WEATHER FORECAST FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 9TH, 2019
TODAY – SOME CLOUDS THIS MORNING WILL GIVE WAY TO
GENERALLY SUNNY SKIES FOR THE AFTERNOON.
HIGH – 68.
TONIGHT – MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW – 41.
WEDNESDAY – OVERCAST. HIGH – 55.
Mother pleads no contest in 17-month-old boy’s 2016 death
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A mother accused of killing her 17-month-old son and then sending the boy’s father videos of abuse has pleaded no contest to homicide and attempted homicide charges.
Twenty-four-year-old Christian Clark of McKeesport entered the pleas Monday, the day jury selection was scheduled for her trial. She will face a mandatory life term without possibility of parole.
Allegheny County prosecutors earlier said they would seek the death penalty in the case but rescinded that notification Monday.
Clark charged in the November 2016 death of Andre Price III and was also accused of threatening the life of the boy’s 2-year-old sister.
During hours of angry texts, investigators said, she sent pictures and graphic videos of abuse to the boy’s father, who was charged with child endangerment.
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This story has been corrected to note the defendant’s age is 24 rather than 21.
Kirstjen Nielsen says she continues to support President Donald Trump’s goal of securing the U.S.-Mexico border in her first public remarks since her surprise resignation as Homeland Security secretary. Nielsen told reporters gathered outside her Alexandria, Virginia, home on Monday that she will keep supporting “all efforts to address the humanitarian and security crisis” on the border. Nielsen resigned Sunday and is being replaced by Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan.
Two thieves who snatched a statue of a lion from outside a home in a Philadelphia suburb had a change of heart after police posted surveillance video of the heist. The statute was taken from the West Chester residence on Wednesday. But by Friday, police posted a video of the thieves returning it. They also left behind a bouquet of flowers and a card.
A county tourism group is sticking by its decision to hold a meeting at a historic venue in central Pennsylvania, despite an outcry of the locale’s policy banning same-sex weddings. The Star Barn is a premier wedding spot in Elizabethtown, surrounded by farmland, orchards and vineyards in scenic Lancaster County.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to hold rallies in battleground states this weekend, starting Friday night in the liberal stronghold of Madison, Wisconsin. Sanders announced Monday that he will also hold rallies on Saturday at a community college in Warren, Michigan, and in Pittsburgh on Sunday. His campaign says additional stops in Indiana and Ohio are also planned.
A new study says sniffling, sore-throated kids seen via telemedicine visits were far more likely to be prescribed antibiotics than those who went to a doctor’s office or clinic. Many of those prescriptions disregarded medical guidelines, raising the risk they could cause side effects or contribute to the rise of antibiotic-resistant germs.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is a front-runner in this presidential campaign. Sanders leads the pack of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates in fundraising and is drawing big crowds in early voting states less than two months into his second White House bid. Sanders raised more than $18 million in the first fundraising quarter, far outpacing his rivals.
Democrats’ 2020 presidential primary has a historically diverse field of women and minorities. But in some ways the primary is also testing how the party appeals to white men. Many Democrats went into the last presidential campaign cycle taking little account of white male voters. They banked on a coalition of women and minorities to win. Now Democrats are trying to figure out whether their nominee should target affluent, college-educated, suburban men or Trump’s base of working-class whites.
DIGGING BEGINS TODAY FOR A NEW DOLLAR GENERAL COMING TO ALIQUIPPA. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO REPORTS…