PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has warned residents he will end the city’s annual Mummers Parade if organizers don’t curtail participants’ inappropriate behavior, including blackface. Kenney’s spokesperson says the mayor sent a letter Tuesday to the organizers of the four Mummers divisions and requested they meet with officials following another blackface controversy at this year’s event. The New Year’s Day parade has a long history of racially and socially offensive displays. The parade features ornate costumes and musical performances and attracts thousands of spectators each year.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled to uphold a legal principle that allows drillers to drain oil and natural gas from outside their property lines. The court overturned a 2018 decision by the lower Superior Court on Wednesday that said the “rule of capture” does not cover hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the rule has been applied throughout the United States since at lease 1889. The rule states that oil and gas in reservoirs belongs to whomever pulls it from a well first. The court did not rule on what happens if a fracking operation physically crosses a property boundary, in which case a company could be subject to a trespassing claim.

A man who had been watching the impeachment trial of President Trump on Tuesday allegedly choked and punched his girlfriend in a Pennsylvania motel room…when she wanted to watch something else. The woman told police that 53-year-old Lonnie Clark, who lives at the northern York County motel, had been drinking alcohol all day while watching the impeachment trial and became upset when she wanted to change the channel. She was eventually able to get away and called 9-1-1. Clark faces charges of strangulation, simple assault and harassment. He later told police he lost his cool because he didn’t want to miss any of the impeachment trial.

A woman was taken to a hospital last week after being stabbed in the face by another woman during a fight over shrimp, police said. It happened Jan. 15 at a home on Cedar Avenue on Pittsburgh’s North Side when the women got into an argument over a bag of shrimp. One woman hit the other with a stick. The second woman then grabbed a pair of scissors and stabbed the first woman in the face, police said. Police haven’t released the condition of the stabbing victim. No word yet if either woman is facing charges.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 24TH, 2020

 

TODAY – RAIN AND SNOW THIS MORNING CHANGING TO
ALL RAIN THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH – 45.

TONIGHT – MORE RAIN LIKELY. LOW – 38.

SATURDAY – CLOUDY WITH SHOWERS. SNOW MAY MAX IN.
HIGH AROUND 40.

SUNDAY – CLOUDY. A FEW FLURRIES OR SNOW SHOWERS
POSSIBLE. TEMPS NEARLY STEADY IN THE
MID-30‘S.

(Aliquippa, Pa.) Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano is reporting that around 2:10 pm Thursday January 23, 2020 a vehicle was over turned on its roof in front of the Aliquippa Elementary School in the 15 mph school zone. Giordano reported that Beaver County 911 told her an ambulance and the Aliquippa Fire Dept. were on the scene. There has been no word on any injuries.

Social media outlets are reporting that the car was vacant when first res-ponders arrived on the scene.

Stay tuned to Beaver County Radio as this story continues to develop.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is in no position to give economic advice until she goes to college and comes out with an economics degree. At a press briefing at the World Economic Forum, Mnuchin took a swipe at the 17-year-old environmental campaigner for her recommendation that the public and private sectors should divest from fossil fuels. When asked how that would affect the U.S. economic model, Mnuchin took a swipe at Thunberg, asking if she was an economist and saying it “was a joke.” He said that “after she goes and studies economics in college, she can come back and explain that to us.”

Slightly more people believe President Donald Trump should be removed from office as a result of the Senate impeachment trial than those who say he should stay, but most agree the president has either done things that are illegal or unethical, according to a new Pew Research Center poll. Fifty-one percent of U.S. adults said the trial should end with Trump’s removal, while 46% said he should remain in office, according to the survey conducted from Jan. 6-19 among 12,638 U.S. adults on Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel. The poll carried a margin of error of plus or minus 1.3 percentage points.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty is under investigation for allegedly assaulting a 13-year-old boy during a photo shoot. Chris Greenwell and his son Brandon met Gritty at an event for season ticket holders on Nov. 19. Brandon patted Gritty on the head after he and his father posed for a photo with the mascot in Wells Fargo Center. Greenwell says that as Brandon walked away, Gritty ran out of his chair and “punched my son as hard as he could.” Officials at Comcast Spectacor, the company that owns the Flyers, says it conducted an investigation but couldn’t verify Greenwell’s account. Greenwell told the newspaper that he only wants an apology and something special for his son.