BREAKING NEWS: THE ROUTE 68 FEED MILL RESTAURANT BURGLARY SUSPECT IS NOW IN CUSTODY. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS DETAILS FROM NEW SEWICKLEY TOWNSHIP. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
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State Representative Rob Matzie has announced grants totaling over 750-thousand dollars awarded to Beaver County programs. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
The average price of gasoline across Western Pennsylvania is seven cents cheaper this week at $2.85 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. Drivers in Beaver are paying 2.92 a gallon while the average price in New Castle is lower at 2.69. The national average is at 2.68 a gallon, that’s six cents less than a week ago. The average price a year ago in Western Pennsylvania was at 3.01.
CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — U.S. Steel says it has resumed normal operations at its coke plant outside Pittsburgh after fire knocked out an air pollution control system. The company said in a statement late Monday that it has completed repairs at the Clairton coke plant following a small electrical fire almost 16 hours earlier. U.S. Steel says equipment used to remove sulfur dioxide is now working again.
Pennsylvania is one step closer to cyber snow days for students. Senate Bill 440 unanimously moved through the House Education Committee and is off to the full House for a potential vote. Approval there, along with Governor Tom Wolf’s signature, would allow teachers to assign work for students to do at home when school is closed unexpectedly, including for snow days. This proposal would allow for up to five cyber snow days per school year. A pilot program was run with cyber snow days in 12 school districts across P-A over the past three years.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is wading into a budget fight in Pennsylvania over substantially expanding state taxpayer support for private and religious schools that is stoking pushback from public school advocates. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to veto the measure, but Toomey, a Republican, wrote to the governor on Monday to urge him to sign it and make the case for nearly doubling a tax credit program, increasing it by $100 million to $210 million a year.
Some former students of the now-defunct I-T-T Tech are getting some debt relief on their student loans. Attorneys general with P-A and 43 other states reached a settlement with the lender that offered students temporary credit to cover the gap between student aid and the cost of classes. In P-A, 570 former students are eligible for five-point-three-million dollars in debt relief.
One person is hurt after a provisioning truck struck a parked Southwest Airlines plane at Pittsburgh International Airport. It happened Monday morning at Gate A-One with the driver of the truck taken to a local hospital. The aircraft was taken out of service as a precaution.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lawmakers from Philadelphia are calling on state and city officials to stem a rising tide of gun violence that included a fatal shooting at a graduation party. The members of Pennsylvania’s Legislature are asking for a stronger police presence on the street, collaboration among top state and city offices and emergency measures from Mayor Jim Kenney. It’s not yet known what sparked the Sunday night graduation party shooting that authorities say left a 24-year-old man dead and five people wounded.
Police said a woman was found dead in an East Pittsburgh home after a man in the Cambria County Jail told a therapist he killed someone. Police said the man gave the therapist an address for a home on Maple Street. The therapist called police who went to check out the house, finding the woman dead. Police said her body appeared to have been at the scene for at least two weeks and is badly decomposed. Officers said her death is being considered suspicious, and there are no visible signs of what led to her death. State police officers have not identified the man, but said charges are expected on today.