A Patterson Township man is charged with simple and aggravated assault and child endangerment after he allegedly assaulted his step-daughter. According to police, 42 year old Timothy Paul Smith got into an argument with his step-daughter, , at about 8 p.m. on Jan. 12th. Smith allegedly slammed the girl’s head against a wall and threw her down the stairs. Smith was released from the Beaver County Jail after posting a 25 thousand dollars bond.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, JAN. 30TH, 2020

 

TODAY – CLOUDY SKIES. HIGH NEAR 40.

TONIGHT – PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW – 24.

FRIDAY – CLOUDY SKIES WITH AFTERNOON SNOW
SHOWERS. HIGH – 41.

(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

For months, the Commissioners had been hearing about the improvements and success in renovating Brush Creek Park in Marion Township, but such announcements came with a twist at the January 29 meeting. Public Works Director Dan Colville announced that the park would be closed to the public for a temporary time, during which the repairs and renovations would continue. He said that the main reason for this move is for worker and public safety:

 

Colville did mention, though, that the park would be open on certain days depending on the work schedule and weather forecast. The park was also addressed about by a group of locals who asked permission from the commissioners to start a committee to renovate the park in co-ordinance with Beaver County, called the Friends of Brush Creek.

Meanwhile, the Department of Waste Management is looking to have less waste, and to expand the amount of recycling in Beaver County. Waste Management Director Holly Vogt spoke about how the school program currently being used, in cooperation with Shell Chemicals, has the potential to be used beyond the schools:

 

The school recycling program was started in 2019.

3 Local Schools to upgrade cafeteria equipment

Rochester Area, New Brighton Area and Freedom Area school districts received a collective
$34,000 in state grants to upgrade cafeteria equipment.

Rochester Area School District plans to use its
$2,689 to buy a milk cooler for use at the high school. New Brighton Area School District will use its $24,144 grant for a gas tilting kettle at the middle school. Freedom Area School District will use its $7,150 grant for an electric convection oven for the middle school.

Funding for the program was made available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Schools where at least 50 percent of students are eligible for free-and-reduced lunches through the National School Lunch Program.

U.S. Steel announced $1.2 billion in investments at its Braddock and Clairton plants.

What is made in the Mon Valley can make the Steel City competitive globally in the airspace and automobile industries because the company will be diversifying its products with first-of-its-kind technology in the U.S.
This will create some new jobs and guarantee the more than 3,000 current jobs for generations to come.

U.S. Steel said new technology will significantly reduce pollution, which has been an issue for the major company over the past several years.

Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death and disease both nationally and statewide, according to the American Lung Association’s 2020 State of Tobacco Control report.

The ALA Wednesday released its 18th annual report, which showed continued increases in the youth vaping epidemic nationwide, and gave Pennsylvania failing scores for tobacco prevention and control funding, and taxes on tobacco products.

“Multiple studies have shown that every 10 percent increase in the price of cigarettes reduces consumption by 4 percent among adults and about 7 percent among youth,” she said.

“To protect kids from a lifetime of nicotine addiction, the Lung Association in Pennsylvania encourages Pennsylvania to increase cigarette taxes and equalize the tax on other tobacco products, including cigars and smokeless tobacco.

“The U.S. Surgeon General has concluded there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke,”

The ALA believes changing the age to 21 is a positive step for Pennsylvania, but Carr said, “Pennsylvania still has significant work to do.”

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is calling for Punxsutawney Phil to be retired to a reputable sanctuary and to be replaced with an animatronic groundhog that would use artificial intelligence to predict the weather.

“Gentle, vulnerable groundhogs are not barometers,” said PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is offering the club a win-win situation: Breathe life into a tired tradition and finally do right by a long-suffering animal.”Using technologically advanced electromechanical devices such as animatronics instead of live animals is more popular than ever. We even have the technology to create an animatronic groundhog with artificial intelligence (AI) that could actually predict the weather. An AI Phil would renew interest in Punxsutawney

A company in California that tracks low earth orbit satellites and debris is warning of a potential collision that could happen Wednesday evening at 6:39 p.m., 560 miles over Pittsburgh.

Information showed overlapping tracks between a decommissioned space telescope and an experimental government payload.
The older satellite was launched in 1967 by the U.S. military is quite small and weighs only 10 pounds, but is reported to be attached to a larger satellite, only recently declassified.

Launched in 1983, the larger satellite is the first infrared telescope in orbit. Called IRAS, it is credited with leading to the discoveries of six new comets, the core of the Milky Way galaxy and a deeper understanding of the stars Vega and Fomalhaut.

U.S. Steel announced $1.2 billion in investments at its Braddock and Clairton plants.

What is made in the Mon Valley can make the Steel City competitive globally in the airspace and automobile industries because the company will be diversifying its products with first-of-its-kind technology in the U.S.
This will create some new jobs and guarantee the more than 3,000 current jobs for generations to come.

U.S. Steel said new technology will significantly reduce pollution, which has been an issue for the major company over the past several years.

 

A judge flatly rejected Jerry Sandusky’s latest request to have his 30- to 60-year child molestation sentence reduced during a brief hearing Tuesday.

Judge Maureen Skerda said she purposely fashioned the prison term to have an impact on the former Penn State assistant football coach and noted Sandusky continues to maintain his innocence.

Sandusky, 76, participated by phone from the State Correctional Institution-Laurel Highlands but said very little.
In a filing early last month, Sandusky’s defense lawyers argued there were multiple factors that should result in a shorter prison term, including their client’s background, upbringing and positive impact on others. They said the total sentence was “manifestly excessive.”