Two state senators are proposing a bill that would extend family medical leave rights. Senators Tom Killion and Andy Dinniman say their measure would provide up to six weeks of protected but unpaid leave for someone to care for a terminally ill family member, including a sibling, grandparent, or grandchild. Dinniman says they’re working to make this bill specific and as business friendly as possible.

A state lawmaker is pushing legislation aimed at preventing lawmakers who are convicted of breaking the law from keeping their pension. State Senator John DiSanto says he wants to revive a bill that passed the Senate but stalled in the House last year mandating crime reporting to the State Employees’ Retirement System and the Public School Employees’ Retirement System.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro says his office is still getting complaints about Verizon Communications. Shapiro filed a lawsuit last week saying the company didn’t deliver on promised incentives for some two-year contracts. Since filing the suit and receiving assurances from the company that the problems are behind them, Shapiro says he’s gotten dozens of calls saying that isn’t the case.

 

A New Brighton man says he’s one step closer to reopening a Beaver Falls wave pool Tyrone Zeigler says he’s raised the 15-grand needed to conduct a feasibility study outlining the work needed to reopen the Tigerland Wave Pool. The Beaver County Times says the study is a requirement for any grant the 40-year-old may apply for to fund the work. The pool closed in 2002 because the needed repairs were said to be too expensive. Zeigler believes it will take at least 500-grand to reopen the pool.

The Beaver County Commissioners are approving the purchase of new Tasers for its county deputies. On Wednesday, the commissioners gave the green light to the purchase of 41 new Tasers for 68-thousand-dollars. Currently, the deputies have six working tasers that were purchased in either 2007 or 2014.

Authorites have charged a North Sewickley Township man of assaulting a woman while driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Christopher Cordavino was charged Sunday after the attack. The 22-year-old and the victim had been at Rivers Casino before Cordavino drove them home. The victim suffered a broken nose and other bruising. Cordavino is free after posting 100-thousand-dollars bond.

Police have arrested a New Sewickley Township man for allegedly selling liquid marijuana to teenagers. Township police arrested John Abmayer the Third this week for possession and distribution. Abmayer is accused of peddling liquids with high concentrations of THC to kids who would use them for vaping.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2019

 

TODAY – A MIX OF CLOUDS AND SUN AND A HIGH OF 43.

TONIGHT – OVERCAST. LOW – 27.

FRIDAY – CLOUDY. HIGH – 42.

SATURDAY – CLOUDY. HIGH – 48.

SUNDAY – SHOWERS IN THE MORNING AND WINDY IN THE
AFTERNOON. A MORNING HIGH OF 53 WITH
TEMPS FALLING TO NEAR 40.

Pennsylvania’s top elections officials is warning that failing to replace voting machines by 2020 could put the state in the position of being the only one without a voter-verifiable paper trail. Kathy Boockvar, Pennsylvania’s acting state secretary, also told senators Wednesday during an Appropriations Committee hearing that election-security experts agree that moving to voting machines that allow voters to double-check how their vote was recorded needs to happen by next year.

AN ALIQUIPPA WOMAN IS CHARGED IN A NEW BRIGHTON STABBING. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS DETAILS. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…