PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former Uber driver convicted of kidnapping and assaulting a woman he picked up while off-duty in Pittsburgh has been sentenced to nearly a year in jail. Soumana Dao received a 364-day term on Monday and will get credit the roughly four months he has already served. The 32-year-old Dao will also serve five years of probation and 15 years as a registered sex offender. Authorities say Dao picked up the woman after she requested an Uber in October 2017 and soon began to touch her inappropriately.

Congressman Pete King, R-N.Y., said Monday he is backing a bill in the House to ban assault weapons because he does not “see any need for them in everyday society.” King told the New York Daily News “They are weapons of mass slaughter,” after he became the first GOP representative to back the measure first rolled out in February by Congressman David Cicilline, D-R.I. The bill has 200 Democratic co-sponsors and seeks to ban semi-automatic firearms and large-capacity magazines. The measure has drawn renewed attention after the shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio earlier this month. King had been in favor of background checks for gun purchases, but the back-to-back shootings, which left 32 dead and dozens injured, pushed him to back the assault weapon bill. But even if the bill passes the House, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said he will not bring the legislation to the Senate, and President Donald Trump says he opposes the bill.

After a dirty diaper smacked into his patrol car, an Indiana State Trooper issued a message. “Littering is always bad”.  After working the state fair in Indianapolis on Sunday, Indiana State Police Sergeant Stephen Wheeles was on his way home when a diaper came flying out of the car in front of him on I-65, hit the road a couple of times and struck the front of his patrol car before disappearing underneath his vehicle. The state trooper pulled over the vehicle and found a passenger in the backseat with a baby. The unnamed passenger wouldn’t admit that he had been changing the baby’s diaper, according to Wheeles. Instead, the man told Wheeles that he had rolled down the window and that the wind blew the diaper out. Wheeles let the man go on with his day — but not before giving him a ticket for littering.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrats are mounting a comeback in statehouses across the country, pouring millions of dollars into state level races that the party has often ignored. Democrats are trying to gain ground in state legislatures ahead of a once-in-a-decade redistricting process that redraws congressional maps. The stakes are particularly high following a recent Supreme Court ruling that decided federal courts have no business policing political boundary disputes in many cases.

Residents in Baden are moving back to normalcy after an hours-long standoff in the borough. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has the story. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

According to this week’s Triple-A East Central Gas Price Report the average price is five cents cheaper this week at $2.81 a gallon. In Beaver, drivers are paying 2.76 a gallon while in New Castle, the average price is nearly three cents lower at 2.73. The national average is $2.61, which is three cents cheaper than last week, 17-cents less than a month ago and 22-cents cheaper than a year ago. A year ago the average in Western Pennsylvania was at 3.09 a gallon.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge in Philadelphia is weighing whether to approve the nation’s first supervised drug injection center. U.S. Attorney WIlliam McSwain opposes the plan. The appointee of President Donald Trump says it violates federal drug laws. U.S. District Judge Gerald McHugh Jr. must decide whether to let the site open. He did not indicate when he might rule.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The family of a 21-year-old inmate in Harrisburg who died under mysterious circumstances after only a few days in custody is pushing for answers seven weeks after his death. Ty’rique Riley had lacerations and bruises all over his body, along with missing teeth and failing kidneys, when he was brought to the hospital from jail on June 26. The coroner has yet to rule on a cause of death.

A HOMICIDE TRIAL IN BEAVER REACHED AN UNEXPECTED CONCLUSION MONDAY WHEN BRANDON RICHARDSON TOOK A PLEA DEAL. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS DETAILS. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

WEATHER FORECAST FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 20TH, 2019

TODAY – SOME CLOUDS AND POSSIBLY AN ISOLATED
THUNDERTORM THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH – 88.

TONIGHT – VARIABLE CLOUDS WITH THUNDERSTORMS,
ESPECIALLY LATE NIGHT. LOW AROUND 70.

WEDNESDAY – SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH – 86.