A Detroit man has been arrested in Ambridge on drug charges. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details. Click on play to hear Sandy’s report…

An Aliquippa woman has pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh to drug charges. 30 year old Carlisha Williams pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl. Authorities allege Williams provided other suspects an address to receive packages of fentanyl shipped from overseas. Sentencing is set for May. Williams faces up to 40 years in prison a five million dollar fine or both.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jurors return Tuesday to resume deliberations in the trial of the remaining defendant in the slayings of five people and an unborn baby at a Wilkinsburg cookout almost four years ago. Closing arguments were delivered Monday in the Allegheny County trial of 33-year-old Cheron Shelton, who is charged with first- and third-degree murder in the March 2016 slayings in Pittsburgh’s Wilkinsburg suburb. Charges were dismissed earlier against Shelton’s co-defendant, 31-year-old Robert Thomas. Prosecutors have said they will seek capital punishment in the event of a first-degree murder conviction. Defense attorneys have cited a lack of physical evidence.

Crews responded to a house fire in Ambridge early this morning. Quick work by firefighters prevented serious damage to the home on Maplewood Avenue. The fire started in the basement of the home next to the furnace. After putting out the fire, which consisted more of smoke than flames, firefighters aired out the home with fans. Two people who were inside the home at the time were able to get out safely without injury.

(Photos taken by Frank Sparks)

A fire in Rochester left four people injured last night. The fire broke out a little before 9 p.m. inside a home in the 500 block of Jefferson Street. Three people were taken to the hospital with burns and one was taken to the hospital with smoke inhalation. In total, seven people were displaced by the fire. The Red Cross is assisting the people who were affected. The Rochester Fire Department is looking into the cause of the blaze.

 

WEATHER FORECAST FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH, 2020

 

TODAY – SOME MORNING FOG. OTHERWISE, MOSTLY
CLOUDY SKIES. HIGH – 41.

TONIGHT – MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOW – 27.

WEDNESDAY – CLOUDY WITH PERIODS OF SNOW DURING
THE AFTERNOON. SOME SLEET MAY MIX IN.
SNOW ACCUMULATIONS LESS THAN ONE
INCH. HIGH NEAR 40.

President Donald Trump is working hard to convince enough African Americans to vote for him to make the difference in key states that could help him win the November election, Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons said on CBS’s “Face The Nation” on Sunday. “Trump is going very hard at African-American men, particularly younger African-American men,” Simmons said, stressing that “I’m going to send this flag up to the Democratic Party. People need to understand this.” Simmons, who worked on Bill Clinton and Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, gave as examples of Trump’s outreach to black voters his public friendship with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, and an increase in federal money given to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. “They’re not gonna let up,” he said.

Joe Biden is stepping up his criticism of Pete Buttigieg, refuting comparisons the former small town mayor has drawn to the last Democratic president. The rebuke came on the final weekend before the New Hampshire primary, as Biden struggles to regain ground after a bruising fourth place finish in the Iowa caucuses, where Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., both claimed victory. Speaking with reporters Saturday, he suggested Buttigieg’s calls for change implied criticism of the Obama era. When pressed on whether his jabs at Buttigieg’s mayoral resume were comparable to Hillary Clinton’s swipes at then-Senator Obama during the 2008 primary — and if the remarks were an “act of desperation” — he bristled, the New York Times reported. “Oh, come on, man!” Biden said. “This guy’s not a Barack Obama!” And in a new television ad, the spot compares Biden’s work helping to pass the Affordable Care Act…to Buttigieg’s implementation of decorating lights under South Bend’s bridges.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is calling for slashing funding for the country’s Superfund hazardous waste clean-ups. That’s even as the Trump administration builds up the biggest backlog in years in unfunded toxic-waste site cleanups around the country. Trump’s budget proposal Monday calls for $113 million less funding for the popular, four-decade old Superfund program. That’s part of a 26% cut for the environmental agency. Trump says the Superfund cuts challenge the agency to use funding more efficiently.

A Mexican model and actress denies a Harvey Weinstein accuser’s claim that she stood by and did nothing while the once-powerful movie mogul groped the woman in a Beverly Hills hotel in 2013. Claudia Salinas disputed Lauren Marie Young’s account of the 2013 encounter during testimony Monday. Young testified last week that Salinas closed the door behind her and Weinstein as they went into the bathroom, where she said he stripped off his clothes, grabbed her breast and masturbated. Young said Salinas “was standing right there” when Weinstein was finished and she managed to get out. Salinas told jurors Monday that “never happened” and she would “never close the door on anybody.” Weinstein maintains that any sexual encounters were consensual.