The Pennsylvania House is linking a pair of bills designed to address child sexual abuse so one can’t be approved while the other languishes without action. The House voted unanimously Tuesday to keep a bill eliminating the statute of limitation for child sexual abuse crimes from taking effect before both legislative chambers have begun to move a related constitutional amendment.

A state lawmaker continues his push to bring back annual registration stickers on license plates. Representative Barry Jozwiak says when PennDOT stopped issuing the stickers many drivers stopped registering their vehicles. Jozwiak says PennDOT lost 22-million-dollars in registration renewals while they saved about three-million dollars in the annual savings of production costs.

Two state senators screened a video at the Capitol in Harrisburg that they say shows the flaws in Pennsylvania’s practice of sentencing inmates to life without parole. Don Rooney has more…

A bill that strips guns from domestic abusers is going into law today. Known as Act 79, the law is intended to protect victims of domestic violence. The law requires abusers who have been the subject of protection orders to turn in any guns while those orders are in effect, and they are further prohibited from possessing guns. Governor Tom Wolf says the law will both protect victims of domestic abuse and hold abusers accountable for their actions.

Police charged two men with breaking into One Stop Shopper earlier this year and stealing cash and cigarettes in Darlington. 19 year old Nicholas Myers of Darlington Township and 18 year old Jarrod Westover of Lisbon, Ohio, were charged by Darlington Township police with burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary, criminal trespass, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief. The incident took place back in January.

State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe is calling for Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto to be impeached…after Peduto signed the controversial gun legislation into law Tuesday. Metcalfe tweeted Tuesday afternoon, saying, “I just asked our attorney to have a resolution drafted to IMPEACH the Mayor of Pittsburgh for his illegal gun control ordinances!” Peduto fired back, pointing out multiple failed bills Metcalfe has supported in the past and asking “do you really want to go 0-5?”

A lawsuit backed by the National Rifle Association has been filed in opposition to Pittsburgh’s new gun-control laws. Four Pittsburgh residents are suing the city, Mayor Bill Peduto and the City Council. The suit says the legislation Peduto signed into law Tuesday infringes on the people’s right of self-defense and will do nothing to prevent mass shootings like the one that killed 11 at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue last fall. City officials say they’ll fight the suits.

Victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue attack that killed 11 people last year will be remembered during a memorial service in the Pennsylvania Capitol. The unusual joint session Wednesday will bring together the House and the Senate for prayers and speeches about the Oct. 27 shooting at the Tree of Life. Members of all three congregations that were holding services that day are expected to attend. A truck driver named Robert Bowers faces charges for the attack.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10TH, 2019

TODAY – A MIX OF CLOUDS AND SUN. HIGH – 56.

TONIGHT – CLOUDY SKIES. LOW NEAR 40.

THURSDAY – MORE CLOUDS THAN SUN. HIGH – 68.

Deer hunting opening day moving to Saturday from Monday
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Deer hunting season in Pennsylvania will be starting on a Saturday rather than a Monday beginning next season.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission voted 5-3 Tuesday to move opening day of deer rifle season to the first Saturday after thanksgiving.
Rifle season for hunting deer in Pennsylvania has kicked off the Monday after Thanksgiving since 1963. The change expands the firearms season to 13-days, including three Saturdays rather than two.
Supporters hope a Saturday opening will bring back people struggling to find time to hunt and help high school and college hunters who don’t get opening day off from school. Opponents said the change would interfere with hunting camp traditions and complicate travel during the Thanksgiving weekend.
To accommodate the expanded deer season, the late November turkey hunting season has been reduced by two days.
The commission also approved:
— expanding the mid-October muzzleloader and special firearms deer seasons to include bears;
— an expanded two-week archery bear season;
— expanding the bear season from four to seven days in most wildlife management units;
—expanding the late archery and flintlock deer seasons by more than a week, to end on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday; and
— establishing a September archery season and a January antlerless season for elk hunters.
The board gave preliminary approval to the proposals in January.