Glasnow, Snell to start first 2 World Series games for Rays
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Tyler Glasnow will start Tuesday night’s World Series opener for the Tampa Bay Rays against the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Blake Snell will be on the mound for Game 2 on Wednesday night. Glasnow was 5-1 with a 4.08 ERA in 11 starts during the regular season and 2-1 with a 4,66 ERA in four postseason starts. Snell, a left-hander, won the 2018 AL Cy Young Award. He was 4-2 with a 3.24 ERA in 11 regular-season starts and 2-2 with a 3.20 ERA in four postseason starts.

6 Russian military officers charged in vast hacking campaign
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Six Russian military officers sought to disrupt through computer hacking the French election, the Winter Olympics and U.S. businesses. A Justice Department indictment details attacks on a broad range of political, financial and athletic targets.  It accuses the defendants, all alleged officers in the Russian military agency known as the GRU, in destructive attacks on Ukraine’s power grid and in a hack-and-leak effort directed at the political party of French President Emmanuel Macron during the 2017 election. The indictment does not charge the defendants in connection with interference in American elections.

Story by Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano

(Patterson Twp.) Traffic was restricted to one lane on Steffen Hill in Patterson Township early Monday morning following a one vehicle accident.  Police Chief Dave Stanislawski said the department received a call 5:18 a.m.  He said a pickup truck operated by a male  veered off the road ended up on the passenger side.   The driver was taken to the hospital for facial injuries.  The vehicle sustained extensive damage.. Steffen Hill was restricted to one lane , and it was closed between  Craig and Clayton so traffic could move,, the chief said.

House unanimously adopts Matzie resolution recognizing credit unions

HARRISBURG, Oct. 19 – The House today unanimously adopted state Rep. Rob Matzie’s resolution highlighting the special benefits provided by Pennsylvania’s credit unions.

Matzie, D-Beaver/Allegheny, said he introduced H.R. 1020 – designating Oct. 11-17 as Credit Union Week in Pennsylvania – to emphasize the ways these financial collaboratives empower consumers and differ from banks.

“Credit unions are unique because they exist to serve their members,” Matzie said. “Shareholder profits are not part of the equation. Instead, credit unions are owned and operated by their members, and any gains realized go back to members in the form of lower fees, lower-than-average bank card rates, low-interest loans and higher interest rates on deposits.

“Beyond those benefits, credit unions also offer financial education, consumer outreach and support for members’ community work. They are guided by a common motto – ‘Not for profit, not for charity, but for service’ – and they operate in a way that truly empowers the consumers they serve.

“It’s a model that has been working for more than 100 years in this country and an alternative that consumers should be aware of when it comes to their personal finances.”

Matzie said the credit union movement began in Germany in the mid-1800s, and the first U.S. credit union opened its doors in 1909 in New Hampshire.

Today, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are home to more than 510 credit unions serving the needs of 5.3 million members.

Prospects dim for critical election bill in Pennsylvania
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — With 15 days until the presidential election, Republican lawmakers in the battleground state of Pennsylvania appeared unwilling Monday to authorize counties to process mail-in ballots before Election Day, seen as crucial to producing a prompt election result. A spokesperson for the House Republican majority said they have no plans to consider changes to election laws that will affect the Nov. 3 election. County officials say the change could ensure the vast majority of ballots are tabulated within hours of polls closing. They say that waiting until Election Day to dig into roughly 3 million mail-in ballots could require days to process enough ballots to project a winner in the presidential contest.

Pennsylvania nears 9M voters at registration deadline
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Monday is the last day in Pennsylvania to register to vote in the Nov. 3 election in which the presidential battleground state is playing a central role in the contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. Voter registration in Pennsylvania has hit a record high in this cycle, and as of Friday, the latest statistics available, voter rolls were about 17,000 short of hitting 9 million. That includes nearly 4.2 million Democrats and nearly 3.5 million Republicans. Democrats continue to hold a substantial registration edge, but Republicans have narrowed the gap by about 200,000 from 2016’s presidential election to about 700,000 now.

Some states allow ballots if voters die before Election Day
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Ballots cast by people who vote early but die before Election Day are sometimes cited as proof of voter fraud, but in many states they’re perfectly legal. Seventeen states prohibit counting ballots cast by someone who subsequently dies before the election, but 10 states specifically allow it. Questions over whether ballots will count if someone votes early but dies before Election Day are especially pressing this year, amid a coronavirus outbreak that has been especially perilous for older Americans. People 85 years and older represent nearly one in three deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S.

Guitars played, partly made by Eddie Van Halen go to auction
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Two guitars owned, played and partly designed by the late Eddie Van Halen will be going up for auction. Julien’s Auctions announced Monday that a 2004 EVH Charvel Art Series electric guitar and a customized electric guitar Van Halen built at his home studio with his guitar tech will be among the items for sale at the Beverly Hills auction that starts Dec. 5. Each instrument is expected to fetch between $60,000 and $80,000. The auction was already in the works when the guitar legend and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee died of cancer on Oct. 6 at age 65.