HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court is overturning lower court decisions and ruling that Pittsburgh has the authority to require paid sick leave for workers. Wednesday’s ruling by the state Supreme Court lets the city’s 2015 ordinance stand. Mayor William Peduto is calling it a huge win for people who live and work in Pittsburgh.
MARIANNA, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say an ATV rider was killed when he was thrown off it and struck by another vehicle on a road in western Pennsylvania. Marianna police say borough resident Tyler Raymond Markoff was driving his ATV on Rosewood Avenue when it overturned around 5:15 p.m. Wednesday as he tried to make a right turn. Markoff landed in the opposite lane of traffic and ended up in the path of the other vehicle. Markoff was taken to a hospital but later died there. No other injuries were reported.
UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Police say two brothers, ages 1 and 3, have drowned in their swimming pool in Fayette County. Uniontown Police were called to the home on Whiteman Avenue around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Police say adults were at home. Authorities are investigating how the boys ended up in the pool.
A baby who was born in a convenience store bathroom in New Castle has died. Emergency responders say they found the boy’s mother giving her son CPR in the women’s restroom at a Sheetz store in Lawrence County on Tuesday. Emergency responders say they found the boy’s mother giving her son CPR in the women’s restroom on Tuesday. Shenango Fire District Chief David Rishel tells the New Castle News the woman told responders she did not know she was pregnant.
(Photos, taken by Sandy Giordano, of Charlene Geffel addressing the board)
BOTH THE AMBRIDGE AND BADEN LIBRARIES ARE UPSET WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD’S DECISION TO CUT FUNDING. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, JULY 18TH, 2019
*** EXCESSIVE HEAT WAVE FROM 12 NOON FRIDAY UNTIL
8PM SATURDAY ***
TODAY – SOME MORNING CLOUDS…FOLLOWED BY SOME
AFTERNOON SUNSHINE. A STRAY SHOWER OR
THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE. HIGH – 88.
TONIGHT – MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW – 72.
FRIDAY – HAZY, HOT AND HUMID. A STRAY SHOWER OR
THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE. HIGH – 93.
SATURDAY – PARTLY SUNNY, HAZY, HOT AND HUMID.
HIGH – 94.
SUNDAY – PARTLY CLOUDY WITH AFTERNOON SHOWERS
OR THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH NEAR 90.
EARL, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania town official has given up a municipal job over online comments he made about a pregnant woman who died along with her 9-year-old son when her car was swept away by flash floodwaters. Earl Township Supervisor John Hetrick stepped down Monday from his appointed position as the town’s emergency management coordinator. In the now deleted post he made on the emergency management’s Facebook page, Hetrick wrote that almost everyone who dies in their car in flooding did so because they “made a very bad choice.” Critics called the post insensitive. Hetrick says he wasn’t trying to blame the woman, but wanted to spread the word about potential dangers in such situations.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With tweets and a vote, President Donald Trump and House Democrats established the sharp and emotionally wrought contours of the 2020 campaigns. They have created a fraught political frame: “racists” vs. “socialists.” Trump’s attacks on women of color left House Democrats to declare his actions “racist.” But pushing the House majority to embrace its squad of liberal freshmen, Trump linked them as “socialists.”
NEW YORK (AP) — The notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been sentenced to life behind bars in a U.S. prison. A federal judge in Brooklyn handed down the sentence Wednesday. Guzman was convicted in February in an epic drug-trafficking case that triggered a mandatory sentence of life without parole. He spoke briefly before he was sentenced, saying he was denied a fair trial.
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May has criticized the increasing intolerance and absolutism of world politics, in a message many will see as aimed at her successor as Britain’s leader and at President Donald Trump. May, who is due to leave office in a week after a three-year premiership dominated by Brexit, has condemned the “politics of division” and says “some are losing the ability to disagree without demeaning the views of others.”