WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, NOV. 7TH, 2019

 

TODAY – RAIN, WITH SNOW MIXING IN FOR THE
AFTERNOON. HIGH – 45.

TONIGHT – PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW – 27.

FRIDAY – PARTLY CLOUDY. A FEW FLURRIES OR SNOW
SHOWERS POSSIBLE. HIGH – 38.

SATURDAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH – 44.

SUNDAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 52.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have announced they’ll hold the first public hearings next week in their impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. Three State Department officials will testify in hearings Nov. 13 and Nov. 15, according to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff. Schiff, who is leading the probe, announced the hearings.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republicans have held on to a Senate seat in the Richmond area as Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant defeated Democratic challenger Del. Debra Rodman in a race dominated by attack ads over gun control and abortion. Dunnavant, an OB-GYN, blasted Rodman for co-sponsoring a bill that would have loosened rules for a legal, third-trimester abortion by reducing the number of doctors required to find that the procedure was necessary for the life or health of the mother.

GALEANA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican officials say gunmen who killed nine U.S. citizens _ three women and six children _ may have mistaken the group’s large SUVs for those of a rival drug gang. Gen. Hector Mendoza, Mexico’s army chief of staff, said the attackers let some surviving children go, indicating that “it was not a targeted attack.”

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal court judge in New York has struck down a rule letting health care providers object to providing abortions and other services on moral or religious grounds. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer ruled Wednesday in Manhattan. The ruling came after health organizations sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A spokeswoman says the government “will not comment on the pending litigation at this time.”

(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

There’s been plenty of early backlash from the public through phone conversation and social media over the newly installed “reverse parking” lines along 7th Avenue northbound (Route 18) in Beaver Falls.

In a non-recorded interview with Beaver County Radio, Beaver Falls City Manager Charles “Mick” Jones said that he understands the frustrations of the citizens in regard to the new change, even admitting that he himself wasn’t hot on the idea when he first heard about it.

However, Jones says that the reverse parking–according to studies–is less of a hazard than the old parking situation on 7th Avenue Northbound, and that it’ll prevent fewer collisions in exit situations in years past.

“But it’s not like we’re permanently locked into this,” says Jones. “If we’re still dealing with issues a year from now, we will re-evaluate things.”

Jones, formerly the city’s police chief, said that the main focus of the now is the entirety of the city’s restructuring and rebuild, including (but not limited to) a revamping of the southern end of Geneva College on Route 18, the county’s first ever all-green building, the restoration of the park area at the Carnegie Free Library, and continued improvements to the downtown area.

“This [reverse parking] is just part of a greater plan,” says Jones, “and this is only the beginning”. The restructuring of the downtown area was in conjunction with PennDOT, who Jones says acknowledges Beaver Falls as a good and continuing source of progress in the state with its ongoing progressive changes.

It also came with a $1 million grant to help with the new traffic patterns, “and we’d be foolish not to accept it,” Jones said.

But Jones knows that getting used to the changes will take a while. “I’m all ears,” he said, “if anyone wants to talk to me about this current situation.”

A new report from the Education Law Center says bringing the special-education funding formula into line with the basic education formula would be an important step forward. Andrea Sears reports…

As expected, voter turnout was low in Beaver County, as we hear in this report from Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

The cost of gas in western Pennsylvania has gone up one cent since last week. Beaver County radio news intern Alex D’Itri has the report…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities say a Pittsburgh man shot three times during what police believe was a robbery attempt last summer has died. The Allegheny County medical examiner’s office says 24-year-old Julian Carpenter died Monday night at a hospital. Carpenter was shot July 2 in Pittsburgh’s Spring Hill-City View neighborhood. A man believed responsible was shot two weeks later by a Penn Hills officer. A 17-year-old girl faces charges.