Pennsylvania health officials say there are now more than 850 confirmed coronavirus cases statewide…7 here in Beaver County. Doctor Rachel Levine says those positive tests are coming from 40 counties across P-A, with everyone either at home in isolation or in the hospital. The virus is blamed for seven deaths in Pennsylvania so far.
More changes have been announced in the way that local government conducts business due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Beaver County Commissioner Dan Camp tells Beaver County Radio newsman Pat Septak that that tomorrow’s commissioners meeting will take place as scheduled, but with a twist…
Asked if these changes will be implemented at all future commissioner meetings, Camp says…
As for all future commissioner weekly work sessions, Camp says….
Camp tell us that all future commissioners meetings will be streamed live…while weekly commissioner work sessions will be decided on a weekly basis.
Police in Grove City say a New Castle woman is facing charges for breaking into a Mercer County home and taking her children. Nichole Swanburg is accused of entering the home last Friday and taking the three-year-old and 20-month-old whom she had lost custody of earlier this year. Police caught up with the three and the children were returned unharmed. The 36-year-old is in the Mercer County Jail on burglary and interfering with the custody of children charges.
New Castle City Police have identified a man found shot to death in New Castle early yesterday morning. According to police, officers were called out around 3 am after receiving a report that a man was inside a vehicle that had been shot-up outside the McGrath Manor high-rise apartment on West Washington Street. The victim has been identified as 25-year-old Andre Robinson of New Castle. No arrests have been made. Anyone with information concerning the shooting is asked to call New Castle City police.
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TODAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY…WITH OCCASIONAL RAIN,
MAINLY DURING THE MORNING HOURS. HIGH – 56.
TONIGHT – PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW AROUND 40.
THURSDAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 67.
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(Beaver, Pa.) The Beaver County Commissioners Work Session that was scheduled for Wednesday March 25, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. has been cancelled due to the current situation with the COVID-19 Virus.
Beaver County Radio will continue to provide you with updates as they become available.
(Beaver Falls, Pa.) Beaver County Radio along with the Pittsburgh Pirates Radio Network announce Bucco rewind. Bucco rewind will be a replay of games of the past that are important in Pittsburgh Pirates history.
The first game is this Thursday afternoon, March 26, 2020, at 1pm. We go back in time to 1960 and Game 7 of the World Series. The Bucs took on the Yankees. One of the most magical days in baseball history as Pirate Bill Mazeroski hit a walk off home run in extra innings to make the Pirates the 1960 Major League Baseball Champions.
The second game will be Monday, March 30, 2020 at 8pm and the Pirates have not released the full schedule and games that will be broadcast at this point.
Stay tuned to Beaver County Radio for when the full schedule is revealed.
A new Playboy magazine is on newsstands and as a digital download this week — and it will be the last one this year…maybe ever. The iconic publication will be moving to a digital-first schedule, a decision that was accelerated due to the coronavirus pandemic. Playboy magazine was first published in December of 1953 by Hugh Hefner, who put Marilyn Monroe on the cover. The rest was history. It remains unclear if the magazine will ever return to newsstands.