The Beaver Falls Police and surrounding communities have taken several calls about businesses receiving counterfeit one-hundred dollar bills. The bills at first glance look to be real, but with a little scrutiny, you can see and feel they are not real. If you come across any counterfeit bills, please call the Beaver Falls police department immediately at (724) 846-7000.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is moving to make Michigan the first state to ban flavored e-cigarettes. The Democrat announced Wednesday that she ordered the state health department to issue emergency rules. They will prohibit the sale and misleading marketing of flavored nicotine vaping products. The industry is poised to challenge the rules in court.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal watchdog has found that children who were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border last year showed increased signs of post-traumatic stress, and the hectic reunification process only added to their trauma. That’s according to a report by the Inspector General for Health and Human Services. The report recommends minimizing the time children are in custody and creating better care options.

FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the United Nations is supporting rescue and relief efforts led by the Bahamas government and is part of assessment teams planning to deploy Wednesday to areas devastated by Hurricane Dorian. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock was arriving in the Bahamas on Wednesday and is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Hubert Minnis in the capital, Nassau.

UNDATED (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court will determine if a woman shot in the psychiatric clinic where she worked can sue the University of Pittsburgh over the assailant’s treatment before the attack. The Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will decide if a county judge should have dismissed the lawsuit by Kathryn Leight against the school and a physicians’ group. The lawsuit concerns injuries suffered by Leight during a March 2012 rampage by former graduate student John Shick.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Lack of interest has thwarted Pennsylvania’s latest casino expansion attempt. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on Wednesday received no bidders for a casino license auction ordered by lawmakers as part of an aggressive gambling expansion launched by a cash-hungry state government. The auction was limited to owners of Pennsylvania’s full-size casinos. Minimum bids were set at $7.5 million and potential locations were limited to parts of northern and central Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a pair of socks helped lead to an arrest in the killing of a Pennsylvania woman nearly 30 years ago. Philadelphia authorities say Theodore Dill Donahue is charged with murder and numerous other counts in the 1991 death of his girlfriend, Denise Sharon Kulb. His lawyer says Donahue maintains his innocence. Authorities say the case was built on new investigative tools, including photo-enhancing technology that connected a pair of separated socks, including one found on the body.

Eating a diet of junk food was enough to make one teenage boy lose his sight. That’s according to a case study published in a medical journal. Scientists from the University of Bristol examined the case of a young patient whose extremely picky eating led to blindness. The unidentified patient told doctors he had only eaten french fries, Pringles potato chips, white bread, and slices of processed ham and sausage since elementary school. He first visited a doctor at age 14, complaining of tiredness, according to a case report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Doctors discovered low vitamin B12 levels and anemia, treating the patient with vitamin B12 injections and offering dietary advice. One year later there were signs of hearing loss and vision symptoms…and by the age of 17, his vision had worsened to the point of blindness. Doctors say the patient’s extreme diet led to nutritional optic neuropathy…and that the boy’s vision damage is permanent. Researchers warn that nutritional optic neuropathy could become more common due to the consumption of junk food.

A HARMONY TOWNSHIP MAN IS JAILED IN A DOMESTIC DISPUTE…CHARGED WITH ANIMAL CRUELTY. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS DETAILS:

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man has been convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a western Pennsylvania motel owner more than three years ago. Jurors in Allegheny County deliberated for just over two hours before convicting 63-year-old Derrick Gallaway, who now faces a mandatory life prison term without possibility of parole. Seventy-eight-year-old Dehnad Taiedi was shot to death in May 2016 as he worked behind the front desk of the Jefferson Hills Motel.