On Tuesday, Matt Drzik will talk about the first game for the Pirates’ 2022 season to be played at PNC Park–as long as the weather cooperates.
Frank Sparks starts your Tuesday with local news at 6:30 on Beaver County Radio.
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
By DAVID PORTER Associated Press
AVENEL, N.J. (AP) — When the Kmart in Avenel, New Jersey, closes its doors on April 16, it will leave just a handful of remaining locations for the former retail powerhouse. It’s a far cry from the chain’s heyday in the 1980s and ’90s when it had more than 2,000 stores and sold product lines endorsed by Martha Stewart and former “Charlies Angel” Jaclyn Smith. Kmart’s demise is attributed to the rise of Walmart and Target and online behemoth Amazon. But retail expert Mark Cohen says the company also was dogged by poor management decisions and could have stayed viable.
Pennsylvania child swept over North Carolina waterfall
SYLVA, N.C. (AP) — A sheriff’s office says a 3-year-old Pennsylvania girl was killed after she was swept over Whitewater Falls in North Carolina. News outlets report the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that Nevaeh Jade Newswanger of Denver, Pennsylvania, had been visiting the waterfall with family, who are staying in Oconee County, South Carolina, while working in the area. Jackson County Emergency Management received a 911 call around 5:50 p.m. on Sunday from someone reporting a little girl had been swept over the edge of the falls. Her body was recovered early Monday morning.
(Ambridge, Pa.) Ambridge Police Chief John A. DeLuca reported Monday afternoon that the second suspect in the car thefts in the borough has been charged. Ian Paul Welling of Lenz Avenue in Ambridge is charged with altering or obliterating identification, two counts of receiving stolen property, three felonies, and two counts of possession of firearm while being prohibited to.
(St Louis, MI) Today’s Pittsburgh Pirates game against the St. Louis Cardinals that was scheduled for for 2:15 PM has been postponed due to the weather.
The game will be made up as part of a split Doubleheader in St. Louis on June 14, 2022.
The first game will be on Beaver County Radio at 11:50 AM with first pitch at 12:15 PM.
Game two will have an air-time of 6:20 PM with a 6:45 PM scheduled start.
The Pirates will next be in action tomorrow, 4/12/22 at PNC Park for their home opener. First pitch is set for 4:12 PM.
(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)
Kelly Cope from Patriot Home Care joined Matt Drzik on the April 11 edition of A.M. Beaver County to discuss the services that Patriot provides; services designed to assist older clients (or those who qualify) to maintain independent living in the comfort of their homes and the surrounding area.
Cope spoke about the comfort and flexibility that clients with Patriot have in choosing how much assistance they desire to have. “We try to keep them in their own home,” she stated. “We have clients that require 10 hours a week, we have clients that are 24/7 and around the clock.” She spoke about how PHC will assess clients and help them out in the comfort of their own homes to maintain independent living; different from assisted living at a remote location.
PHC is also looking for caretakers on their staff as well, but Cope says that the job isn’t necessarily easy: “You have to able to be around people, you have to want to take care of people…you have to have some sort of compassion to be wanting to take care of people [in order] to do this job.”
Patriot Home Care has an office in Beaver Falls located at 1225 7th Avenue (next to the Carnegie Free Library southbound), and they can be contacted by reaching (724)-506-8911. Kelly herself can be reached via email at kcope@patriot-hc.com for inquiries as well.
To watch the full interview with Kelly, click on the Facebook feed below!
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Story by Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano.
(Beaver, Pa.) Beaver County Coroner David J. Gabauer has identified the man who was killed in the a shooting in Aliquippa early Sunday Morning as 22-year-old Isaiah Alston. Alston’s cause of death was homicide. He is the grandson of former Aliquippa Police Chief William Alston who passed away in 2008. Isaiah was part of what appears to be a shootout. He was found shot multiple times on Irwin Street just before 3 a.m. on Sunday morning. Another man, who has not yet been named, was found shot in the leg on Franklin Ave and rushed to Allegheny General Hospital in stable condition.
Several shell casings were found on the ground.
Aliquippa Police Chief John Lane asked that PSP take over the investigation and Troopers are asking anyone with information about the shooting to contact them at the Beaver Barracks at 724-773-7400.
Police have not made any arrests as of late Sunday.
Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano is continuing to work on updates.
(Beaver County Radio File Photo by Pa Media Services)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is asking the state’s highest court to let the centerpiece of his plan to fight climate change take effect and make Pennsylvania the first major fossil fuel state to adopt a carbon pricing policy. The filing late Thursday in the state Supreme Court appealed a two-day old decision by a lower court which barred the official publication of the Democratic governor’s regulation “pending further order.” The regulation had been scheduled to be published Saturday, making it official. But the lower court sided with leaders of the Republican-controlled Legislature who contend the regulation is illegal. The plan has won approval from regulatory bodies.
(Beaver County Radio File Photo form Pa Media Services)
By MARC LEVY Associated Press)
BOALSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Voters are digesting a newly hostile Democratic primary race in Pennsylvania’s premier contest for U.S. Senate. That’s as the leading candidates came together in a room Saturday, face to face, for the first time since Conor Lamb first attacked rival John Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor. Fetterman has been on the defensive, after a week of attacks by Lamb, Malcolm Kenyatta and a super PAC supporting Lamb that’s running a TV ad against Fetterman. Neither Lamb nor Kenyatta made any reference to Fetterman in their remarks to a crowd of about 200 Penn State-area Democrats. But Fetterman did, telling the crowd that he wouldn’t attack a fellow Democrat.