Amy Hubert from the Beaver Falls Beauty Academy joined Mike Romigh as a special guest on Teleforum Tuesday January 26, 2016. The Beaver Falls Beauty Academy offers training classes for students who wish to go on to careers in the cosmetology field. If you missed the program, it was truly a “thing of beauty” to tune in to!
(Beaver County, PA) Scott Gregory from the Milton Hershey School will appear on “A.M. Beaver County” Tomorrow morning, January 27, 2016 from 8:40 to 9:00 A.M. to discuss the Family informational meeting happening February 2, 2016 beginning at 6:00 P.M. at Fire Mountain in Chippewa. The event is to free to attend and at the gathering, Scott will talk about the educational opportunities that await area youth by looking into enrollment at Milton Hershey School. For more information, call The Milton Hershey School at 717-520-2000.
An 86-mile stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike will be closed tomorrow, according to the Turnpike Commission. The stretch will be closed for three hours, starting at 9 a.m. Closures will be between the Breezewood (Exit #161) and the New Stanton (Exit #75) interchanges. The closure is due to a tractor trailer that is over an embankment in Bedford County near milepost 156 on the turnpike. The accident happened over the weekend and crews believe they can safely retrieve the tractor trailer from over the embankment. Traffic will be offed at the Breezewood Interchange and will be able to re-enter the Turnpike at the New Stanton Interchange.
Public and Catholic schools in Philadelphia are shut down again today as the cleanup continues from last weekend’s snow storm. The storm has been blamed for at least 42 deaths, including an 18-year-old pregnant Pottstown woman who died after shoveling snow.
The 107-year-old Hulton Bridge over the Allegheny River was brought down this morning. Crews blocked off a safety zone around the span ahead of the 10 a-m implosion and stopped traffic for a time on the new bridge between suburban Harmar and Oakmont.
Today marks the first day that hopefuls for elective offices in Pennsylvania this year can begin gathering petition signatures to qualify for the April primary ballot. The deadline to submit signatures is February 16.
A local coach is reflecting on the life of a Geneva College soccer player who was killed in a weekend crash. The crash in Evans City involved four Geneva College students, leaving one dead and two others taken to hospitals Saturday night. Nate Ferraco and the other three students were on their way home from an indoor soccer league game, unaffiliated with the school, when the car hit a patch of ice. Two of the other three students in the car were taken to Allegheny General and Butler Hospitals…but all three are said to be doing okay this afternoon. Ferraco was a freshman soccer player for Geneva College. Gary Dunda – Mens soccer coach at Geneva – recruited Nate for the team last year and tells Beaver County Radio newsman Pat Septak that he knew Nate and his family very well and that he was a terrific person both on and off the field. Funeral services for Nate Ferraco are scheduled for Wednesday. Ferraco was a graduate of Penn Hills High School.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a Pennsylvania inmate’s appeal to consider banning the death penalty across the United States. The justices did not comment today in turning away a challenge from death row inmate Shonda Walter. Walter’s appeal plays off Justice Stephen Breyer’s call in an impassioned dissent in June to re-evaluate the death penalty in light of problems involving its imposition and use.
The state had at least one storm-related death…and that was reported in Dauphin County. A coroner tells WHTM-TV the Halifax man suffered a “cardiac event” Sunday while shoveling snow, dying before emergency crews could help him.
The cleanup continues across much of Pennsylvania following the weekend winter storm, with many schools and state offices in Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Reading all closed today. While highways are open, commuters are being warned to stay cautious because of possible black ice.