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Pope Francis vows to end sexual abuse after McCarrick report

Pope Francis vows to end sexual abuse after McCarrick report
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is vowing to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse and offering prayers to victims of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Wednesday’s pledge came a day after the Vatican released its detailed report into the decadeslong church cover-up of McCarrick’s sexual misconduct. Francis concluded his weekly general audience by recalling that the report into the “painful case” of the former high-ranking American cardinal had been released Tuesday. He said he was renewing his “closeness to victims of any abuse and commitment of the church to eradicate this evil.” He then paused silently for nearly a minute, apparently in prayer.

Heritage Valley Beaver Releases Statement on Seven Operating Room Employees Testing Positive for COVID

Story by Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano

(Brighton Twp., Pa.) Suzanne Sakson, director of marketing and communications  said in a statement this morning  that the  Beaver campus identified seven operating room staff members  who tested positive for COVID-19. Through contact tracings, four of those identified  had presumed outside community exposure to the virus . All four hadn’t been active in the OR in the time prior to testing positive.  Two additional employees have tested positive, 29 additional  staff members from the OR have been tested that worked through a defined time period. With the additional testing, one employee tested positive for COVID-19.

ALL  staff wear  PPE’s  during OR  procedures and patient exposure  was defined as minimal low risk by PA DOH The identified  patients were notified and follow up testing is being offered. Ms. Sakson said that HVHS  is continuing to work  with DOH  to ensure a safe environment.

President Trump to emerge from White House to mark Veterans Day

Trump to emerge from White House to mark Veterans Day
By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will participate in the Veterans Day observance at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday. It will be his first public appearance after spending the last several days holed up at the White House tweeting angry, baseless claims of voter fraud after his election loss. Trump hasn’t made public comments since President-elect Joe Biden surpassed the 270 electoral votes on Saturday needed to win the presidency. But he’s offered a barrage of postings on Twitter alleging unfounded claims of irregularities in voting in several battleground states that went for Biden. Trump will be joined at Arlington National Cemetery by first lady Melania Trump as well Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen Pence.

CCBC Dome Lit Purple for the Month of November

(Monaca, Pa.) One in ten babies is born prematurely in the United States and about 380,000 babies are born prematurely each year. The Community College of Beaver County is helping the March of Dimes bring awareness to premature births by lighting the Historic Community College Dome in Purple throughout the month of November in support of Prematurity awareness month. It’s all part of CCBS’s community engagement focus in which they have partnerships that promote community development, expand economic potential and provide lifelong learning opportunities.

CCBC President Roger W. Davis serves on the Western Pennsylvania March of Dimes Board of Directors. The CCBC Dome has hosted the Beaver County March for Babies since 2017. Learn more about how you can help prevent premature births at www.marchofdimes.org

The Dome will be lit purple everyday in November except for November 11-13 when it will be lit in red and blue to honor US Veterans

ROCHESTER SEWER PLANT WORKER INJURED

Story by Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano

(Rochester, Pa.) Rochester Police and firefighters received a call to the sewer plant yesterday after a worker fell 30 feet into a hole.   Firefighters were able to lift the worker out of the hole with the proper equipment.   Police officer John Farmer said that the worker was life flighted to a Pittsburgh  hospital, Farmer said that the worker’s injuries appeared to be minor

Republican Garrity claims victory in state treasurer’s race

Republican Garrity claims victory in state treasurer’s race
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican candidate Stacy Garrity is claiming victory over incumbent Democrat Joe Torsella in the Pennsylvania state treasurer’s race. Garrity is a retired U.S. Army Reserves colonel who is vice president of a tungsten smelting plant near hear home in Athens, Bradford County. Torsella conceded Tuesday via a video he posted on Twitter. The Associated Press hasn’t called the race because it’s not clear if Garrity will finish with a large enough lead to avoid an automatic statewide recount. Garrity repeated her campaign message that a major goal was to use the Treasury Department’s leverage to push lawmakers and the governor to limit state government spending to money that has been formally appropriated by the Legislature.

Election breathes new life into false ‘dead voter’ claims

Election breathes new life into false ‘dead voter’ claims
By ARIJETA LAJKA Associated Press
As baseless allegations of voter fraud continue to circulate online, social media users are falsely claiming that people cast extra votes using the identities of dead people in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Michigan. There’s no evidence that this happened. Experts tell The Associated Press it is common for state voter rolls to include voters with birthdates that make them appear impossibly old, but these are usually explained by human error, software quirks or voter confidentiality issues. And sometimes a person simply shares a name and birthdate with someone else.

Tally may bring challenges under Pennsylvania recount rules

Tally may bring challenges under Pennsylvania recount rules
By MARC LEVY and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania counties are grinding through ballot counting after a high-turnout election that tested a new vote-by-mail law, as President Donald Trump sought to reverse a winning margin for former Vice President Joe Biden. Preliminary counts due at the close of business Tuesday from counties to the state elections bureau will be watched for how they might affect the presidential race numbers. Thousands of ballots, however, will not make it into those counts. But they’re being watched for how they might affect the presidential race. They also may lead recount requests by precinct. Biden held a 48,000-vote margin Tuesday night. That’s too wide a gap for a mandatory recount.

Legendary Blackhawk Baseball coach Bob Amalia Dies

(Chippewa Twp. Pa.) Legendary Blackhawk baseball coach Bob Amalia passed away on Monday afternoon after losing his battle with prostate cancer. He was first diagnosed with the cancer in October of 2018.

Amalia a 1974 Blackhawk graduate started coaching Blackhawk’s American Legion baseball team in 1988 and then his Alma Mater  high school team in 2000.

Over his Coaching career his  high school teams won 13 section titles, three WPIAL titles and made it as far as the championship game six other times. Overall, those teams compiled a 307-116 record.

Under Amalia’s direction, Blackhawk’s American Legion won over 700 games, 16 Beaver County titles and one state championship. In July of 2019, he celebrated his 1000th overall victory in high school and legion.

Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame Announcer and one of Beaver County Radio’s play by play commentators Tom Hays, who was close friends with Bob for many years, joined Eddy Crow on Teleforum Tuesday morning to talk about Bob’s life both as a coach and a person. During the interview Hays was asked to tell everyone about the personal side of Bob Amalia.  Click the play button below to hear his response:

Bob Amalia was just 64 years old.

You can hear the entire interview as it was aired on Beaver County Radio by pressing the play button below:

Trump campaign sues to block Pennsylvania election result

Trump campaign sues to block Pennsylvania election result
By MARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s campaign is launching a lawsuit to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania. It sued Monday as counties continued to sort through provisional ballots and mail-in ballots nearly a week after the election. The Associated Press on Saturday called the presidential contest for former Vice President Joe Biden, after determining that the remaining ballots left to be counted in Pennsylvania would not allow Trump to catch up. But Trump’s campaign filed litigation in federal court over Pennsylvania’s presidential election, saying registered Democratic voters were treated more favorably than Republicans. Pennsylvania’s attorney general, Democrat Josh Shapiro, called the lawsuit meritless.