THE HOPEWELL COMMISSIONERS HAVE APPROVED THE FIVE POINTS ISLAND PROPOSAL. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
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According to the week’s Triple-A East Central Gas Price report The average price of gasoline across Western Pennsylvania held steady this week at $2.79 per gallon. With an eight-cent jump on the week, at $2.62, the national average continues to trend more expensive since mid-February. Increasing demand and tightening gasoline stocks have been helping to drive prices upward, and with spring around the corner, motorists could see prices increase further in the weeks ahead as demand continues to increase. The price a year ago in Western Pennsylvania was 2.77.
Following recent incidents where people have opened fire at township meetings, a state Senator has introduced legislation that would allow local municipalities to restrict firearms at their facilities. Don Rooney has more…
A program which encourages families start saving for a newborn’s future post-secondary education is now statewide. The Keystone Scholars Program provides $100 to every child born in Pennsylvania or adopted by a PA family on or after January 1st, 2019 to be used for the child’s post-secondary education when the time comes. Legislation expanding the program was passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Wolf last June.
Lawmakers, students and supporters of improving workforce development programs rallied in Harrisburg on Monday to acknowledge the successful passage of a Good Jobs for Pennsylvania package of legislation by the full House…and, as it turns out, Beaver County played a prominent role in that rally. The 11-bill package would help match up interested students and individuals with the best training for their career paths. The bipartisan, career and technical education (CTE) package includes measures to address workforce shortages in business and industry, strengthen educational partnerships with employers, increase access to career oriented technical training and alleviate misperceptions regarding vocational education programs. House Speaker Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) pointed to the forthcoming Shell Cracker Plant in Potter Township as an example of why he supports this package…
A freshman Republican state representative’s opening prayer in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is drawing complaints that it was inappropriately divisive. Rep. Stephanie Borowicz began the day’s session Monday with a Christian invocation that thanked Jesus for the honor and President Donald Trump for standing “behind Israel unequivocally.” Democratic Leader Frank Dermody called Borowicz’s invocation beneath the dignity of the state House.
The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office has charged a co-founder and former executives of an addiction treatment firm and accused them of profiting off addicts by fraudulently billing insurance companies for tens of millions of dollars. The charges announced Monday by Attorney General Josh Shapiro against 11 people and nine corporations focus on Liberation Way, a for-profit treatment company. The firm that bought a majority stake in Liberation Way in 2017 says the staff has been overhauled.
The foreman of a jury that acquitted a white Pennsylvania police officer of homicide says the Michael Rosfeld didn’t know the black teen he shot was unarmed. Juror Jesse Rawls Sr. says Antwon Rose II and another occupant who ran “brought it on themselves.” He says the then-East Pittsburgh officer knew there had just been a drive-by shooting. Hundreds of high school and college students protested the verdict Monday in downtown Pittsburgh.
A Pittsburgh mom faces felony child endangerment charges after her 3-year-old daughter was found standing outside nearly naked in near-freezing conditions. Pittsburgh police say a subsequent investigation determined the girl and her two siblings _ an infant and a 6-year-old _ were living in filthy conditions in a rowhouse. Authorities say a passing motorist called 911 after seeing the girl standing on the sidewalk in front of the rowhouse on March 18 with only a towel covering her.
A Chippewa Township woman accused of dumping the body of a drug overdose victim in White Township was sentenced in the case. 37 year old Carly Wiley pleaded no contest and was sentenced to spend 11 months in jail followed by two years probation. Wiley was one of two people charged Aug. 31 with dumping the body of 29-year-old Ryan Chiappetta in his vehicle in White Township after he died of a drug overdose at Wiley’s Chippewa Township house.
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