Pennsylvania’s U-S senators are holding their party lines in the acquittal of President Donald Trump. Democratic Senator Bob Casey voted Wednesday to convict on the counts of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, while Republican Pat Toomey voted to acquit. Each had been open earlier in the week as to how they were going to vote. Toomey specifically wrote that while Trump’s actions were not perfect, as the President keeps saying, the American people should decide for themselves if he should stay in office this November.

The Aliquippa police chief wants to shed some light on a potential safety hazard in the city. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

An Ambridge man is jailed on assault charges, as we hear in this report from Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A preliminary report about a bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that killed five people early last month says light snow was falling at the time and that the bus had just passed a sign warning to keep below 55 mph on a curve. The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday put out the three-page report that says all aspects of the crash remain under investigation. The report doesn’t say how fast the bus was traveling when the driver lost control about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh. The bus had been traveling from Rockaway, New Jersey, to Cincinnati.

State Representative Jim Marshall is opening his office for veterans

to use the space to deal with issues they are currently going through.

Beaver County Radio spoke with Marshall about this endeavor…

…and we wondered what inspired him to take this on…

…as Marshall provided more details on what this process entails:

…how he wants the public to stay informed:

The hours are from 10-2 on the first Thursday of each month, and

full information can be found at RepMarshall.com.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man dubbed the “Straw Hat Bandit” for the distinctive disguises he donned while robbing numerous banks in the Philadelphia area over a nine-year period is headed back to prison. Richard Boyle was sentenced Wednesday to 71 years in prison for the most recent robberies he committed. The 60-year-old Plumstead man was convicted last March for 11 separate bank robberies in Bucks and Montgomery counties between 2012 and 2016, as well as weapons and money laundering offenses. Those robberies came after he was released from prison for another string of bank robberies in 2008.

Aliquippa City Council has received a DCED grant, as we hear in this report from Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano. Click on ‘play’ to hear in this report…

An Evans City man has pleaded guilty in Federal Court on bank robbery charges. 33 year old Chad Vaughn is accused of robbing the NexTier Bank on South Main Street in Zelienople back in October of 2018. Authorities said Vaughn got away with over two thousand dollars in cash. Sentencing is set for July 7th. Vaughn faces up to 20 years in prison along with a 250 thousand dollars fine, or both.

The 85-year-old man who died after falling from the roof of a home in Beaver Falls on Monday afternoon…has been identified. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner says Harold Hocanson died after being taken to a hospital in Pittsburgh. The incident happened a little after 1 p.m. Monday at a home along 20th Street Extension. The medical examiner said the manner of death was accidental.

An investigation is underway into a deadly school van crash in Lawrence County. State police say the Mercer Area School District van crashed with a tractor-trailer yesterday morning on Portersville Road in Perry Township. The van’s driver 64 year old Peter Ellis was killed. No students were on board. The driver of the tractor-trailor, 30 year old Jaren Urey also of Mercer was not hurt.