Texas community mourns pre-K student killed in bus crash on ride home from field trip

 Posted on May 2, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  474 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

BUDA, Texas (KEYE) — A makeshift memorial continues to grow outside an elementary school in Texas in honor of a pre-kindergarten student who was killed Friday on the ride home from a school field trip. Preliminary reports from Texas DPS and others indicate the school bus returning from a field trip to a zoo in Bastrop County was westbound on Highway 21 near the Bastrop-Caldwell county line when a concrete pump truck heading east crossed into the westbound lane and struck the bus head-on. [Read More]

Texas woman shoots, kills home intruder, police say

 Posted on May 2, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  85 words  |  Delta Gatti

AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) — A homeowner shot and killed a man who broke into her house, according to Amarillo, Texas police. Around 5:30 a.m. Thursday, police responded to a residential burglary on N. Adams St. When officers arrived, they found the body of 53-year-old Cedric Milligan. The woman who shot him said Milligan broke into her home. According to police, he forced his way inside through the back door which was locked. [Read More]

'Call the cops or have sex with me:' Suspect in Richland Twp. standoff tried to rape woman

 Posted on May 1, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  459 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — Authorities in Cambria County are providing new details on Thursday's standoff situation in Richland Township. According to the affidavit, police have identified the suspect as 41-year-old Jordan Confer. Richland Township police say officers were dispatched just before 6 a.m., to a residence along Dowling Road, for reports of a suicidal male with gun. Authorities say Confer was identified as the suicidal male and witnesses say he reportedly fled the scene to a residence along Banyan Drive, prior to police arriving. [Read More]

Employees complained to linen company owner about suspect day before deadly shooting spree

 Posted on May 1, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  416 words  |  Brenda Moya

CHESTER, Pa. (TND) — A man who went to his workplace and went on a shooting rampage was identified Thursday. Wilbert Rosado-Ruiz is being charged with two counts of first degree homicide, multiple counts of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and a firearms charge, said Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer who describe the shooting as a "horrible tragedy." The prosecutor claimed that there had been complaints filed about the murder suspect to the owner of Delaware County Linen where five people were shot and two died. [Read More]

Johnstown National Sports | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News

 Posted on May 1, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  24 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

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Local elementary students help honor victims of 1889 Johnstown flood

 Posted on May 1, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  225 words  |  Brenda Moya

Forest Hills Elementary School students partnered with rangers from the National Park Service's Johnstown Flood National Memorial Friday; each student in the school got a chance to help the rangers create luminaries that will be lit on the evening of May 31st to honor the lives lost in the 1889 Johnstown flood. The kids wrote the names of all 2,209 people whose lives were claimed by the waters on white paper bags, and then filled those bags with sand. [Read More]

Masters champion Scheffler returns to PGA Championship after being arrested

 Posted on May 1, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  683 words  |  Brenda Moya

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (TND) — The world's top golfer and Masters champion Scott Scheffler was back at the PGA Championship a few hours after being arrested Friday morning for reportedly not following police instructions during a a pedestrian fatality investigation. Scheffler's attorney, Steve Romines, said the arrest was "a big misunderstanding" and told The Associated Press "We will litigate the case as it goes." Scheffler released a statement via his Instagram story shortly after his release: [Read More]

Unseasonably mild temperatures mean no penguin parade at zoo

 Posted on May 1, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  121 words  |  Christie Applegate

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Unseasonably mild temperatures are stopping penguins from parading around the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium as planned. The zoo's "Penguins on Parade" event usually kicks off each year at the start of December. But temperatures in the area reached into the mid-50s on Saturday and were expected to hit the mid-60s on Sunday, so officials delayed the launch until Dec. 8. The zoo's website says temperatures must hover below 45 degrees to be safe for the penguins. [Read More]

Bail set at $1 million for 7 arrested following demonstrations in Lancaster, ACLU responds

 Posted on April 30, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  435 words  |  Delta Gatti

LANCASTER COUNTY — 13 people are facing charges following violent protests Sunday night in Lancaster City, police say. Seven of these people are in Lancaster County Prison on $1 million bail, each: 24-year-old Jamal Newman30-year-old Barry Jones23-year-old Yoshua Montague31-year-old Matthew Modderman18-year-old Talia Gessner20-year-old Kathryn Patterson20-year-old Taylor Enterline43-year-old Frank Gaston, who was already on probation, was also arrested. 28-year-old T-Jay Fry, 28-year-old Dylan Davis, 29-year-old Alexa Wise, and 32-year-old Jessica Lopez are awaiting arraignment, so they're bail information is not yet available. [Read More]

District 5-AA Wrestling Finals

 Posted on April 30, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  200 words  |  Christie Applegate

JOHNSTOWN, PA (WJAC) - The District 5-AA Finals were held at the UPJ Sports Center over the weekend. Chestnut Ridge claimed the D5 Team Title for the 11th straight year. Somerset's Ethan Hemminger was voted as the D5 Most Outstanding Wrestler. The full list of results are posted below. 106 lbs. - Easton Mull from Chestnut Ridge won by Tech Fall 17-1 113 lbs. - Brock Holderbaum from Chestnut Ridge won by Fall [Read More]