Senior citizens are rallying at the Pennsylvania Statehouse today, calling on state lawmakers to pass several bills to ease the burden of soaring prescription drug costs. Andrea Sears reports…
“Equal pay for equal work” is something a lot of businesses in Pennsylvania still don’t provide. A couple of state Senators have introduced legislation to change that. Don Rooney has details…
An out of town restaurant group has plans to open a huge fried chicken food and beer hall in Downtown Pittsburgh. It’ll be called The Eagle. The Cincinnati-based restaurant has signed a lease to occupy 6,000 square feet of retail space Downtown at Eighth & Penn, the branding for the location under construction. The restaurant is on track to open in October or November.
Deer hunting season is being pushed back this year. The Pennsylvania Game Commission voted 5-3 today to move the opening day to the first Saturday after Thanksgiving, beginning this upcoming season. The changes are reportedly being made in order to stay up to date with the shifting in hunting demographics and to create more opportunities for hunters.
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?”