There’s been no letup in the fighting over a state budget. The GOP-controlled House yesterday voted to stop Governor Tom Wolf’s use of a formula targeting extra school subsidies to districts hardest-hit by past spending cuts. Republican lawmakers say Wolf lacks authority for the move.

Tonight is the big night. Not a presidential debate or a State of the Union address, but the estimated $1.5 billion Powerball drawing – the largest lottery jackpot in the world. The jackpot started at $40 million on Nov. 4, but no one has matched all six Powerball numbers since then.

The National Weather Service has issued a “special statement” about a snow squall moving through Beaver and surrounding counties this afternoon. The squall will affect Beaver, Allegheny, Washington, Westmoreland, Fayette and Greene Counties. Expect a quick additional inch of snow with wind gusts of 30 to 35 mph. Visibility may briefly drop to near zero. Locations that may be affected include Aliquippa, Moon Township, Franklin Park, Cranberry Township and Pittsburgh.

An Ambridge man died Monday after being hit by a car near the Windgap-Fairywood border. According to police, 23-year-old Jonathan Jaquay hit a deer and then got out of his car to check the damage when the second car struck him and his car. This happened on Windgap Avenue near the intersection with Broadhead Fording Road in Allegheny County. Jaquay was unresponsive when paramedics arrived and was taken to Allegheny General Hospital in critical condition. He died a few hours later. An autopsy has been scheduled for today.

Frontier Airlines is headed back to Pittsburgh International Airport. The airline will launch nonstop service to five cities from the Findlay airport in June – Denver, Atlanta, Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, Las Vegas and Orlando. Frontier and Allegheny County Airport Authority officials are expected to announce the return to Pittsburgh and the flights at a press conference later today.

A head-on crash in Darlington Township over the weekend has turned fatal. State police say 19-year-old Dean Foster of New Waterford, Ohio has died at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown. Foster was flown there Saturday afternoon. The accident – in which Foster crashed head-on with a tractor trailer – occurred on Taggart Road in Darlington. There were no other injuries reported. The crash occurred right on Foster’s 19th birthday.

Pennsylvania State Police say a Cranberry Township man died in a one-car crash on Interstate 79. Police say 23-year-old Dan Weaver of Cranberry was killed when he lost control of his vehicle as he was trying to change lanes. Police say the car veered off the side of the highway, rolled over several times, then landed on its roof and came to rest on the highway. Police say the driver was thrown out of the car and landed on the highway. The accident happened shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday in the northbound lanes of I-79.