Legislation has been introduced in Harrisburg to help working families take family or medical leave from their jobs without losing pay or position. Don Rooney has more…

 

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Animal control officers in Pittsburgh have captured an alligator. A person walking a dog spotted the 5-foot gator in the city’s Beechview neighborhood around 10 p.m. Thursday. Officers cornered it against a garage door before taping its jaws shut. It’s the second time in recent weeks that an alligator was found in Pittsburgh. A gator was pulled from the Monongahela River in May.

A Central Valley high school senior will miss graduation after police arrested him for threatening to shoot his classmates at the ceremony today. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has the story. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, JUNE 7TH, 2019

 

TODAY – AREAS OF PATCHY FOG THIS MORNING.
GENERALLY CLOUDY. HIGH AROUND 80.

TONIGHT – OVERCAST. LOW NEAR 60.

SATURDAY – CLOUDY. HIGH – 81.

SUNDAY – CLOUDY WITH OCCASIONAL RAIN SHOWERS.
HIGH NEAR 80.

Pennsylvania Cyber Schools will hold a commencement ceremony at CCBC tomorrow. Hunter Hardway, Washington County native, has been selected to speak at the graduation, at which he, along with over a thousand of his peers, will be receiving their diplomas. Beaver County Radio News intern, Christina Sainovich has more.

After hopes of securing a National Act, Beaver County Boom will have to wait another year to see a big name take the stage. Beaver County Radio News Intern, Christina Sainovich, has details.

CAEN, France (AP) — The D-Day commemoration was an occasion for France to showcase its long friendship with the United States, but President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged their divergences on key world issues at a meeting on the sidelines of the 75th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy that helped free Europe from Nazi occupation. Trump and Macron discussed all major issues they disagree on, including Iran, world trade and climate change.

CHICAGO (AP) — Singer R. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to 11 additional sex-related felonies during a court hearing in Chicago. Prosecutors did not ask the judge to raise the bond amount for Kelly during Thursday’s hearing in Cook County court. Kelly stood and listened to the judge describe the charges in a gray suit, with his hands folded in front of him. When the judged asked if he understood, Kelly, responded, “Yes, sir.” Kelly didn’t speak to reporters after leaving court. He denies wrongdoing.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court is upholding a ban on state-level candidates being nominated by more than one political party for the same office. The justices ruled Wednesday against a state House member’s attempt to run in Philadelphia under both the Democratic Party and the Working Families Party. The court’s four-justice majority says the rule against cross-nominations doesn’t infringe on rights of free speech or free association.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — University Pittsburgh Medical Center is dropping plans to seek prepayment from out-of-network Highmark Medicare Advantage patients when consent decrees linking the competing health care giants end on June 30. In a news released posted on its website Wednesday, UPMC said it would accept direct payment from Highmark at the same rate that UPMC Health Plan now pays Highmark’s Allegheny Health Network hospitals.