PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police are searching for a missing 14-year-old girl whose family says they received a message from her on social media claiming she was being held against her will. Amiyah Freeman was last seen on Aug. 10 near her home. On Saturday, family members received a direct message on Instagram from the girl’s account. The message said she was being held at an unknown location and included a photo of a vehicle she claimed belonged to the person who was holding her.

Four men are admitting to jumping another man in Armstrong County. The victim had reportedly arranged to meet 20-year-old Jensen Fair for sex in exchange for 300-dollars. The 21-year-old went to a wooded area near South Jackson Avenue in Parker City and was attacked by the four. The group left with the money, leaving the victim unconscious. The man is recovering at Butler Memorial Hospital.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The father of a 7-year-old boy who died after he fell between two moving subway cars in Philadelphia last year is now facing manslaughter charges. Aden Devlin was selling candy with his older brother on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s Broad Street Line when he slipped and was run over near the Allegheny station in September 2018. Authorities say the boys’ father and a family friend were using the children and other kids to earn money for them.

The New Castle man who’s accused of killing an eight-year-old boy is awaiting a trial date. A Lawrence County judge ordered Keith Burley to stand trial yesterday on criminal homicide, kidnapping and other charges. Prosecutors say Burley stabbed Mark Mason to death in June after a fight with the boy’s mother.

FOX CHAPEL, Pa. (AP) — A 5-year-old girl has been killed in an all-terrain vehicle crash that also left her father and older sister hospitalized. Allegheny County police say the accident in Fox Chapel occurred Thursday night. The 57-year-old father was driving the ATV in the family’s front yard with his children as passengers when one of the girls reached up and hit the throttle. The ATV sped forward, crashed over a hillside and struck a tree. The 5-year-old was taken to a hospital but died there a short time later.

ROUTE 51 IN ALIQUIPPA HAS BEEN RE-OPENED. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST 30TH, 2019

TODAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 82.

TONIGHT – PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW – 58.

SATURDAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 78.

SUNDAY – CLOUDY IN THE MORNING WITH SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING LATER IN THE
DAY. HIGH – 78.

LABOR DAY MONDAY – PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A SLIGHT
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
HIGH – 78.

 

President Donald Trump says he wants to change the channel on Fox News. Fox News is the cable network that helped make his political career and whose hosts have consistently defended his administration. Trump lashed out at Fox on Wednesday, accusing the network in tweets of “heavily promoting the Democrats,” and adding, “Fox News is letting millions of GREAT people down! We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!” The tweets were the latest, and perhaps the bluntest, criticisms of Fox that Trump has broadcast to his nearly 64 million Twitter followers, despite unwavering support from Fox’s top-rated opinion programs. Fox, meanwhile, has remained officially silent. Its spokespeople have not offered a rebuttal to the president’s criticism. Fox is typically the most-watched network on cable.

President Donald Trump has promised to pardon aides if they have to break federal laws to get hundreds of miles of new border wall built before the 2020 election, according to current and former officials involved with the project. Aides have been directed to fast-track contracts, disregard environmental rules, and to be aggressive while seizing private land, reports The Washington Post. A White House official, speaking anonymously, said Trump is joking when he mentions pardons. However, the president has promised to complete 500 miles of border fencing by the November 2020 election, but just 60 miles of replacement barrier went up during the first two-and-a-half years he has been in office, and officials say he’s been holding White House meetings to push hard about it.