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(New Beaver, Lawrence County, Pa.) Pa State Police in New Castle are reporting that they were called to the Green Meadow Trailer Court on Glenkirk Road in New Beaver Borough Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 5:49 PM.
Troopers said via release that Upon arriving on the scene and investigating it was learned that 32-year-old Christopher Novakovich of New Galilee has an active PFA against him by a 29-yer-old female victim and he violated the PFA. According to Troopers at 5:40 PM Novakovich walked up the road and made a handgun shape with his hand and pointed it at a 32-year-old female and a 32-year-old male both from Girard, Ohio. After Novakovich made the gun like motion he then made a hand motion like he was cutting his own neck. All three victims told the Troopers that they thought he was going to kill them.
Novakovich now faces multiple charges including Indirect Criminal Contempt charges that were filed for the first victim at the Lawrence County Court House and two citations for harassment for the other two victims were filed at the local magistrate’s office.

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(Harrisburg, Pa.) The Powerball Jackpot has now grown $680 million after no one matched all six numbers in Monday night’s drawing. If someone wins Wednesday’s drawing it will be the seventh-largest prize in Powerball history. The cash option on Wednesday night’s drawing is $326.1 million.
One ticket sold in Texas matched five numbers to win $1 million, officials said.
Nobody has won the Powerball jackpot since Aug. 3, when one ticket sold here Pennsylvania won the $206.9 million grand prize.

AAA: Gas Prices Drop in PA
Gas prices are three cents lower in Western Pennsylvania this week at $3.963 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report.

This week’s average prices: Western Pennsylvania Average                $3.963
Average price during the week of October 17, 2022                                $3.990
Average price during the week of October 25, 2021                                $3.581

The average price of unleaded self-serve gasoline in various areas:      

$3.954      Altoona
$4.008      Beaver
$3.999      Bradford
$3.666      Brookville
$3.986      Butler
$3.990      Clarion
$3.865      DuBois
$3.946      Erie
$3.959      Greensburg
$3.965      Indiana
$3.982      Jeannette
$3.986      Kittanning
$3.956      Latrobe
$3.996      Meadville
$4.079      Mercer
$3.930      New Castle
$3.968      New Kensington
$3.999      Oil City
$3.988      Pittsburgh
$3.972      Sharon
$3.990      Uniontown
$3.999      Warren
$3.967      Washington

Trend Analysis:

The national average pump price fell nine cents over the past week to hit $3.79. It has dropped daily since October 11, primarily due to lower oil prices and fewer drivers than usual fueling up. Today’s national average is nine cents higher than a month ago and 41 cents more than a year ago.

Global recession fears and the government’s plan to continue tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve into December have helped temper oil prices. While this announcement will help take some of the pressure off pump prices, the exact pricing impact remains uncertain.

According to recent data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), gas demand increased slightly from 8.28 million barrels per day to 8.68 million barrels per day last week. Total domestic gasoline stocks decreased marginally from 209.5 million barrels to 209.4 million barrels. Although gasoline demand is up slightly, it remains nearly 1 million barrels lower than this date last year.

At the close of Friday’s formal trading session, West Texas Intermediate increased by 54 cents to settle at $85.05. Although crude prices increased after the EIA reported that total domestic commercial crude inventories dropped by 1.7 million barrels to 437.4 million barrels last week, the price of oil had declined earlier in the week due to ongoing market concerns about crude demand as recession fears increased.

Motorists can find current gas prices nationwide, statewide, and countywide at GasPrices.AAA.com.

AAA East Central is a not-for-profit association with 71 local offices in Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia serving 2.7 million members.  News releases are available at news.eastcentral.aaa.com.  Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

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By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state elections chief wants legal penalties against two Republican county officials and their lawyer for letting an outside group access voting machines this summer despite pending litigation on the subject. Lawyers for acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman asked the state Supreme Court to hold in contempt the two Fulton County commissioners. She wants the court to dismiss the litigation that’s is scheduled for oral argument before the justices this week. The lawyer for Fulton County and commissioners Stuart Ulsh and Randy Bunch calls the state’s contempt request “a stealth pleading that was completely irrelevant and not related to the case at hand.”

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By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s high court is ruling in favor of “ballot curing” in which some counties contact voters to correct errors in mail-in ballots. The state Supreme Court justices also agreed Friday to again consider whether mail-in ballots have to be counted even if they arrive with incorrect or missing handwritten dates on their outer envelopes. Since mail-in ballots have become much more widely used, some counties have been contacting voters to fix problems such as missing signatures, while others have not. Republicans want to prevent the practice in all 67 counties.

Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, center, is led to court as she arrives for a hearing on an alleged probation violation, at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Monday, May 23, 2022. Pennsylvania’s former top law enforcement officer, who served jail time for leaking secret investigative files and lying about it, faces the prospect of more time behind bars after she was arrested for drunken driving in March. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — The attorney for Pennsylvania’s former top law enforcement officer is arguing that a drunken-driving case against her should be dismissed due to lack of evidence. The (Scranton) Times-Tribune reports that the defense wants prosecutors barred from presenting results of a field sobriety test of former attorney general Kathleen Kane as well as testimony about her refusal to submit to a blood alcohol test. Kane, the first woman and first Democrat to be elected attorney general in the state, is awaiting trial in Lackawanna County Court on DUI and careless driving charges in a minor Scranton accident in March. She denies she was intoxicated, saying her car slid on ice.