(Monroeville, Pa.) The former president of the NAACP East chapter is facing charges and is suspected of stealing nearly $194,000 from the NAACP for personal expenses.
According to Allegheny County police, investigators received an anonymous letter alleging financial improprieties in the chapter.
54-year-old Kenneth Huston, of Monroeville, is accused of spending donated funds on personal expenses and activities.
After an 11-month investigation, the Allegheny County Investigative grand jury issued a presentment to which police reviewed and charged Huston with taking $193,892.17 of the NAACP’s funds for unauthorized personal expenses. He was charged with theft by unlawful taking, theft by failure to make required disposition of funds and access device fraud.
Huston turned himself into Magisterial District Judge Jeffrey Herbst yesterday for preliminary arraignment. He was released on his own recognizance.

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(Burgettstown, Pa.) Legendary Guitarist Carlos Santana has postponed his concert that was scheduled for Wednesday night at Star Lake after he collapsed on stage after performing for about an hour during a show in Michigan last night.
Santana’s manager said Santana had suffered “heat exhaustion and dehydration.” He was taken to a nearby hospital for observation, and according to his manager he is “doing well.”
A rescheduled date for the show at star lake has not been announced and updates will come from Live Nation.

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Pittsburgh, PA – PennDOT District 11 is announcing a portion of Sunflower Road (Route 68) will close to traffic in Rochester Township, Beaver County, beginning Wednesday morning, July 6 weather permitting.

Pittsburgh, PA – PennDOT District 11 is announcing a lane restriction on westbound Business Loop 376 (Route 3160) in Moon Township, Allegheny County will occur Wednesday through Friday, July 6-8 weather permitting.

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By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Rookie outfielder Jack Suwinski hit his 14th home run and the Pittsburgh Pirates spoiled Jameson Taillon’s return to PNC Park with a 5-2 win over the New York Yankees. Taillon lost for the first time since April 11 after giving up a solo shot to Daniel Vogelbach in the first inning and a two-run homer just over the center-field wall by Suwinski in the fourth. Taillon, who spent more than a decade in the Pirates’ organization before being traded to New York in 2021, was pulled with one out in the sixth after allowing five runs and six hits with five strikeouts.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks with his Chinese counterpart this week in Indonesia at a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of 20 bloc of nations. The State Department says Blinken will see China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Bali at the gathering of the world’s leading industrialized nations. But, it was silent on whether Blinken would also meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who will also be attending the G-20 event. The U.S. and China are at severe odds over numerous issues ranging from trade and human rights to Taiwan and disputes in the South China Sea. They are also divided over Russia’s war in Ukraine, with China supporting the Russian explanation for the conflict.

NEW YORK (AP) — The fossilized skeleton of a T. rex relative that roamed the earth about 76 million years ago will be auctioned in New York this month. The Gorgosaurus skeleton will highlight Sotheby’s natural history auction on July 28. The Gorgosaurus was an apex carnivore that lived in what is now the western United States and Canada during the Late Cretaceous period. It predated its relative the Tyrannosaurus rex by 10 million years. The specimen being sold was discovered in 2018 in the Judith River Formation near Havre, Montana. It measures nearly 10 feet (3 meters) tall and 22 (6.7 meters) feet long.

After the U.S. Supreme Court revoked the federal right to abortion that’s been in place for half a century, companies like Amazon, Disney, Apple and JP Morgan pledged to cover travel costs for employees who live in states where abortion is now illegal so they can terminate pregnancies. But they gave no details on how they will do this and it’s not clear if they will be able to — legally — while protecting employees’ privacy and keeping them safe from prosecution.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano, often makes the baseless allegation that Gov. Tom Wolf’s policy of readmitting COVID-19 patients from hospitals to nursing homes caused thousands of deaths. It’s a claim for which no investigator or researcher has provided any evidence. In fact, researchers point to something entirely different. They say nursing home employees ushered in the virus every day to the buildings. Meanwhile, criminal investigators found administrators flouting staffing requirements or infection-control procedures. No Pennsylvania nursing home has leveled a claim like Mastriano’s. And readmissions were routine in every state during the pandemic to keep hospital beds open. Wolf’s office says Mastriano’s claims are “patently false.”