09:41 AM
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press
Some college towns plan to challenge the results of the 2020 census. They claim they were shortchanged because the pandemic forced students to leave campuses. They also complain that the undercount could cost them federal money and prestige. The affected communities include Bloomington, Indiana; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; and State College, Pennsylvania. Dudley Poston is a sociology professor at Texas A&M University. He says off-campus students ran the greatest risk of being missed. An Associated Press review of 75 metro areas with the largest share of residents between 20 and 24 showed that the census results fell well below population estimates in some cases but also exceeded them significantly in others.

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by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio News Correspondent 
09:38 AM
(Ambridge, Pa.) Ambridge Borough Council voted at last week’s council meeting to settle  a lawsuit filed by former female police officers Alexis Korol and Amanda Brown. The lawsuit was filed against the borough and former Police Chief James Mann. The award was for $150,000 and was split between the two officers and their legal counsels.

by Frank Sparks News/Program Director
07:28 AM
(Wayne Twp., Pa.) Pa State Police in New Castle are reporting that they have charged a 53-year-old unnamed male with harassment and Physical contact after an incident that took place in Wayne Township early Friday morning, October 15, 2021. Troopers stated via release that during the investigation it was learned that a 48-year-old unnamed female from Wampum was struck with an open hand and a slap to the top of her head during a physical altercation with the male suspect. The male suspect received a non-traffic citation. Troopers withheld the names of both parties due to it being domestic violence related.

by Frank Sparks News/Program Director
7:18 AM
(Pittsburgh, Pa.) The Pennsylvania State Police at the Rivers Casino are reporting that 42-year-old Keith Butcher of Aliquippa unknowingly attempted to change out a counterfeit $100 Dollar bill at the Rivers Casino on Sunday afternoon, October 17, 2021. The suspected counterfeit bill was forwarded to the United States Secret Service for additional investigation. Trooper said in the release that Butcher thinks he received the bill several days earlier during a transaction not on casino property.

Harrisburg, Pa. – In accordance with the recent Presidential Flag Order, Governor Tom Wolf ordered United States and commonwealth flags on all commonwealth facilities, public buildings and grounds to fly at half-staff immediately in honor of the General Colin Powell who passed away on Monday.

“General Powell was a trailblazer,” said Gov. Wolf. “As a public servant, he dedicated his life to our nation. I extend my deepest condolences to his friends and family.”

The US and commonwealth flags should be lowered to half-staff at immediately and should fly at half-staff until sunset on October 22, 2021.

All Pennsylvanians are invited to participate in this tribute.

by Frank Sparks News/Program Director
06:54 AM
(Wampum, Pa.) Pa State Police in New Castle are reminding residents that they should keep their car doors locked after two incidents of items being stolen from unlocked cars in Wampum. The first incident was reported to Troopers on Saturday when 5 dollars in loose change was taken from a 2014 Chevy Equinox on Beaver Street. The second incident was reported on Sunday in which someone took 5 dollars in loose change and a Samsung cell phone from a 2016 Chevrolet Impala on Kay Street in Wampum. In both incidents the vehicles were left unlock. Troopers are asking anyone with any information to call them at 724- 598-2211

Doyle, Pennsylvania congressional delegation dean, to retire
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle, the dean of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation, will not seek another term in office in next year’s election, bringing his career in Washington to an end after 28 years. Doyle said Monday that the pandemic accelerated his thoughts about retirement plans with his wife and redistricting will likely bring substantial change to the district’s boundaries. The 68-year-old Doyle was first elected in 1994. His district includes all of Pittsburgh and some of its increasingly leftward-leaning suburbs, and has easily won re-election in the heavily Democratic district. Doyle’s retirement could set off a scramble among the city’s Democrats in a bid to replace him.

Colin Powell dies, exemplary general stained by Iraq claims
By ROBERT BURNS, ERIC TUCKER and EILEEN PUTMAN Associated Press
WASHIINGTON (AP) — Colin Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications. In an announcement on social media Monday, the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. He had also been treated over the past few years for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. He was 84. Powell was the first African American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state. But his reputation was forever stained when, in 2003, he went before the U.N. Security Council and made the case for U.S. war against Iraq. He cited faulty information claiming Saddam Hussein had secretly stashed away weapons of mass destruction.

If you want your voice heard in the upcoming election, today is the deadline to register to vote.

For those who want to register to vote, you must be a citizen of the United States for at least one month before the election, must be a resident of Pennsylvania, and must be a resident of the election district in which the individual wants to register to vote. Voters must also be 18 years old.

Pennsylvania voters will have a few ways to vote.

Voting can be done over the counter now, through October 26,you can vote by mail, or vote at the polls on Election Day, which will be open from 7:00 a.m. through 8:00 p.m. on November 2.