(Beaver Falls, Pa.) Tune into 1230 WBVP, 1460 WMBA, 99.3 FM, 95.7 FM or beavercountyradio.com this Friday August 5, 2022 at 11:10 AM. for Kellie Kelly from St. Barnabas Home Care. She will be live in studio to talk about St. Barnabas’ Home Care during Teleforum with Eddy Crow. Kelly will explain exactly what home care means. She will also be able to answer your questions you have by calling during the show at 724-843-1888 or 724-774-1888. You can also submit any questions you might have to news@beavercountyradio.com or by sending a direct message to the Beaver County Radio Facebook Page at  https://www.facebook.com/beavercountyradio/
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(Beaver Falls, Pa.) Tune into 1230 WBVP, 1460 WMBA, 99.3 FM, 95.7 FM or beavercountyradio.com this Thursday August 4, 2022 at 9:10 a.m. for “Ask the Commissioners” Commissioners Chairman Dan Camp, Commissioner Tony Amadio, and Commissioner Jack Manning will be live in studio to answer your questions on Beaver County Radio during hour one of Teleforum with Eddy Crow. You can submit any questions you might have to news@beavercountyradio.com or by sending a direct message to the Beaver County Radio Facebook Page at  https://www.facebook.com/beavercountyradio/
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(File Photo of the Beaver County Jail where Damian Bradford is being housed)

Story by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio 
(West Aliquippa, Pa.) The United States Department of Probation and Parole will be filing a detainer for 41-year-old Damian Ray Bradford of Pittsburgh. Bradford is currently being housed the Beaver County Jail after he was arrested by PA State Police last Friday, July 29, 2022, following the shooting of Trooper Jonnie Schooley at the Franklin Avenue Mini Mart in Aliquippa.  Pa State Police in Beaver are reporting that the Troopers were on patrol in the city of Aliquippa around 12:05 AM Friday morning when they observed a disturbance on the sidewalk outside the Franklin Mini-Mart located on Franklin Ave in Aliquippa. The Troopers exited the patrol vehicle and approached Bradford. As the Troopers approached Bradford he ran into the store. The Troopers pursued him into the store and a struggle ensued inside the store. During the struggle Bradford discharged his firearm and struck one of the Troopers in his leg. Bradford was taken into custody by police and the Trooper who was shot was transported to a Pittsburgh hospital. The other Trooper was also transported to the hospital to be checked out.

Bradford is the same man who admitted shooting Dr. Gulam Moonda on May 13, 2005, in an emergency pull-off along the Ohio Turnpike in Cuyahoga County. He was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison.
It was all a part of a plot that Moonda’s wife Donna put together and Bradford has been out of jail for a little over a year.

Bradford’s actions last Friday morning violate his parole and thus the U.S. Department of Probation and Parole is filing the detainer on Bradford so that he remains incarcerated.

(File Photo of Center Twp. Police Cruiser)

Story by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio News
(Center Twp., Beaver County, Pa.) The Center Twp. Police Department is reporting via their Facebook Page that Between 11:30 p.m. Monday night, August 1, 2022, and 4 a.m. Tuesday morning, August 2, 2022, several vehicles were broken into  and items taken from the vehicles on Gourley Lane and in the Eben Estates area of the township. Center Township Police are asking that anyone with information or  surveillance video to contact Officer Eric Hill 724-774-3329 or Detective Tom Gonczi 724-920-0927.  Residents are reminded  to keep their vehicles locked.

(Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf speaks with the press. Governor Tom Wolf was joined by state Representative David Delloso and stakeholders and community members to discuss the reintroduction of the PA Opportunity Program, which would send $2,000 checks directly to Pennsylvanians. Folcroft, PA August 2, 2022) (Photo Courtesy of Commonwealth Media Services 

(Harrisburg, Pa.) Governor Tom Wolf was joined by state Representative David Delloso and stakeholders and community members to discuss the reintroduction of the PA Opportunity Program, which would send $2,000 checks directly to Pennsylvanians.
“I first proposed the PA Opportunity Program back in February, but Republican leaders in the General Assembly just wouldn’t get on board with funding it in this year’s budget,” said Gov. Wolf. “However, as I’ve traveled the commonwealth, I’ve heard directly from so many people about how much this program would mean to them and their families. I’m not going to stop fighting until the people of Pennsylvania get the help they need and deserve.”
In February, Gov. Wolf unveiled a $1.7 billion proposal for Pennsylvania’s $2 billion in
federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars. While Democratic leaders in the
Senate and House have introduced legislation, the Republican-led General Assembly
did not appropriate the funding for the program during budget negotiations.
“This year’s budget made major investments in working families across the
commonwealth, putting Pennsylvania on a pack to a brighter future, but we still have the funds to make this investment in the people of Pennsylvania right now,” said Gov Wolf.
“People need help now, and we can afford to help them. Let’s put this cash back in the
pockets of Pennsylvanians, to help cover the higher costs of gas, groceries, and
everything else.”

