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BREAKING NEWS: Firefighters Battle Fire At Independence Township Home

BREAKING NEWS: Firefighters are working to put out flames at a home in Independence Township. Flames broke out just after 10:00 this morning at the home along Route 30. Investigators say two people were inside the house when the fire started. A husband and wife got out of the home and are being treated at a local hospital. Investigators haven’t said what started the fire. This breaking news report brought to you by…

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Ambridge School Board Approves Addition Of A Middle School; Addresses Issue Of School Security

The Ambridge School Board has approved the addition of a middle school…and is also addressing the issue of school security in the wake of the Florida school shooting earlier this month. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano was at last night’s school board meeting and filed this report. Click ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

 

Penquins trade Josh Jooris from the Hurricanes!!!

The Pittsburgh Penguins have acquired forward Josh Jooris from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for Greg McKegg, it was announced today by Penguins executive vice president and general manager Jim Rutherford.

Jooris is signed through the remainder of this season, and he carries an average annual value of $775,000. He will be an unrestricted free agent.

The Penguins re-assigned Jooris to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the AHL.

Jooris, 27, has skated in 31 games with Carolina this year, producing three goals, three assists and six points. He played against the Pens in Pittsburgh’s 6-1 win on Friday night.

Earlier this month, the 6-foot-1, 197-pound Jooris suited up for five American Hockey League games with the Charlotte Checkers, picking up three assists.

A native of Burlington, Ontario, Jooris has played four seasons in the NHL with Carolina, the New York Rangers, Arizona and Calgary. He has 23 goals, 32 assists and 55 points in 204 career NHL contests. His best season came as a rookie with Calgary in 2014-15 when he had 24 points (12G-12A) in 60 regular-season games, then skated in nine playoff games.

Jooris, a righthanded shot, played three years of college hockey at Union College before turning pro.

New York remembers 1993 World Trade Center bombing

New York remembers 1993 World Trade Center bombing
By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The World Trade Center’s operating agency issued an apology on Monday at a solemn commemoration of the trade center’s deadly 1993 bombing, saying the agency and the country was wholly unprepared for an event that became a precursor to 9/11.
The apology came on the 25th anniversary of the blast, which killed six people, one of them pregnant. The commemoration included a Mass at a church near the trade center and a ceremony on the 9/11 memorial plaza.
“We were not ready for what visited us that day,” Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Chairman Kevin O’Toole said at the ground zero ceremony. “America was not ready for what visited them that day. And for that, I say: I’m sorry.”
The ceremony also included a reading of victims’ names and a moment of silence at 12:18 p.m., when the bomb exploded and became a harbinger of more terror at the twin towers eight years later.
The attention surrounding the 25th anniversary is “long overdue,” said Judy Shirtz, sister-in-law of Stephen Knapp, who feels that the loss of families like hers has been overshadowed by 9/11 and its far greater toll.
“It happened to us first, it shouldn’t have happened again, and it did,” she said.
“While overshadowed by 9/11, the 1993 bombing represented a pivotal moment in the history of the World Trade Center, in the history of New York City, and, frankly, our own national reckoning with terrorism in a global age,” said Sept. 11 museum president Alice Greenwald, whose institution has a permanent exhibition on the bombing and a special installation to commemorate the anniversary. “It had so many of the elements that we would later come to associate with 9/11.”
The bomb, in an underground parking garage, was set by Muslim extremists who sought to punish the U.S. for its Middle East policies, according to federal prosecutors. Six bombing suspects were convicted and are in prison, including accused ringleader Ramzi Yousef — a nephew of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. A seventh suspect in the bombing remains at large.
An estimated 50,000 people fled the blacked-out twin towers, some groping their way down smoky stairs, others rescued from stalled elevators or plucked from rooftops by police helicopters. More than 1,000 were injured.
A memorial fountain dedicated to the 1993 bombing was crushed in the attacks that destroyed the towers on Sept. 11, 2001. But bombing victims’ names are now inscribed on one of the memorial pools that bear the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed on 9/11.

Student tried to enter school with loaded handgun in Philadelphia

Police: Student tried to enter school with loaded handgun
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say a student tried to enter a Philadelphia high school with a stolen .40-caliber handgun loaded with a dozen rounds.
Capt. Sekou Kinebrew said Monday it’s unclear why the student had the gun, which was found when the bag was scanned just after 7:30 a.m. Monday at Samuel Fels High School in northeast Philadelphia.
The school was placed on lockdown. There were no injuries. Kinebrew said the student faces weapons charges.
Kinebrew says the gun had been reported stolen from a car near the home of the student, who had no disciplinary problems or known issues with classmates. Kinebrew said he may have had the gun in the bag to conceal it from his parents.