(Photos of Ryan Krokonko and his coaches taken by Sandy Giordano)
A Junior cross-country athlete at Ambridge High School is set to compete in Hershey this weekend. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers have held a moment of silence to commemorate the first anniversary of the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. Team President Art Rooney II said that Monday night’s remembrance before the start of the Pittsburgh-Miami game was in honor of the victims and their families. The shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, killed 11 worshippers and wounded seven others.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Legislation to allow Sunday hunting with a landowner’s written permission three days a year in Pennsylvania is getting some minor changes ahead of a final vote in the state House. Representatives voted overwhelmingly Monday to waive trespassing violations for unarmed people who enter posted property solely to retrieve a hunting dog, to let local police help the Game Commission enforce trespassing rules and to push back the law’s effective date by three months.
Problems continues this morning with the water lines in Midland. Midland borough council attempted to dissolve the water authority earlier this month. But the motion failed by a 3-2-1 vote. Now council is considering dissolving the water authority again. Council is upset about the condition of water lines and a 113 percent rate increase. Members are under fire from residents and want a remedy soon.
Beaver-area students will soon have a new source of recreation. Beaver borough officials and Beaver Area School District officials have partnered to offer the borough-owned tennis courts to students. They also worked together to renovate the bathrooms at Shaw Park. Now their latest collaboration is a basketball court that will be constructed by the borough with support from the district. This latest project is slated for spring in the park.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29TH, 2019
TODAY – A MIX OF CLOUDS AND SUN. HIGH – 71.
TONIGHT – CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESS. LOW NEAR 50.
WEDNESDAY – CLOUDY SKIES. HIGH NEAR 70.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Federal marshals in Denver have captured a man wanted in a deadly Memorial Day weekend shooting in Pittsburgh. Authorities took Jalaspian Charles into custody without incident on Monday. Charles is charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault and other counts stemming from a May 27 shooting in Pittsburgh’s Hill District which left a 34-year-old man dead and a 15-year-old injured.
An inmate at the Lawrence County Jail is accused of threatening to kill the child of a police officer. The Lawrence County District Attorney’s office said they received the complaint last week that 32-year-old Torry Argiro made the threat against the child during a phone call with another person made from the jail. Argiro, who was already being held in the jail on unrelated charges, is now charged with terroristic threats as well as intimidation of witnesses and/or victims.
BEIRUT (AP) — Egyptian officials say they’ve stepped up security in parts of the country following the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The extremist group’s leader was killed a day earlier during a U.S. military raid in Syria. Egypt has for years battled an IS-led insurgency in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula. Security forces have also fought IS and al-Qaida militants in the western desert along the border with Libya.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Freshman Rep. Katie Hill of California says she’s resigning amid an ethics investigation. The 32-year-old Democrat had been hand-picked for a coveted leadership seat, but in recent days compromising photos of her and purported text messages from her to a campaign staffer surfaced online in a right-wing publication and a British tabloid. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Hill acknowledged “errors in judgment” that Pelosi said made her continued service in Congress “untenable.”