WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is on the verge of acquittal by the Senate. An afternoon vote will bring an end to only the third presidential impeachment trial in American history. One key Democrat, Alabama Sen. Doug Jones has now announced he will vote to convict. The impeachment vote comes at the start of a tumultuous campaign for the White House. Trump is eager to use the tally as vindication, a political anthem in his reelection bid. A majority of senators have expressed unease with Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine that resulted in the two articles of impeachment. But there’s nowhere near the two-thirds vote necessary in the Republican-held Senate to remove the president from office.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence is making a swing through Pennsylvania to tout the Trump administration’s support for funding tuition for private school students and, on the campaign side, to make an appeal to women voters. Wednesday’s visit includes U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, first in Philadelphia and later in suburban Harrisburg. The Philadelphia event is education-themed. Later, Pence will headline a “Women for Trump” campaign event in suburban Harrisburg. President Donald Trump was the first Republican presidential candidate since 1988 to win Pennsylvania, and the state is expected to be a premier battleground in this year’s election.

Ambridge police are clamping down on those who violate the two-hour parking regulations in the borough. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf wants to create a major new program for college scholarships, require public schools to provide full-day kindergarten, and pump $1 billion into cleaning up lead and asbestos in aging school buildings. Education advocates are hoping that Gov. Tom Wolf’s entire proposal to increase school spending will win approval, but a lawsuit demanding more funding will continue…

Governor Tom Wolf introduced his state budget proposal yesterday. It includes no tax increase…but it does contain an increase in spending of two-billion dollars over last year. All three Republican state representatives who serve Beaver County spoke with Frank Sparks during Wednesday’s edition of Teleforum. Here’s what they had to say:

State Rep. Aaron Bernstine says the numbers just don’t add up…

When asked if there was anything that he liked in the governor’s budget proposal, Bernstine re-iterated his dislike of spending in the budget…

State Representative Jim Marshall says he doesn’t like the idea of increasing spending in these days of a robust economy…

Marshall says he’s not against everything that the governor proposed yesterday, although he declined to get specific…

State Rep. Josh Kail says he agrees with his Republican colleagues that there’s too much spending in the budget…

Kail says he’s hopeful that they’ll be able to reach a compromise…

…and Democratic State Rep. Rob Matzie calls the governor’s state budget a ‘starting point’, as we hear in this report from Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano:

WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5TH, 2020

TODAY – CLOUDY. SOME MIXED WINTER PRECIPITATION
POSSIBLE. HIGH NEAR 40.

TONIGHT – RAIN. LOW – 36.

THURSDAY – RAIN LIKELY. HIGH – 44.