WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4TH, 2020

 

 

TODAY – CLOUDY WITH PERIODS OF RAIN THIS
AFTERNOON. HIGH NEAR 50.

TONIGHT – A FEW CLOUDS. A FEW FLURRIES OR SNOW
SHOWERS POSSIBLE. LOW – 27.

THURSDAY – PARTLY SUNNY SKIES. HIGH – 51.

DENVER (AP) — Today is Super Tuesday, the biggest day of the primary calendar. Fourteen states vote in primaries from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including the two most populous states, California and Texas. There are some key questions ahead of Tuesday’s vote. Can Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders put it away? Super Tuesday represents his biggest chance to prove his case. Does former Vice President Joe Biden emerge as the clear alternative, now that former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar have dropped out? And does former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s billions in ad spending move votes? It will be his first time on the ballot in the 2020 race.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Deadly storms left treacherous conditions in at least two of the 14 states where residents were going to vote on Super Tuesday. Some polling sites in Nashville were relocated at the last minute and sites across Nashville and in Davidson and Wilson counties opened an hour late. In rural central Alabama, high winds howled and the National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for at least five counties. The storms knocked out the power at at least one polling site, leaving voters to make their selections by flashlight.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tornadoes ripped across Tennessee overnight, shredding at least 40 buildings in the Nashville area and 100 more east of the city as it killed at least 22 people. One twister damaged damaged a 10-mile stretch of Nashville early Tuesday, leaving blown-down walls and roofs, snapped power lines, huge broken trees, and city streets in gridlock. Another wiped out much of a subdivision in Putnam County, where the sheriff says more survivors could be trapped in the rubble of their homes. Damaged polling stations have been closed, forcing Super Tuesday voters to wait in long lines at other sites. President Donald Trump said he’d visit the area Friday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal appeals court judges in New Orleans have questioned whether they can rule that the United States’ men-only military draft registration is unconstitutional. Members of a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel noted a 1981 Supreme Court ruling upholding male-only draft registration. A men’s rights organization argued Tuesday ‘before the three-judge panel that the circumstances on which that ruling was based changed drastically in 2015 when women were allowed combat roles. The appeals court panel is considering whether to uphold a lower court ruling that said excluding women from draft registration is unconstitutional.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Some lawmakers in South Carolina are pushing a bill that would give death row inmates no choice but to be executed in the electric chair. The state has allowed lethal injection since 1995 and 36 of the 39 inmates put to death since then have chosen that method. But South Carolina hasn’t had an execution since 2011. Its supply of lethal injection drugs expired and pharmaceutical companies won’t sell the state any more. Opponents of the bill in the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday say the electric chair is barbaric and changing the method after a prisoner is sent to death row could open the state up to lawsuits.

(Photos of Karma Jackson in the AJSHS office, taken by Sandy Giordano)

There’s a new administrative assistant in place at Aliquippa Junior-Senior High School and volleyball coach. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

A break-in at a Center Township food pantry is under investigation this noon. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has the story. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

Beaver County Radio News continues its series on local races for the State Legislature and Senate. Today we speak with Zachary Wilson of New Sewickley Township, who is running as a Democrat in the 14th Legislative district, for the seat currently held by Republican State Rep. Jim Marshall. In an interview with Beaver County Radio Newsman Pat Septak, Wilson says that running for a seat in the state legislature has always on his bucket list…

Wilson calls himself a ‘natural leader’….

Wilson says he believes taxes is the number one issue plaguing our communities…

Wilson says he plans to be out in the community more than State Representative Marshall has been…

That’s Zachary Wilson of New Sewickley Township going after the seat currently held by Jim Marshall in the 14th Legislative district.

Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is coming to Pittsburgh. According to the Associated Press, Bloomberg will be in town on Thursday. The time and place are still not known. Over the weekend, Bloomberg opened a field office in Pittsburgh. The campaign office is located on Broad Street in the East Liberty section of the city. The campaign says the purpose of this office is to get to know Pittsburgh voters.