Next Monday, jury selection begins in the trial of an Ambridge man charged with criminal homicide in a double murder last year. Brandon Richardson is charged with two counts of criminal homicide in the incident at the Sunoco station on Merchant Street last December. Police say Richardson was being assaulted by five people. Afterward, two of the men in the group were shot to death. Richardson’s attorney says it was a case of self-defense but prosecutors argue Richardson should have stopped shooting after the first shot.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities say a man fatally stabbed a woman who was talking to a police officer at a Pittsburgh bus stop and then slashed another woman before he was taken into custody. Pittsburgh’s police chief says the officer was checking on the first woman’s well-being Thursday on a crowded sidewalk. A man came up from behind him and stabbed her and then the other woman. Schubert said the attack seems random. It came a day after a man apparently randomly stabbed four people to death in California.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST 9TH, 2019

 

TODAY – LOTS OF SUNSHINE. HIGH NEAR 80.

TONIGHT – MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW – 58.

SATURDAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH NEAR 80.

SUNDAY – MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 82.

White House officials confirmed that President Trump has rescheduled his vist the Beaver County’s newest economic driver. He will tour the Shell Chemicals ethane cracker plant in Potter Township August 13. He postponed his original visit as a result of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. Topics he intends to address include economic policies, investments that made the plant possible, and energy production regulations. Trump’s last visit to PA was on May 20th.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A manager in the U.N. Climate Change secretariat who helped write a new report on the subject, said the grueling work by the volunteer authors was “like a dentist’s appointment for six days” and left her with both concerns and hopes that people will unite and respond to the threats of climate change. Koko Warner told the AP on Thursday that: “I’ve lost a lot of sleep about what the science is saying. As a person, it’s pretty scary. We need to act urgently.”

WILLOW GROVE, Pa. (AP) — A small plane has crashed in the backyard of an eastern Pennsylvania home, killing three people aboard the aircraft. The single-engine plane went down around 6:20 a.m. Thursday in Willow Grove, shortly after taking off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport. It wasn’t immediately known where it was headed. Upper Moreland Police Chief Michael Murphy says the plane hit several trees before it finally came to rest.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky will be taken from prison to a central Pennsylvania courtroom next month for resentencing on his 45-count child sexual abuse conviction, six months after a state appeals court ruled mandatory minimums had been improperly applied. A judge Wednesday scheduled the proceeding for Sept. 23 in the Centre County Courthouse. The 75-year-old former Penn State assistant football coach will be transported to the hearing from his cell in the State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands.

PA gas prices are 3 cents cheaper this week, continuing the downward price trend for the summer. Beaver County News Intern Kristian Biega has more on the story…

A drug raid took place in Ambridge earlier this morning. Sandy Giordano has more details…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of mayors are joining those calling for the Senate to return to Washington to pass two bills expanding background checks for gun sales. The House passed the bills earlier this year, and Senate passage would send the legislation to President Donald Trump. In a letter to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, more than 200 mayors urged McConnell to bring senators back to take action. So far, McConnell has resisted those calls.