(Photos of Beaver County District Attorney David Lozier, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper James Long and Aliquippa Police Chief Robert Sealock all taken by Sandy Giordano)

A press conference was held this morning at the Beaver County Courthouse in an Aliquippa murder case. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giodano has the update. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

Two parents are furious after they learned their 2-year-old son, who has autism, managed to walk out of a Beaver County daycare by himself. This happened at Kid Country Child Development in Monaca. Shortly after the incident police called Breanne Steiner – the child’s mother – and told her they had her son. They said someone noticed the child alone on 10th Street going toward Pennsylvania Avenue. According to authorities, the child was wearing no shoes, socks or jacket at the time. Police say no one reported the child missing, so they called the daycare. The owner explained the toddler “managed to slip out the one room he was in” and got out without them noticing.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf is putting the state House of Representatives on a timeline to pass legislation to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage. The Democratic governor’s office said Friday that the Republican-controlled chamber has until the end of the month. Otherwise, Wolf’s office says he’ll let a rule-making board vote on a regulatory measure to extend overtime pay eligibility to tens of thousands of workers. The Republican-controlled Senate last month approved the legislation raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $9.50 an hour in 2022. The Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry agreed to support a minimum wage increase if Wolf relented on his overtime rule.

State test results show that the drinking water in Coraopolis is contaminated. Testing shows that Coraopolis has some of the highest levels of PFAS contamination of drinking water in the state, but it does not exceed the federal advisory level. PFAS contamination has previously been found at two military bases near Pittsburgh International and Corapolis. So far the Coraopolis Water and Sewer Authority has issued any comment about the state’s test results.

State police will hold a press conference later this morning to announce new details in the arrest of a suspect in an Aliquippa murder over the weekend.
Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

WEATHER FORECAST FOR MONDAY, DECEMBER 9TH, 2019

 

TODAY – RAIN. HIGH – 55.

TONIGHT – RAIN SHOWERS CONTINUE OVERNIGHT.
LOW – 42.

TUESDAY – CLOUDY. MORNING HIGH OF 47 WITH TEMPS
FALLING TO 35.

Saudi gunman tweeted against US before naval base shooting
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON and MIKE BALSAMO Associated Press
The FBI is confirming it is operating on the assumption that the deadly attack at the Pensacola, Florida, naval base by a Saudi flight student was an act of terrorism, while a US official says the gunman had apparently gone on Twitter shortly before the shooting to blast US support of Israel and accuse America of being anti-Muslim. Investigators are working to establish whether the killer, identified as 2nd Lt. Mohammed Alshamrani, 21, of the Royal Saudi Air Force, acted alone. Alshamrani fatally shot three people in a classroom building Friday before he was killed by a sheriff’s deputy. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called Sunday for heightened security vetting of foreign nationals bound for training on US bases.

UNDATED (AP) —  A new bill from Utah Republican Rep. Chris Stewart seeks to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination while also carving out protections for religious organizations. The bill, introduced Friday morning, would shield LGBTQ individuals from discrimination in employment, housing, education and other public services. It also creates exemptions for religious organizations to act based on beliefs that may exclude those of different sexual orientations or gender identities. The bill comes amid a debate about balancing LGBTQ rights with religious freedom. Democrats in the House and running for president support a more expansive anti-discrimination bill while Republicans warn about a risk to religious freedom.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man whose life sentence in prison was just commuted by Gov. Tom Wolf may be facing arrest. Lt. Gov. John Fetterman said Friday that the Delaware County district attorney’s office notified the state prison system that it plans to detain 54-year-old David Sheppard when he’s released. Fetterman’s calling it prosecutorial abuse of power. Sheppard’s life sentence was commuted Thursday by Wolf, but he’ll still have to spend a year in a halfway house. Sheppard has an outstanding warrant on a 1992 shoplifting charge in Delaware County. Sheppard was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a deadly pharmacy robbery in Philadelphia in 1992 .