WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH, 2019
TODAY – A MIX OF CLOUDS AND SUN WITH GUSTY WINDS.
HIGH – 34.
TONIGHT – MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW – 16.
SATURDAY – SUNNY SKIES. HIGH – 28.
SUNDAY – CLOUDY. SNOW SHOWERS DEVELOPING IN THE
AFTERNOON. HIGH – 37.
AN AMBRIDGE MAN IS FACING A HEARING ON DRUG CHARGES. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
A retired Aliquippa girls basketball coach will be honored tonight. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
THIS WEEKEND’S BEAVER COUNTY SNOW SHOVEL RIDING CHAMPIONSHIP HAS BEEN MOVED TO NEXT SATURDAY – FEBRUARY 16th, WEATHER PERMITTING. THE EVENT WILL BE HELD AT OLD ECONOMY PARK, JUST OFF ROUTE 989 IN ECONOMY BOROUGH. ANYONE CAN ENTER AND THERE IS NO REGISTRATION FEE. REGISTRATION FOR THE EVENT IS HELD ON THE SATURDAY OF THE EVENT BETWEEN 11 AND 12 NOON IN THE MAINTENANCE BUILDING AT THE PARK ACROSS FROM THE BARN. BEAVER COUNTY RECREATION & TOURISM DIRECTOR TIM ISHMAN SAYS A DECISION EACH WEEK IS MADE BEFORE 12 NOON EACH THURSDAY.
Governor Tom Wolf is teaming up with the Pittsburgh Penguins to expand science and technology education…
The day after unveiling a plan to create the strongest workforce in the nation, Governor Wolf was joined by Penguins President and CEO David Morehouse to announce a $442,000 PAsmart advancing grant has been awarded to the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation…
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is revamping city policies to try to limit the number of children arrested and held in custody. Krasner, a longtime civil rights lawyer, joins a wave of progressive prosecutors trying to address the “school-to-prison” pipeline that emerged in the 1990s. He says that punitive approach did far more harm than good. Philadelphia now holds about 500 juveniles each day in detention centers across the state and beyond. They can cost $200,000 a year or more.
A Pennsylvania casino has been fined more than $250,000 after a customer was served eight drinks in less than two hours and killed a jogger while driving home. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board approved the fine against Mount Airy Casino Resort on Wednesday. A consent agreement says a server gave Marc Graves five beers and three shots of liquor while he played poker in February 2018.
SOME GOOD ECONOMIC NEWS OUT OF AMBRIDGE THIS MORNING: TMK IPSCO LAST YEAR SET A NEW PRODUCTION RECORD FOR ITS HARMONY TOWNSHIP PLANT…ONE YEAR AFTER SETTING A NEW RECORD FOR 2017. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE…
The Beaver County Commissioners took to the Beaver County Radio airwaves this morning to speak out against a recent court settlement requiring that new voting machines be purchased by the next presidential election. According to county officials, there is no avoiding a state mandate to make all voting machines have a paper trail by 2020. The commissioners have been told that the required purchase is tied to a settlement of a lawsuit filed against the state over the 2016 presidential election. This morning during the ‘Ask the Commissioners’ segment during Teleform, Commissioner Tony Amadio called the whole thing ‘unconsionable’…
Commissioners Sandie Egley said that she doesn’t see how the machines could be tampered with under the current system…
Commissioner Sandie Egley suggested the issue could be solved another way…
WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 7TH, 2019
TODAY – FOG WITH RAIN DEVELOPING. A RUMBLE OR TWO
OF THUNDER IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON.
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES EXPECTED.
HIGH – 61.
TONIGHT – CLOUDY WITH POSSIBLE RAIN…MAINLY THIS
EVENING. A THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLE. LOW
NEAR 30.
FRIDAY – PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES WITH GUSTY WINDS.
HIGHER WIND GUSTS POSSIBLE. HIGH – 34.
SATURDAY – SOME CLOUDS IN THE MORNING WILL GIVE
WAY TO MAINLY SUNNY SKIES FOR THE
AFTERNOON. HIGH – 28.
SUNDAY – CLOUDY SKIES WITH AFTERNOON SNOW
SHOWERS. HIGH – 37.