North Huntingdon: Hempel, Atwood take top spots in commissioner race
With 100% of precincts reporting Tuesday, Tom Hempel won the Republican primary for North Huntingdon First Ward commissioner against challenger Brian West. Hempel received 59% of the vote. With 100% of precincts reporting, Jason Atwood won his primary for Third Ward commissioner against Republican challenger Amy Ghetian. Atwood received 54.3%...
Sewickley Township: Petros wins Republican supervisor race
With 100% of precincts reporting Tuesday, Sewickley Township board of supervisors Chairman Mark Petros received 56% of the vote in a race against challenger Jon Turik, who received 43%. During his tenure, Petros said the supervisors have worked to reduce blight in the township, getting 10 dilapidated, vacant buildings demolished....
Hempfield: Reese, Anderson win Republican primary for supervisor
In the race for two, six-year seats on the Hempfield board of supervisors, Republicans George Reese (35.9%) and Jay Anderson (24.1%) prevailed over Jerry Fagert and Becky Durbin, with 100% of precincts tallied. A little over 680 write-in votes were cast on the Democratic ballot. Anderson, 55, said he has...
Franklin Regional: Sheridan, Bucciero top school board races
With 100% of precincts reporting Tuesday, Amy Sheridan cruised with a comfortable lead over all other candidates on the Democratic ballot for Franklin Regional school board with 34% of the vote. She was followed by George App (15%), Deb Bucciero (14.2%), Scott Weinman (13.5%) and Vince Azzolina (11.45%) On the...
Court rejects Elizabeth Holmes’ latest effort to stay out of prison while on appeal
SAN FRANCISCO — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes appears to be soon bound for prison after an appeals court Tuesday rejected her bid to remain free while she tries to overturn her conviction in a blood-testing hoax that brought her fleeting fame and fortune. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals...
Democrat Cherelle Parker wins primary for Philadelphia mayor
Cherelle Parker, a Democrat with a long political history in Pennsylvania, won Philadelphia’s mayoral primary on Tuesday, likely setting her up as the city’s 100th mayor and the first woman to serve in the role. Parker, 50, who served for 10 years as a state representative for northwest Philadelphia before...
Surfing gator seen relaxing at Alabama beach amid the wavesVideo
There are plenty of alligators in Alabama. But how many enjoy a day at the beach? One such unlikely critter was spotted riding the waves recently on Dauphin Island, bobbing calmly near the human beachgoers sunbathing and wading. Matt Harvill, a 27-year-old Mobile resident, came across the lengthy gator on...
Trump-backed Daniel Cameron to face Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear in November
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Daniel Cameron won the Republican primary for Kentucky governor on Tuesday, becoming the first major-party Black nominee for governor in the state’s history and setting up a November showdown with Democratic incumbent Andy Beshear. Cameron, the state’s attorney general who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump,...
2023 Western Pa. primary election results
Here’s what we know about the results Tuesday night: Allegheny County executive: State Rep. Sara Innamorato declared victory Tuesday night in the crowded Democratic primary race for county executive, unofficial tallies showed. With more than 169,000 votes tallied and 98% of precincts reporting results, Innamorato had collected 37.6% of the...
Authorities say New Mexico gunman who killed 3 was local high school student; motive soughtVideo
FARMINGTON, N.M. — The gunman who killed three people and wounded six others while roaming through his northwestern New Mexico neighborhood and apparently firing at random targets was a local 18-year-old high school student, authorities said Tuesday, noting they were still trying to determine a motive for the attack. Beau...
Man and 12-year-old boy arrested after fatal shooting at Sonic restaurant in TexasVideo
KEENE, Texas — A 12-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man have been arrested on a murder warrant in the fatal shooting of a Sonic Drive-In employee in Texas, police said. Matthew Davis, 32, was shot and killed Saturday night as he fought with Angel Gomez, 20, in the parking lot...
Putin, Zelenskyy agree to meet with ‘African leaders peace mission’
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have agreed to separate meetings with a delegation of leaders from six African countries to discuss a possible plan to end the war in Ukraine, South Africa’s president said Tuesday. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said...
