UNDATED (AP) — Immigration is expected to dominate policy discussions as Democratic presidential candidates gather in Miami for the opening round of 2020 primary debates this week. A tough underlying question is how to advance the issue beyond simply opposing what President Donald Trump’s administration has done. Trump sees immigration as a winner and has maintained a hard-line stance, but those Democrats trying to deny him a second term have been playing defense rather than offering lasting solutions.

HOUSTON (AP) — The acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection says he’s stepping down amid outrage over his agency’s treatment of detained migrant children. John Sanders said in a message to CBP employees Tuesday that he would resign on July 5. CBP is the agency that apprehends and first detains migrant parents and children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

CRESCENT, Pa. (AP) — Police say a homeowner in western Pennsylvania shot and killed a man who forced his way into his home. Allegheny County police say it happened just after midnight Tuesday in Crescent Township when a 22-year-old went to the home and asked if a person was there. Police say the 59-year-old homeowner told the man no such person lived there. Police say the younger man forced his way into the home and the homeowner opened fire with a handgun, killing the intruder. No charges have been filed.

A Michigan man is lucky to be alive after getting electrocuted, especially considering he was dead for 20 minutes before several shocks to his heart jolted him back to life. And after another jolt from the defibrillator, 20-year-old Michael Truitt came back. Truitt had been working with his stepdad at a home in Livonia when a metal ladder he was carrying touched a live electrical wire. He said he doesn’t remember anything past that, but the homeowner called 911 and started CPR. It took about four minutes for paramedics to arrive and they attempted to revive him with the defibrillator while en route to the hospital, but he never regained a heartbeat in the ambulance. Truitt was ‘dead’ for 20 minutes before being brought back to live thanks to a dedicated team at Beaumont Hospital. The only lasting injury Pruitt has from the ordeal is in his toes, where the voltage electricity exited through his body.

THE HOPEWELL AREA SCHOOL BOARD HAS ADOPTED ITS 2019-2020 BUDGET. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS DETAILS. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

The quack, quack, quack fun is over — Pittsburgh’s Just Ducky Tours, based in Station Square, has canceled its 2019 season. For 22 years, eight amphibious boats gave visitors a one-hour sightseeing tour of Pittsburgh. Michael Cohen – who started the business in 1997 with a friend – blames the loss on last summer’s accident involving a duck boat that occurred last year on Table Rock Lake in Missouri in which 17 people died. Despite warnings, the boat was caught in a thunderstorm that produced 60 mph hour winds and three-foot waves. The boat sank; the victims ranged in age from 1 to 70. The Table Rock Lake accident was the sixth involving a duck boat since 1999, including one in Philadelphia in 2010 in which two people died on the Delaware River. Cohen said he learned in January that their insurance company would not renew them, even thought they never had a fatality or a major accident. To stay in business, he said, Just Ducky Tours would have had to pay a 120 percent increase in its insurance premium. The company’s 50 employees were laid off in September. Cohen hopes to find someone local to buy the business.

The initial 2019 Pennsylvania Budget approved by a House committee does not include funding for the General Assistance program.  As Don Rooney reports, some state Senators are calling for that funding to be restored…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania lawmakers say they’ll authorize a second year of school and community security grants, a $60 million program spurred by last year’s Florida school shooting that killed 17 people. Republican lawmakers said Monday that a newly unveiled compromise budget package will keep the program intact for the coming school year. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf had proposed a second year at $45 million.

THE BEAVER COUNTY PROPERTY REASSESSMENT IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY 2023. COUNTY SOLICITORS MET FRIDAY WITH BEAVER COUNTY JUDGE DALE FOUSE FOR A STATUS CONFERENCE ON A COURT-ORDERED TAX REASSESSMENT. FOUSE ORDERED THAT THE COUNTY ENTER INTO A CONTRACT FOR THE REASSESSMENT BY JANUARY 15TH, 2020.

(Photos of Hopewell Township Manager Jamie Yurcina taken by Sandy Giordano)

THE HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP COMMISSIONERS HAVE APPROVED THE LOCATION OF A NEW AMPHITHEATER. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO WAS AT LAST NIGHT’S MEETING. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…