Dogs intended as dinner now have loving Pennsylvania homes
By MIKE ARGENTO, York Daily Record undefined
YORK, Pa. (AP) — When Meghan Kahler and Steven Halstead adopted the Japanese mastiff, he came with the name Daniel. He is a big, old goofy dog, emphasis on big. Daniel didn’t seem to be a good name, so they changed it. They named him Ham “like Christmas ham,” Meghan said. It made sense. They adopted Ham around Christmas 2020. And just a few months before that, Ham was destined to become ham, having been rescued from a South Korean farm where dogs were bred and raised to be food.  “We think we’re funny,” Steven said. “For a meat market dog, it’s a great name.”

(Aliquippa, Pa.) PA State Police  reported that at 12:30 a.m. Friday morning, August 20, 2021,  Aliquippa Police responded to call for shots fired around the Valley Terrace Housing Complex.  Upon arrival, officers found a male suffering from a gunshot wound. inside an apartment. He was identified at Gamal Rodgers age 27.  He was transported to  to Heritage Valley Sewickley where he was pronounced dead.

Keystone State News Connection

Emily Scott

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania is behind on its goal to reduce pollution into Chesapeake Bay, and clean-water proponents say legislation in Harrisburg focused on sustainable agriculture could help the state get on track.

One step PA could take would be establishing an Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program, which would fund projects for farmers to plant trees or bushes next to streams or waterways near their land.

Half of the fresh water that flows into the bay comes from Pennsylvania, and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Pennsylvania Executive Director Shannon Gority said these so-called riparian buffers could help filter out nitrogen and phosphorous from the farms before they reach the local water and, ultimately, the bay.

“But having the funding to train the people,” said Gority, “to implement and then be able to reimburse the farmers for some of their expenses in operating it, is pretty much the only thing that’s going to get us to where we need to be with respect to reduce nitrogen and phosphorous in our local waters and in the bay.”

The Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program, or A-CAP, was introduced by State Sen. Gene Yaw – R-Williamsport. It was re-referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee in June.

Gority said other pieces of legislation that could help the state reach the necessary blueprint milestones, include U.S. Senator Bob Casey’s REVIVE the CCC Act, which would bring back the 1930s work relief program to address the climate crisis.

Yaw has also proposed a Clean Streams Fund, which would use a portion of the state’s American Rescue Plan funds for the A-CAP program.

“It’s really important that all of the watershed work together to protect the waters in the bay,” said Gority. “Because not only is it saving the bay, but when we save all the local waters that go into the bay, we’re impacting our own water quality, our own environment, our local environment.”

According to the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, which was signed by the six states that are part of the watershed, Pennsylvania is required to have a pollution reduction plan in place by 2025.

(Chippewa Twp., Pa.) Pa State Police in Beaver are reported via release yesterday that they were called to the scene of a one vehicle accident on Interstate 376 in Chippewa Twp.  at 1:13 PM August 18, 2021.

Troopers stated in the release that a 2015 Nissan Sentra that was being operated by 21-year-old Alyssa Rhodes of Beaver Falls lost control on the wet roadway and struck the cable guide wire located in the median. After striking the guide wire the car flipped around and tangled into the guide wire coming to a final rest. Rhodes was not injured in the accident but was charged with not driving properly on roadways laned for traffic.

(New Castle, Pa.) Two Ohio men were arrested after being accused of stealing equipment from Ellwood Quality Steels on Moravia Street in New Castle.

New Castle police charged 55-year-old John Mehle of Youngstown, and 47-year-old Chad Williams of Austintown, who were working as sub-contractors with the reported theft an analyzer gun, valued at $35,000, from a closet in one of the industry’s truck bays
The pair were employees of Base Environmental Service which was contracted to clean up the vacuum trucks at the facility.
Police reviewed a surveillance video of Aug. 8, 2021 that shows one of the men taking a piece of vacuum hose into the closet while the other man stood as a lookout.
A separate camera shows the worker then placing the hose in the bed of a vehicle and covering it and then driving out of the warehouse and unloading the hose into one of their personal vehicles.
Mehle and Williams are each charged with theft and receiving stolen property.

They were arraigned by District Judge Melissa A. Amodie, who committed them to the Lawrence County jail on $10,000 bond each.

They waived their rights to preliminary hearings and have since been released on bail.

Pittsburgh, PA – PennDOT District 11 is announcing roadway improvement work on Route 151 (Gringo Road) in Hopewell Township, Beaver County will begin Monday, August 23 weather permitting.

Northbound I-79 Neville Island Bridge Restrictions Lifted in Allegheny County

(Story by Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano)

Detective Greg Durkos , the county’s impaired Driving Task Force coordinator announced Friday morning that the sobriety checkpoints, and /or roving patrols  and mobile checkpoints will be conducted beginning this weekend and throughout the labor Day Holiday  in support of the state’s Impaired Driving Initiative.

Pittsburgh, PA – PennDOT is announcing drainage improvement work on Chapel Road (Route 3005) in Center Township, Beaver County, will begin Monday, August 23 weather permitting.

Drainage improvement work requiring the closure of a portion of Chapel Road will begin at 7 a.m. Monday morning and continue around-the-clock through 4 p.m. Friday, August 27. Chapel Road will close to through traffic between Skyview Drive and Rodeo Drive.  Traffic will be detoured via Brodhead Road and Center Grange Road.

Please use caution when traveling in this area.