Today- CLOUDY EARLY WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH NEAR 80.
TONIGHT- A FEW CLOUDS. A STRAY SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE. LOW 64
TOMORROW- SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MORNING, THEN CLOUDY DURING THE AFTERNOON WITH THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. HIGH 81
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s top prosecutor says investigations remain underway after 1,862 calls were made to his office’s clergy abuse hotline in the past 12 months. The hotline was set up as his office released a landmark grand jury report exposing decades of child abuse within the state’s Roman Catholic dioceses. Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Tuesday about 90 percent of those calls concerned allegations of abuse or cover-ups within the Catholic church.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Bullying, self-harm and suicide are the most common concerns fielded during the first half-year of operation for a new threat reporting system that covers Pennsylvania schools. The state attorney general’s office says the Safe 2 Say Something program generated more than 23,000 tips between mid-January and the end of June. The report says about 1,300 tips were determined to be pranks.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities rescued three people after a barge struck a boat on the Ohio River in Pittsburgh. The crash happened around 12:15 a.m. Tuesday near the city’s West End Bridge. There are reports of several injuries, but the extent is not known.
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…
&
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.