WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is calling for slashing funding for the country’s Superfund hazardous waste clean-ups. That’s even as the Trump administration builds up the biggest backlog in years in unfunded toxic-waste site cleanups around the country. Trump’s budget proposal Monday calls for $113 million less funding for the popular, four-decade old Superfund program. That’s part of a 26% cut for the environmental agency. Trump says the Superfund cuts challenge the agency to use funding more efficiently.

A Mexican model and actress denies a Harvey Weinstein accuser’s claim that she stood by and did nothing while the once-powerful movie mogul groped the woman in a Beverly Hills hotel in 2013. Claudia Salinas disputed Lauren Marie Young’s account of the 2013 encounter during testimony Monday. Young testified last week that Salinas closed the door behind her and Weinstein as they went into the bathroom, where she said he stripped off his clothes, grabbed her breast and masturbated. Young said Salinas “was standing right there” when Weinstein was finished and she managed to get out. Salinas told jurors Monday that “never happened” and she would “never close the door on anybody.” Weinstein maintains that any sexual encounters were consensual.

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Aliquippa’s blight strategy plan was presented to city council late last week. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano was there…

WEST MIFLIN, Pa. (AP) — A domestic dispute between a man and his mother ended when another man who was trying to calm the situation was shot and killed during a struggle over a gun. Authorities say 19-year-old Dante King faces a homicide charge in the death of 21-year-old Anthony Orosco. The shooting occurred late Saturday at the West Miflin home of King’s mother. Authorities say King got a gun during the dispute and, as he and Orosco fought to control the weapon, it went off and Orosco was shot once in the upper chest. Orosco was taken to a hospital but was pronounced dead there a short time later.

The AARP Tax-Aide program is making free tax assistance available to all Pennsylvanians. Andrea Sears reports…

Friends of Allegheny Wilderness is sponsoring a winter backpacking trip along a trail in the proposed Morrison Run Wilderness Area. Andrea Sears reports…

The Aliquippa police chief has issued a warning to residents: Keep your car doors locked. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report….

One of Beaver County’s colleges has received some national recognition. CCBC was recently named #5 on the list of “Best Nursing Schools in the Nation for an Associate Degree Program. We spoke with Provost Shelly Moore. She says it’s an incredible honor…

Beaver County Radio newsman Pat Septak asked Moore what it is about CCBC’s nursing program that put it into the Top 5…

 

Septak also spoke with Dean Elaine Strouss, who said the fact that CCBC’s nursing program is in the top 5 of the nation, proves that they have a very vibrant program…

You can find the entire list of the best nursing schools in the country at nursingprocess.org.

Plans are in the works to paint a Renaissance Mural to beautify the city of Aliquippa. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has the story. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities say a Pittsburgh man charged in the death of a 3-year-old girl told investigators he was sleeping next to the child with a loaded shotgun under his pillow and awoke to a loud bang and found her dead. Fifty-one-year-old Marlin Pritchard was charged Sunday with criminal homicide, child endangerment and weapons offenses in the death of the girl identified by a medical examiner as Chassity Clancy. Authorities said Pritchard told investigators he slept with the gun due to threats from others. Court documents don’t list a defense attorney; a listed number for Pritchard was busy during repeated calls Sunday.