(Hopewell Twp. Pa.) The Hopewell Township Municipal Building saw 61% of their voters by noon today.  A few voters came out and said there was no waiting in line.

(Aliquippa, Pa.) Main Street hill off of Franklin Avenue is closed, and Superior Avenue off of Sheffield Avenue are closed to traffic due to work being done in those areas.

More Americans on diets from a decade ago, report finds
By CANDICE CHOI Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — More Americans said they’re on diets to lose weight or for other health reasons compared with a decade ago. That’s according to a report Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found 17% of American adults surveyed during 2017 and 2018 said they were on special diets, compared with 14% a decade earlier. Experts say the increase isn’t surprising given the prevalence and increase of obesity and obesity related diseases. The report notes that about half of American adults have diet-related chronic conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease.

Turkish rescuers pull girl from rubble 4 days after quake
By MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press
IZMIR, TURKEY (AP) — Rescuers in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir have pulled a young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece. The girl was identified by officials as 3-year-old Ayda Gezgin. She was seen being taken into an ambulance on Tuesday, wrapped in a thermal blanket, amid the sounds of cheers and applause from rescue workers. The death toll in the earthquake reached 112, after rescuers retrieved more bodies elsewhere. The U.S. Geological Survey registered the quake’s magnitude at 7.0, though other agencies recorded it as less severe.

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Pittsburgh, PA – PennDOT District 11 is announcing slide repair work on a third slide on Bradys Run Road (Route 4012) in Brighton Township, Beaver County, will begin Wednesday, November 4 weather permitting.

Slide repair work will begin at 7 a.m. Wednesday requiring the closure of Bradys Run Road between Route 51 (Constitution Boulevard) and Achortown Road. Crews from A. Folino Construction, Inc. will conduct work on the nearly $1.50 million slide remediation project which also includes pavement restoration, guiderail updates, drainagae upgrades, sign and pavement marking installation, and other miscellaneous construction activities. To allow the work to occur, Bradys Run Road will close to traffic in the slide area continuously through late February 2021.

All traffic will be detoured.

Posted Detour

West of the Slide

• From Bradys Run Road, turn left onto Park Road (Route 4018)
• Park Road becomes Dutch Ridge Road
• Turn left onto Wildwood Road (Route 4033)
• Turn left onto Route 51
• Follow Route 51 back to Bradys Run Road
• End detour

East of the Slide

• Same detour in the opposite direction

Motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras.

511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional Twitter alerts accessible on the 511PA website.

(Ambridge, Pa.) Beaver County citizen’s headed to the polls early this morning to cast their vote in one of the most anticipated elections of our time. Eddy Crow host of Teleforum reported that he got in line at the Ambridge Borough Building to vote at 6:55 and the line was already long as you can see in the above photo. One caller to AM Beaver County with Matt Drzik named Dean reported that he was first in line to vote at his precinct and the line was already forming as he was leaving. The polls opened at 7 a.m. this morning and will remain open until until 8 p.m. tonight. If you chose to do mail in ballot and have not received your ballot yet you can go to your polling place and vote with a provisional ballot. You can also hand deliver your ballot to the Beaver County Elections Bureau in the Beaver County Courthouse. The Beaver County Commissioners also said that there will be a secure drop box at the court house that you can place your ballot in. You have until 8pm tonight to do any of the options to vote. Stay tuned to Beaver County Radio as we continue to cover this historic election.

Keystone State News Connection

Surge in Mail-In Ballots Will Slow PA Count

Andrea Sears

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A new report suggests the record number of mail-in ballots for this election will take more time to count and may shift election results as they are tallied.

More than three million Pennsylvanians requested mail-in ballots for today’s election, and by Monday almost 2.5 million had been returned to county election offices.

Claire Kovach, senior research analyst at the Keystone Research Center, said that’s 13 times the number of mail-in ballots returned for the 2016 general election, and by law, election officials couldn’t start counting them until today.

“Even though a lot of counties have ramped up the number of people they’ve hired to help process these, it’s still very time-consuming and many counties won’t even start to count their mail-in ballots until after Election Day,” Kovach explained.

In her report, she urged voters to be patient, noting that it took six days to count mail-in votes for the June primary and three weeks to certify the results.

Kovach said Pennsylvania Democrats are three times more likely to cast mail-in ballots than Republicans, causing what is known as a “Blue Shift” toward Democrats as those ballots are counted.

“Pennsylvanians should be wary of early pundit projections or any candidates from any party claiming an early victory,” Kovach cautioned. “Especially on Election Night because every eligible ballot that is cast must be counted.”

She said the record number of mail-in ballots for this election means the tally could change significantly as those are counted in the days after Election Day.

Kathy Boockvar, Pennsylvania Secretary of State, urged county election officials to include the number of uncounted ballots and to update their totals as mail-in ballots are counted.

Kovach believes that will give voters a clearer picture of the process.

“If you report the mail-in ballot counts along the way rather than all at once, it would really help prevent a jarring, instant swing in election results which Americans aren’t really used to,” Kovach suggested.

She added shifts in results as votes are counted are not a sign of fraud, but rather a clear indication that our democracy is working.

(Ambridge, Pa.) Dr. Joseph W. Pasquerilla sent a letter to parents of students attending Highland Elementary School notifying that a staff member has tested positive for COVID- 19. The school is closed beginning today.  He said that the RAPID RESPONSE TEAM has been contacted . ,and the school will remain closed until they get  directions from PA DOH.

(Beaver Falls, Pa.) Kelin J. Coleman, 26, Beaver Falls was arrested  without incident on Friday in connection  with the shooting outside Whiskey Rythm Bar on Penn Ave. in Monaca on July 11. He was arrested without incident by Monaca Police, the U.S. Marshall’s Service, PSP, and  Beaver Falls Police.