A Las Vegas family has filed a lawsuit against a dentist they accuse of setting their 5-year-old daughter’s mouth on fire during a routine procedure last year. The lawsuit, filed last week against Just for Kids Dentistry & Orthodontics owner Dr. Karan Dhillon, seeks more than $15,000 in damages. The lawsuit alleges the girl’s parents took her to Dhillon’s practice to have several crowns put on her teeth. During the girl’s procedure, a tool called a diamond bur emitted a spark that “caused the throat pack in (the girl’s) mouth to ignite and produce a fire” that lasted a couple of seconds. The girl was rushed to the hospital, where she remained for four days as she was treated for burns to the inside of her mouth. The lawsuit states that some of the girls’ injuries “may be permanent”.

Two Beaver County school districts have received grants totaling 50-thousand dollars that will help match school cirricula to workforce needs. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

Beaver County’s 57th annual Snow Shovel Riding Championship is scheduled to take place this Saturday, January 11th – weather permitting of course. But as Beaver County Radio News intern Alex D’Itri reports, unlike previous years, if the event doesn’t happen over the next two weekends, it’s not going to happen at all…

The Department of Environmental Protection has reached an agreement with ETC Northeast Pipeline LLC that will end the ban on new permits and approvals for pipelines it is constructing. Andrea Sears reports from Harrisburg…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — IKEA is agreeing to pay $46 million to the parents of a 2-year-old boy who died of injuries suffered when a 70-pound recalled dresser tipped over onto him. The family’s lawyers disclosed the agreement Monday. Jozef Dudek died in 2017 of his injuries, and his parents sued the Swedish home furnishings company in a Philadelphia court in 2018. The Dudeks accused IKEA of knowing that its Malm dressers posed a tip-over hazard and that they had injured or killed a number of children, but that the company had failed to warn consumers that the dressers shouldn’t be used without being anchored to a wall. IKEA said it is working to address the issue.

PennDOT and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission announced that the first phase of the Automated Work Zone Speed Enforcement has begun. A required 60-day pre-reinforcement period will last until March 4. The automated system will use cameras and other technology to monitor speeds in active work zones. Automated speed enforcement units will be set up in active work zones during the pre-enforcement period, but violations will not be issued. Locations of the systems will be marked with signs and they are also posted on the PennDOT’s website. Once enforcement begins on March 4, the following penalties will be in effect:

First offense: warning letter
Second offense: violation notice and $75 fine
Third offense: violation notice and $150 fine

Officials say the violations are civil penalties and no points will be added to drivers’ licenses.

UNDATED (AP) — Authorities continue to look into the dead-of-night crash on a Pennsylvania interstate that killed five people say a loaded passenger bus passed a truck shortly before the wreck. A National Transportation Safety Board member said Monday an initial report about the incident should be out in about 10 days, and a more detailed analysis could take two years. Dozens were injured in the crash at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday on the Pennsylvania Turnpike east of Pittsburgh.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 7TH, 2020

TODAY – SOME MORNING CLOUDS, FOLLOWED BY SOME
AFTERNOON SUNSHINE. HIGH – 41.

TONIGHT – PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES DURING THE EVENING
WILL GIVE WAY TO A FEW SNOW SHOWERS
AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW AROUND 30.

WEDNESDAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH – 33.

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — The global benchmark for crude oil has risen above $70 a barrel for the first time in over three months. The increase came amid jitters over the escalating military tensions between Iran and the United States after an American drone strike killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The price of oil is now up more than 5% since the killing, and major stock markets are down around the world amid fears of how Iran would fulfill its vow of “harsh retaliation.” The energy industry is worried that Iran could strike at oil and gas facilities along the Persian Gulf that are important to the U.S. and its regional allies.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two top Senate Democrats are calling on President Donald Trump to immediately declassify the administration’s reasoning for the deadly strike on an Iranian official. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Senate Foreign Relation Committee’s Sen. Robert Menendez say there’s “no legitimate justification” for keeping the information from the public. Schumer and Menendez say in a Monday letter to Trump the White House’s classified notification sent to Congress Saturday under the War Powers Act was insufficient. Trump has warned the U.S. will levy harsh sanctions if Iraq expels American troops in retaliation for the strike in Baghdad that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Iran has vowed to retaliate.