Two state senators screened a video at the Capitol in Harrisburg that they say shows the flaws in Pennsylvania’s practice of sentencing inmates to life without parole. Don Rooney has more…
A bill that strips guns from domestic abusers is going into law today. Known as Act 79, the law is intended to protect victims of domestic violence. The law requires abusers who have been the subject of protection orders to turn in any guns while those orders are in effect, and they are further prohibited from possessing guns. Governor Tom Wolf says the law will both protect victims of domestic abuse and hold abusers accountable for their actions.
Police charged two men with breaking into One Stop Shopper earlier this year and stealing cash and cigarettes in Darlington. 19 year old Nicholas Myers of Darlington Township and 18 year old Jarrod Westover of Lisbon, Ohio, were charged by Darlington Township police with burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary, criminal trespass, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief. The incident took place back in January.
State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe is calling for Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto to be impeached…after Peduto signed the controversial gun legislation into law Tuesday. Metcalfe tweeted Tuesday afternoon, saying, “I just asked our attorney to have a resolution drafted to IMPEACH the Mayor of Pittsburgh for his illegal gun control ordinances!” Peduto fired back, pointing out multiple failed bills Metcalfe has supported in the past and asking “do you really want to go 0-5?”
A lawsuit backed by the National Rifle Association has been filed in opposition to Pittsburgh’s new gun-control laws. Four Pittsburgh residents are suing the city, Mayor Bill Peduto and the City Council. The suit says the legislation Peduto signed into law Tuesday infringes on the people’s right of self-defense and will do nothing to prevent mass shootings like the one that killed 11 at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue last fall. City officials say they’ll fight the suits.
Victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue attack that killed 11 people last year will be remembered during a memorial service in the Pennsylvania Capitol. The unusual joint session Wednesday will bring together the House and the Senate for prayers and speeches about the Oct. 27 shooting at the Tree of Life. Members of all three congregations that were holding services that day are expected to attend. A truck driver named Robert Bowers faces charges for the attack.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10TH, 2019
TODAY – A MIX OF CLOUDS AND SUN. HIGH – 56.
TONIGHT – CLOUDY SKIES. LOW NEAR 40.
THURSDAY – MORE CLOUDS THAN SUN. HIGH – 68.
ECS&R is hosting a free recycling event for Aliquippa residents at Aliquippa High School on Saturday, April 27 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Residents must register by calling 1-866-813-0016.
Deer hunting opening day moving to Saturday from Monday
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Deer hunting season in Pennsylvania will be starting on a Saturday rather than a Monday beginning next season.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission voted 5-3 Tuesday to move opening day of deer rifle season to the first Saturday after thanksgiving.
Rifle season for hunting deer in Pennsylvania has kicked off the Monday after Thanksgiving since 1963. The change expands the firearms season to 13-days, including three Saturdays rather than two.
Supporters hope a Saturday opening will bring back people struggling to find time to hunt and help high school and college hunters who don’t get opening day off from school. Opponents said the change would interfere with hunting camp traditions and complicate travel during the Thanksgiving weekend.
To accommodate the expanded deer season, the late November turkey hunting season has been reduced by two days.
The commission also approved:
— expanding the mid-October muzzleloader and special firearms deer seasons to include bears;
— an expanded two-week archery bear season;
— expanding the bear season from four to seven days in most wildlife management units;
—expanding the late archery and flintlock deer seasons by more than a week, to end on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday; and
— establishing a September archery season and a January antlerless season for elk hunters.
The board gave preliminary approval to the proposals in January.
Archer suspended for 5 games, Puig for 2, Bell for 1
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NEW YORK (AP) — Pittsburgh pitcher Chris Archer was suspended for five games, Cincinnati outfielder Yasiel Puig for two and Reds manager David Bell for one on Tuesday for their parts in a bench-clearing fracas last weekend at PNC Park.
The commissioner’s office said Archer has appealed his penalty and will play pending a decision.
Puig and Bell chose not to appeal. Puig will miss the first two games of a series against the Marlins in Cincinnati starting Tuesday night. Bench coach Freddie Benavides will manage the Reds in the first game.
Chief Baseball Officer Joe Torre also fined all three for their behavior Sunday in Pittsburgh, which was touched off when Cincinnati’s Derek Dietrich stood in the batter’s box to admire his long home run in the second inning.
Two innings later, Archer threw his first pitch behind Dietrich’s waist. Plate umpire Jeff Kellogg warned both benches and Bell jogged from the dugout to the infield, arguing Archer should be ejected. Archer maintained he simply was off-target with an inside pitch.
Benches and bullpens emptied, and an enraged Puig barreled into a bunch of Pirates and was restrained by several teammates.
Bell interpreted Archer’s suspension as confirmation that the pitch was purposely meant to hurt Dietrich. Bell said Torre told him that Archer wasn’t ejected by the umpires because he didn’t throw at the batter’s head.
“That to me is a very dangerous approach,” Bell said. “As we know, even if they’re aiming somewhere else, it could hit a hitter right in the head.”
Bell wasn’t surprised by his one-game suspension.
“I was suspended (because) things escalated when I came out,” Bell said. “Clearly both benches cleared, which is unfortunate.”
Puig declined to appeal his suspension because he thought it wouldn’t make a difference. He wasn’t satisfied with Archer getting a five-day suspension, which means the starter would miss one appearance at most.
“The pitcher’s going to be suspended for five days, that’s not costing him nothing because no matter what he’s going to rest for five days,” Puig said. “It cost me two games.”
Bell doesn’t agree with the old-school practice of a pitcher retaliating when they think a hitter has showed them up by lingering too long or doing something theatrical after hitting a home run.
“Major League Baseball needs to take this out of their hands if the players try to police it,” Bell said. “That’s a dangerous approach.”
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AP Sports Writer Joe Kay in Cincinnati contributed to this report.
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