NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection is going forward in Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial New York after a judge denied a defense request for a “cooling off period” the morning after prosecutors in Los Angeles brought new charges against him. The 67-year-old disgraced movie titan shuffled into the courthouse Tuesday with a walker. Jury selection could take weeks. The trial involves charges that Weinstein raped a woman in 2013 and forcibly performed a sex act on another woman in 2006. Weinstein has said any sexual activity was consensual. The start of his New York trial comes after Los Angeles prosecutors charged him Monday with sexually assaulting two women there during Oscar week in 2013. Weinstein has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The lawyer for the estranged husband of a missing Connecticut mother of five says his client has been charged with murder in her disappearance. State police took Fotis Dulos from his Farmington home Tuesday. Attorney Norm Pattis says he has learned that two other people have also been charged — one with murder and another with conspiracy to commit murder. Jennifer Dulos of New Canaan disappeared May 24 amid contentious child custody proceedings with Fotis Dulos. She hasn’t been seen since. Fotis Dulos and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, were previously charged with evidence tampering and hindering prosecution in connection with Jennifer Dulos’ disappearance.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania State Police are investigating what appears to be a deliberate attempt to release bedbugs in a Walmart store. A police spokeswoman said Monday that troopers have made no arrests and do not have any suspects. A manager from the Walmart store in Edinboro in northwestern Pennsylvania contacted police Saturday after store employees found pill bottles with bugs in them. Police say a hygiene services contractor contacted by Walmart found bugs crawling around in the men’s fitting room and identified them as bedbugs. Troopers were testing for fingerprints on the bottle while store officials were reviewing surveillance video.

UNDATED (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is taking aim at President Donald Trump’s decision to approve the airstrike that killed Iran’s top military leader. The former vice president has already criticized Trump as “dangerous” and “erratic.” But with last week’s killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Biden has called into question Trump’s judgment concerning the United States’ fraught relations with Iran. On Tuesday in New York, Biden is expected to deliver lengthy remarks about Trump’s policies in the context of his own foreign policy experience. That experience is one of Biden’s top selling points as a candidate for the Democratic nomination.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A seven-term state lawmaker from central Pennsylvania says he’ll seek the Democratic nomination to run for the open state auditor general’s office this year. Scott Conklin of Centre County entered a crowded field ahead of Pennsylvania’s Feb. 18 deadline to submit nomination petitions to get on the April primary ballot. Other Democrats running include Pittsburgh city controller Michael Lamb, Christina Hartman, a former congressional candidate from Lancaster County, Nina Ahmad, a former Philadelphia deputy mayor, and Tracie Fountain, a three-decade veteran employee of the auditor general’s office. Pennsylvania’s current auditor general, Democrat Eugene DePasquale, is completing a second four-year term and is constitutionally barred from seeking another.

A Las Vegas family has filed a lawsuit against a dentist they accuse of setting their 5-year-old daughter’s mouth on fire during a routine procedure last year. The lawsuit, filed last week against Just for Kids Dentistry & Orthodontics owner Dr. Karan Dhillon, seeks more than $15,000 in damages. The lawsuit alleges the girl’s parents took her to Dhillon’s practice to have several crowns put on her teeth. During the girl’s procedure, a tool called a diamond bur emitted a spark that “caused the throat pack in (the girl’s) mouth to ignite and produce a fire” that lasted a couple of seconds. The girl was rushed to the hospital, where she remained for four days as she was treated for burns to the inside of her mouth. The lawsuit states that some of the girls’ injuries “may be permanent”.

Two Beaver County school districts have received grants totaling 50-thousand dollars that will help match school cirricula to workforce needs. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

Beaver County’s 57th annual Snow Shovel Riding Championship is scheduled to take place this Saturday, January 11th – weather permitting of course. But as Beaver County Radio News intern Alex D’Itri reports, unlike previous years, if the event doesn’t happen over the next two weekends, it’s not going to happen at all…

The Department of Environmental Protection has reached an agreement with ETC Northeast Pipeline LLC that will end the ban on new permits and approvals for pipelines it is constructing. Andrea Sears reports from Harrisburg…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — IKEA is agreeing to pay $46 million to the parents of a 2-year-old boy who died of injuries suffered when a 70-pound recalled dresser tipped over onto him. The family’s lawyers disclosed the agreement Monday. Jozef Dudek died in 2017 of his injuries, and his parents sued the Swedish home furnishings company in a Philadelphia court in 2018. The Dudeks accused IKEA of knowing that its Malm dressers posed a tip-over hazard and that they had injured or killed a number of children, but that the company had failed to warn consumers that the dressers shouldn’t be used without being anchored to a wall. IKEA said it is working to address the issue.