This Saturday is National Drug Take back day, citizens across the United States can bring any unwanted medicine to their local police station. Beaver County radio news intern Alex D’Itri has more…

 

CHARLEROI, Pa. (AP) — Investigators claim a retired state police sergeant admitted to taking $2,500 from the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club’s national sergeant at arms to offer hush money to the victim of an assault and the man’s wife. The Washington Observer-Reporter said 57-year-old James “Bear” Baranowki is accused of offering Troy and Michele Harris financial support and protection from harm for life. Baranowski left the state police in 2003 after 17 years.

The Pennsylvania House has begun to move a package of bills designed to help reinforce Pennsylvania’s ailing volunteer fire and emergency medical services companies. The Helpers and Heroes Package addresses an alarming decline in emergency services volunteers over recent years. State Representative Bob Brooks – who represents the 54th Legislative district, spanning portions of Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties – says emergency volunteers deserve more…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Community service projects, an overseas concert and a virtual remembrance are among multiple ways the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history will be commemorated. Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed 11 worshippers and injured seven. Stephen Cohen is co-president of New Light, one of three congregations present the day of the shooting. He says the key to the commemoration is remembering those who were lost.

The Aliquippa School Board has accepted a teacher’s resignation. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

The family of a man who was found dead in a bathroom at PPG Paints Arena wants to know why his body went undiscovered for more than 40 hours. During the Oct. 5th game at the arena featuring the Penguins and the Blue Jackets, Tim Helbig — a sound technician working for AT&T Sportsnet — complained of severe pain and told co-workers he needed to leave. It would be the last time anyone would see or speak with him. Two days later — in a check before Oct. 7’s Black Keys concert — Helbig’s body was found inside a locked family bathroom on the arena’s third-floor concourse. He had been in that bathroom — undiscovered — for more than 40 hours. Detectives say there was no sign of foul play.  It is not known when Helbig died, and medical experts say it is very difficult to determine a time of death in these cases.

GREENVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities are planning to charge a man with criminal homicide and child abuse after his emaciated 14-year-old son was found dead in a filthy mobile home in Greensville, PA. State police say the boy’s father called 911 Thursday and officers found the teen, who weighed 70 pounds, just inside the debris-filled trailer in Greenville. Lt. Dan Ekis told KDKA-TV officers could not “begin to understand what this child went through in 14 short years.”

Cashless tolling and new rates go into effect Sunday on parts of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The Pennsylvania Turnpike 66 (Greensburg Bypass) in Westmoreland County and the Gateway tolling point at milepost 2 on Interstate 76 in Lawrence County will be converted to cashless tolling. With cashless tolling, there is no stopping for drivers when exiting. Instead, there are two payment options: E-ZPass or a bill will be sent in the mail. New rates will also go into effect for the Pennsylvania Turnpike 66 (Greensburg Bypass) and the Gateway tolling point, as well as for the Pennsylvania Turnpike 376 (Beaver Valley Expressway) in Beaver and Lawrence counties — which was converted to cashless tolling in April 2017.

(Photos taken by Pat Septak)

There’s a new hotel and restaurant that just opened near the Beaver Valley Mall. The Hilton Garden Inn Pittsburgh Area/ Beaver Valley and Jackson’s Restaurant on Wagner Road Extension  in Monaca held a ribbon-cutting ceremony last night. The hotel’s general manager – Dave Rose said he’s proud to be part of the new development taking place in Beaver County…

Rose says the hotel and restaurant brings lots of new job opportunities to the region…

Lots of prominent Beaver County political figures attended the event, including County Commissioners Dan Camp and Sandie Egley, commissioners candidate Jack Manning and State Representative Josh Kail.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25TH, 2019

 

TODAY – CLOUDY SKIES. HIGH – 62.

TONIGHT – CLOUDY. LOW – 43.

SATURDAY – SHOWERS EARLY IN THE MORNING…THEN
BECOMING A STEADY RAIN LATER IN THE
DAY. HIGH – 57.

SUNDAY – CLOUDY. PERIODS OF RAIN EARLY ON. HIGH – 62.