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JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) — Police say a Johnstown man struck a woman Wednesday with a baseball bat because she refused to get him a cheeseburger. Police say the incident happened at a home on the 600 block of Bedford Street. According to a criminal complaint, 26-year-old Michael Felton was arguing with the woman and when she refused to get him one, he got a bat and struck her over the head with it.

DETROIT (AP) — Nissan is urging the owners of about 84,000 older vehicles to stop driving them because their Takata air bag inflators have an increased risk of exploding in a crash and hurling dangerous metal fragments. Wednesday's urgent request comes after one person in a Nissan was killed by an exploding front-passenger inflator, and as many as 58 people were injured since 2015. Due to the age of the vehicles equipped with defective Takata air bag inflators, there is an increased risk the inflator could explode during an air bag deployment, propelling sharp metal fragments which can cause serious injury or death,"

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WJAC) — Rep. Mark Rozzi, D-Berks, a compromise pick to be speaker of the Pennsylvania House amid a political battle over narrow majorities changing hands, announced Tuesday that he was stepping down as Speaker two months after taking the job. Rozzi led the support for the Democrat's original pick to be speaker, Rep. Joanna McClinton, D-Philadelphia, who won the election in the chamber shortly after he gave up his post.

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HUNTINGDON., Pa. -- A trial got underway Wednesday for a woman accused of faking her law license. Officials said Kimberly Kitchen worked at BMZ law firm in Huntingdon for a decade and never attended law school. She is accused of faking her license to practice law, forging documents and bar exam results and falsely representing 30 estates and clients. ncG1vNJzZmivmpawtcKNnKamZ56axLR7y6iamqRfqb%2BqrctmrKeclafEosWMn6arZaekuqK6jJqanK2jmrFuu8VmnZqjmaO0brjAsGSloZOau7Sx

WASHINGTON (TND) — The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against ticketing giant Live Nation Thursday morning. "The lawsuit, which includes a request for structural relief, seeks to restore competition in the live concert industry, provide better choices at lower prices for fans, and open venue doors for working musicians and other performance artists," a news release states. Thirty states and district attorneys general brought the lawsuit, saying it is squeezing out smaller promoters and hurting artists.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (WPEC) — Pegasus, Tianaa and Zaza Red are all brand names referring to the dietary supplement known as tianeptine or as it’s more commonlycalled “gas station heroin.” It’s a fitting nickname, as experts say the highly addictive pills, in many ways, mirror the effects of heroin. “They get the same warm feeling, the fuzzy, the high, the grogginess, the numbness and pain relief, the euphoria associated with that, and like heroin, you have to start taking more and more,” said Luis Garcia, a retired Boynton Beach firefighter and founder of USA Opioid Crisis Mortality Reduction.

In Blair County, work is ongoing to dismantle the former Appvion Paper Mill in Roaring Springs. The more than 300-acre site has been in existence for nearly 120 years. When the paper mill closed in 2021, around 300 people lost their jobs. While there have been no formal plans announced for the site, the Altoona-Blair County Development Corp. did propose a two-phase redevelopment concept to Roaring Spring Borough Council in February 2023.

FALLSTON, Md. (WBFF) — A woman died after she was trapped under a lawn mower in a drainage ravine, according to the Fallston Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Company (FVFAC). FVFAC and Harford County Department of Emergency Services EMS Division were dispatched shortly before 5:15 p.m. for a lawn mower accident with traumatic injury. The incident took place in the 2300 block of Willow Vale Dr. in Fallston. As personnel responded they were told that the patient was no longer conscious or breathing, according to FVFAC.