Aliquippa City Council met last night and the city’s financial situation was the highlight of the meeting. According to Beaver County Radio news correspondent Sandy Giordano, Mayor Dwan Walker said they have exhausted all avenues and that that they’re going to have to be more aggressive in 2016. Walker said that because of the city’s current Act 47 status they have to go after $429,000 in uncollected trash bills. Berkheimer and Associates will be collecting all unpaid trash bills in 2016. Councilman Don Walker said anyone owing $500 or more, their names will be published, but if they can pay at least $100 their name won’t get turned in to collections.

A former Beaver County nuclear plant worker has been ordered to stand trial on charges he downloaded child pornography pictures on his work computer because he was bored. 60-year-old Raymond Fischer Jr. of Harmony will stand trial in May, now that he waived a preliminary hearing last week. FirstEnergy Corp. says the company promptly reported the images when they were found in October 2013, and fired Fischer from the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station three days later. The state police Bureau of Criminal Investigation says 51 printed images of children ages 10 to 16 were found in Fischer’s locker and hundreds more on his work computer.

Three people were injured this morning in a two-vehicle crash in Chippewa. It happened just before 10:00 this morning on Route 51 at Chippewa Town Center. Police say the vehicles collided when one was making a left onto Route 51 and the other was making a left into the Walmart parking lot. The three victims – a woman in her 70’s, and the drivers of both vehicles involved – were taked to local hospitals. Their names and conditions have not been released. However, officials say none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.