Hurricane Delta now Category 2, roars at Mexico’s Yucatan
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Delta is getting bigger fast and speeding up as it takes aim at Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. It’s now a Category 2 hurricane with top winds of 100 mph. Forecasters now expect the Cayman Islands and Cuba to be spared Delta’s most dangerous winds. Not so Mexico’s Yucatan, where remnants of Tropical Storm Gamma are still soaking low-lying resorts that could get an extremely dangerous 9 foot storm surge. Delta is expected to pound the Yucatan on Wednesday make landfall along the U.S. coast around Friday. It should make for a very wet weekend across much of the southeastern United States.

Story by Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano

(Ambridge, Pa.) Ambridge’s  former Police Chief  James Mann will soon stand trial  for falsifying time sheets that resulted in $67,000.00 being stolen while he was chief.  He is also charged  with threatening a police officer  before he suspended him  in 2018.  Jury selection began Monday.

AAA: Western PA Gas Prices Stable; National Average at Cheapest Start to October in Four Years
The average price of gasoline across Western Pennsylvania is steady again this week at $2.539 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report.

This week’s average prices: Western Pennsylvania Average                  $2.539
Average price during the week of September 28, 2020                             $2.537
Average price during the week of October 7, 2019                                    $2.829

The average price of unleaded self-serve gasoline in various areas:      

$2.551      Altoona
$2.595      Beaver
$2.582      Bradford
$2.603      Brookville
$2.482      Butler
$2.487      Clarion
$2.565      DuBois
$2.592      Erie
$2.497      Greensburg
$2.574      Indiana
$2.284      Jeannette
$2.578      Kittanning
$2.558      Latrobe
$2.586      Meadville
$2.587      Mercer
$2.414      New Castle
$2.576      New Kensington
$2.599      Oil City
$2.521      Pittsburgh
$2.526      Sharon
$2.606      Uniontown
$2.599      Warren
$2.444      Washington

Trend Analysis:
At $2.18, the national gas price average is at the cheapest start to the month of October since 2016. That average is the same as a week ago, four cents cheaper than the start of this past September, and nearly 50 cents cheaper than last year. The national average held on the week as demand was mostly stable at 8.5 million b/d, despite gasoline stocks increasing by 700,000 barrels.

On the week, 41 state gas price averages fluctuated by no more than two cents. Of those, 38 states only saw a penny increase or decrease. A handful of states saw more substantial gas price increases including Florida (+9 cents), Delaware (+6 cents), New Jersey (+6 cents), Washington, D.C. (+5 cents), West Virginia (+4 cents) and Maryland (+3 cents).

At the close of Friday’s formal trading session, West Texas Intermediate decreased by $1.67 to settle at $37.05. Crude prices dropped due to market concern about increasing coronavirus infections worldwide, which could lower crude demand. For this week, crude prices could decline further if demand concerns continue to worry the market.

Motorists can find current gas prices nationwide, statewide, and countywide at GasPrices.AAA.com.

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4 firefighters injured in apartment fire in Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities say four firefighters were injured battling a blaze in an apartment building in Pittsburgh over the weekend. Fire crews were called to the South Side Slopes building at about 8 p.m. Sunday. Public Safety Director Wendell Hissrich said there was one mayday call for a firefighter trapped inside and two other collapses occurred. Four firefighters were taken to hospitals, two with shoulder injuries, one with a laceration and one with a minor burn. Mayor Bill Peduto said in a Twitter message that it “appears all will be OK.” No other injuries were reported. Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the blaze.

(Koppel, Pa.)  At 5:28 AM Sunday morning, October4, 2020, a female with her face totally covered with a neck gaiter and orange hat approached a clerk at the counter of Al’s Corner in Koppel and asked for the money in the register and stated that she had a gun. The clerk handed the money to robber and she fled the store in a four door silver or grey sedan possibly a Hyundai. The vehicle is also missing a front passenger side hubcap.

Rachel McGreal from Al’s Corner is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of suspect. Rachel said  “It’s not about the money. Society has gone to crap. I am literally weeping for the future. Maybe the next generation will wake up. Because the rest of us have failed. I am disgusted.”

McGreal is asking anyone with information to please call her at Al’s Corner at (724)-891-6601 or the Koppel Police Department at  (724) 846-5973

Below are pictures of the suspect and the suspected get away car:

(Beaver Falls, Pa.) Friday afternoon, October 2, 2020, Beaver County District Attorney David J. Lozier and Beaver Falls Police Chief David J. Lozier held a joint press conference outside the police station  in connection with  a  home invasion and homicide in the city on Friday, September 25, 2020.  Littrell parker, 22 died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds.  , a 23 year old female was shot and wounded  and is in a Pittsburgh hospital listed in good condition.

Toomey says he won’t run for another Senate term or governor
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey says he won’t seek re-election in 2022 and plans to leave public service. The announcement Monday was a surprise move for the fiercely anti-tax and anti-regulation lawmaker who had been seen as a favorite for GOP nominee for governor. Toomey’s decision will force Pennsylvania Republicans to look elsewhere for nominees for both seats in a state where both parties have shown they can win statewide races. Toomey says he’ll serve out the final two years of his second term, “and after that my plan is to go back to the private sector.”

Pennsylvania online voter services restored following outage
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Online voter services are now restored after a contractor’s computer problem took down the online registration and mail ballot application system for less than two days. The Wolf administration said an equipment failure at a data center caused online outages for the Department of State and other agencies. The voting services were restored at about 7 a.m. Monday. Officials say work to bring the other agencies back online was continuing, including the Department of State’s professional licensing services. They say there’s no evidence of malicious interference. The outage also affected online services for the liquor system and the Revenue and Human Services departments.