Another round of 2017 Beaver County budget hearings gets underway today at the county courthouse. This afternoon, the commissioners will meet with the controller at 2:00, the elections bureau at 2:30, the recorder of deeds at 3 and the jury commission at 3:30. All meetings are open to the public and will take place in the commissioners conference room of the courthouse.

State investigators say lax oversight at a Zelienople residential treatment facility for children with autism and other developmental disabilities continues to jeopardize the safety of those who live there. On Monday, the state Department of Human Services once again revoked Glade Run Lutheran Services license to operate. Glade Run, in Zelienople, was already on notice, operating on a provisional license after the state found that lax supervision allowed sexual abuse among residents. A lawsuit filed on behalf of a 13-year-old boy alleges he was repeatedly raped there by residents in their later teens while the overnight staff slept or watched television. But Glade Run was given a second chance under a plan for correction from the State Department of Human Services, requiring the hiring of additional staff and the retraining of the existing one. However, the state has now moved to close the facility, citing two more cases where the supervision had not improved. In one, a staff member failed to check on a suicidal resident who was eventually discovered hanging from his or her bathroom door by a bedsheet. The other incident involved a heroin overdose. Glade will have 10 days to file an appeal.

The Beaver County Commissioners today continue work on the 2017 Beaver County budget. Budget hearings resume this afternoon in the commissioners’ conference room of the county courthouse. Here is the schedule for today: at 2pm…The commissioners will meet with the folks from district court…at 2:30, the assessment office…at 3:00, they’ll meet with the treasurer’s department and at 3:30, the register of wills. All budget hearings are open to the public.

Authorities say a wrong-way crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Cranberry Township claimed the lives of two people and injured a third. State police say the two-vehicle crash occurred shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday in the westbound section of the turnpike that runs through Cranberry. Police said 85-year-old Robert Humble of Cranberry was driving the wrong way when he crashed into a vehicle driven by 56-year-old Helen O’Halloran of Ridgeville, Ohio. Both drivers were pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger in O’Halloran’s vehicle was flown to UPMC Presbyterian, where he was reported in stable condition. The westbound lanes of the turnpike were closed for more than four hours. Police are investigating the cause of the crash.