HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is developing a plan to help deal with aging school buildings plagued by environmental health problems, including lead paint and asbestos insulation. Wolf’s office said the Democrat is committed to putting significant resources into protecting children and will propose a new comprehensive plan soon. Wolf must deliver a budget proposal to the Legislature on Feb. 4, and lawmakers pressing for state aid say lead and asbestos in deteriorating school buildings is a massive and growing problem. Pennsylvania shut down a roughly $300 million-a-year school construction program five years ago, leaving districts to pay for improvement projects themselves.

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — NFL free agent Antonio Brown was released on bail Friday after spending the night in a Florida jail. The wide receiver had to pay a bond of $110,000, surrender his passport, wear a monitor, and agree to a mental health evaluation and random drug tests. He also can’t have guns. Brown is accused of attacking the driver of a moving truck that carried some of his possessions from California. Hollywood police say Brown didn’t want to pay the $4,000 bill. Brown played nine seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers before being traded. Off-the-field incidents derailed his attempts to play for the Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots.

(All photos courtesy of the Beaver Falls Fire Department)

A fire that heavily damaged a Beaver Falls house is under investigation this morning. Fire Chief Mark Stowe tells Beaver County Radio newsman Pat Septak that the blaze broke out yesterday afternoon in a home in the 800 block of 7th Street…

Chief Stowe says that the house was in the process of being remodeled at the time of the fire…

Chief Stowe says it’s still too early to determine the cause of the fire…

Chief Stowe says there were no injuries in the blaze.

 

(Photo taken by Sandy Giordano)

We have an update on that accident that occurred in front of Aliquippa Elementary School yesterday afternoon. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has the update. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

An overnight accident that occurred on Route 65 in Baden is under invvestigation. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has warned residents he will end the city’s annual Mummers Parade if organizers don’t curtail participants’ inappropriate behavior, including blackface. Kenney’s spokesperson says the mayor sent a letter Tuesday to the organizers of the four Mummers divisions and requested they meet with officials following another blackface controversy at this year’s event. The New Year’s Day parade has a long history of racially and socially offensive displays. The parade features ornate costumes and musical performances and attracts thousands of spectators each year.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled to uphold a legal principle that allows drillers to drain oil and natural gas from outside their property lines. The court overturned a 2018 decision by the lower Superior Court on Wednesday that said the “rule of capture” does not cover hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the rule has been applied throughout the United States since at lease 1889. The rule states that oil and gas in reservoirs belongs to whomever pulls it from a well first. The court did not rule on what happens if a fracking operation physically crosses a property boundary, in which case a company could be subject to a trespassing claim.

A man who had been watching the impeachment trial of President Trump on Tuesday allegedly choked and punched his girlfriend in a Pennsylvania motel room…when she wanted to watch something else. The woman told police that 53-year-old Lonnie Clark, who lives at the northern York County motel, had been drinking alcohol all day while watching the impeachment trial and became upset when she wanted to change the channel. She was eventually able to get away and called 9-1-1. Clark faces charges of strangulation, simple assault and harassment. He later told police he lost his cool because he didn’t want to miss any of the impeachment trial.

A woman was taken to a hospital last week after being stabbed in the face by another woman during a fight over shrimp, police said. It happened Jan. 15 at a home on Cedar Avenue on Pittsburgh’s North Side when the women got into an argument over a bag of shrimp. One woman hit the other with a stick. The second woman then grabbed a pair of scissors and stabbed the first woman in the face, police said. Police haven’t released the condition of the stabbing victim. No word yet if either woman is facing charges.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 24TH, 2020

 

TODAY – RAIN AND SNOW THIS MORNING CHANGING TO
ALL RAIN THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH – 45.

TONIGHT – MORE RAIN LIKELY. LOW – 38.

SATURDAY – CLOUDY WITH SHOWERS. SNOW MAY MAX IN.
HIGH AROUND 40.

SUNDAY – CLOUDY. A FEW FLURRIES OR SNOW SHOWERS
POSSIBLE. TEMPS NEARLY STEADY IN THE
MID-30‘S.