Prince Harry seeks to challenge denial of request to pay for own U.K. police protection
LONDON — A lawyer for Prince Harry argued in a London court Tuesday that he should be allowed to challenge a government decision that denied him the right to pay for police protection when he visits the U.K. The case is one of six the Duke of Sussex has pending...
Authorities: Mentally ill man who attacked congressional staffers has violent history
FAIRFAX, Va. — A mentally ill man threatened a woman with a metal baseball bat, chasing her through a northern Virginia neighborhood, before attacking U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly’s office, shattering windows and striking two women, including an intern on her first day on the job, authorities said. Staffers then managed...
Skeletons found in Pompeii ruins reveal deaths by earthquake
MILAN — The discovery of two skeletons buried beneath a collapsed wall in the Pompeii archaeological site point to deaths by powerful earthquakes that accompanied the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the first century, experts said Tuesday, in addition to the victims of volcanic ash and gas. The two...
ChatGPT chief says artificial intelligence should be regulated by a U.S. or global agencyVideo
The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that government intervention will be critical to mitigating the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems. “As this technology advances, we understand that people are anxious about how it could change the way we live. We are...
Pence allies launching super PAC to back former VP’s expected 2024 candidacy
NEW YORK — Allies of former Vice President Mike Pence are launching a new super PAC to support his expected candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. “Committed to America,” the Pence-sanctioned group, publicly launches Tuesday, according to people familiar with the project, who spoke on condition of anonymity to...
Millennial Money: What’s concierge medicine? Is it worth it?
My primary care doctor recently left her practice and invited me to join her at her new gig — a concierge medicine group. There, for a membership fee, I’d have better and more personal access to her services: same-day appointments and long conversations! Concierge medicine — a model in which...
Beijing LGBT Center shuttered as crackdown grows in China
TAIPEI, Taiwan — An advocacy group that also served as a safe space for the LGBTQ community in Beijing became the latest organization to close under a crackdown by Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government. “We very regretfully announce, due to forces beyond our control, the Beijing LGBT Center will stop...
Retail sales up 0.4% in April, buoyed by solid job market, easing inflationary pressure
NEW YORK — Consumers picked up their spending modestly in April from March, buoyed by a solid job market and easing inflationary pressures. A bump up in demand for new cars also helped results, according to the Commerce Department report issued Tuesday. Retail sales increased 0.4% in April from March...
Ukraine thwarts ‘exceptional’ Russian air attack on Kyiv
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian air defenses thwarted an intense Russian air attack on Kyiv early Tuesday, shooting down all 18 missiles aimed at the capital with the help of Western-supplied weapons, officials said. Loud explosions boomed over Kyiv as the nighttime attack combined Russian missiles launched from the air, sea...
Salman Rushdie warns free expression under threat in rare public address after attack
LONDON — Writer Salman Rushdie has made a public speech, nine months after being stabbed and seriously injured onstage, warning that freedom of expression in the West is under its most severe threat in his lifetime. Rushdie delivered a video message to the British Book Awards, where he was awarded...
Nigerian chef cooks nonstop for 100 hours to set new global record
ABUJA, Nigeria — A Nigerian chef on Monday set a new global record for the longest hours nonstop cooking as she cooked for 100 hours, surpassing the current record. Hilda Baci had been cooking since last week Thursday when she set out to beat the Guinness World Record of 87...
DeSantis curtails diversity, equity and inclusion programs in Florida state colleges
TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill that blocks public colleges from using federal or state funding on diversity programs, addressing a concern of conservatives ahead of the Republican governor’s expected presidential candidacy. The law, which DeSantis proposed earlier this year, comes as Republicans across the...
Trump tells former adviser Michael Flynn: ‘We’re going to bring you back’
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump called into an event hosted by his former national security adviser Michael Flynn over the weekend, telling his ex-adviser, “We’re going to bring you back.” After scrubbing a rally in Iowa on Saturday night because of bad weather, Trump spoke via telephone at...
