CCBC Students should expect to save hundreds of dollars on textbooks from now on as their school partners with a new online subscription service. Beaver County Radio News Intern Kristian Biega has more on the story…
The Beaver falls Community Development Ceneter is hosting the 6th annual National Night Out, tonight, from 6 to 8 pm. There will be three different block parties in the area, one on College Hill, and two downtown. Beaver County Radio News Intern, Christina Sainovich, has the story…
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The Center Township Board of Supervisors has hired a new road employee. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details…
PA Senators Pat Toomey and Bob Casey have reacted to the shootings over the weekend in very different ways. Toomey proposed a background check bill that he worked on with West Virginia Senator, Joe Manchin, That would greatly expand the use of background checks. The bill has failed twice after being introduced after mass shootings. Senator Bob Casey called for sweeping gun control measures and increasing efforts to combat the rise of White Nationalism in America. Gun control measures include a nation-wide ban on semi-automatic assault weapons and a red flag law for dangerous individuals trying to purchase guns.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 6TH, 2019
TODAY – PARTLY CLOUDY WITH AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH – 87.
TONIGHT – MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING LATE. LOW – 67.
WEDNESDAY -VARIABLE CLOUDS WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HIGH – 79.
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An ex-girlfriend of the Ohio gunman who killed nine people says he showed her a video of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on their first date. Adelia Johnson says in an emailed statement to The Associated Press that Connor Betts often joked about having dark thoughts. She says he told her that he had bipolar disorder and that his talk didn’t scare her because she thought it was a symptom of his mental illness.
A Pennsylvania-based medical supplier plans to expand its headquarters in Findlay Township. Continuum – a CHC Solutions Inc. Company, formerly called Interphase Medical Equipment – plans to more than double the size of the company’s Findlay plant this month. Their headquarters is located at 162 Industry Dr. in the RIDC Park West Complex. They expect to hire an additional 50 employees in the next two to three years.
NEW YORK (AP) — An online message board with a history of use by violent extremists is suffering sporadic outages after its cybersecurity provider cut off support for what it called a “cesspool of hate” following mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. A lack of security support would leave the site open to online attacks that might block access. 8chan went dark shortly after midnight, but appears to be back online early Monday.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Authorities say another person has died from a weekend mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, raising the death toll in that attack to 21. El Paso police tweeted that the latest victim died early Monday morning at a hospital. No other details were immediately provided. More than two dozen people were wounded in the attack. The suspected gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, has been booked on capital murder charges.
Harrisburg, PA – Governor Tom Wolf has ordered the commonwealth flag on all commonwealth facilities, public buildings and grounds to half-staff to honor the victims of the shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.
“We can ban assault weapons and institute stricter background checks. We can make communities safer. We can target white nationalism and promote tolerance. We can invest in mental health care and help those struggling. We cannot accept this violence as normal. We must act.”
The commonwealth flag shall be lowered to half-staff until sunset on Thursday, August 8, 2019. The United States flag has already been ordered to half-staff during this time. All Pennsylvanians are invited to participate in this tribute.