VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has issued a new law requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-ups by their superiors to church authorities. The church law is a groundbreaking new effort to hold the Catholic hierarchy accountable for failing to protect their flocks. It provides whistle-blower protections for anyone making a report and requires all dioceses around the world to have a system in place to receive the claims confidentially.

The Trump Administration has sent the city of Aliquippa some good news. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

CHALFONT, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania mother who prosecutors say killed her 11-week-old son with a lethal mix of drugs in her breast milk is not going to prison. Under terms of a plea agreement, a judge has sentenced 31-year-old Samantha Jones to three years’ probation and 100 hours of community service. An autopsy found the baby died in April 2018 from a combination of methadone, amphetamine and methamphetamine. Jones told police she had been prescribed methadone because of a painkiller addiction.

A task force that’s been looking into lead contamination across the state has turned in its report…and lawmakers are responding with a package of bills designed to keep Pennsylvanians, especially children, safe. Don Rooney has details…

 

LEGISLATION TO HONOR THE EFFORTS OF A LATE BEAVER COUNTY LEADER PASSED THE PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES YESTERDAY. HOUSE BILL 1281 WOULD OFFICIALLY DESIGNATE THE INTERSTATE 376 BRIDGE OVER THE OHIO RIVER IN VANPORT TOWNSHIP AS THE RICHARD L. SHAW MEMORIAL BRIDGE. SHAW – WHO PASSED AWAY DECEMBER 29TH, 2018 – WAS A WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN AND A LEADING FORCE IN THE DESIGNATION OF ROUTE 60 AS INTERSTATE 376, WHICH SPARKED SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN BEAVER COUNTY. STATE REPRESENTATIVE JOSH KAIL – AUTHOR OF THE LEGISLATION – TALKED ABOUT THAT ON ‘RAPPING WITH THE REPS’ WITH FRANK SPARKS ON TELEFORUM THIS MORNING…

HOUSE BILL 1281 NOW MOVES TO THE SENATE FOR CONSIDERATION. IF SIGNED INTO LAW, PENNDOT WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR POSTING SIGNS THAT NOTE THE DESIGNATION.

General Motors is in talks with a potential buyer for its shuttered Lordstown Assembly Plant. The automaker confirmed yesterday that Cincinnati-based Workhorse wants to buy the facility to produce a line of electric trucks. State and local officials say, however, it’s not a done deal, because it’s dependent on a vehicle order from the U.S. Postal Service and lawsuit by the United Auto Workers.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — About a dozen of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s senior aides are starting his second term with pay raises that range from $25,000 to $33,000. The recipients include members of the Democratic governor’s public relations staff and deputy chiefs of staff who coordinate between the governor’s office and various executive branch departments. Wolf’s office says he approved the raises late last year, after winning re-election.

The Ellwood City Area School District will have two armed school police officers at its buildings starting next school year.  Superintendent Joseph Mancini said Monday the district has been awarded a $156,400 grant from the School Safety and Security Committee of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency that will be paid over the next two years to cover the officers. Mancini said one officer will be stationed at Lincoln High School and the other will float between Hartman, North Side and Perry elementary schools.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, MAY 9TH, 2019

 

TODAY – CLOUDY SKIES THIS MORNING FOLLOWED BY
THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON.
HIGH – 82.

TONIGHT – THUNDERSTORMS. LOW – 64.

FRIDAY – SHOWERS AND A POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORM IN
THE MORNING WILL GIVE WAY TO CLOUDY SKIES
IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH NEAR 70.

SATURDAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 64.

SUNDAY – STEADY RAIN SHOWERS. HIGH – 58.