Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said she would not rule out launching another presidential campaign in the future, claiming “many, many, many people” are pushing her to enter the 2020 race, but at this moment, a run is “absolutely not in my plans.” Clinton won the popular vote in 2016 against President Donald Trump but lost in the Electoral College. She admitted Tuesday she knows it is “way past time” to launch another race. However, there are still Democrats joining the race, including former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who filed for primaries in Alabama last week and in Arkansas on Tuesday. In addition, former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has also said he might announce his own run for the Democratic nomination. And when President Trump recently took to Twitter to urge Clinton to enter the race…she responded, “don’t tempt me”.

Across the country, Americans are tuning in to the first public hearing in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. Many are watching on TV, others on their phones. The proceedings are landing on a jaded and weary public, with little certainty the hearings would change minds. Cattle rancher Jeffery Gatzke was tuning in between morning chores on his South Dakota farm. He says Democrats and the Washington establishment are just trying to thwart an outsider president.

Many Pennsylvania school districts are struggling with a shortage of bus drivers. Mike Berk, executive director of the Pennsylvania School Bus Association, says the situation has gotten “progressively worse.” Some drivers have had to double up on runs, forcing students to spend twice as much time on the bus. But we wanted to know…is there a school bus driver shortage here in Beaver County? Our news correspondent Sandy Giordano went searching for the answer…

BREAKING NEWS: There was an accident Route 51 this morning. As Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano reports, there were no injuries. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

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The U.S. Forest Service is taking comments on a proposal to exempt a national forest in Alaska from what’s known as the Roadless Rule. In Pennsylvania, it’s the same rule that protects some 25,000 acres in the Allegheny National Forest. Opponents of rolling back the rule warn that what starts in Alaska’s Tongass (TAWN-gus) National Forest could have a domino effect on other public lands. Andrea Sears reports from Harrisburg…

One Beaver County municipality has made the list of the top 50 safest cities in Pennsylvania. Brighton Township placed eighth on a recent Security Baron report ranking the state’s safest cities. The report looked at violent crime, property crime and other factors and Brighton Township was #8 in the report. Some of the other notable finds…Findlay Township was 39th…in second place was O’Hara Township in Allegheny County…and the safest city in Pennsylvania is Upper Yoder Township in Cambria County.

The Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors has named a local secretary to its Hall of Fame. 65-year-old Marilyn Zona – who has served as Marion Township’s secretary/ treasurer for 40 years – was named to the group’s secretary wing of its Hall of Fame. She joins Sandy Wright of Greene Township, who was enshrined in 2013, as the only other honoree from Beaver County. There are no secretaries included from Lawrence or Allegheny Counties.

In their first post-election work session, the Board of Commissioners got the latest update on the 2019 budget…an update that indicates a move in the right direction. Matt Drzik has more from the courthouse: