We’re just one week away from the Beaver Light-Up Parade…and the organizers of the parade have come up with a compromise to the ‘no more tossing out candy’ controversy that has made headlines in recent weeks. Yvonne Connor of the Beaver Light Up Parade Committee tells Beaver County Radio News that for the safety of everyone involved in next  week’s event, participants in the parade may have their walkers hand out candy to the children during the parade. She says if you do not have a walker to pass out candy, then they ask you not to bring candy.

Currently in Pennsylvania, a police officer who sexually assaults a person who’s in custody can say it was consensual as a defense in court. A state Senator is sponsoring legislation to change that. Don Rooney has more…

Pennsylvania is one step closer to ensuring fair drug-pricing practices in the state’s Medicaid program… after the House unanimously passed legislation this week, sponsored by state Rep. Rob Matzie. House Bill 941 – which Matzie introduced earlier this year – would bring transparency to the pricing practices of pharmacy benefit managers in the state’s Medicaid program. Those third-party PBMs are responsible for deciding which drugs are covered by managed care plans and how much to reimburse the pharmacies that fill those prescriptions…

The bill now heads to the state Senate for consideration.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A bill to provide more time to file charges or lawsuits over sexual abuse is on its way to Pennsylvania’s governor. The House also Thursday sent legislation to invalidate confidentiality agreements that aim to keep child sexual abuse victims from talking to investigators. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf says he’ll sign the bills. The move capped a debate propelled by last year’s landmark grand jury report into child molestation by Roman Catholic priests.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor is vetoing a bill that would prohibit abortions because of a prenatal Down syndrome, a day after it passed the Republican-controlled Legislature. Gov. Tom Wolf rejected the legislation Thursday that had just passed the Senate on a near party-line vote. Pennsylvania law allows abortions up to 24 weeks of pregnancy for any reason except to select a gender. The bill would have added to that prohibition abortions over a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is moving to join 18 other states and ban the purchase of cigarettes and other tobacco products by people under 21, although it’s maintaining an exception for military veterans or service members who are at least 18. Gov. Tom Wolf’s office said he’d sign legislation that passed both chambers of the state Legislature on Thursday. The higher age takes effect next July 1.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is expected in a Pennsylvania courtroom to be resentenced after an appeals court said mandatory minimum sentences had been improperly applied against him. The 75-year-old Sandusky will be resentenced Friday by Judge Maureen Skerda at the county courthouse in Bellefonte.

BETHEL PARK, Pa. (AP) — Authorities have confirmed a body found last month in a Nevada desert is a Bethel Park woman who disappeared in September. Officials in Nevada on Thursday announced dental records were used to identify 33-year-old Jamie Feden. Police in Pennsylvania have charged her boyfriend, 39-year-old John Chapman of Oakland, Maryland, with kidnapping. Authorities say Chapman told police he bound Feden to a sign post and placed duct tape over her nose and mouth until she suffocated.

No tax hike anticipated in 2020 in Beaver County. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

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WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND, 2019

 

TODAY – LIGHT RAIN THIS MORNING. BREAKS OF SUN THIS
AFTERNOON. MORNING HIGH OF 52 WITH TEMPS
FALLING TO NEAR 35.

TONIGHT – MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW – 25.

SATURDAY – PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE MORNING.
INCREASING CLOUDS WITH PERIODS OF
SHOWERS LATER IN THE DAY. HIGH – 45.

SUNDAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 44.