UNDATED (AP) — Navigating airports can be tricky. They’re loud, crowded and not always laid out in an intuitive way. They’re even more challenging for visually impaired people. A blind professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute has come up with a solution. This spring researchers launched a navigation app for Pittsburgh International Airport that provides turn-by-turn audio instructions to users on how to get to their destination.

Environmentalist Tom Steyer, whose fortune tips the scales at well over $1 billion, has changed his mind and now plans to join the Democratic Party field in the race for president.

Politico reported Monday that Steyer has indicated to people close to him that he has changed his mind about 2020 and will run for the White House.

Steyer has spent millions of dollars over the years supporting Democrats running for office. A resident of San Francisco, Steyer is worth an estimated $1.6 billion, according to Forbes.

Steyer has been highly critical of President Donald Trump and has contemplated running for president during the current campaign cycle, but in January he ruled it out.

It’s not clear what prompted Steyer’s change of heart on running.

SYLVANIA, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s John and Phyllis Cook are living proof love is ageless.

WNWO-TV reports the couple living at retirement facility in Sylvania went to get their marriage license at the county courthouse in Toledo late last month and decided to tie the knot there and then. John just turned 100. Phyllis will be 103 in August.

The couple’s relationship after dating a year had grown to the point where Phyllis thought it best they get married. She says it might seem “far-fetched” at their age, “but we fell in love with each other.”

Both were married twice previously to spouses who died. They spend lots of time together, but have decided to maintain their own apartments.

Asked what their favorite activity is, John replied: “Well, I probably shouldn’t talk about that.”

LUFKIN, Texas (AP) — Police in East Texas say a teenager from San Antonio is suspected of taking a tub of ice cream from a Walmart freezer, removing the top to lick the ice cream and then returning it to the freezer.

Blue Bell Creameries said in a statement that it determined a Walmart store in Lufkin was where “the malicious act of food tampering took place.”

A short video posted to social media last week shows the teenage girl laughing as she places the top back on the half-gallon container and returning it to the freezer.

Blue Bell says the container that was “compromised” was found and removed.

The company says “food tampering is not a joke.”

Lufkin police said Friday that they don’t intend to charge the teen with tampering with a consumer product.

It’s not clear if juvenile justice authorities may charge her.

Congressman Justin Amash of Michigan, who has left the Republican Party, said Sunday he’s still got the support of voters back home — and hasn’t ruled out a run for president. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Amash said he’s “had concerns with the Republican Party for several years,” and “this was the term that really broke it for me.” Asked if he would run again — and win — as an independent, Amash said “yes”. And then asked about the possibility of running for president as a Libertarian or on another ticket, he declared.” I still wouldn’t rule anything like that out.” He also stood by his contention that President Donald Trump should be impeached.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, only the second woman in history to be added to the high court, praised newly-confirmed Justice Brett Kavanaugh for appointing an all-female staff of law clerks. Ginbsurg said last Tuesday during a sit-down at Georgetown Law School…“There is a very important first on the Supreme Court this term and it’s thanks to our new justice, Justice Kavanaugh. Justice Kavanaugh made history by bringing on board an all-female law clerk crew. Thanks to his selections, the court has this term, for the first time ever, more women than men serving as law clerks.” Kavanaugh, whose contentious confirmation hearing last summer was marked by allegations of sexual assault – touted his record on sending female law clerks to clerk on the Supreme Court. He also promised to hire an all-female law clerk team.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The iconic Fallingwater home built over a western Pennsylvania waterfall by Frank Lloyd Wright has been designated a World Heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. UNESCO says Fallingwater and seven other Wright buildings were added to the list Sunday at a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan. The director calls it “a tremendous honor.” Designed in 1935 for a Pittsburgh department store magnate, Fallingwater receives about 180,000 visitors per year.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia university is apologizing for an erroneous message warning of an active shooter on the campus. Thomas Jefferson University says a “resolvable system error” during a routine test of the school’s JeffAlert system sent out the alert at 10:18 a.m. Sunday about the campus in the East Falls neighborhood, which was formerly known as Philadelphia University. The school vows to take action “to ensure that this does not happen again.”

(Photos taken by Sandy Giordano)

An Aliquippa building filled with smoke Saturday night, prompting a visit from local firefighters. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano was there…

 

NORTH VERSAILLES, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a woman being sought in a shooting in an Allegheny County Walmart that critically wounded another woman is in custody. Allegheny County police say 22-year-old Rojanai Alston, of Penn Hills, surrendered to county police Saturday evening and was taken to county jail to await arraignment. Police said earlier Alston faces attempted homicide and aggravated assault charges in the Friday shooting in the electronics section of the North Versailles store.