AMBRIDGE COUNCIL PLANS TO SEEK A GRANT FOR A NEW PLAYGROUND IN THE BOROUGH. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO WAS AT LAST NIGHT’S COUNCIL MEETING. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
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The Beaver County Humane Society spoke with Beaver County Radio Newsman Pat Septak about the man who found himself life-flighted to a Pittsburgh hospital after being attacked by a dog at the Aliquippa shelter on Tuesday. BCHS spokeswoman Susan Salyards says the incident, which occurred shortly after 6 p.m., began when a man came into the shelter at 394 Brodhead Road in Center Township to re-adopt a seven-year-old Shar-Pei mix he had surrendered in November…
Salyards says the man’s injuries are serious…
Salyards says an investigation into the incident is underway…
Staff and volunteers say they had no behavior issues or incidents with the dog while it was in their care. No word on the man’s condition this morning.
A home in New Castle went up in flames this morning. The fire broke out around 3:30 a.m. at the home along West Wabash Avenue. There were no reports of injuries. It’s believed the home was vacant. The cause of the fire has not been determined.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13TH, 2019
TODAY – CLOUDY. HIGH – 57.
TONIGHT – CLOUDY. LOW – 45.
THURSDAY – CLOUDY SKIES DURING THE MORNING HOURS
FOLLOWED BY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON.
HIGH – 65.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby scored twice during a furious second-period rally and Evgeni Malkin picked up two assists to reach 1,000 career points as the Pittsburgh Penguins edged the Washington Capitals 5-3 on Tuesday night.
Crosby picked up his 32nd and 33rd goals during a three-goal outburst over a span of 1:48 as Pittsburgh erased a two-goal deficit to take the lead on its way to snapping Washington’s seven-game winning streak. Jake Guentzel started Pittsburgh’s comeback with his team-leading 35th of the season. Phil Kessel and Jared McCann both added a goal and an assist for the Penguins, who have won six of eight.
Matt Murray stopped 38 shots as Pittsburgh topped the rival Capitals for the third time in four meetings this season.
Jakub Vrana scored twice for Washington. John Carlson collected his 11th and Alexander Ovechkin picked up an assist to become the 48th player in NHL history with 1,200 career points. Braden Holtby made 25 saves but briefly came undone during Pittsburgh’s flurry that turned a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 lead.
The reigning Stanley Cup champions came in riding a winning streak that vaulted them to the top spot in the Metropolitan Division and gave them some cushion in the claustrophobic jockeying for playoff position in the Eastern Conference.
Ten months removed from a dramatic Game 6 overtime victory in the conference semifinals last spring that served as the springboard to their first championship, the Capitals spent the first 30 minutes looking like a serious threat to make another deep run. They smothered Pittsburgh offensively and rode Vrana’s marksmanship and a bit of luck to a 2-0 lead.
Vrana’s wrist shot from the left circle whizzed over Murray’s glove with 32 seconds left in the first period. He scored again 9:36 into the second when his shot from low in the left circle smacked off Murray’s blocker, flipped up in the air, bounced off Murray’s back and then his right skate before trickling into the net.
All of Washington’s momentum vanished in a flash.
McCann started Pittsburgh’s rally by stripping Evgeny Kuznetzov high in the Washington zone before setting up Guentzel, who fired the puck into the empty net 12:37 into the second.
Crosby then got on the board 47 seconds later. Justin Schultz lobbed a flip pass out of the Pittsburgh zone and over the entirety of the neutral zone before it landed at the end of Crosby’s stick. Pittsburgh’s captain held off two defenders while slipping the puck between Holtby’s legs to tie it at 2.
Nicklas Backstrom was called for tripping Malkin shortly after Crosby evened it up, and Crosby capped Pittsburgh’s outburst by finishing off a perfectly executed tic-tac-toe that started with Malkin feeding it to Kessel, who then sent a cross-ice pass to Crosby for a one-timer.
Kessel’s second goal since Jan. 30 11:16 into the third period put Pittsburgh up 4-2. Malkin earned the secondary assist to join Crosby, Ovechkin and San Jose’s Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau as the only active members of the NHL’s 1,000-point club.
Carlson pulled Washington within 4-3 with just over six minutes to play but McCann’s empty-netter with 56 seconds left sealed Pittsburgh’s victory.
NOTES: Oshie’s two assists boosted his career total to 300. … Carl Hagelin, who helped the Penguins to consecutive Stanley Cups in 2016 and 2017, played 13:13 in his return to Pittsburgh. Hagelin was traded to Los Angeles in November before being sent to Washington at the trade deadline. … Penguins D Kris Letang missed his eighth straight game with an upper-body injury. … Pittsburgh F Zach Aston-Reese sat out with a lower-body injury. … The Penguins went 2 for 4 on the power play. Washington was 1 for 2 with the man advantage.
