ROUTE 51 IN ALIQUIPPA HAS BEEN RE-OPENED. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST 30TH, 2019

TODAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 82.

TONIGHT – PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW – 58.

SATURDAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 78.

SUNDAY – CLOUDY IN THE MORNING WITH SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING LATER IN THE
DAY. HIGH – 78.

LABOR DAY MONDAY – PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A SLIGHT
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
HIGH – 78.

 

President Donald Trump says he wants to change the channel on Fox News. Fox News is the cable network that helped make his political career and whose hosts have consistently defended his administration. Trump lashed out at Fox on Wednesday, accusing the network in tweets of “heavily promoting the Democrats,” and adding, “Fox News is letting millions of GREAT people down! We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!” The tweets were the latest, and perhaps the bluntest, criticisms of Fox that Trump has broadcast to his nearly 64 million Twitter followers, despite unwavering support from Fox’s top-rated opinion programs. Fox, meanwhile, has remained officially silent. Its spokespeople have not offered a rebuttal to the president’s criticism. Fox is typically the most-watched network on cable.

President Donald Trump has promised to pardon aides if they have to break federal laws to get hundreds of miles of new border wall built before the 2020 election, according to current and former officials involved with the project. Aides have been directed to fast-track contracts, disregard environmental rules, and to be aggressive while seizing private land, reports The Washington Post. A White House official, speaking anonymously, said Trump is joking when he mentions pardons. However, the president has promised to complete 500 miles of border fencing by the November 2020 election, but just 60 miles of replacement barrier went up during the first two-and-a-half years he has been in office, and officials say he’s been holding White House meetings to push hard about it.

MIAMI (AP) — The Rolling Stones are again rescheduling a concert; this time because Hurricane Dorian is approaching the Florida coast. Publicist Amal Mokhtar says that due to the weather forecast, a concert scheduled for Saturday in Miami Gardens will instead happen Friday night. All tickets will be honored for the new concert date but there will be no opening act.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department’s inspector general says former FBI Director James Comey violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with President Donald Trump. The watchdog office says Comey broke FBI rules by giving a memo containing unclassified information to a friend with instructions to share the contents with a reporter. Comey wrote a series of memos about conversations with Trump he says unnerved him.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania officials are hoping to lower the risk of lead poisoning through mandated blood testing for children and other measures. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf is backing legislation to require testing that meets federal guidelines, and is rolling out other strategies to address the problem. The administration is working on ways for regional response teams to care for children with dangerous amounts of lead in their system.

(Photo, taken by Sandy Giordano, of Code and zoning officer James Bologna, listening to Boos Development reps at last night’s meeting)

ALIQUIPPA CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THE SALE OF PROPERTY OFF OF ROUTE 51 DURING ITS WORK SESSION LAST NIGHT. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPODENT SANDY GIORDANO WAS THERE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

The Moon Township Public Library is reopening this morning. The library was closed Monday through Wednesday for work on the building’s H-VAC system. Anyone who would have incurred a fine for an overdue book or other item due while they were closed is having that fee waived.