The union representing teachers and support staff in Pennsylvania schools has released its policy priorities for 2020 – including ways to attract more teachers to the profession. Andrea Sears reports from Harrisburg…

Aliquippa’s blight stategy plan is scheduled to be presented this week. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has a preview. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

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Beaver County Commissioner Tony Amadio has been named vice-chairman of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission, which is a 10-county planning coalition. Amadio will serve with Chairman and Allegheny County executive Rich Fitzgerald, and secretary and treasurer Leslie Osche, a Butler County Commissioner. Amadio was just elected to his fourth term as a commissioner in November.

The Ellwood City Medical Center highway signs are coming down. PennDOT says it has removed most of the blue hospital highway signs, posted near the now-closed medical center. The move comes at the request of residents who were worried about motorists being misled by the directional markers.

INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — Police say a 4-month-old boy was shot in an Indiana County apartment, but the child is expected to survive.State police in Indiana County say officers were sent to the White Township unit shortly before 6:30 a.m. Saturday and found the boy with a single gunshot wound to the upper body.Police say the child’s parents were present at the time and immediately alerted a neighbor, who called 911. The child was taken to Indiana Regional Medical Center and then rushed to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, where he was reported in stable condition. No arrests were immediately made. Police and the county district attorney’s office are investigating.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A judge is scheduled to rule today on a motion to dismiss charges against one of two men accused of killing five people and an unborn baby at a suburban Pittsburgh cookout almost four years ago. Thirty-three-year-old Cheron Shelton and 31-year-old Robert Thomas are charged in the March 2016 killings in Pittsburgh’s Wilkinsburg suburb. The attorney for Thomas has sought dismissal of the charges against his client after prosecutors decided against putting a key witness on the stand. Prosecutors have said they plan to seek capital punishment if the defendants are convicted of first-degree murder.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities say a standoff at a Pittsburgh home ended with a man and a woman dead. Police responded to the home early Monday after receiving a report of a man barricaded inside the residence with a possible hostage. SWAT teams were called to the home and officers were soon able to get inside the residence, where they found a woman dead from a gunshot. But the officers retreated and shot several rounds of gas into the house when the barricaded man refused directives to leave the residence. Officers eventually found the man dead.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3RD, 2020

 

 

TODAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 57.

TONIGHT – CLOUDY THIS EVENING WITH SHOWERS AFTER
MIDNIGHT. LOW NEAR 50.

TUESDAY – STEADY RAIN MORNING AND AFTERNOON.
HIGH – 54.

Philippines reports world’s 1st virus death outside China
The Philippines is reporting the first death outside China from the new coronavirus. Chinese authorities, meanwhile, are delaying the opening of schools in the hardest-hit province and tightening the quarantine in one city by allowing only one family member to venture out to buy supplies. The death toll in China has reached 304, and the number of people infected worldwide has climbed past 14,550, the vast majority of them in China. A 1,000-bed hospital specially built to handle coronavirus patients in the epicenter city of Wuhan is expected to open on Monday, just 10 days after construction began. A second hospital is set to open soon after.