Beaver County’s glass recycling program is back…starting today. Beaver County Radio News Intern Christina Sainovich has details. Click on ‘play’ to hear Christina’s report…

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The city of Pittsburgh is turning to smart garbage cans to help keep an eye on trash. More than one-thousand of the receptacles are being placed around the city with built in censors to alert D-P-W officials on when they’re full. The cans come with a 670-thousand-dollar price tag based on money budgeted for the project over the last three years, but it’s believed the smart garbage cans can cut down on labor hours to empty them in the long term.

There are no reports of injuries after a fire at Penn State University’s Beaver campus. Monaca firefighters were called yesterday to the student union when flames from a dumpster spread to the building. Crews were working on the roof of the student union when the blaze broke out.

The Beaver County coroner is seeking help finding the next of kin for a man who died in South Beaver Township on Monday. 53 year old Charles Cox died at his South Beaver home on Monday. Anyone who can help connect the coroner with the family, or who is related to Cox, is asked to call the coroner’s office at 724-498-2127.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pittsburgh woman has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment in the death of her toddler daughter that authorities attributed to the narcotic fentanyl found in the child’s pink sippy cup. Allegheny County jurors convicted Jhenea Pratt in the death of 17-month-old Charlette Napper-Talley but rejected first- or third-degree murder convictions. Defense attorney Brandon Herring said his client “has always maintained that she would never intentionally hurt” her child.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5TH, 2019

 

TODAY – MIXED CLOUDS AND SUN WITH SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW STORMS MAY BE
SEVERE. HIGH – 77.

TONIGHT – SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.
LOW – 62.

THURSDAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH – 77.

(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

Despite nearly half of the meeting agenda being taken care of in the span of roughly 90 seconds, the remaining half of the Commissioners session did reveal a couple of grievances.

First off, Commissioner Sandie Egley took time during her weekly Board of Commissioners update on Wednesday, to briefly mention the amount of money being spent in one particular county park: Brush Creek in North Sewickley.

 

Meanwhile, At the Commissioner’s work session on Wednesday, the discussion of election reform was brought to the table. Lorianne Burgess, who ran for Ambridge City Council in this year’s primary, said she saw acts that were against election policy. When she was denied a complaint filing request, she took the time to discuss it with the County Commissioners:

 

Burgess finished with 12 percent of the vote in this year’s primary, not qualifying for the general election.

County Solicitor Garen Fedeles took upon the task of discussing further the possibility of reform with Burgess after the meeting. Commissioner Chairman Dan Camp insisted that Fedeles and Assistant Solicitor Nathan Morgan take care of it, because all of the current Commissioners were on the ballot for the 2019 primary (Camp and Tony Amadio for re-election, and Egley for County Treasurer).

The next public work session will be on June 12 at 10:00 AM.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is again directing former employees not to cooperate with a congressional investigation, this time instructing former aides Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson not to provide documents to the House Judiciary Committee. House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler issued subpoenas for Hicks and Donaldson last month. Both women are mentioned frequently in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

PHOENIX (AP) — The biggest victims of President Donald Trump’s tariffs won’t necessarily be Mexicans or Chinese. Some experts say the people most likely to pay the steepest price are poor Americans. They already live close to the financial edge and could have to pay more for everyday purchase. Jay Shambaugh of the Brookings Institution says tariffs are a tax on consumption for many low-income households. The president has threatened to impose a 5% tax on Mexican imports.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Sen. Tim Kaine is applauding Gov. Ralph Northam’s call for a special legislative session to change Virginia’s gun laws. The Democrat from Virginia says “it’s painfully clear from the horrific shooting in Virginia Beach and the daily scourge of gun violence in communities across the Commonwealth that Virginia must pass commonsense gun safety reforms.”