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Pens win 5th Straight. 5-1 over Blue Jackets

By MITCH STACY, AP Sports Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Riley Sheahan scored two goals in the first period, rookie Tristan Jarry had 35 saves and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-2 on Sunday night.
Jake Guentzel had a goal and two assists, and Brian Dumoulin and Zach Aston-Reese also scored for the Penguins. They have won five straight and 10 of their last 12. The win in front of a sellout crowd at Nationwide Arena moved them past Washington into first place in the Metropolitan Division.
The 22-year-old Jarry played well standing in for starter Matt Murray, who got a rest as Pittsburgh played the second leg of a back-to-back and its third game in four days. It was Jarry’s first NHL action in a month after going 3-0 in three starts for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in the AHL.
Artemi Panarin and Alexander Wennberg scored, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 18 shots for the Blue Jackets. They have lost two straight and seven of the last nine. In what is becoming the norm lately, Columbus outshot its opponent (37-23) but couldn’t score enough to win. The Blue Jackets lead the NHL in shots per game but are lingering near the bottom of the division.
The Penguins had just seven shots in the first period but scored on three of them.
Sheahan got credit for his seventh goal of the season when he redirected a shot from Jamie Oleksiak.
Later in the first, Dumoulin scored with a slap shot from the left point off a beautiful no-look drop pass from Evgeni Malkin.
Three minutes later, Panarin tapped in his 16th goal of the season, set up by Cam Atkinson, to make it 2-1.
Sheahan got his second tally of the game with 8:31 left in the first. Bobrovsky got a piece of the wrist shot from top of the right circle but couldn’t keep it out of the net.
Aston-Reese made it 4-1 when he tipped in a rebound off Zach Werenski’s skate in traffic 9:29 into the second.
The Blue Jackets seemed to come out with a little more juice in the third period, and Wennberg, open in front of the goal, swept in a Boone Jenner pass 2:21 into the frame. But they couldn’t sustain it. Guentzel topped it off for Pittsburgh with 5:51 left.
NOTES: The Columbus captain, Nick Foligno, suffered a “lower-body” injury and didn’t play for most of the third period. … Pittsburgh’s 16-4-1 record since the beginning of the calendar year leads the NHL. … Blue Jackets D Dean Kukan suffered an “upper-body” injury in the first period and didn’t return. … Columbus D Markus Nutivaara didn’t play after he was injured in Friday night’s game against Philadelphia. Scott Harrington replaced him in the lineup.
UP NEXT:
Pittsburgh: Hosts Toronto on Saturday night.
Columbus: At New Jersey on Tuesday night.
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Flood Warning For Beaver County Until 10:15 This Morning

WEATHER FORECAST FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH, 2018

* A FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10:15 AM EST FOR BEAVER COUNTY. ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER CENTER, RADAR HAS INDICATED WIDESPREAD STEADY, LIGHT RAIN THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. FLOODING IS EXPECTED AFTER 2 TO 3 INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TODAY. *

TODAY – CLOUDY WITH RAIN ENDING FOR THE AFTERNOON.
MUCH COLDER TODAY. MORNING HIGH OF 48…
WITH TEMPS FALLING TO NEAR FREEZING.

TONIGHT – PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. LOW – 21.

SATURDAY – CLOUDY. SNOW LIKELY IN THE AFTERNOON.
ACCUMULATIONS LESS THAN ONE INCH.
HIGH NEAR 40.

SUNDAY – MORNING CLOUDS. AFTERNOON SUNSHINE.
HIGH – 47.

