Jerry Sandusky will be resentenced in court next month. A state appeals court ruled that the judge was wrong in the number of years he could sentence the former Penn State football coach to back in 2012. He is due back in court on September 23rd. Sandusky maintains his innocence.

State Police in Lawrence County report a Volant man was recently scammed out of three hundred dollars. According to police the 62 year old man was chatting on Facebook who he thought was a friend who told him he had won 90 thousand dollars. The man was then contacted by another person telling him to purchase 300 dollars worth of Apple gift cards in exchange for the 90 thousand dollars. The victim purchased the gift cards but received nothing in return. He also divulged the password to his own personal Facebook account. The investigation is ongoing.

New Castle police arrested a man who carried a long knife into the high school earlier this week. According to the Department’s Facebook page School administrators called police after stopping 26-year-old Floyd Booker Tuesday. They told police they saw Booker not long after that, running down Hurricane Drive. Booker is facing charges of possession of weapons on school property and criminal trespassing. Students were not in the school at the time of the incident.

Two state legislators are working to introduce an anti-abortion bill next session. Senator Doug Mastriano and Representative Stephanie Borowicz are touring Central Pennsylvania in the hopes of garnering support for their “heartbeat bill,” which would make terminating a pregnancy illegal if a heartbeat were present. Previous heartbeat bills passed in other states have been ruled unconstitutional.

MONACA, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump is coming to Beaver County next week to visit a multibillion-dollar ethane cracker plant under construction. A White House official said Thursday the visit to the site in Monaca that had been planned for this week before two mass shootings occurred will take place on Tuesday.

Next Monday, jury selection begins in the trial of an Ambridge man charged with criminal homicide in a double murder last year. Brandon Richardson is charged with two counts of criminal homicide in the incident at the Sunoco station on Merchant Street last December. Police say Richardson was being assaulted by five people. Afterward, two of the men in the group were shot to death. Richardson’s attorney says it was a case of self-defense but prosecutors argue Richardson should have stopped shooting after the first shot.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Authorities say a man fatally stabbed a woman who was talking to a police officer at a Pittsburgh bus stop and then slashed another woman before he was taken into custody. Pittsburgh’s police chief says the officer was checking on the first woman’s well-being Thursday on a crowded sidewalk. A man came up from behind him and stabbed her and then the other woman. Schubert said the attack seems random. It came a day after a man apparently randomly stabbed four people to death in California.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST 9TH, 2019

 

TODAY – LOTS OF SUNSHINE. HIGH NEAR 80.

TONIGHT – MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW – 58.

SATURDAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH NEAR 80.

SUNDAY – MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 82.

White House officials confirmed that President Trump has rescheduled his vist the Beaver County’s newest economic driver. He will tour the Shell Chemicals ethane cracker plant in Potter Township August 13. He postponed his original visit as a result of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. Topics he intends to address include economic policies, investments that made the plant possible, and energy production regulations. Trump’s last visit to PA was on May 20th.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A manager in the U.N. Climate Change secretariat who helped write a new report on the subject, said the grueling work by the volunteer authors was “like a dentist’s appointment for six days” and left her with both concerns and hopes that people will unite and respond to the threats of climate change. Koko Warner told the AP on Thursday that: “I’ve lost a lot of sleep about what the science is saying. As a person, it’s pretty scary. We need to act urgently.”