Mississippi family says 8-year-old daughter’s Ring security camera was hackedVideo
A mother in Mississippi said hackers commandeered her daughter’s Ring security camera and taunted her 8-year-old daughter. A video obtained by NBC affiliate WMC shows a view of the child’s room while mysterious music starts playing from the Ring. A voice can also be heard saying, “Hello there.” During one...
Group of moms show up at hearing to support ‘overwhelmed’ mom who left special needs son at hospitalVideo
It takes a village. A mother who left her 14-year-old special needs son at an Atlanta hospital last week was shocked to find out a group of mothers showed up to court Thursday in support of her during her child cruelty hearing. According to Atlanta’s NBC-affiliate WXIA-TV, Diana Elliott reportedly...
What was trending on Google in 2019? Find out here
Can you believe it? Another year (almost) gone. But while you get nostalgic about 2019 or try to find ways to skip ahead to 2020, check out the work Google has done to recap what was trending in the United States this year. In overall searches, Disney took the top...
Officials: Ohio weatherman sent nearly 16,000 child porn files
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former Ohio television weatherman accused of downloading child porn emailed himself nearly 16,000 such images to view on other devices, investigators said in recently unsealed search warrants. Mike Davis used one email account to regularly send himself “batches” of files depicting sexually explicit images of young...
Murrysville man fell in love with the great outdoors
Whether it was his career as a railroad engineer, hunting moose and grizzly bears in Alaska, or running Wilson’s Nursery in Murrysville, Bill Wilson wanted to be outside. That love of the outdoors also led him to his wife of 64 years, Marie (Rosenbayger) Wilson. “There was an archery place...
College freshman, 18, stabbed to death near her Barnard campus in NYCVideo
NEW YORK — An 18-year-old Barnard College freshman from Virginia was fatally stabbed in a park near the school’s campus in New York City. Tessa Majors was walking in Manhattan’s Morningside Park just before 7 p.m. Wednesday when she was accosted by an unknown number of people — possibly as...
Thousands of 10-inch ‘penis fish’ wash up on California beachVideo
Some beachcombers were puzzled by the thousands of 10-inch wiggling sausages littering a section of California coast but one researcher knew exactly what they were. Penis fish. Or, more formally, fat innkeeper worms. Not formal enough? How about the scientific Urechis caupo? These are a variety of spoonworm, writes Ivan...
Game Commission investigating shooting of 3 elk in Benezette
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is investigating the shooting of three elk along a highway with a small caliber firearm in Elk County’s Benezette Township. A cow and two bulls were found Thursday along Quehanna Highway. Anyone with information related to the incident should contact the Game Commission’s Northcentral Region Office...
Appeals court rehears arguments in Trump hotel lawsuit
RICHMOND, Va. — A divided federal appeals court spent more than three hours Thursday sparring over whether President Donald Trump is illegally profiting from the presidency through his luxury Washington hotel. The state of Maryland and the District of Columbia asked 15 judges on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Regulators to set up 3-digit suicide hotline number like 911Video
NEW YORK — Federal regulators are setting up a new three-digit number to reach a suicide prevention hotline in order to make it easier to seek help and reduce the stigma associated with mental health. Once it’s implemented, people will just need to dial 988 to seek help, similar to...
Overturned ship’s fuel tanks drained of 320,000 gallons
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Crews have finished draining all of the fuel from an overturned cargo ship three months after it capsized off the coast of Georgia, the team overseeing salvage operations said Thursday. Divers and other workers removed more than 320,000 gallons of oil mixed with water aboard the South...
Pentagon watchdog investigating $400M border wall contract
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department’s internal watchdog is investigating a $400 million border wall contract awarded to a firm that used multiple appearances on Fox News to push for the job. The Pentagon’s inspector general sent a letter Thursday to House Homeland Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson telling him the contract...
House panel presses toward historic Trump impeachment voteVideo
WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee pressed toward a historic vote Thursday to approve articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Split sharply along party lines, the panel was expected to send the charges to the full House for pre-Christmas action next week. The committee, made up of some of...
Laundromat, car dealership, grotto and pubs used in U.K. vote
LONDON — Some citizens in the English city of Oxford could have been forgiven for bringing their dirty laundry with them when they went to their polling station to cast their vote in Britain’s first December general election in nearly a century. That’s because the Ace Launderette was pressed into...
‘Turf wars’ alarm Florida panel probing Parkland shooting
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida grand jury looking into last year’s Parkland school shooting chided schools, law enforcement and other local jurisdictions over continued “turf wars” that could hamper the response to another crisis. In a report released late Wednesday, the statewide grand jury said the continued squabbling and other...
Trump criticizes climate activist Thunberg after Time honor
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump lashed out at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday, a day after she was named by Time as its Person of the Year, calling her selection “ridiculous.” The Swedish teenager has become a symbol of a growing movement of young climate activists after leading...
Authorities tie killers in New Jersey attack to fringe group Black Hebrew IsraelitesVideo
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The two killers who stormed a kosher market in Jersey City had apparently been followers of the Black Hebrew Israelites — a fringe group whose members have been known to rail against white people and Jews — and one of them had made anti-Semitic posts online,...
Judge to decide on removing Texas baby’s life support
DALLAS — A judge on Thursday will consider whether a Texas hospital can take a 10-month-old girl off life support despite her family’s opposition. At the hearing in Fort Worth, the judge will consider the request by Tinslee Lewis’ family for a temporary injunction to stop Cook Children’s Medical Center...
America’s oldest, largest visual arts group showcasing work in Greensburg
The country’s oldest and largest visual arts group is showcasing local talent in its 107th exhibit, hosted at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art and Seton Hill University, both in Greensburg. The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) annual exhibition highlights 53 artists from across Western Pennsylvania’s largest cities and tiniest...
Southwest Airlines to share $125M from Boeing settlement with workers
DALLAS — Southwest Airlines will share about $125 million from a Boeing settlement with its workers. The Dallas carrier has been among the hardest hit by the grounding of Boeing’s Max 737 airplanes in March after a pair of deadly crashes. Without the planes, Southwest has said that it will...
Pa. auditor general urges shutdown of immigrant detention center
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s independently elected fiscal watchdog said Wednesday that his staff was repeatedly refused a tour of a Berks County facility that is one of three family detention centers in the United States that hold children and parents who are seeking asylum or entered the country illegally. Auditor General...
U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey will vote against Trump’s new trade deal; here’s why
President Trump and House Democrats managed to bridge their differences on a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada, but Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey said he’ll vote against the deal. Even though many Republicans have embraced the deal, Toomey, R-Pa., said the new agreement is going to hurt free...
U.K. voters decide who they want to resolve Brexit impasseVideo
LONDON — U.K. voters were deciding Thursday who they want to resolve the stalemate over Brexit in a parliamentary election seen as one of the most important since the end of World War II. Voting was underway across the country in a contest that pits Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who...
New Zealand planning retrieval of bodies on volcanic islandVideo
WHAKATANE, New Zealand — A team of eight New Zealand military specialists will land on a small volcanic island early Friday to attempt to retrieve the bodies of eight victims of an eruption that claimed eight other lives. New Zealand police said late Thursday the recovery attempt will go ahead...
Hong Kong protesters mark 6 months since movement began
HONG KONG — Hundreds of people joined an evening demonstration among Hong Kong’s skyscrapers on Thursday marking six months since the city’s protest movement began. The crowd chanted “Hong Kong people, revenge!” in anger at police use of tear gas and widespread arrests. The “United We Stand” rally came amid...
