{"id":266864,"date":"2026-08-17T13:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266864\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:48:25","slug":"todays-top-stories-august-14-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266864\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Top Stories: August 14, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each night, JET Action News will be bringing you the top stories of the day from around northwest Pennsylvania for you to catch up on what\u2019s going on in your community! Click the links below to learn more!<\/p>\n

CelebrateErie 2026 kicks off!<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s date is August 14, so that makes it 814 Day. \u00a0What better way to recognize 814 Day than by heading downtown for CelebrateErie? Watch reporter Bailey Mutschler live on the first day of the event here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Erie announces new opportunity zone<\/p>\n

Erie County has eight qualified opportunity zone census tracts, all located within the City of Erie and collectively known as the Flagship Opportunity Zone. To learn more about what that means for the county, click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Major Crimes Unit investigates shooting on Erie\u2019s east side<\/p>\n

Erie police responded to a shots-fired call on Erie\u2019s east side Wednesday morning. For more information, click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each night, JET Action News will be bringing you the top stories of the day from around northwest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-266864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}