EAST ROCHESTER MAYOR BOB KNOX IS URGING ALL BOROUGH RESIDENTS WHOSE PROPERTY WAS DAMAGED OR DESTROYED FROM THE VIOLENT STORMS THAT WREAKED HAVOC ON THE BORO TWO WEEKENDS AGO…TO COME TO TONIGHT’S COUNCIL MEETING:
AS FAR AS WHERE AND WHEN THE COUNCIL MEETING WILL BE HELD, HERE’S EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW…
AGAIN…THAT’S TONIGHT AT 7PM…AT THE LACOCK DWELLING COMMUNITY BUILDING IN EAST ROCHESTER.
An Independence Township man is accused of assaulting his wife and two E-M-T’s in March. Brian Brown is facing drunken driving, terroristic threats, and other charges for the March 27th incidents that ended in the 400-block of Independence Road. Brown is accused of being combative with first responders following a crash, then police found his wife had suffered minor injuries during a domestic dispute back at his apartment on Village Road. Brown’s preliminary hearing is set for May 20th.
Two people are behind bars and thousands of dollars in drugs are off the street after a raid in Ambridge. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has new details in this updated report…
Roughly a week after learning that the county owes nearly $400,000 to the IRS, an update on the situation was given by County Solicitor Garen Fedeles during the Commissioners’ weekly work session. Matt Drzik was there and has this report:
Lawmakers in Harrisburg have introduced legislation to abolish the death penalty in Pennsylvania. Don Rooney has more…
Pennsylvania’s roadways must be made safer, and legislation that would address distracted driving by mandating usage of “hands-free-only” technology is drawing bipartisan support in Harrisburg. House Bill 37 prime sponsor Rep. Rosemary Brown (R-Monroe, Pike) said Pennsylvania needs to join the other states that already ban hand-held cell phone use while driving…
WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 1ST, 2019
TODAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY. A STRAY SHOWER OR
THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLE. HIGH – 83.
TONIGHT – CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESS. OCCASIONAL
RAIN SHOWERS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW – 62.
THURSDAY – MIXED CLOUDS AND SUN WITH SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH – 76.
Pirates end 8-game skid with 2 11th-inning HRs to beat Texas
By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — When Bryan Reynolds led off the 11th inning with his first career homer, everybody on the Pittsburgh Pirates’ bench erupted in celebration. They were all quiet by time the rookie rounded the bases and got back to the dugout.
“We were all like so quick to hop up and jump up and down, then someone said (silent treatment) and we all knew why,” said Josh Bell, who came home and tied the score against the Texas Rangers with a two-run double in the ninth.
Reynolds put the Pirates ahead with his blast to the hill in center field off Jesse Chavez (0-1), and Starling Marte then added a two-run homer as the Pirates ended their eight-game losing streak with a 6-4 win Tuesday night.
“I kind of blanked out, and then I realized what was going on,” Reynolds said.
The Pirates were scoreless until getting three-run ninth off closer Jose Leclerc that Reynolds started with a double.
“Puts a big smile on your face. I mean, he had a double off the glove to keep the hitting streak alive and then he puts an exclamation point on the end of his night,” manager Clint Hurdle said. “Marte puts an exclamation point on the end of his night for a guy that’s been out 10, 11 days, hadn’t seen any live pitching. … But for Reynolds, what a charge. His first RBI. First home run. Off a veteran pitcher, a good pitcher. Pretty swing.”
Reynolds has hit safely in all eight of his games since his big league debut April 20, when the outfielder was called up the same day Marte was put on the injured list with bruises to his abdominal wall and ribs.
Marte played his first game since he was involved in a full-speed collision with shortstop Erik Gonzalez on April 19 that sent both players to the injured list — Gonzalez broke his collarbone and is on the 60-day injured list.
Kyle Crick (1-1), who was born in nearby Fort Worth and lives in Sherman about 90 miles north, pitched a perfect 10th. Felipe Vazquez worked the 11th for his seventh save after allowing Joey Gallo’s leadoff homer — his 10th being a 467-foot drive into the second deck of seats in right field.
Pittsburgh had three consecutive hits off Leclerc to start to the ninth, including Adam Frazier’s RBI single for their first run. Leclerc then struck out two before Bell, who was born and raised in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and grew up a Rangers fan, tied the game at 3 with a two-run double driven the opposite way into the left-center gap.
