The featured image above shows Millie Anderson of the BC Woman’s Center presenting Trooper Pat Thomas with the Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Award
Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio, Published May 24, 2022 7:28 A.M.

(Beaver, PA) Last Friday morning the Beaver County Law Enforcement Officers’ Memorial Service was held at the memorial in Beaver  despite the rain.  The memorial was dedicated May 10, 2003.  Beaver County Commissioners chairman Daniel C. Camp III issued a proclamation. Taps was played by Henry and Dave Bufalini , Hopewell residents. Master of Ceremonies was Center Township police Chief Barry Kramer.  Invocation and Memorial Prayer and Benediction  were delivered by the police chaplain Reverend Steven Mckeown. The Law Enforcement prayer was delivered by Monaca Police Chief Dave Piuri, FOP Lodge 84, the Salute to our Fallen Brothers was Aliquippa Police Detective Sgt. Steve Roberts, President of  the James M. Naim Memorial Lodge FOP Lodge #26.
The event is held annually  and is a collaborative efforts by the DA’s, Office, Sheriff’s Department, Beaver Valley Chiefs of Police Association.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — David McCormick’s campaign is suing in a Pennsylvania court over his neck-and-neck Republican primary contest for the U.S. Senate against celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz. McCormick is trying to ensure counties obey a brand-new federal appeals court decision. His lawsuit, filed late Monday, asks the state’s Commonwealth Court to require counties to promptly count mail-in ballots that lack a required handwritten date on the return envelope. Oz, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, led McCormick by 992 votes, or 0.07 percentage points, out of more than 1.3 million ballots reported to the state as of Monday night. The race is close enough to trigger Pennsylvania’s automatic recount law.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania attorney general who served jail time for leaking grand jury material and lying about it has admitted she violated her probation when she was arrested for drunken driving. Kathleen Kane was sentenced Monday to two months to a year of jail on the probation violation. She was given credit for time served and was to be paroled to a residential alcohol treatment center. Kane was charged with drunken driving in March following a crash in Scranton. She had been on probation from a 2016 conviction for perjury and other counts. Kane was the first woman and first Democrat to be elected attorney general.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say three teenagers were wounded by gunfire, one critically, near a school in Philadelphia. Authorities said the male victims, ages 15, 16, and 17, were shot as classes were ending Monday afternoon. The 15-year-old was hit in the thigh and was in critical condition at a hospital. The 17-year-old was shot in the foot and is in stable condition, while the 16-year-old was grazed on an arm and declined medical treatment. No arrests were immediately reported. Over the weekend, three teenagers were wounded by gunfire during a festival in Philadelphia. The city recorded a total of six homicides Saturday and Sunday.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans in the Pennsylvania Legislature are extending their inquiry into the state’s 2020 presidential election inspired by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud. The contract is to last another six months, through Nov. 18, under an extension signed last week. The original no-bid contract, including an addendum, was worth $485,115 and expired last week. The extension has no dollar figure attached to it. Senate Republican officials say the contractor hasn’t billed for the contract’s full value while Republicans fight in court to get access to voting machines and certain information about voters and voting systems. Republicans have yet to report any findings.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A cabinet secretary who helped shepherd Pennsylvania’s entry into a regional carbon pricing program to combat climate change is leaving the administration of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. The governor said Monday that Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell will be replaced in July by Ramez Ziadeh. McDonnell was deeply involved in the state’s entry into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. The program imposes a cost for emitting planet-warming carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-fired power plants. McDonnell started at the agency in 1998 and has been secretary since 2016. Ziadeh has been a deputy secretary at the agency after starting there in

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — An autopsy report shows that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was legally drunk when he was fatally struck by a dump truck on a Florida highway last month. The Broward County Medical Examiner said in its report released Monday that Haskins’ blood-alcohol content was more than twice the legal level for driving when he was struck April 9. Painkillers Ketamine and norketamine were also found in his system. The 24-year-old former Ohio State star had run out of gas on Interstate 595 near Fort Lauderdale about dawn. He told a companion he was going to find a gas station. The dump truck driver told investigators Haskins stepped in front of him as he traveled in the center lane.

(Beaver, PA) The Veterans Memorial located at Clark Park in Beaver was vandalized sometime Sunday. Beaver Police are investigating and there is a $500 reward for information leading to an arrest.  The memorial honors those that served in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and the Civil War.

TOKYO (AP) — President Joe Biden has launched a new trade deal with 12 Indo-Pacific nations aimed at strengthening their economies as he warns Americans worried about high inflation that it is “going to be a haul” before they feel relief. The president says he does not believe an economic recession is inevitable in the U.S. Biden spoke at a news conference in Toyko after holding talks with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. He acknowledged the U.S. economy has “problems” but said they were “less consequential than the rest of the world has.” He added: “This is going to be a haul. This is going to take some time.”