UPDATE:  Beaver Falls police have released the name of the person who was taken into custody Monday afternoon after a SWAT situation in the city. Officers went to an apartment complex on 17th Avenue in Beaver Falls, which is not far from Beaver Falls Senior High School, where they arrested 22-year-old Isaiah Carr of Ellwood City. According to police, Carr was wanted on a felony aggravated assault warrant out of North Sewickley Township. Carr was found at his girlfriend’s apartment, alone, and without any weapons. This happened as classes were being let out for the day so both the high school and middle school buses were rerouted because they could not enter the Pleasantview Homes area. According to the district’s superintendent, the buses were brought back to the buildings for family to pick up students. The law enforcement matter was resolved before elementary buses were dismissed so those buses went out on time, but may have been slightly delayed. Carr is now facing additional charges because of Monday’s incident.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 29TH, 2019

 

*** …WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS MORNING…RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES MAY CREATE FLASH FREEZE CONDITIONS THIS MORNING. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. EXPECT SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES, AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.

*** WIND CHILL WARNING FOR BEAVER COUNTY…IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM WEDNESDAY TO 5 PM EST THURSDAY… DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILLS EXPECTED BEGINNING WEDNESDAY. WIND CHILLS AS LOW AS 25 BELOW ZERO EXPECTED. PLAN ON SLIPPERY ROAD CONDITIONS. THE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS COULD IMPACT THE MORNING COMMUTE. THE COLD WIND CHILLS COULD CAUSE FROSTBITE ON EXPOSED SKIN IN AS LITTLE AS 30 MINUTES. A WIND CHILL WARNING MEANS THE COMBINATION OF VERY COLD AIR AND THE WIND WILL CREATE DANGEROUSLY LOW WIND CHILL VALUES. FROSTBITE CAN OCCUR QUICKLY AND EVEN HYPOTHERMIA OR DEATH IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN.

TODAY – CLOUDY THIS MORNING. A FEW SNOW SHOWERS
DEVELOPING DURING THE AFTERNOON. HIGH – 25.

TONIGHT – MOSTLY CLOUDY. A FEW FLURRIES OR SNOW
SHOWERS POSSIBLE. LOW AROUND 5.

WEDNESDAY – BITTERLY COLD. WINDY WITH A FEW CLOUDS
FROM TIME TO TIME. HIGH – 8.

The Latest: Police: 5 officers hit in Houston shooting
HOUSTO (AP) — The Latest on five Houston officers injured during a shooting (all times local):
6:15 p.m.
Houston police say five officers have been struck in a shooting and have been taken to local hospitals.
In a tweet, Houston police say the officers were “struck with gunfire following an encounter with a suspect” Monday afternoon in a neighborhood in southeast Houston.
Mayor Sylvester Turner tweeted that the suspect “is down.” Additional information on the suspect was not immediately available.
Turner was seen Monday evening entering one of the hospitals where the injured officers were taken.
Police say the officers were transported to hospitals. Their conditions were not immediately known.
Joe Gamaldi, president of the Houston Police Officers’ Union, says one of the injured officers was taken to a hospital by helicopter.
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5:48 p.m.
Officials say at least three Houston police officers have been wounded in a shooting.
In a tweet, Houston police say the officers were “struck with gunfire following an encounter with a suspect” Monday afternoon in a neighborhood in southeast Houston.
Mayor Sylvester Turner tweeted that the suspect “is down” and at least three officers have been injured.
Police say the officers are being transported to a hospital. Their conditions were not immediately known.
Joe Gamaldi, president of the Houston Police Officers’ Union, says one of the injured officers was taken to a hospital by helicopter.

(UPDATE:  4:30 p.m.) Police have made an arrest. Police say a man was arrested after he barricaded himself in his girlfriend’s Beaver Falls home Monday afternoon. Beaver Falls Police reported a 22-year-old man from Ellwood City was allegedly involved in an incident in North Sewickley Township on Sunday night which resulted in a felony arrest warrant being issued for him.. The man said to have arrived at his girlfriend’s home on 17th Avenue in Beaver Falls Monday afternoon while she wasn’t home. When the girlfriend came home he barricaded himself and the female inside the home not allowing her to leave. Beaver Falls Police and Beaver County SWAT were both called to the scene around 1:40 p.m. The suspect peacefully removed from the house around 3:45 p.m. and turned over to North Sewickley Township Police and transported to the Beaver County Jail.

 

(Beaver Falls, PA) There is a SWAT situation underway in Beaver Falls near the Big Beaver Falls High School. Beaver Falls Police and a SWAT team were sent to the location around 1:40 pm ass the situation started developing.

No further details are being released at this time according to a Beaver County  911 dispatcher.