Rep. Delloso (D-Delaware) and state Senator Tina Tartaglione (D-Philadelphia)
have submitted co-sponsorship memos in the House and Senate signaling their intent to reintroduce legislation to fund the PA Opportunity Program using the commonwealth’s general funds. In the newly proposed PA Opportunity Program, Pennsylvania householders with an income of $80,000 or less would receive direct payments of up to $2,000. The program aims to help families still recovering economically from the COVID-19 pandemic and managing the current, every day increasing cost of living.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a major toll on Pennsylvanians. It is time we step
up to help Pennsylvanians now,” said Rep. Delloso. “That is why I am introducing
updated legislation to create the PA Opportunity Program, which would make direct
payments of up to $2,000 to Pennsylvania households. This program, which is expected to help at least 250,000 households across Pennsylvania, is needed now more than ever to help workers and families recover economically from the pandemic and assist them in affording childcare, education and training, and basic household expenses.”
“In April, Governor Wolf and I announced a plan to put up to $2,000 back into the
pockets of Pennsylvanians struggling with the burden of the record inflation America is currently experiencing,” said Senator Tartaglione. “The PA Opportunity Program along with hundreds of other pieces of democrat sponsored legislation like minimum wage reform would have an immediate and lasting impact on Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable citizens. To ensure a truly equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, we must ensure we are lifting from the bottom, not raising up the top. The majority party in the legislature has shown they are willing to pass pro-business legislation like lowering the Corporate Net Income Tax, now with just 10 scheduled session days remaining this year for the PA Senate, we still have the opportunity to pass meaningful legislation that will dramatically help our constituents like raising the minimum wage and passing the PA Opportunity Program.”
In addition to Rep. Delloso, Gov. Wolf was joined by state Senators Tim Kearney and
Anthony Williams, Folcroft Council President Joe Papaleo, and stakeholders in the
Folcroft community.
“The PA Opportunity Program will make our economic recovery from the pandemic
more equitable, ensuring we don’t leave Pennsylvanians behind,” said Senator
Kearney. “The slow growth from the Great Recession taught us we can’t have top-down approaches – we need a bottom-up recovery that gives everyone a piece of the pie.” “This is money that can have a real impact on families,” said Senator Williams. “We know prices are high across the board. Gas, food, and utilities all cost more, and those who are struggling most are working families who are just trying to meet the everyday needs of their children and households. The PA Opportunity Program will put money directly into the pockets of people who have been hit hardest by the economic effects of COVID-19 and inflation, giving them some reprieve and support.”

(File Photo of Pa State Rep. Rob Matzie (16th))

Story by Beaver County Radio Staff
(Ambridge, Pa.) 16th District Pa State Rep. Rob Matzie announced that Beaver County preschoolers will have greater access to early learning resources thanks to nearly $1.5 million in funding awarded to bolster area Pre-K Counts and Head Start Supplemental Assistance programs.
Matzie said in a release that the funding from the state Department of Education’s Office of Child Development and Early Learning will increase the number of available Pre-K Counts slots and help ensure that area Head Start programs have the resources to manage increased operating costs.
Matzie said the funding includes the following:
Pre-K Counts in the amount of $400,000 to Aliquippa School District and $170, 000 to Chippewa Noah’s Ark LLC
The Head Start Private Industry Council (serving Beaver and Fayette counties) will also $925,900
The funding, made available through the Pennsylvania Department of Education Office of Child Development and Early Learning.

(File Photo)

Story by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio News
(Aliquippa, Pa.) The Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver are reporting that a Beaver County Detectives Black unmarked Police SUV was stolen in Aliquippa around 1 AM on Tuesday morning. The vehicle was recovered around 3:49 AM Tuesday morning at the intersection of sixth Ave and Elmira Street in Aliquippa. Troopers said in the release that the unknown actor or actors made entry into the vehicle and crashed it at the intersection where the vehicle was found.
Troopers are asking anyone with any information to contact them at the Beaver Barracks at 724-773-7400.

FILE – Los Angeles Dodgers television play-by-play announcer Vin Scully rehearses before a baseball game between the Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix on July 3, 2002. Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night, Aug. 2, 2022, the team said. He was 94. (AP Photo/Paul Connors, File)
By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night. He was 94. The Dodgers say family members informed them that Scully died at his home in the Hidden Hills section of Los Angeles. As the longest tenured broadcaster with a single team in pro sports history, Scully saw it all and called it all. He began in the 1950s era of Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson and went through to 2016, when he retired.