BEAVER COUNTY POLICE AND BLACKHAWK SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICIALS ARE INVESTIGATING TWO INCIDENTS INVOLVING STUDENTS – ONE OF WHICH INCLUDED A BB GUN.

ACCORDING TO DISTRICT OFFICIALS A HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT IS RECEIVING SUPPORT AND SERVICES AFTER CHIPPEWA POLICE WERE INFORMED OF COMMENTS MADE INVOLVING SELF-INJURY, HARMING OTHERS OR HARMING THE SCHOOL.

STUDENTS WERE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO SCHOOL THURSDAY AFTER CHIPPEWA POLICE INTERVENED BUT THEN DISTRICT OFFICIALS SAY CHIPPEWA AND DARLINGTON POLICE WERE CALLED ON THURSDAY AFTER REPORTS OF AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENT BRINGING A GUN TO A BUS STOP. THE GUN WAS DETERMINED TO BE A BB GUN.

UNDER SCHOOL CODE STUDENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED TO HAVE ANY TYPE OF WEAPON FROM THE TIME THEY LEAVE THEIR HOUSE UNTIL THEY RETURN HOME AFTER THE SCHOOL DAY. OFFICIALS HAVE STATED THAT THE STUDENT WILL BE DISCIPLINED. THE DISTRICT ISSUED A STATEMENT THAT:

“We are again thankful to all students, families, staff members, and community members who report concerns to the police department and/or the school district to ensure our students and staff are safe.”

WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, MAY 17TH, 2019

TODAY – PARTLY CLOUDY WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE.
HIGH 75.

TONIGHT – OVERCAST WITH A STRAY SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLE. LOW 54.

SATURDAY – CLOUDY WITH A STRAY SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLE.
HIGH AROUND 85. LOW AROUND 65.

SUNDAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH MORE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
POSSIBLE. HIGH 87. LOW 65.

Residents were evacuated for more than an hour earlier this morning while fire crews responded to a fire inside of an apartment building in Aliquippa. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

A fire was confined to Apt. 207 at Tower Apts. on Franklin Avenue at 2 a.m. this morning.  Fire Chief Dave Foringer said that no other apartments were affected.  The fire chief said  there  was smoke damage. The fire is under investigation.

 

 

 

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Opponents of Alabama’s new abortion ban plan a Sunday afternoon rally at the state Capitol. Organizers of the March for Reproductive Freedom say “people should have the right to make the decisions that are best for their bodies without state interference.” They plan to march to the Capitol steps at 4 p.m. on Sunday. Similar marches are planned in Birmingham and Huntsville.

HARRISON CITY, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania school district is defending itself after video surfaced of a safety drill that had a teacher posing as a shooter and donning what appeared to be a Middle Eastern headdress. The video appears to show the actor wearing a kaffiyeh. The Penn-Trafford School District said Wednesday that organizers didn’t intend to portray the shooter as Arab or Muslim at the January training.

THE ALIQUIPPA SCHOOL DISTRICT’S TENTATIVE BUDGET WAS PRESENTED TO THE SCHOOL BOARD LAST NIGHT. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO WAS THERE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

UNDATED (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden is choosing Philadelphia to base his 2020 presidential campaign, opting for his native Pennsylvania over the state of Delaware that sent him to the Senate for 36 years. The choice is both practical and symbolic for Biden. Philadelphia is convenient to his homes in Wilmington, Delaware, and northern Virginia. The site of the nation’s founding also highlights Biden’s campaign promise to “restore the soul of this nation” as he hammers President Donald Trump.

THE PENNSYLVANIA GAMING CONTROL
BOARD WEDNESDAY HIT HOLDINGS
ACQUISITIONS CO., OPERATOR OF THE
RIVERS CASINO, WITH $90 THOUSAND
DOLLARS IN FINES FOR SEVEN
INSTANCES OF INDIVIDUALS UNDER THE
AGE OF 21 ACCESSING THE CASINO,
GAMBLING AND EVEN CONSUMING
ALCOHOL. REPORTS STATE THAT THE
INDIVIDUALS RANGED IN AGE FROM 17
TO 20 AND SIX OF THE SEVEN DRANK
ALCOHOL IN ADDITION TO PLAYING
SLOTS AND/OR TABLE GAMES.

Two more measles cases are being confirmed in Allegheny County. The Health Department announced today that two unvaccinated adults caught the disease from two other family members already identified as having the measles. The family has been under quarantine so there’s no additional risks of public exposure. The latest two cases bring the total number of cases in the county to seven, six of which are from the same family.

Two young girls remain hospitalized after a crash in New Castle. Police say the one- and three-year-old girls were in an SUV that was hit, broadside, by another vehicle yesterday on Jefferson Street and flipped over. There were no reports of other injuries or charges.