“That was huge, I felt that support from my friends and family,” Bell said. “To be able to come through and pull through for the team right there, I can’t ask for much more.”
It was the second blown save in seven chances this season for Leclerc, who became the Rangers’ closer after Keone Kela was traded to Pittsburgh last July. Kela pitched a scoreless ninth for the Pirates.
Manager Chris Woodward said there would be a discussion about Leclerc’s role moving forward, and that he could pitch in some non-save and lower-pressure situations.
“Obviously with a young guy, you don’t want to kill the kid’s confidence,” Woodward said. “I would love to just keep giving him the ball, but I do have to be mindful where his mental state. He wants the ball, but he also doesn’t want to feel like he’s letting his teammates down. It’s a tough situation for him.”
SOFT RUNS
Asdrúbal Cabrera blooped a two-run single to right in the fourth — MLB stats registered the exit velocity off the bat at 59 mph — to give the Rangers a 2-0 lead. They went ahead 3-0 in the eighth on Gallo’s third walk, which came after a passed ball on a strikeout and two other walks had loaded the bases.
STILL LOOKING FOR NO. 1
Rangers starter Adrian Sampson was denied his first big league victory after 5 2/3 scoreless innings. The right-hander struck out five without a walk, and hit a batter, in his 13th career appearance (eighth start) since his big league debut for Seattle in 2016. He was a fifth-round pick by the Pirates in 2012.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Pirates: C Francisco Cervelli was hit on his left wrist by a pitch in the second inning. He initially remained in the game, but two pitches later left the game. He was examined by Rangers team physician Dr Keith Meister, and the Pirates expect an update Wednesday.
UP NEXT
Pirates: RHP Jameson Taillon (1-3, 4.06) is 0-2 with a 4.50 ERA in his three road starts this year.
Rangers RHP Shelby Miller (1-1, 7.52) has allowed exactly four runs in each of his last four starts. He is 2-7 with a 4.88 ERA in 10 career starts against Pittsburgh.
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Judge throws out ex-Penn State president’s conviction
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge threw out former Penn State President Graham Spanier’s misdemeanor child-endangerment conviction on Tuesday, less than a day before he was due to turn himself in to begin serving a jail sentence.
The decision by U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick in Scranton, Pennsylvania, gave state prosecutors three months to retry Spanier under the state’s 1995 child endangerment law, the version in place in 2001.
Joe Grace, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office, said the decision was under review. Spanier’s defense lawyer declined to comment.
Mehalchick agreed with Spanier that he was improperly charged under a 2007 law for actions that occurred in 2001, when he was responding to a complaint about former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy on campus.
“Spanier submits that this retroactive application is unreasonable and far more extensive than anyone in 2001 would have been able to reasonably foresee,” Mehalchick wrote. “The court agrees.”
Spanier had been due to report to jail early Wednesday to begin serving a minimum sentence of two months.
Spanier, 70, was forced out as Penn State president shortly after Sandusky was arrested in 2011 on child molestation charges. A year later, Spanier was accused of a criminal cover-up, although many of those charges were dismissed by an appeals court. The jury acquitted him of what remained by the time of his trial, except for the single count of child endangerment. Lisa Powers, a university spokeswoman, said Tuesday that Spanier remains a tenured faculty member on paid administrative leave.
Spanier’s lawyers argued that the application of the law to acts that occurred years before the measure was passed violated the U.S. Constitution.
But the judge did not agree with their argument that the statute of limitations had been improperly applied.
Spanier was convicted for how he and two of his top aides decided to respond to a report from graduate assistant coach Mike McQueary that he had seen Sandusky abusing the boy late on a Friday night in a team shower.
Spanier has said the abuse of the boy, who has never been conclusively identified, was characterized to him as horseplay.
Spanier and two of his top lieutenants, former athletic director Tim Curley and former vice president Gary Schultz, agreed to notify The Second Mile, the charity for at-risk youth where Sandusky met many of his victims, but not to call police.
Spanier gave his approval to his deputies in an email, warning that “the only downside for us is if the message isn’t ‘heard’ and acted upon, and we then become vulnerable for not having reported it.”
Curley and Schultz were also charged criminally for their actions regarding Sandusky, but on the eve of trial they both pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child endangerment and testified for the prosecution. Both have since served similar jail sentences.
Spanier did not testify at his trial and told the judge at sentencing that he regretted not intervening more forcefully.
Sandusky is doing 30 to 60 years in state prison and recently won an order for a new sentence.