The Ellwood City School Board is against eliminating property taxes in Pennsylvania. State lawmakers are considering a proposal to eliminate property taxes and make up the lost revenue through higher income and sales taxes. The school board has approved a resolution to oppose the bill.

Police are investigating the shooting death of a woman in Aliquippa late last night. According to Beaver County emergency officials, the shooting occurred in the 14-hundred block of Wade Street and  was reported shortly before 11 p.m. When officers arrived at the scene, they found the woman lying in the street near a minivan. No arrests have been made.

Two men, including one from Ambridge, are dead and a woman was critically injured following a domestic related incident that occurred Saturday night in the 400 block of Bausman Street in the Knoxville section of Pittsburgh. 47-year-old Joseph Goldmsith of Pittsburgh and 46-year-old Christopher Dancy of Ambridge were pronounced dead at 7:41 p.m., according to Pittsburgh police. The Allegheny County medical examiner’s office ruled Dancy’s death a homicide and said Goldsmith killed himself. Police say a 37-year-old woman was hit in the chest and leg and taken to UPMC Mercy in critical condition.

Police in Shenago Township have accused a New Castle man with giving a 15 year old girl alcohol and raping her. 23 year old Cody Myers is being charged with rape, statutory sexual assault, corruption of minors along with a number of other charges. The alleged incidents took place from December of 2015 until January of 2016. Myers was arraigned and placed in the Lawrence County Jail on 10 thousand dollars bond.

An overturned tractor-trailer blocked the right lane of northbound Interstate 79 this morning in Robinson Township. Emergency crews were called shortly after 3 a.m. to mile marker 63 at the Coraopolis ‘S’ bend.  Traffic was periodically stopped while crews worked to remove the tractor-trailer. There were no reports of injuries. The truck was carrying 38,000 lbs. of soy milk, which will have to be loaded onto another truck. Both lanes reopened shortly after 6 this morning, but delays continue as the tractor-trailer remains off to the side of the road.