FILE – Dave McCormick, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, meets with attendees during a campaign event in Coplay, Pa., Jan. 25, 2022. As Republicans aim to gain the one seat they need to retake the Senate in next year’s elections, McCormick is a top recruit. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former hedge fund CEO Dave McCormick often touts his deep connection to Pennsylvania as he lays the groundwork for another likely Senate run. McCormick says he lives in the state and points to his $2.8 million home in Pittsburgh. But public records and footage from home interviews with McCormick show the multimillionaire Republican spends much of his time living in Connecticut, where he rents a $16 million mansion on the coast. McCormick previously criticized Dr. Mehmet Oz because he said the 2022 Republican Senate nominee lacked ties to Pennsylvania. McCormick says he was raised in Pennsylvania, but plans to maintain a Connecticut residence while his daughters finish high school.

FILE – President Joe Biden speaks during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, April 29, 2023.Democrats were already concerned about President Joe Biden’s age, his leadership on the economy and his stalled agenda in Congress. And on Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland exposed another significant vulnerability for Biden’s reelection by appointing a special counsel to probe the president’s son, Hunter Biden. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats were already concerned about President Joe Biden’s age, his leadership on the economy and his stalled agenda in Congress. And on Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland exposed another significant vulnerability for Biden’s reelection by appointing a special counsel to probe the president’s son, Hunter Biden. There was little sign that the development hurt Biden’s already weakened standing within his party in the hours after the announcement. But no one suggested it helped him either, as the 80-year-old president enters the 2024 election as one of the weakest incumbents in modern history.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the Des Moines International Airport after a visit to the Iowa State Fair, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is attacking the federal judge overseeing the election conspiracy case against him days after she warned him not to make inflammatory statements about the case. The former president made posts very early Monday on his social media network calling U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan “highly partisan” and “ VERY BIASED & UNFAIR!” because of her past comments in a separate case overseeing the sentencing of one of the defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Chutkan in a hearing Friday imposed a protective order in the case limiting what evidence handed over by prosecutors the former president and his legal team can publicly disclose.

FILE – A water tower at United States Steel Corp.’s Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, Pa., is seen, Thursday, May 7, 2020. On Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, U.S. Steel said that it rejected a $7.3 billion buyout proposal from rival Cleveland Cliffs and was reviewing “strategic alternatives” after receiving several unsolicited offers. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — United States Steel Corp. said Sunday that it rejected a $7.3 billion buyout proposal from rival Cleveland Cliffs and was reviewing “strategic alternatives” after receiving several unsolicited offers. Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel said it rejected the offer because Cleveland-Cliffs was pushing it to accept the terms without being allowed to conduct proper due diligence. Cleveland-Cliffs announced earlier Sunday that it had made an offer valuing the U.S. Steel at $7.3 billion, based on $17.50 a share in cash and 1.023 shares of Cliffs stock. Cleveland-Cliffs said the value of the offer was $35 a share, a premium over U.S. Steel’s closing stock price of $22.72 on Friday.

Two firefighters stand on the debris around the smoldering wreckage of the the three houses that exploded near Rustic Ridge Drive and Brookside Drive in Plum, Pa., on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023. (Samuel Long/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

PLUM, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say five people, including an adolescent, were found dead after a house explosion in western Pennsylvania that destroyed three structures and damaged at least a dozen others. Plum Borough police chief Lanny Conley said Sunday the bodies of four adults and one adolescent were recovered after the blast shortly before 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Three people were taken to hospitals, where one person remained in critical condition while the other two were released. Fifty-seven firefighters were treated at the scene for minor issues. The cause of the blast remains under investigation by the county fire marshal, but officials warn that it could take months or even years.

Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published August 14, 2023 9:19 A.M.

(Center Township, PA) Aldo Legge was promoted to police chief following the retirement of Barry Kramer, who retired last month. In an interview last week, Chief Legge said it was his dream to become a police officer ever since he was a little kid. He said he served in Aliquippa  in 1992 for over a year.  He was raised in the city’s Plan 7 neighborhood. He was a patrolman in Center Township for at least 10 years and was promoted to sergeant and detective sergeant. He worked for the FBI for 5 years  working on their task force doing undercover work, he said. He received a bachelor’s degree and master’s from Columbia Southern University, the courses were all online and he completed them in 7 years to qualify him in law enforcement.

Pittsburgh, PA – PennDOT District 11 is announcing bridge washing activities on I-376 (Beaver Valley Expressway) in Brighton Township, Beaver County will occur Monday and Tuesday, August 14-15, weather permitting.

Bridge washing operations requiring a single lane closure on I-376 will occur from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday between the Chippewa exit (Exit 31) and the Brighton exit (Exit 36).

Motorists should allow extra time if using the bridge.

Motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles, including color-coded winter conditions on 2,900 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.

AMBRIDGE, Aug. 11 – A busy East Rochester Borough intersection will be safer thanks to new funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, state Rep. Rob Matzie announced today.

Matzie, D-Beaver, said the funding will be used to upgrade signal equipment at Ohio River Boulevard (Route 65) and East Rochester Monaca Bridge in East Rochester Borough.

“Intersection collisions account for a high number of traffic deaths and injuries,” Matzie said. “We can’t control some factors, like driver inattention, but we can do everything possible to make sure highly traveled areas are equipped with the latest safety devices. Securing this funding gets motorists, pedestrians and cyclists those added protections.”

The funding is part of a statewide grant package awarded through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s Green Light-Go program.

Green Light-Go grants are provided as reimbursement to municipalities for updates to improve the efficiency and operation of existing traffic signals. The projects will be funded through the appropriation for fiscal year 2023-24. The funding may be used for a range of improvements including, but not limited to, light-emitting diode technology installation, traffic signal retiming, developing special event plans, monitoring traffic signals and upgrading traffic signals to the latest technologies.