People’s Gas is checking for a gas leak in Midland this afternoon. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent  Sandy Giordano reports. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

GALLITZIN, Pa. (AP) — School officials in Gallitzin, Pennsylvania have apologized to parents after students received a homework assignment involving President Donald Trump. The assignment sent home from a teacher at Penn Cambria Middle School in Cambria County had some parents upset on Wednesday. The assignment had asked students to pretend they were refugees “being forced” to leave their homes as Trump tried to “take control of the United States.”

READING, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a Reading, Pennsylvania nursing home employee took photographs of deceased residents and shared them with co-workers and friends. Stephanie Thomas, of Muhlenberg Township, now faces corpse abuse charges. Berks County District Attorney John Adams says the 28-year-old admitted to taking the photos at the county-owned Berks Heim facility and did it because her ex-boyfriend “liked that kind of thing.”

Renovations are nearing completion on the new Tusca Shop ‘n Save Supermarket, located in the Tusca Plaza on Tuscawaras Road in Brighton Township. It’ll be owned by St. Barnabas and managed by the Safran family, owners of Shop ‘n Save stores in Harmony Township and Easter Rochester. Brittany Safran, Jarret Safran, William Day, CEO and President of St. Barnabas, and Phil Safran recently held a walk through at the store for other employees and administrative staff.  We spoke with Phil Safran, who told us the opening is right on schedule and planned for the first week in December…

Safran told us more about the location of the new store…

Safran says that renovations are coming along nicely…

Safran says there have been no major issues with renovations so far…

Safran says there probably will not be an official ribbon-cutting ceremony when the store opens on December 5th…but that may come early next year:

Safran says he and his family will be managing the store…

Safran says they couldn’t have done it without the support of St. Barnabas…

Safran says the new building is a little over 20-thousand square feet. The Grand Opening is planned for December 5th.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH, 2019

 

TODAY – SNOW SHOWERS. SUN AND CLOUDS MIXED.
HIGH NEAR 40.

TONIGHT – PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. LOW – 24.

SATURDAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH – 44.

SUNDAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 52.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A top aide to Tom Steyer in Iowa has privately offered local politicians campaign contributions in exchange for endorsing his White House bid. Multiple people with direct knowledge of the conversations told The Associated Press the overtures came from Pat Murphy, Steyer’s Iowa director. There’s no evidence any candidates in Iowa accepted the offer or received contributions as compensation for endorsements. Murphy didn’t respond to a request for comment, but the campaign is disavowing his effort.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An aide to Vice President Mike Pence is speaking to impeachment investigators Thursday as Democrats wrap up the closed-door phase of their inquiry. Jennifer Williams is a career foreign service officer detailed to Pence’s office from the State Department. She was one of several White House aides listening in on a July phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which Trump asked the new leader to investigate Democrats.

LA MORA, Mexico (AP) — With security tight, a small community in northern Mexico is saying goodbye to some of the nine American women and children killed in an ambush by drug cartel gunmen. Mourners have traveled as far away as North Dakota to attend the funerals in La Mora. Mexican officials say the attackers Monday may have mistaken the group’s large SUVS for those of a rival gang. But relatives of the dead are skeptical of that.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s resentencing on a 45-count child sexual abuse conviction is being delayed another two weeks. Judge Maureen Skerda on Thursday pushed the hearing back to 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, at the county courthouse in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Skerda’s order says she acted after defense lawyers and prosecutors filed a joint request.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders is calling for decriminalizing illegal border crossings, backing an idea that exposes the Democratic presidential primary’s ideological divides. Sanders said Thursday: “Unauthorized presence in the United States is a civil, not a criminal, offense.” Elizabeth Warren also has called for repealing the criminal prohibition against crossing the border illegally. Pete Buttigieg wouldn’t do so in cases involving “fraud,” and Joe Biden hasn’t fully backed decriminalization.