(North Sewickley Township, PA) Registrations are now being submitted for the annual Gobbler’s Gallop at Riverside High School, happening on Thursday, November 28th. Organizers say that the popular charity event will benefit the Riverside Cross Country Team, the Riverside Community Education Foundation and the Ellwood City Cross Country Team. Medals will be awarded to the top three male and female finishers in each of the nine age groups for both the 5k and 10k races offered. The event’s pre-registration fee is $20 for a single event or $23 to participate in both races. Walk-in registrations will be $23 for single events or $26 to participate in both races. Participants can email Joe Fisher at joeandsidney@yahoo.com for the necessary registration forms.

(Beaver County, PA) The playoff format for the 2024 WPIAL playoffs will have a few changes in 2024 with the postseason only two weeks away. Each conference’s top teams will still get an automatic qualifier, but the WPIAL Football Steering Committee will will select 16 wild card teams across five classifications. In addition to the new wild card teams in 2024, conference champions in each classification will be guaranteed a home game as opposed to the previous format, in which the top two teams were given a home game automatically. Co-chairperson of the WPIAL Football Steering Committee Mike Burrell has noted that this format will ensure a stronger field of playoff teams. The WPIAL football playoffs in 2024 will begin with opening round games on November 1 with district playoffs running until November 16 for Classes 6A and 4A and until November 23 for Classes 5A, 3A, 2A and A.

Class 5A and Class 3A

• 13 total playoff spots
• Top four teams receive first-round bye
• All conference champions will host its opening-round game
• Three total wild card teams

Class 4A

• 8 total playoff spots
• Top two teams in each conference automatically qualify
• Each conference champion will host first-round games
• Two total wild card teams

Class 2A

• 13 total playoff spots
• Top three teams from each conference automatically qualify
• Top two teams in the classification receive first-round bye
• Conference champions and higher seeds host opening round games
• Four total wild card teams

Class A

• 16 total playoff spots
• Top three teams from each conference automatically qualifying
• Conference champions and higher seeds will host opening round games
• Four total wild card teams

(Pittsburgh, PA) Republican Vice Presidential Nominee and Ohio Senator JD Vance will be in Pittsburgh on Thursday at The Pennsylvanian in Downtown Pittsburgh. Senator Vance will speak starting at 12:30 p.m. about the economic policy led by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and how that policy will affect Pennsylvania. There is no charge for tickets, but a mobile phone number and a code received from a text message needs to be entered to register. 

Source for Photo: Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks during the Republican National Convention Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

(Washington) The Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out a decision allowing 18-year-olds to openly carry guns during emergencies in Pennsylvania.  

The decision lets stand a ban on people aged 18 to 20 carrying guns in public during a declared state of emergency. 

The case comes amid major shifts in the firearm legal landscape following an influential Supreme Court decision in 2022 that expanded gun rights.  

In the wake of that ruling, multiple gun laws have been struck down, including age restrictions, by judges in states like Minnesota, Virginia, and Texas.

However, the Supreme Court handed down a new opinion this year that upheld a law intended to protect victims of domestic violence. The high court said Tuesday the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should reconsider the Pennsylvania case in light of that decision. 

Pennsylvania officials, for their part, had argued that there is a long tradition of limiting guns to people 21 and older dating back to the 1850s. 

Source for Photo: The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, as the justices continue arguments in a new term without their colleague, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

(Carroll Township, PA) After a WPIAL high school football game was postponed Friday thanks to “misconduct” from the Ringgold High School football team, the Ringgold School District announced Monday that no charges will be filed against the team. Superintendent Randall Skrinjorich explained that the incidents were only limited to a small group of players and that there will be a response taken so that these incidents will not happen again. All of Ringgold High School’s remaining games and practices that are scheduled will continue as planned. 

(Aliquippa, PA) The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority (PBDA) announced that the B.F. Jones Memorial Library has received $250,975 in grant funding to increase internet access as well as other services in Aliquippa. The money will also assist in the overall structure of the building, which includes better security, window resealing, and projects to fix the roofs. According to legislators, these renovations to the building will ensure visitors’ safety and access to library services.

(Beaver, PA) The Women’s Center of Beaver County has been awarded a grant of $594,500 in its mission to protect victims affected by domestic violence. Safe transitional housing and relocation services will be provided in coalition with the grant. According to program officials, the Women’s Center will use these federal funds to provide scattered, private landlord housing to 35 survivors of domestic abuse and their families. The Beaver County Rehabilitation Center will also team up with the Women’s Center of Beaver County to provide holistic, victim- centered therapy, with services for at least six months and up to two years. Underserved populations of people in Beaver County, which includes communities of color, people with disabilities, older adults, those with limited proficiency in English, those that are hearing impaired, and the LGBTQ community receiving these services. 

(Beaver, PA) The investigation continues regarding the purchase and selling of the former Beaver County Times building. Former county solicitor Joe Askar bought the building last year for less than $700,000 and is looking to sell it for four times that price. Beaver County controller Maria Longo is questioning whether the asking price of the building is worth less than the building itself. The Chairman of the Beaver County Commissioners Dan Camp stresses that Beaver County needs this building to house election equipment and keep records as well as possibly housing the Beaver County SWAT team.