpaceX) and one of the leading electric car companies (Tesla).
It’s a combination that makes him one of the most significant figures in the history of technology, business and media.
“I think this is genuinely new,” Brad DeLong, an economic historian at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote in an email.
“There were press lords in the past,” he said, citing William Randolph Hearst, whose fictionalized legend was immortalized in the film “Citizen Kane.”
Regulators discovered during routine testing that certain products from Swedesboro, N.J.-based Lakeside Refrigerated Services may be contaminated with E. coli O103, a harder-to-identify strain of the bacteria.
There have been no confirmed reports of illnesses or adverse reactions related to consumption of the food, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said in a news release.
But the agency is urging people who may have purchased the items, which were shipped to stores nationwide, not to consume them and either throw them away or return them to the store where they were bought.
The product codes and labels of the affected products are available on the FSIS website.
Elon Musk said Twitter’s move to ban The New York Post’s exclusive story about Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings ahead of the 2020 presidential election was “obviously incredibly inappropriate.”
Musk, who is set to buy the social media platform, wrote his opinion Tuesday evening in response to reporter Saagar Enjeti, who tweeted a Politico article about how the social media company’s top lawyer was brought to tears when discussing its new ownership.
“Vijaya Gadde, the top censorship advocate at Twitter who famously gaslit the world on Joe Rogan’s podcast and censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, is very upset about the @elonmusk takeover,” Enjeti wrote.
“Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate,” Musk replied.
A man showed up at the hospital after being shot in New Kensington, Westmoreland County.
The shooting happened on the 1300 block of Leishman Avenue a little before 7:45 p.m.
According to authorities in Westmoreland County, the man was taken to Allegheny Valley Hospital in a private vehicle and then taken to a Pittsburgh-area hospital by medical helicopter.
Allegheny County homicide detectives were called to a home on Pittsburgh Street in Springdale Borough on Monday afternoon.
The woman and a man, both of whom had been shot, were found by a maintenance worker, Sgt. Todd Dolfi said.
County homicide detectives were called to the apartment in the 1000 block of Pittsburgh Street at about 3:40 p.m.
“They’ve only lived here two weeks,” neighbor, Janelle Conroy said. ”They just moved in.”
The names of the deceased have not yet been released.
Police said a maintenance worker discovered the man and woman when he stopped by just after 3:30 Monday afternoon.
“As soon as I came home a maintenance man was here to change locks, to install new locks for them, and he went inside and found them, and I guess he shot right back out because he didn’t want to disturb anything of course,” Beth Hovet said.
Beth Hovet lives in one of the connected apartments.
“I haven’t seen them in a while,” Hovet said. “A lot of people around here are really close. They kinda look out for each other.”
McKenna Thompson, 30, was not too worried when she learned last week that she was among thousands of people across Arizona, Nebraska and New Mexico who would be forced to leave as wildfires approached.
She had been driving back home to Flagstaff, Ariz., when she heard about the evacuation order. As smoke swirled around her car and the skies darkened, she soon felt as if she were “looking at hell,” she said on Sunday. She picked up her 2-year-old son and her mother and drove to a cafe to wait out the fire.
A few hours later, she learned that her home had burned down.
Ms. Thompson was caught up in the Tunnel Fire, which officials estimate has damaged or destroyed 30 homes. Displaced families have been left with rubble, ashes and a harrowing reminder of what they’ve lost.
“Everything is gone,” Ms. Thompson said.
The Tunnel Fire was one of many wildfires this past week that have collectively scorched more than 150,000 acres and forced the evacuations of at least 4,000 homes, officials said. The fires, which have been blamed for at least one death, are part of an early and active season across the country, as wildfires have also plagued California, Colorado and Texas.
“What this incident brought to light was a problem,” said Isaac Faldey, president of Community Alliance of Spring Garden. “That was a big problem, and it’s not just what the police need to solve, it’s what the community can do.”
Faldey led a round-table discussion on how to respond to Easter Sunday’s mass shooting.
“We want to try to get something going for the entire North Side, even if it’s just a start,” Faldey said.
Just hours beforehand, police around the Pittsburgh area were once again busy, responding to calls of violence.
Faldey said it’s not just the job of police to stop these violent acts, but everyone’s.
“We as a community are going to try to help the city move on from that,” he said.
Faldey said that right now, the group is focused on the youth and finding ways to target that age group to start curbing the violence they’re currently seeing.
Paris — French President Emmanuel Macron comfortably won reelection to a second term Sunday, according to polling agencies’ projections. In the midst of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the result offered the European Union the reassurance of leadership stability in the bloc’s only nuclear-armed power and was immediately hailed by France’s allies.
A second five-year term for the centrist Macron spares France and its allies the seismic upheaval of a wartime shift of power to Macron’s populist challenger Marine Le Pen, who quickly acknowledged her defeat Sunday night but still appeared on course for a best-ever showing for her fiercely nationalist far-right policies.
During her campaign, Le Pen pledged to dilute French ties with the 27-nation EU, NATO and Germany, moves that would have shaken Europe’s security architecture as the continent deals with its worst conflict since World War II. Le Pen also spoke out against EU sanctions on Russian energy supplies and faced scrutiny during the campaign over her previous friendliness with the Kremlin.
With more than three-quarters of votes counted, Macron was leading 55% to 45% for Le Pen.
After conducting training camp at their practice facility or Heinz Field for the last two years, the Pittsburgh Steelers announced on Wednesday they are returning to St. Vincent College in 2022.
“We are very excited to return to Saint Vincent College for our Training Camp later this
summer,” said Steelers President Art Rooney II. “We always appreciate the support from Saint
Vincent as well as the Latrobe community. We look forward to having fans back on campus as we
will be preparing for the 2022 season. We thank Father Paul Taylor and the tremendous staff on
campus for their continued support for our return to our summer home.”
The Steelers had trained at St. Vincent College for 54 consecutive seasons until the COVID-19 pandemic forced the organization to move camp to the south side of Pittsburgh in 2020 and 2021.
LOS ANGELES — Thanks to Netflix and CNN, the entertainment industry has just received a masterclass into what works and what doesn’t when it comes to streaming.
Lesson One: Just creating a streaming channel, even one with a well-known name, is no guarantee of success. Viewers are showing their limits when it comes to paying for multiple services.
Lesson Two: The streaming market will continue to grow, but with so many players at this point, some will struggle to find a place with viewers.
Lesson Three: Content is still king. To succeed, a content channel needs to retain subscribers with original talked-about, exclusive shows, movies or specials, backed by a deep reserve of older, popular content that can be aired again and again to tide viewers over between hits.
(CNN)A man who set himself on fire Friday on the plaza in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, has died, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
The man was identified as Wynn Bruce of Boulder, Colorado, an MPD spokesperson said Saturday.
Bruce had been airlifted to a hospital in Washington, where he passed away, according to the department.
Supreme Court Police, US Capitol Police and the MPD had responded to the incident, which occurred Friday at about 6:30 p.m. Eastern time.
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