STATE REPRESENTATIVE ROB MATZIE HAD HIS BILL BRINGING MORE TRANSPARENCY TO THE PRACTICES OF PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS PASS THE HOUSE HEALTH COMMITTEE THIS WEEK. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, JUNE 14TH, 2019
TODAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 73.
TONIGHT – MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW – 55.
SATURDAY – CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESS. OCCASIONAL
RAIN SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH – 75.
SUNDAY – VARIABLE CLOUDS WITH SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS. STORMS MAY CONTAIN
STRONG GUSTY WINDS. HIGH – 77.
The City of New Brighton is honoring those who escaped slavery, by putting monuments at safe houses located in town. Beaver County Radio News Intern, Kristian Biega, has more…
County Commissioner, Sandie Egley, has said she would like to find a way to pay volunteers who take time out of their busy schedules to drive veterans to doctors appointments. Beaver County Radio News Intern, Christina Sainovich, has more on the story…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House’s two top Republicans are avoiding directly addressing whether it was appropriate for President Donald Trump to say he’d listen to damaging information from a foreign entity about a political opponent. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and No. 2 GOP leader Steve Scalise have separately told reporters Thursday that questions about that are hypothetical.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal watchdog agency is recommending that President Donald Trump fire one of his most ardent defenders, counselor Kellyanne Conway, for repeatedly violating a law that limits political activity by government workers. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel says Conway has been a “repeat offender” of the Hatch Act by disparaging Democratic presidential candidates while speaking in her official capacity. A White House spokesman called the agency’s decision “deeply flawed.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that if a foreign power offered dirt on his 2020 opponent, he’d be open to accepting it and that he’d have no obligation to call in the FBI.
“I think I’d want to hear it,” Trump said in an interview with ABC News, adding, “There’s nothing wrong with listening.”
The role of Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., in organizing a 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer offering negative information on Hillary Clinton was a focus of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian meddling in the last presidential campaign.
Mueller painstakingly documented Russian efforts to boost Trump’s campaign and undermine that of his Democratic rival. But while Mueller’s investigation didn’t establish a criminal conspiracy between Russia and Trump’s campaign, Trump repeatedly praised WikiLeaks in 2016 and celebrated information exposed by Russian hackers.
One of Trump’s challengers, former Vice President Joe Biden, tweeted: “President Trump is once again welcoming foreign interference in our elections. This isn’t about politics. It is a threat to our national security. An American President should not seek their aid and abet those who seek to undermine democracy.”
Several of Trump’s other Democratic opponents in the 2020 race, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Kirsten Gillibrand and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, repeated their calls to begin impeachment hearings in the wake of the president’s latest remarks.
Trump’s comments came just a month after he pledged not to use information stolen by foreign adversaries in his 2020 reelection campaign, even as he wrongly insisted he hadn’t used such information to his benefit in 2016.
During a question-and-answer session with reporters in the Oval Office in May, Trump said he “would certainly agree to” that commitment.
“I don’t need it,” he said as he met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. “All I need is the opponents that I’m looking at.”
Trump also insisted erroneously that he “never did use, as you probably know,” such information, adding: “That’s what the Mueller report was all about. They said no collusion.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers that Donald Trump Jr. should have called his agency to report the offer.
But Trump, who nominated Wray to the role in 2017, told ABC News that he disagrees. “The FBI director is wrong,” the president said. He added, “Life doesn’t work like that.”
Asked whether his advisers should accept information on an opponent from Russia, China or another nation or call the FBI this time, Trump said, “I think maybe you do both,” expressing openness to reviewing the information.
“I think you might want to listen,” he said. “There’s nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called, from a country — Norway — we have information on your opponent. Oh, I think I’d want to hear it.”
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The wife of former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz says he remains in guarded condition at a Boston hospital and “continues to heal and make progress.” Tiffany Ortiz in a statement released by the team Thursday also thanked Eliezer Salvador, the man who drove Ortiz to the hospital after Sunday night’s shooting in his native Dominican Republic, “and the medical staff at the Abel González Clinic who took care of him.
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man sentenced to death for raping, strangling and dismembering his girlfriend’s 14-year-old daughter has asked a judge to instead give him a life term. Jacob Sullivan pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and other offenses for killing Grace Packer in 2016 as part of a rape-murder fantasy he shared with the teen’s mother. Jurors told the judge during the deliberations they were unable to agree on imposing the death penalty, and his lawyers argued the judge forced jurors to keep deliberating.
A NEW BRIGHTON MAN FACES A HEARING IN BEAVER COUNTY COURT FOR AN INCIDENT INVOLVING A WEAPON IN ECONOMY BOROUGH. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS THE STORY. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
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