Stay tuned to Beaver County Radio for updates as this situation continues to develop.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Lawmakers have returned to the Pennsylvania Capitol but have yet to revisit legislation on child sexual abuse scandals since an October fight killed a bill that would have allowed long-ago victims to sue the Roman Catholic Church and other institutions.
The Legislature’s new two-year session began in earnest Monday, with little mention of legislation reflecting the state attorney general’s landmark grand jury report on child sexual abuse in Pennsylvania’s Catholic dioceses.
No votes are scheduled and talks are low-key as Pennsylvania’s dioceses begin opening temporary victim compensation funds spurred by the grand jury report.
Continued deadlock in the Legislature raises the possibility that now-adult victims will have little option but to apply to a diocese compensation fund — and sign away their right to sue — even if lawmakers later approve legislation giving them another chance to sue.
John Delaney, who has told of his rape as a 12-year-old boy by a priest in the Philadelphia archdiocese, said several people he knows have received offers ranging from $180,000 to $375,000. Delaney, now 48, isn’t sure he would accept an offer if it means giving up the right to sue.
“It’s not about the money,” Delaney said. “It’s about holding people accountable for their actions. I want my day in court.”
Several other states have approved a window for time-barred victims to sue, and neighboring New York’s Legislature was expected to approve such a bill Monday.
For Delaney and many other victims in Pennsylvania, including those in the grand jury’s Aug. 14 report, state law ended their right to sue decades ago, when they turned 20.
Compensation funds are fine for some victims, victim advocates say. But, they say, they allow the church to control its own punishment, while some victims want the tools offered by a court to force dioceses to divulge what church officials knew about an abuser, and whether they covered it up.
Compensation funds promise a faster payout. Lawsuits take longer but promise bigger payouts, say veteran victims’ lawyers.
The grand jury recommended a two-year reprieve, and the bill included provisions to give future victims more time to sue and prosecutors more time to pursue charges.
The Republican-controlled state House of Representatives passed it overwhelmingly, and it had support from Attorney General Josh Shapiro, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and Senate Democratic leaders.
However, Catholic bishops and for-profit insurers opposed the two-year window, and a critical mass of the state Senate’s Republican majority blocked a floor vote on it.
The legislation collapsed .
Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati said he has no plans to restart legislation in his chamber and has had little contact about it since the debate stalled late at night Oct. 17.
“Nobody has picked up the phone to call me since I left here that Wednesday evening of session with a counterproposal,” Scarnati, R-Jefferson, said this month. “I have not received anything.”
The House now has a new majority leader, Rep. Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster, who is not as friendly to a two-year window as his predecessor.
Cutler’s office said he is discussing a compromise bill with Shapiro’s office and other lawmakers.
Philadelphia’s archdiocese opened a fund in November, and the Pittsburgh and Scranton dioceses followed suit last week. The dioceses set a deadline of Sept. 30 to apply, and they require someone accepting an offer to forfeit their right to sue later.
The funds are modeled on a system adopted by five New York dioceses in the past two years as a debate raged there over allowing victims a window to sue.
New York’s diocese funds, using the same third-party administrator, awarded a maximum payout of $500,000 and an average of about $188,000.
Other dioceses in Pennsylvania are expected to set up something similar.
Scarnati said he is satisfied by how Pennsylvania’s dioceses have moved to set up compensation funds .
“I think we give that time, see how that goes and it can only be judged by the victims that participate in it,” Scarnati said. “And that will be the judgment.”
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Trump AG pick says he’s discussed Mueller probe with Pence
By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, William Barr, says Vice President Mike Pence is among the officials with whom he has discussed the special counsel’s Russia investigation.
Barr said in written responses to Senate questions made available Monday that he and Pence have had occasional conversations since the spring of 2017 on matters including policy and personnel. Some of those conversations included “general discussion of the Special Counsel’s investigation in which I gave my views on such matters as Bob Mueller’s high integrity and various media reports.”
“In these conversations, I did not provide legal advice, nor, to the best of my recollection, did he provide confidential information,” Barr told Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat.
In his role as special counsel, Mueller is investigating potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign to sway the 2016 presidential election. If confirmed by the Senate, Barr would inherit oversight of Mueller’s investigation. The Senate Judiciary Committee is prepared to vote on Barr’s nomination to be attorney general this week or next.
Barr described the Pence conversations in response to a question from Whitehouse about whether he had ever discussed Mueller’s investigation with anyone at the White House. He has also acknowledged that he discussed Mueller with Trump himself when he turned down an opportunity to represent the president in the special counsel’s investigation.
“During the meeting, the President reiterated his public statements denying collusion and describing the allegations as politically motivated. I did not respond to those comments,” Barr said.
He also reiterated how he shared with lawyers for the White House and for Trump a June 2018 memo he had written in which he disputed the idea that the president could have obstructed justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey.
Barr’s responses to the senators’ written questions largely matched his testimony from earlier this month. He repeated his intention to release as much of Mueller’s findings as possible, though he said he did not know what form a report from the special counsel would take.
Barr also said he would resign if Trump claimed executive privilege to cover up evidence of a crime, and if he were asked to fire Mueller without good reason.
“I would resign rather than follow an order to terminate the Special Counsel without good cause,” Barr wrote in response to a question from New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker.