BCTA IS LOOKING TO PURCHASE PROPERTY NEXT TO THE CENTER TOWNSHIP MCDONALD’S. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS DETAILS. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
McCarl’s Incorporated in Beaver Falls has new owners. The Beaver Falls industrial construction and mechanical services company was purchased by its CEO Ken Burk and CFO Chris Boston. The business dates back to 1946 and was purchased from Allentown-based Talen Energy.
WEATHER FOREAST FOR WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23RD, 2019
TODAY – CLOUDY WITH PERIODS OF RAIN. HIGH – 48.
TONIGHT – EVENING RAIN FOLLOWED BY A MIX OF RAIN
AND SNOW OVERNIGHT. SNOW ACCUMULATION
LESS THAN AN INCH. LOW AROUND 30.
THURSDAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SNOW SHOWERS
AROUND IN THE MORNING. HIGH – 33.
WPIAL Class 1A Section 1 (1A)
Rochester 49
Sewickley Academy 48
Non-Conference
Mars 59
Ambridge 49
No local Girls Varsity Basketball Games are scheduled for tonight
WPIAL Class 5A Section 2 (5A)
Moon 75
West Mifflin 57
WPIAL Class 4A Section 2 (4A)
Quaker Valley 68
Beaver Area 43
Ambridge 61
Central Valley 58
New Castle 77
Blackhawk 66
WPIAL Class 3A Section 1 (3A)
Aliquippa 77
Lincoln Park 74
Ellwood City 55
New Brighton 46
Neshannock 63
Riverside 38
WPIAL Class 3A Section 2 (3A)
Seton LaSalle 78
Freedom 55
WPIAL Class 2A Section 3 (2A)
Our Lady of Sacred Heart 76
South Side Beaver 65
WPIAL Class 1A Section 1 (1A)
Cornell 81
Western Beaver 41
Eden Christian 67
Rochester 51
Non-Conference
Propel Montour 65
Beaver County Christian 38
Non-Conference
7:30 pm Beaver Area at Beaver Falls
7:30 pm Keystone Oaks at Hopewell
Rivera unanimous; Halladay, Edgar, Mussina voted to HOF
NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball’s all-time saves leader has become the game’s first unanimous Hall of Fame selection.
Former New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera received all 425 votes in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America announced. He had 652 regular-season saves during his 19-year career spent entirely with the Yanks. He was at his best in October, getting 42 saves with a 0.70 ERA over 16 postseasons, including 11 saves in the World Series.
The Hall’s Class of 2019 also includes Roy Halladay, Mike Mussina and Edgar Martinez.
Halladay was an ace with the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies, going 203-105 with a 3.38 ERA. The right-hander received 85.4 percent of the vote and will be the first posthumous inductee since Deacon White in 2013 and Ron Santo in 2012.
Mussina was a steady right-hander for the Yankees and Baltimore Orioles who went 270-153 with 2,813 strikeouts over 18 seasons. He received 76.7 percent, getting seven more votes than the 319 required for election.
Martinez was a .312 hitter with 309 home runs and 1,261 over 18 seasons with Seattle. He got 85.4 percent in his 10th and final try on the writers’ ballot.
The quartet will be enshrined in Cooperstown along with Today’s Game Era Committee selections Harold Baines and Lee Smith on July 21.
Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens made gains but again fell short in their seventh time on the ballot. Bonds got 59.1 percent and Clemens 59.5.
Sources say NFL to consider expanding replay reviews
NEW YORK (AP) — Two people with direct knowledge of the NFL’s plans tell The Associated Press that the league’s competition committee will consider expanding replay reviews to include certain penalties, including pass interference.
Officiating once more became a hot topic during Sunday’s NFC championship game. A missed call by referee Bill Vinovich’s crew of a blatant pass interference penalty and helmet-to-helmet hit by Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman on Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis likely cost New Orleans a spot in the Super Bowl.
Saints coach Sean Payton said NFL senior vice president of officiating Al Riveron told him afterward that a flag should have been thrown.
Search resumes to find soccer player after plane disappears
LONDON (AP) — The search to find missing Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala and his pilot resumed today with authorities in the Channel Islands looking at whether the pair may have landed safely and been unable to make contact.
The Piper PA-46 plane disappeared from radar Monday night near the island of Guernsey as it was flying from the French city of Nantes to Cardiff, where Sala was due to start playing for the city’s Premier League club.
Authorities said Tuesday they did not expect to find any survivors, but the latest search is focused on possibly finding a life raft.
| WBVP
Aliquippa-Dewayne Revis |
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| WMBA
Central Valley-Haydon Johnston |
| Class 3A Section 1 | |
| Aliquippa Lincoln Park WBVP |
77 74 Final |
| Class 4A Section 2 | |
| Central Valley Ambridge WMBA |
58 61 Final |
| Beaver Quaker Valley |
43 68 Final |
| New Castle Blackhawk |
77 66 Final |
| Class 5A Section 2 | |
| Moon West Mifflin |
75 57 Final |
1460 WMBA’s Tom Hays and Bruce Frey have the call from Ambridge High School of this WPIAL Class 4A Section 2 high school boys basketball game as the Bridgers battle the Warriors. The host Bridgers who are the surprise of the section this year come in 5-1 and in second place in section play and 10-5 overall. The visiting Warriors are trying to keep their playoff hopes up and come into the contest 3-4 in section play and 5-9 over all.
If you can’t tune into the broadcast on 1460 WMBA and want to hear the broadcast streaming live over the Trib-Live High School Sports Network click on the logo below at 7:05 p.m. for for the pre-game. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30……
1230 WBVP’s Bob Barrickman and Jason Colangelo have the call from Midland Middle School of this WPIAL Class 3A Section 1 high school boys basketball game as the Leopards battle the Quips. The host Lincoln Park comes into the contest 7-0 in section play and 12-1 overall. The guest Quips come into the contest trying to get revenge on the Leopards for their only section loss of the season. The Quips are 6-1 in section and 10-4 overall. The two teams met on December 18, 2018 with the Leopards winning 73-69.
If you can’t tune into the broadcast on 1230 WBVP and want to hear the broadcast streaming live over the Trib-Live High School Sports Network click on the logo below at 7:05 p.m. for for the pre-game. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30……
High court lets military implement transgender restrictions
By JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration can go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender men and women while court challenges continue, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.
The high court split 5-4 in allowing the plan to take effect, with the court’s five conservatives greenlighting it and its four liberal members saying they would not have. The order from the court was brief and procedural, with no elaboration from the justices.
The court’s decision clears the way for the Pentagon to bar enlistment by people who have undergone a gender transition. It will also allow the administration to require that military personnel serve as members of their biological gender unless they began a gender transition under less restrictive Obama administration rules.
The Trump administration has sought for more than a year to change the Obama-era rules and had urged the justices to take up cases about its transgender troop policy immediately, but the court declined for now.
Those cases will continue to move through lower courts and could eventually reach the Supreme Court again. The fact that five justices were willing to allow the policy to take effect for now, however, makes it more likely the Trump administration’s policy will ultimately be upheld.
Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said the department was pleased with the court’s decision.
“The Department of Defense has the authority to create and implement personnel policies it has determined are necessary to best defend our nation,” she said, adding that lower court rulings had forced the military to “maintain a prior policy that poses a risk to military effectiveness and lethality.”
Groups that sued over the Trump administration’s policy said they ultimately hoped to win their lawsuits against the policy. Jennifer Levi, an attorney for GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, said in a statement that the “Trump administration’s cruel obsession with ridding our military of dedicated and capable service members because they happen to be transgender defies reason and cannot survive legal review.”
Until a few years ago service members could be discharged from the military for being transgender. That changed under the Obama administration. The military announced in 2016 that transgender people already serving in the military would be allowed to serve openly. And the military set July 1, 2017, as the date when transgender individuals would be allowed to enlist.
But after President Donald Trump took office, the administration delayed the enlistment date, saying the issue needed further study. And in late July 2017 the president tweeted that the government would not allow “Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.” He later directed the military to return to its policy before the Obama administration changes.
Groups representing transgender individuals sued, and the Trump administration lost early rounds in those cases, with courts issuing nationwide injunctions barring the administration from altering course. It was those injunctions that the Supreme Court put on hold Tuesday, allowing the Trump administration’s policy to take effect.
The Trump administration’s revised policy on transgender troops dates to March 2018. The policy generally bars transgender people from serving unless they do so “in their biological sex” and do not seek to undergo a gender transition. But it has an exception for transgender troops who relied on the Obama-era rules to begin the process of changing their gender.
Those individuals, who have been diagnosed with “gender dysphoria,” a discomfort with their birth gender, can continue to serve after transitioning. The military has said that over 900 men and women had received that diagnosis. A 2016 survey estimated that about 1 percent of active duty service members, about 9,000 men and women, identify as transgender.
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Associated Press reporter Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this report from Washington.
Tentative deal reached to end Los Angeles teachers strike
By JOHN ANTCZAK, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A tentative deal was reached Tuesday between Los Angeles school officials and the teachers union that will allow educators to return to classrooms after a six-day strike against the nation’s second-largest district, officials said.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, accompanied by leaders United Teachers Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Unified School District, announced the agreement at City Hall a few hours after a 21-hour bargaining session ended before dawn.
“I’m proud to announce that pending approval by the teachers represented by UTA and educational professional and this Board of Education we have an agreement that will allow our teachers to go back to work on the campuses tomorrow,” Garcetti said.
Union President Alex Caputo-Pearl said teachers would vote Tuesday and he expected approval.
The agreement was broadly described by officials at the press conference and details were promised to be released later.
“I’m delighted we’ve reached an agreement with UTLA that provides teachers with a well-deserved salary increase, that will reduce class size, and add more support to our students and educators in schools including librarians, nurses and counselors,” said district Superintendent Austin Beutner.
Talks resumed Thursday at Garcetti’s urging. The mayor does not have authority over the Los Angeles Unified School District but he sought to help both sides reach an agreement after nearly two years of fruitless talks that led to the walkout.
Clashes over pay, class sizes and support-staff levels in the district with 640,000 students led to its first strike in 30 years and prompted the staffing of classrooms with substitute teachers and administrators. It followed teacher walkouts in other states that emboldened organized labor.
The district maintained that the union’s demands could bankrupt the school system, which is projecting a half-billion-dollar deficit this budget year and has billions obligated for pension payments and health coverage for retired teachers.
Negotiations broke down in December and started again this month. The union rejected a district offer on Jan. 11 to hire nearly 1,200 teachers, counselors, nurses and librarians and reduce class sizes by two students.
Teachers hoped to build on the “Red4Ed” movement that began last year in West Virginia and moved to Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arizona, Colorado and Washington state. It spread from conservative states with “right to work” laws that limit the ability to strike to the more liberal West Coast with strong unions.
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AP reporters John Rogers and Christopher Weber contributed to this report.