STATE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED AN ALIQUPPA MAN ON FIREARM AND DRUG CHARGES. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS DETAILS. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

Volunteer firefighters across Pennsylvania are getting a share of more than 55-million dollars for new equipment, training, and member’s insurance. Auditor General Eugene DePasquale announced Tuesday more than 25-hundred municipalities will get part of the fire relief association funding. Beaver County volunteer firefighters relief associations will receive about 720-thousand dollars in funding. The money is generated from a two-percent tax on fire insurance premiums purchased by state residents from out-of-state companies.

A Beaver Falls man is found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman for more than a decade. The judge announced the verdict against 49-year-old Richard Holewski Tuesday and sent him to the Beaver County Jail to await sentencing in February. Holewski is accused of assaulting a girl starting when she was seven-years-old, continuing into her 20s.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14TH, 2018

TODAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 36.

TONIGHT – CLOUDY SKIES OVERNIGHT. LOW – 28.

THURSDAY – LIGHT FREEZING RAIN IN THE MORNING
CHANGING TO RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON.
HIGH – 35.

An Ambridge man is accused of intimidating a witness following his preliminary hearing last month. Xavier Hightower reportedly shouted to a woman that he would choke her as they left a hearing October 30th. The hearing was reportedly over allegations the 25-year-old punched a woman after an argument during a youth football game in August.

A Beaver man is facing child pornography charges. Casey Jones was charged after allegedly sending two videos to an undercover state trooper over Bit Torrent. The 30-year-old was arrested later at his home in the one-thousand-block of Seventh Street. Jones is free on ten-thousand-dollars bail.

THE FREEDOM AREA SCHOOL BOARD IS SEEKING TO REPLACE A MEMBER WHO RECENTLY RESIGNED. ALAN COLORITO – THE FORMER TREASURER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD – RESIGNED HIS POSITION AT A MEETING LAST WEEK. THE DISTRICT IS NOW SEEKING APPLICANTS TO REPLACE COLORITO. ANYONE INTERESTED IN APPLYING MUST HAVE LIVED IN THE DISTRICT FOR AT LEAST ONE YEAR, AND MUST BE 18 YEARS OR OLDER. THEY MUST SUBMIT A LETTER OF INTEREST AND RESUME TO SUPERINTENDENT JEFF FULLER AT 1702 SCHOOL DISTRICT IN FREEDOM. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY NOVEMBER 27TH. THE BOARD IS EXPECTED TO MAKE A DECISION ON THE NEW MEMBER IN DECEMBER. THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL SERVE UNTIL DECEMBER OF 2019.