Quinn on Nutrition: Nuts that are not nuts
Question: “You have helped me out in the past so I thought I’d get your opinion on this. On a recent show, a doctor was talking about which foods to eat and which to avoid. He said that you should be eating nuts, but don’t eat cashews, as they are...
Up to a third of opioid overdose deaths might be suicides, Johns Hopkins researcher concludes
Tens of thousands of people fatally overdose each year on opioids and other drugs. Sometimes medical examiners label them accidents, and sometimes they don’t know what to call them. But where humans waver, a computer program using a kind of artificial intelligence finds many are likely suicides — possibly a...
Mitch McConnell moves to speed up Senate impeachment trialVideo
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed Monday to significantly speed up President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, offering rules that would shoehorn opening arguments into a grueling four-day period of 12-hour days, meaning a major part of the nation’s third-ever presidential impeachment trial could wrap up by the weekend....
Lev Parnas demands William Barr’s recusal from his criminal case
Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas demanded Monday that Attorney General William Barr recuse himself from his criminal case over allegations that Barr played a part in President Donald Trump’s hunt for Ukrainian dirt on Democrats. Parnas, who has broken with Team Trump in spectacular fashion and is angling to testify...
Trump aide Kellyanne Conway claims Martin Luther King Jr. would be against impeachmentVideo
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway claimed Monday that Martin Luther King Jr. would oppose the impeachment of President Trump. The comment was given when a reporter asked Conway how the president planned to observe the MLK holiday. “I can tell you the president is preparing for [the World Economic Forum...
Indiana boy, father, shot when gun discharges while wrestling
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A 4-year-old Indiana boy is in critical condition Monday when a gun his father had concealed in his clothing discharged while the two were wrestling, police said. The Herald-Times reported that the two were play wrestling Sunday night on a bed inside a home near Bloomington, Ind.,...
Hawaii man suspected of killing 2 police officers described as unhingedVideo
HONOLULU — A Hawaii handyman with a history of run-ins with police and neighbors faced eviction when he stabbed his landlord and killed two officers before the house he and two women were believed to be inside burned, authorities and neighbors said. Police responding Sunday to a call for help...
Human-to-human transmission confirmed in China coronavirusVideo
BEIJING — The head of a Chinese government expert team said Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus, a development that raises the possibility that it could spread more quickly and widely. Team leader Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory expert, said two people in...
Greensburg woman lived life of service
Photo with paid obit.Customers at Waugaman’s market in Greensburg knew and loved Gladys Waugaman. “So many customers would ask for her… they came into the store to see her, and she was just so kind and caring,” said her son, G. Lynn Waugaman. Before working at the family grocery store,...
Trump’s lawyers urge dismissal of ‘flimsy’ impeachment case
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s legal team asserted Monday that he did “absolutely nothing wrong,” calling the impeachment case against him “flimsy” and a “dangerous perversion of the Constitution.” The lawyers decried the impeachment process as rigged and insisted that abuse of power was not a crime. The brief from...
Pro-gun rally by thousands in Virginia ends peacefullyVideo
RICHMOND, Va. — Thousands of gun-rights activists from around the country rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol on Monday, protesting plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation that have become a key flash point in the national debate over gun violence. The size of the crowd and...
Germany jails man for tricking women into electric shocksVideo
BERLIN — A court in Germany has convicted a 31-year-old man of attempted murder in more than a dozen cases for tricking women into giving themselves electric shocks while he watched over the internet. Munich’s regional court on Monday sentenced the man, identified only as David G. for privacy reasons,...
Man returns $43,170 found in thrift store footstool
OWOSSO, Mich. — The footstool didn’t feel right. That’s what happens when someone stashes $43,170 inside and apparently forgets about it. Indeed, the money was discovered inside a footstool that was donated to a Michigan resale shop in Owosso Township. Howard Kirby bought the piece and other furniture for $70...
N.J. man found shot to death along Bucks County highway
Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a New Jersey man whose body was found along an eastern Pennsylvania highway. State police were called to Interstate 295 in Bristol, Bucks County after the body was reported at about 2 a.m. Sunday. Trooper Nathan Branosky said 31-year-old Joshua McRae of Trenton...
Paris transit strike eases; commuters, tourists relievedVideo
PARIS — Paris commuters who have battled through six weeks of misery-inducing transport strikes found their smiles again Monday as some subway workers ended their walkouts against a contested overhaul of France’s pension system. A weekend announcement by the UNSA union’s subway wing of a return to work after 46...
Monument to Holocaust victims vandalized in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine — Vandals have damaged a monument to the victims of the Holocaust in Ukraine a week before International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27. Joel Lion, the Israeli ambassador in Ukraine, tweeted a picture Monday of the monument in Kryvyi Rih, a city in eastern Ukraine, with the...
Police: 2 dead, 5 injured after shooting in San Antonio clubVideo
SAN ANTONIO — Two people were killed and at least five were injured when someone opened fire during an argument at a concert in San Antonio, Texas, and police are hunting for the shooter who fled the scene. Officers were called shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday to the Ventura, a...
Martin Luther King holiday: Faith, politics mix this holiday
ATLANTA — The nation is marking the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with tributes Monday recalling his past struggles for racial equality, observing the federal holiday named for him against the backdrop of a presidential election year. In an early tribute to King, Vice President Mike Pence...
Police: Guard ‘saved lives’ in Kansas City bar shootingVideo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An armed security guard saved several lives when he shot and killed a heavily armed man who opened fire on a line of people waiting to get into a Kansas City, Mo., bar, killing one person and wounding at least 15 others, Kansas City’s police chief...
Allegheny Health Network expanding healthy food center
Since opening in 2018 at West Penn Hospital, the region’s first Healthy Food Center has provided nearly 40,000 meals to patients and their families who lack access to nutritious food items, according to Highmark Health. Allegheny Health Network will expand the effort’s reach, with the recent opening of a second...
Canadian military mobilized to help Newfoundland dig outVideo
ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland — Canada’s federal government was mobilizing the Armed Forces Sunday to help Newfoundland and Labrador dig out from the monster blizzard that paralyzed eastern regions of the province with record-breaking amounts of snow and as forecasts call for more. Newfoundland Premier Dwight Ball asked for Ottawa’s help...
Lyme disease vaccine for mice might help prevent human infections
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut researchers are involved in a potentially important effort to break the cycle of infections among wild animals and ticks that leads to the transmission of Lyme disease to humans. The key is finding a way to give a specially developed vaccine to white-footed or deer mice,...
West Virginia community passes resolution supporting gun rights
FORT GAY, W.Va. — A West Virginia community has passed a resolution declaring itself a “Second Amendment sanctuary.” The Fort Gay town council passed the resolution Friday night, news outlets reported. Supporters say it is a defense against possible federal or state legislation that could limit access to firearms, ammunition...
First-degree murder conviction in ex-girlfriend’s slayingVideo
NORRISTOWN — A Philadelphia man accused of having stabbed and run over his ex-girlfriend in the parking lot of her suburban workplace has been convicted of first-degree murder. Jurors deliberated for about two hours Thursday before convicting Lawrence Crawley, 34, in the death of 33-year-old Angela Stith. Crawley, who did...
Governor: 2 police officers die after Hawaii shootingVideo
HONOLULU — Two police officers were killed in a shooting Sunday in the normally peaceful Honolulu, Hawaii’s governor said in a statement. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports that officers had responded to an assault call when they encountered a male with a firearm, who then opened fire, striking two officers. “Our...
