An Evans City man has pleaded guilty in Federal Court on bank robbery charges. 33 year old Chad Vaughn is accused of robbing the NexTier Bank on South Main Street in Zelienople back in October of 2018. Authorities said Vaughn got away with over two thousand dollars in cash. Sentencing is set for July 7th. Vaughn faces up to 20 years in prison along with a 250 thousand dollars fine, or both.
The 85-year-old man who died after falling from the roof of a home in Beaver Falls on Monday afternoon…has been identified. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner says Harold Hocanson died after being taken to a hospital in Pittsburgh. The incident happened a little after 1 p.m. Monday at a home along 20th Street Extension. The medical examiner said the manner of death was accidental.
An investigation is underway into a deadly school van crash in Lawrence County. State police say the Mercer Area School District van crashed with a tractor-trailer yesterday morning on Portersville Road in Perry Township. The van’s driver 64 year old Peter Ellis was killed. No students were on board. The driver of the tractor-trailor, 30 year old Jaren Urey also of Mercer was not hurt.
The Red Cross is helping two adults and two children after fire broke out inside of a home in Raccoon Township last night. The fire broke out in a home on Waite Lane. There were no initial reports of any injuries.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 6TH, 2020
TODAY – RAIN SHOWERS WILL EVOLVE INTO A MORE
STEADY RAIN FOR THE AFTERNOON. HIGH – 41.
TONIGHT – EVENING LIGHT RAIN FOLLOWED BY A MIX OF
RAIN AND SNOW OVERNIGHT. 1 TO 3 INCHES
OF SNOW EXPECTED. LOW AROUND 30.
FRIDAY – SNOW SHOWERS MORNING AND AFTERNOON.
SNOWFALL AROUND ONE INCH. TEMPS NEARLY
STEADY IN THE LOW TO MID-30‘S.
SATURDAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES. A FEW FLURRIES OR
SNOW SHOWERS POSSIBLE. HIGH – 35.
SUNDAY – A MIX OF LIGHT RAIN AND SNOW LATER IN THE
DAY. HIGH NEAR 40.
The United States Senate has voted and President Donald Trump has been acquitted of both articles of Impeachment. on Article One the vote was 52 votes not guilty and 48 votes guilty. On Article Two the Senate voted 53 votes not guilty and 47 votes guilty. Neither vote achieved the two thirds majority in which to convict the President and remove him from office.
Stay tune to Beaver County Radio for more as this story continues to develop.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Joe Biden is attacking two of his major 2020 Democratic presidential rivals as he campaigns in New Hampshire. Biden says if Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is the Democratic nominee, every Democrat will be stuck with Sanders’ democratic socialist label. Biden says said he has “great respect” for the 38-year-old Pete Buttigieg, but that it’s a risk to nominate someone who’s only been a “mayor of a town of 100,000 people in Indiana.” Biden was campaigning in New Hampshire a day after Iowa released partial results of its caucuses, showing Biden trailing both Sanders and Buttigieg.
The Iowa Democratic Party has released additional results of its kickoff presidential caucus after a long day of delay. The early results show former Midwestern Mayor Pete Buttigieg with a slight lead over progressive Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the opening contest in the party’s 2020 primary season. The results late Tuesday followed 24 hours of chaos as technical issues marred the contest, forcing state officials to apologize and raising questions about Iowa’s traditional place atop the presidential primary calendar. It’s still too early to call a winner, but the results so far are not good news for former Vice President Joe Biden, who’s shown in fourth place behind Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has had the last word on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech. As Trump finished speaking Tuesday night, Pelosi ripped up her copy behind him on camera. After Trump left, Pelosi waved what remained of the printed speech to her family in the gallery. The moment echoed Pelosi’s smirking clap last year in the same spot as the Republican president began his speech. But this time, he is on the brink of acquittal in a Senate impeachment trial, with the Republican Party behind him. The Democrats are in a difficult presidential nomination fight.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is on the verge of acquittal by the Senate. An afternoon vote will bring an end to only the third presidential impeachment trial in American history. One key Democrat, Alabama Sen. Doug Jones has now announced he will vote to convict. The impeachment vote comes at the start of a tumultuous campaign for the White House. Trump is eager to use the tally as vindication, a political anthem in his reelection bid. A majority of senators have expressed unease with Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine that resulted in the two articles of impeachment. But there’s nowhere near the two-thirds vote necessary in the Republican-held Senate to remove the president from office.