UP NEXT
Capitals: Continue a four-game road trip on Thursday in Philadelphia.
Penguins: Travel to Buffalo on Thursday to face the Sabres. Pittsburgh lost each of its first two meetings with Buffalo in overtime.
(Center Twp., Pa.) An incident occurred this evening, Tuesday March 12, 2019 in which a man was bitten by a dog that he had given up because he came upon hard times late last year. Below is a press release that was sent to Beaver County Radio by Susan Salyards , Executive Director of the Beaver County Humane Society.
Aliquippa, PA – The Beaver County Humane Society would like to confirm that earlier this evening, shortly after 6:00 PM, a dog-bite incident occurred at the Beaver County Humane Society, which is located at 3394 Brodhead Road in Center Township (Aliquippa), PA. First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with this person who sustained an injury and was life-flighted to a Pittsburgh hospital.
The safety of our guests, staff, volunteers, and animals is our #1 priority. We are taking this incident very seriously and working to investigate what happened to prevent a similar occurrence in the future.
Prior to the incident, this gentleman arrived at the shelter in the late afternoon to re-adopt the seven-year-old Shar-Pei mix who he surrendered to the shelter on November 30, 2018, after falling on hard times. Staff was told that he had raised the dog since it was a 4-week-old pup. The attack happened outside of the facility after the gentleman and his dog had exited the Beaver County Humane Society. While in our care, staff and volunteers had no behavior issues or incidents with the dog.
An after-action review is now taking place, and an investigation as to how the incident occurred is being conducted.
Stay tuned to Beaver County Radio for more information on this developing story.
Much of world bans Boeing jet involved in Ethiopia crash
By ELIAS MESERET and YIDNEK KIRUBEL Associated Press
HEJERE, Ethiopia (AP) — Much of the world, including the entire European Union, grounded the Boeing jetliner involved in the Ethiopian Airlines crash or banned it from their airspace Tuesday, leaving the United States as one of the few remaining operators of the plane involved in two deadly accidents in just five months.
Britain, France and Germany took steps to keep the Boeing 737 Max 8 out of the air, joining Asian and Middle Eastern governments and carriers that also gave in to safety concerns in the aftermath of Sunday’s crash, which killed all 157 people on board.
Indicating possible trouble with a reportedly damaged flight data recorder, British regulators said they based their decision on the fact that “we do not currently have sufficient information from the flight data recorder we have.”
Turkish Airlines, Oman, Norwegian Air Shuttle and South Korean airline Eastar Jet were among the latest carriers to halt use of the Boeing model. Ireland, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Australia and Singapore suspended all flights into or out of their cities.
A Turkish Airlines official said two Britain-bound planes returned to Istanbul after British airspace was closed to the aircraft. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
U.S.-based Boeing has said it has no reason to pull the popular aircraft from the skies. It does not intend to issue new recommendations about the aircraft to customers. Its technical team joined American, Israeli, Kenyan and other aviation experts in the investigation led by Ethiopian authorities.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it expects Boeing will soon complete improvements to an automated anti-stall system suspected of contributing to the deadly crash of another new Boeing 737 Max 8 in October.
Some U.S. airlines expressed support for the Boeing model, and American Airlines and Southwest continued flying them. A vice president for American, the world’s biggest carrier, which has 24 Max 8s, said they had “full confidence in the aircraft.”
Safety experts cautioned against drawing too many comparisons too soon with the Lion Air crash in Indonesia in October that killed 189 people.
But others in the U.S. began pressing for action.
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents more than 26,000 flight attendants at American Airlines, called on CEO Doug Parker to “strongly consider grounding these planes until an investigation can be performed.”
Consumer Reports called on airlines and the FAA to ground the jets until a thorough safety investigation is complete.
Even President Donald Trump weighed in, tweeting that additional “complexity creates danger” in modern aircraft and hinders pilots from making “split second decisions” to ensure passengers’ safety.
He did not specifically mention the crashes but said, “I don’t know about you, but I don’t want Albert Einstein to be my pilot.”
The Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed six minutes after taking off for Nairobi, killing people from 35 countries.
A pilot who saw the crash site minutes after the disaster told the AP that the plane appeared to have “slid directly into the ground.” Capt. Solomon Gizaw was among the first people dispatched to find the plane. The wreckage was discovered by Ethiopia’s air force.
“There was nothing to see,” he said. “It looked like the earth had swallowed the aircraft. … We were surprised!” He said it explained why rescue officials quickly sent bulldozers to begin digging out large pieces of debris.
Ethiopian Airlines, widely seen as Africa’s best-managed airline, grounded its remaining four 737 Max 8s until further notice. The carrier had been using five of the planes and was awaiting delivery of 25 more.
On Tuesday a group of officials from China, which also grounded planes, paused in their work at the scene to reflect with an offering of incense, fruit, bread rolls and a plastic container of the Ethiopian flatbread injera.
