Pennsylvanians are getting closer to gaining the right to hunt on Sundays. The state game code still bans such activity, but a state Senate committee voted yesterday and by an eight-to-three count moved a bill forward that would authorize the Game Commission to strike down the restriction. The bill now heads to the Senate floor, and if approved there goes to the state House of Representatives. If the House passes the bill, it comes down to Governor Tom Wolf to possibly sign it into law.

Jerry Sandusky is getting a new sentencing hearing. The former Penn State defensive coordinator is going to be resentenced for a 45-count conviction on child sexual abuse charges. The state Superior Court ruled Tuesday the 75-year-old was improperly sentenced using mandatory minimums. Sandusky was sentenced in 2012 for up to 60 years in prison for the sexual abuse of ten boys.

Here is some local reaction to the governor’s speech yesterday from those on the other side of the aisle in Beaver County. Rep. Jim Marshall says he is Cautiously Optimistic about the Governor’s Budget Address…

…and Rep. Josh Kail says he is Concerned over Funding Sources for Governor’s Budget Proposal…

Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year would raise the minimum wage, increase education funding and institute a severance tax on natural gas extraction. Andrea Sears has details in this report from Harrisburg…

THIS JUST IN: LETTERS OF INTENT HAVE BEEN SIGNED BY 3 ALIQUIPPA HIGH SCHOOL STANDOUTS. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

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A 15-YEAR-OLD BOY HAS BEEN CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH A THREAT MADE AGAINST CENTRAL VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS THE STORY. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

A Cranberry Township EMS worker is being accused of secretly recording women in a restroom.  Police say Matt Leonard hid a camera inside the women’s restroom at the EMS headquarters, capturing images of at least four victims.  Leonard has been suspended without pay from his job as a medic while he faces a host of charges.

A woman is facing charges after overdosing while caring for her four kids in Beaver Falls. Kelly McDonald was charged last Friday after police found her unconscious at an apartment on the 32-hundred block of Fourth Avenue. Police say they used Narcan to revive the 33-year-old, who then admitted to snorting heroin. All four of the children in the apartment were under the age of 12.

A man is facing charges for providing a deadly dose of drugs to a man he was with in an Ambridge hotel. Zachary Cymbalak was charged Monday after he and the victim were reportedly doing heroin in the hotel January 6th. Police say Cymbalak called 911 while the other man was overdosing and would have avoided charges if he had stayed with the victim, under Pennsylvania’s Good Samaritan Law.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6TH, 2019

 

TODAY – AREAS OF PATCHY FOG THIS MORNING. PERIODS
OF RAIN. HIGH – 54.

TONIGHT – AREAS OF FOG. LOW – 46.

THURSDAY – SHOWERS EARLY MORNING…BECOMING A
STEADY RAIN LATER IN THE DAY. HIGH – 62.