FILE – Adrienne Daily, center, and her daughter, Kierson Daily, raise their fists in protests during a rally against the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2022, in Pittsburgh. Democrats in Pennsylvania will try to resurrect the voter energy behind protecting abortion rights that helped them win critical openings for governor and U.S. Senate in 2022 as they try to now protect their state Supreme Court majority in the presidential battleground. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP, File)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrats in Pennsylvania are talking up abortion rights as they try to protect their state Supreme Court majority in the presidential battleground. Pennsylvania Democratic Party chair Sharif Street says Republicans made it an issue when they chose to strip away a woman’s right to choose. The race between Democrat Dan McCaffery and Republican Carolyn Carluccio in the Nov. 7 election will fill an open seat on the seven-seat court. Carluccio has taken a lower profile on abortion. Democrats currently hold a 4-2 advantage on the court.

FILE – A BNSF locomotive heads south out of Oklahoma City, Sept. 14, 2022. On Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, the major freight railroads said a disagreement over whether they will be allowed to discipline some workers who use a government hotline to report safety concerns have kept them from following through on the promise they made back in March to join the program after a fiery Ohio derailment prompted calls for reforms. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The major freight railroads say a disagreement over whether they will be allowed to discipline some workers who use a government hotline to report safety concerns has kept them from following through on the promise they made back in March to join the program after a fiery Ohio derailment prompted calls for reforms. But unions and workplace safety experts say the idea of disciplining workers who report safety concerns undermines the purpose of creating such a hotline because workers won’t use it if they fear retribution. Former Occupational Safety and Health Administration official Debbie Berkowitz said dangerous companies always want to blame workers for safety problems, but statistics show unsafe conditions are usually to blame.

This photo provided by the Allegheny County, Pa., Police Department shows a brown-and-white male French bulldog. Authorities announced on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, that Allison Lyn Gaiser, the woman accused of intentionally abandoning her French bulldog at a Pennsylvania airport before she boarded a flight to a resort in Mexico earlier this month, has been charged with animal cruelty and related charges. (Allegheny County Police Department via AP)

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities have charged a woman accused of intentionally abandoning her dog at a Pennsylvania airport before she boarded a flight to a resort in Mexico. Allegheny County Police say the 44-year-old woman tried to bring her male French bulldog with her on a flight departing from Pittsburgh International Airport on Aug. 4. But the dog was denied boarding by the airline because it didn’t meet the criteria for an emotional support animal and didn’t have the required kennel. A police officer eventually found the dog unharmed in the airport’s short-term parking lot. The woman told authorities she had made arrangements with her mother to pick up the animal at the airport.

Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio News Director. Published August 25, 2023 7:20 P.M.   

(Beaver County, PA) If you are heading to work or out for a drive, power lines are down in the county causing some road restrictions as of 7:15 A.M. Friday morning, August 25th, according to PA 511.

A downed tree in wires has caused a closure of all lanes in both directions on Hardin Run Road / Hanover Kendall Road between Frankfort Road WV, West Virginia State Line and Swearingen Road.

Another downed tree caught up in wires in North Sewickley Township has River Road closed in both directions between Bennett Run Road and Gillen Road.

A downed utility pole on US 30 has both directions closed between Bocktown Road and Frankfort Road in Greene Township.

A downed tree in wires on Todd Road / Independence Road has closed both directions between Gringo Independence Road and Tank Farm Road in Independence Township.

A downed utility pole on Kane Road has caused both directions between Laird Drive and Airport Road to be closed in Hopewell.

This booking photo provided by Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, shows former President Donald Trump on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, after he surrendered and was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. Trump is accused by District Attorney Fani Willis of scheming to subvert the will of Georgia voters in a desperate bid to keep Joe Biden out of the White House. (Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

A camera clicks. In a fraction of a second, the shutter opens and then closes, freezing forever the image in front of it. When the camera shutter blinked inside a jail in downtown Atlanta Thursday, it both created and documented a tiny inflection point in American life. Captured for posterity, there was a former president of the United States, for the first time in history, under arrest and captured in the sort of frame more commonly associated with drug dealers or drunken drivers. The trappings of power gone, for that split second. Left behind is an enduring image that will appear in history books long after Donald Trump is gone.

Story by Beaver County Radio News Staff. Published August 24, 2023 9:57 A.M.

(Brighton Township, PA) State Police in Beaver report that a vehicle struck a cable barrier on I-376 in Brighton Township near mile marker 35 on Saturday, August 12th. The accident caused the vehicle to be disabled. The operator of the Buick Rendevous, 33 year old Chaunce Dolan, was said to have fled the scene and was charged accordingly.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities in Pittsburgh say a man facing eviction opened fire at officers from inside a home, prompting evacuations and a police siege that lasted much of the day and ended with authorities saying he was dead. Pittsburgh Public Safety says city emergency medical service responders pronounced the person dead shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday. The Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office says its deputies were trying to serve the eviction notice in the Garfield neighborhood when the occupant began firing. Witnesses say they heard what sounded like hundreds of shots beginning at about 11 a.m. More gunfired erupted hours later. Authorities have not publicly identified the man or said how he died.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The nation’s largest railroad union wants federal regulators to do more to ensure conductors are properly trained in the wake of two recent trainee deaths in Maryland. The union that represents conductors wants the Federal Railroad Administration to establish clear standards for how long new employees are trained and who mentors them to teach them the craft after they finish their classroom training. The agency hasn’t required the railroads to make changes, but it has urged them to improve training including in a new letter sent to all their CEOs this week. CSX and Norfolk Southern have both recently announced agreements with the union to improve conductor training.

Dick’s Sporting Goods profit slipped in its second quarter and missed Wall Street’s expectations as the retailer cut its full-year profit outlook, citing worries over theft at its stores. For the period ended July 29, Dick’s earned $244 million, or $2.82 per share. A year earlier the company earned $319 million, or $3.68 per share. Analysts polled by FactSet predicted earnings of $3.81 per share.