WEATHER FORECAST FOR TUESDAY, SEPT. 3RD, 2019
TODAY – SOME CLOUDS THIS MORNING WILL GIVE WAY TO
GENERALLY SUNNY SKIES THIS AFTERNOON.
HIGH – 84.
TONIGHT – PARTLY CLOUDY THIS EVENING. SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AFTER
MIDNIGHT. LOW NEAR 70.
WEDNESDAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES WITH SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING.
HIGH – 77.
Steelers sign CB Joe Haden to new 3-year contract
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Joe Haden is sticking with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The veteran cornerback and the team have agreed to a new three-year, $32 million contract that will keep Haden in Pittsburgh through the 2021 season. Haden was in the final year of a three-year deal he signed with Pittsburgh after being released by the Cleveland Browns on the eve of the 2017 season.
“Letssss Goooo!!!” Haden posted on Instagram late Sunday night. “So glad we got the deal done! On to week 1! Locked IN!!”
The 30-year-old has resurrected his career with the Steelers, becoming the team’s top cornerback while helping an inexperienced secondary find its footing. Haden has played 26 games across two seasons for Pittsburgh, with one interception and 19 passes defensed. He did not play in the preseason as a precaution due to an ankle injury.
The two-time Pro Bowler said last week the injury would not prevent him from playing in Pittsburgh’s season opener at New England on Sept. 8.
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On Mon., Sept. 2 at 10 a.m., the 38th annual Pittsburgh Labor Day Parade, hosted by the Allegheny County Labor Council, will kickoff outside of PPG Paints Arena in Downtown. The parade will travel through on Grant Street and Boulevard of the Allies Downtown before ending up at the United Steelworkers building. The parade is one of the largest Labor Day parades in the United States, in previous years attracting 60,000-70,000 participants. There will be road closures and parking closures along the route of the parade. Due to the holiday, Port Authority buses will operate on a Sunday schedule.
McLEAN’S TOWN CAY, Bahamas (AP) — A spokesman for Bahamas Power and Light says there has been a total blackout in New Providence, the archipelago’s most populous island. Quincy Parker told ZNS Bahamas radio station on Monday morning that crews are working to restore power on the island that lies south of the path that Hurricane Dorian is expected to take.
McLEAN’S TOWN CAY, Bahamas (AP) — Nearly 1,000 flights have been canceled in Florida on Labor Day as Hurricane Dorian barrels toward the U.S. East Coast. The flight tracking site FlightAware on Monday listed 990 cancellations into or out of airports in Orlando, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Palm Beach.
UNDATED (AP) — Dorian is a powerful but small hurricane and forecasters say that makes predicting its path delicate and difficult. The director of the National Hurricane Center, Ken Graham, is telling people not to bet on safety just because his forecasters have the storm just a bit offshore. Graham says that it’s “more touch-and-go” with every new forecast. Meteorologists say just a few miles west or east can make the difference between devastation and bad but not horrible damage.
Baierl Toyota in Cranberry presented a check Friday for $22,181.47 to the Ellwood City Area School District to pay off the debt.The past-due amount in Ellwood City covers about 11,000 meals that weren’t paid for. The money comes from Toyota’s corporate grassroots fund that supplies money for dealers to support their communities. In another act of charity, Baierl also donated $20,000 to New Brighton Area School District for its Weekend Backpack Program that will provide needy students with a backpack loaded with food to ensure they can eat over the weekend.
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A neighbor sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole in the shooting death of a Republican official outside Philadelphia continued to complain of harassment and assert self-defense while the victim was remembered as a kind and caring family man. Fifty-three-year-old Clayton Carter III of West Goshen Township was convicted of first-degree murder in the August 2017 death of 51-year-old Brooks Jennings during an argument outside their homes.
OHIOPYLE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a man on a whitewater rafting trip was thrown into a western Pennsylvania river and died after his foot apparently became trapped under a rock. Ohiopyle State Park operations manager Ken Bisbee told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the man was part of an eight-member group that had rented two rafts from White Water Adventurers. Bisbee said the county 911 emergency center contacted the park at about 1 p.m. Saturday about an overturned raft on the Youghiogheny River.
PENN HILLS, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a woman and a vehicle being sought in a reported child abduction in western Pennsylvania have been located, but the girl remains missing. Allegheny County police say Penn Hills officers were called to a home at about 5 p.m. Saturday where the biological father of the child said she had been taken by a woman. An Amber Alert was issued and investigators said the car was spotted about a half-hour later in Monroeville.