A new report shows that repealing the Affordable Care Act would cost hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians their health insurance, raise health-care costs and do other serious damage in the state. Andrea Sears reports…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Philadelphia’s top prosecutor and the state district attorneys’ association are staking out opposing positions in a case to determine if Pennsylvania’s death penalty will remain in effect. District Attorney Larry Krasner says the state’s death penalty runs afoul of the prohibition on cruel punishment and disproportionately applies to black defendants and the poor. The Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association argues the justices should respect the Legislature’s role in establishing state law.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 17TH, 2019
TODAY – THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. HEAVY RAINFALL
POSSIBLE. HIGH NEAR 80.
TONIGHT – SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING
WITH SOME FOG POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT.
LOW – 68.
THURSDAY – PARTLY CLOUDY AND WARMER. A STRAY
SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE.
HIGH – 87.
WILKINSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Two people have been sentenced to decades in prison after pleading guilty in the slaying of a young mother near Pittsburgh that authorities said was part of a scheme to rob her of her tax refund. Dane Taylor was sentenced to 30 to 60 years and Laya Whitley to 20 to 50 years after both pleaded guilty Tuesday to third-degree murder, robbery, and conspiracy. Authorities said 27-year-old Keiauna Davis was carrying $3,000 cash when she was killed in February 2018 in Wilkinsburg.
State Police in Lawrence County are investigating a double shooting early this morning that left one person dead in Shenango Township. According to police the shooting took place on Bryson Mill Road. There’s no word on the severity of the second person’s injuries or what led to the shooting.
A Beaver Falls woman is dead after a fire last Friday. Maria Amygdalos died in the blaze at her Sixth Avenue home in the College Hill neighborhood. The fire is believed to have started due to careless smoking catching a couch on fire.
Nonunion employees for Beaver County are getting a raise. The salary board approved a three percent raise for the second straight year after going without raises in 2016 and 2017. The raise will cost the county just shy of 400-grand, but some matching funds from the state reduces the impact down to a quarter million dollars. Elected officials’ salaries are not impacted by the raises.
(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)
Several county citizens have had their thoughts on the Beaver County EMS’ response (or some say lack thereof) to the chlorine gas fires that took place in Rochester over the course of Friday night and Saturday morning. But according to Commissioner Chairman Dan Camp; the County was only set up to do so much, and rather it was up to each municipality to alert its citizens:
County Commissioner Sandie Egley, who had recently appeared on Teleforum to address the recent complaints regarding the alerts, said on Wednesday that the Board of Commissioners had met with Beaver County Emergency Services to discuss improving the current system so that more citizens can be informed in case of an emergency.
New Brighton Doctor, Jay Funkhouser, passed away yesterday, at Heritage Valley Hospital. Beaver County Radio News Intern, Christina Sainovich, has details…
Ambridge and Old Economy officials are preparing for a year long celebration of the upcoming bicentennial. The celebration is expected to begin in June of 2024, and last a whole year. Beaver County Radio News Intern, Christina Sainovich, has details…