As the global team searched for answers, a woman stood near the crash site, wailing. Kebebew Legess said she was the mother of a young Ethiopian Airlines crew member among the dead.
“She would have been 25 years old but God would not allow her,” she wept. “My daughter, my little one.”
As night fell, Ethiopian Airlines offered no new updates on the investigation. An airline spokesman said victims’ remains should be identified in about five days.
Some insights into the disaster and its cause could take months, aviation experts said.
“The conclusions that will come out of its probe will be beneficial to the rest of the world,” Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Tuesday at a news conference with visiting French President Emmanuel Macron. “These types of accidents break everyone’s heart. I hope we will learn from this crash.”
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Meseret reported from Addis Ababa. Associated Press writers David Koenig in Houston and Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.
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Pennsylvania opens investigation into gas liquids pipeline
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s attorney general is opening an investigation into a $2.5 billion natural gas liquids pipeline across southern Pennsylvania that’s been plagued by spills of drilling fluid and improper construction methods.
Attorney General Josh Shapiro said on Twitter on Tuesday that his office is taking the investigation into the Mariner East 2 pipeline on a referral from Delaware County’s district attorney.
The pipeline has been operating for just over two months and is owned by Texas-based Energy Transfer.
The company’s pipelines in Pennsylvania include the Mariner East 1, 2 and 2X and have drawn millions in fines and several temporary shutdown orders from state agencies.
Meanwhile, Chester County’s district attorney is demanding documents from the company as part of a criminal investigation. Energy Transfer has said it is confident that it hasn’t violated criminal laws.
Dick’s to halt sales of rifles, ammo at 125 of its stores
CORAOPOLIS, Pa. (AP) — Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. said on Tuesday that it will stop selling hunting rifles and ammunition at 125 of its stores, replacing the gear with merchandise it believes will sell better at those locations.
CEO Edward Stack said the move comes after the sporting goods retailer replaced hunting merchandise in 10 of its stores in last year’s third quarter. Those stores posted strong sales and profit margin numbers in the fourth quarter, he said.
The hunting gear will be removed this year from 125 additional stores where it does not sell well, he said. It will be replaced with “merchandise categories that can drive growth, each based on the needs of that particular market,” he said in a conference call with analysts.
As of early February, the company operated 729 Dick’s Sporting Goods stores across the U.S.
Dick’s made headlines in 2018 when, in the aftermath of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, it banned the sale of assault-style rifles and the sale of all guns to anyone under 21.
The hunting-merchandise announcement came after the reported a dip in fourth-quarter sales and a soft profit forecast that sent Dick’s stock tumbling more than 10 percent.
It reported net income of net income of $102.6 million, or $1.07 a share. That was down from $116 million, or $1.11 a share, a year earlier. The results matched Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for earnings of $1.07 per share for the latest quarter.
The Coraopolis, Pennsylvania-based company posted revenue of $2.49 billion in the period, exceeding Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.48 billion. But that was down from $2.66 billion a year earlier.
It sales at stores opened at least a year — a key measure for retailers — fell 2.2 percent.
For the year, the company reported profit of $319.9 million, or $3.24 per share. Revenue was reported as $8.44 billion.
Dick’s expects full-year earnings to be $3.15 to $3.35 per share. The midpoint of that range is below Wall Street’s forecast of $3.33 a share, according to FactSet.
Its stock was down $4.20 to $34.69 in afternoon trading.
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A LOCAL REAL ESTATE AGENT WHO IS SEEKING THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR RECORDER OF DEEDS SAYS SHE NOW HAS MORE THAN ENOUGH SIGNATURES FOR HER NAME TO APPEAR ON THE BALLOT IN THE MAY PRIMARY. WE CAUGHT UP WITH DEE DIXON OF CENTER AS SHE DROPPED OFF HER NOMINATION PETITIONS AT THE BEAVER CONTY COURTHOUSE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
DIXON – WHO IS A MEMBER OF THE BEAVER COUNTY TAX-ASSESSMENT APPEALS BOARD – TELLS US SHE BELIEVES HER EXPERIENCE MAKES HER UNIQUELY QUALIFIED TO BE RECORDER OF DEEDS….
IF ELECTED, DIXON PLEDGES TO ENSURE THAT RECORD KEEPING IS ACCURATE, UP-TO-DATE AND ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC…
HERE’S WHAT DIXON TOLD US AS SHE DROPPED OFF HER NOMINATION PETITIONS AT THE BEAVER COUNTY COURTHOUSE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON…
AT LEAST 250 SIGNATURES ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE ONE’S NAME APPEAR ON THE BALLOT IN MAY. DIXON TELLS US SHE HAS MORE THAN 450 SIGNATURES TO SUPPORT HER CAMPAIGN.
