NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s legal team is vowing to appeal his conviction. Defense attorney Arthur Aidala spoke briefly Monday after the jury convicted Weinstein of rape and sexual assault, saying: “As sure as I’m a bald man, we’ll appeal.” Defense attorney Donna Rotunno says the “fight is not over.” She says Weinstein is “disappointed” with the verdict, but that he “took it like a man.” Weinstein was immediately taken into custody and was led out of the courthouse in handcuffs. Aidala says Weinstein will be going to “more of a hospital than a jail” after the judge granted the defense’s request to give him medical attention. His lawyers say Weinstein had an unsuccessful back surgery recently.

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein has been convicted at his New York City sexual assault trial. He was found guilty of criminal sex act for assaulting production assistant Mimi Haleyi at his apartment in 2006 and third-degree rape of a woman in 2013. The jury found him not guilty on the most serious charge, predatory sexual assault, that could have resulted in a life sentence. The landmark reckoning for the former movie producer comes after years of whispers exploded into a torrent of sexual misconduct allegations that ended his reign in Hollywood and gave rise to the #MeToo movement. The jury’s verdict followed three weeks of testimony that included harrowing accounts of rapes, forced oral sex, groping, masturbation, lewd propositions and casting-couch excuses from Weinstein.

A London resident had quite the wake-up call in her home when she found a red snake underneath her vacuum cleaner. Kasia Radochonska found it when she was picking out a pair of shoes. So she shut the door, contacted the charity Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and waited in her kitchen. No word on how the snake got underneath the vaccum clearn. The woman admits she was shocked by the discovery, but says if it had been a spider, she would have run a mile.

Several employees at a Wendy’s restaurant in Michigan have been fired after a TikTok video of a man taking a bath in the restaurant’s kitchen sink surfaced online. The video, which was posted on Facebook last Tuesday, shows a shirtless man submerged in a soap-filled Power Soak sink surrounded by cackling employees at a Wendy’s in Greenville, Michigan. The video has been viewed more than 327,000 times and shared nearly 2,000 times since being posted a week ago. In the clip, a worker throws what appears to be a sponge at the man, telling him to “wash” himself. Wendy’s released a statement last week saying the video was “completely unacceptable” and that all the employees were fired immediately.

Parents in the Hopewell School District are trying to stall a vote on a plan to move 4th graders to the junior high…to make room for a growing kindergarten class. A petition was started over the weekend. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has an update. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

The final entry into Beaver County’s look into the new fades of the County Courthouse lands in the Commissioner’s offices. Matt Drzik has the story…

The Aliquippa Boil Water Advisory has been lifted…as we hear in this report from Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear a dispute over a Philadelphia Catholic agency that won’t place foster children with same-sex couples. The justices will review an appeals court ruling that upheld the city’s decision to stop placing children with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s agency because it would not permit same-sex couples to serve as foster parents. The appeals court ruled the city did not target the agency because of its religious beliefs but acted only to enforce its own nondiscrimination policy in the face of what seemed to be a clear violation. The case will not be argued until the fall.

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a college student walking with friends at a state park in Lawrence County was injured when she fell about 80 feet from a cliff. The 21-year-old Pittsburgh woman was with four other people at McConnells Mill State Park in Slippery Rock when she fell Sunday afternoon from a cliff near Breakneck Bridge. The woman, who attends Slippery Rock University, had to be pulled up from the ledge in a rescue basket but was alert and conscious at the time. The woman suffered head and back injuries and was flown to a hospital. She’s expected to recover.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH, 2020

TODAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH – 56.

TONIGHT – LIGHT RAIN EARLY…THEN REMAINING CLOUDY
WITH SHOWERS OVERNIGHT. LOW – 37.

TUESDAY – CLOUDY WITH OCCASIONAL RAIN SHOWERS.
HIGH – 47.