Breaking News-President Trump Postpones visit to Ambridge next week out of respect for Florida shooting victims

WASHINGTON (AP)
2:45 p.m.
President Donald Trump is postponing a campaign rally next week in Ambridge because of Wednesday’s school shooting in Florida.
Trump’s campaign says it put off the Feb. 21 rally  “out of respect and sympathy for the victims and survivors.”
Trump also cancelled an official trip Friday to Orlando, Florida, to highlight his infrastructure proposal. But he said Thursday he’ll make a separate trip to Parkland, Florida, to meet with families and local officials in the coming days.
Trump is scheduled to spend the weekend at his private club in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Flood Watch In Effect For Beaver County As Mild Temperatures Take Over

WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 15TH, 2018

…FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR BEAVER COUNTY FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON… LOW PRESSURE SHOULD RESULT IN WIDESPREAD MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN LATER TODAY THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS RANGING FROM 1.5 TO 2 INCHES ARE EXPECTED. THIS COULD RESULT IN FLOODING, ESPECIALLY NEAR RIVERS, STREAMS AND CREEKS. A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING BASED ON CURRENT FORECASTS. YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOOD WARNINGS. THOSE LIVING IN AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLOODING DEVELOP.

TODAY – CLOUDY SKIES WITH PERIODS OF RAIN THIS
AFTERNOON. A THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLE.
HIGH AROUND 60.

TONIGHT – PERIODS OF RAIN. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM
POSSIBLE. LOW – 39.

FRIDAY – RAIN AND SHOW SHOWERS IN THE MORNING.
THEN REMAINING OVERCAST IN THE AFTERNOON.
MUCH COLDER. MORNING HIGH OF 43 WITH
TEMPS FALLING TO NEAR FREEZING.

SATURDAY – OVERCAST. A FEW FLURRIES OR SNOW
SHOWERS POSSIBLE. HIGH – 41.

SUNDAY – SOME CLOUDS IN THE MORNING WILL GIVE WAY
TO MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES FOR THE AFTERNOON.
HIGH NEAR 50.

Florida High School shooting Suspect’s ‘disturbing’ social media posts.

Suspect’s ‘disturbing’ social media posts being dissected
By KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The suspect in a deadly rampage at a Florida high school is a troubled teenager who posted disturbing material on social media before the shooting spree that killed at least 17 people, according to a law enforcement official and former schoolmates.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said the 19-year-old suspect, Nikolas Cruz, had been expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for “disciplinary reasons.”
“I don’t know the specifics,” the sheriff said.
However, Victoria Olvera, a 17-year-old junior, said Cruz was expelled last school year after a fight with his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend. She said Cruz had been abusive to his girlfriend.
School officials said Cruz was attending another school in Broward County after his expulsion.
Cruz’s mother Lynda Cruz died of pneumonia on Nov. 1 neighbors, friends and family members said, according to the Sun Sentinel. Cruz and her husband, who died of a heart attack several years ago, adopted Nikolas and his biological brother, Zachary, after the couple moved from Long Island in New York to Broward County.
The boys were left in the care of a family friend after their mother died, family member Barbara Kumbatovich, of Long Island, said.
Unhappy there, Nikolas Cruz asked to move in with a friend’s family in northwest Broward. The family agreed and Cruz moved in around Thanksgiving. According to the family’s lawyer, who did not identify them, they knew that Cruz owned the AR-15 but made him keep it locked up in a cabinet. He did have the key, however.
Jim Lewis said the family is devastated and didn’t see this coming. They are cooperating with authorities, he said.
Broward County Mayor Beam Furr said during an interview with CNN that the shooter was getting treatment at a mental health clinic for a while, but that he hadn’t been back to the clinic for more than a year.
“It wasn’t like there wasn’t concern for him,” Furr said.
“We try to keep our eyes out on those kids who aren’t connected … Most teachers try to steer them toward some kind of connections. … In this case, we didn’t find a way to connect with this kid,” Furr said.
Israel said investigators were dissecting the suspect’s social media posts.
“And some of the things that have come to mind are very, very disturbing,” he added without elaborating.
Daniel Huerfano, a student who fled Wednesday’s attack, said he recognized Cruz from an Instagram photo in which Cruz posed with a gun in front of his face. Huerfano recalled Cruz as a shy student and remembered seeing him walking around with his lunch bag.
“He was that weird kid that you see … like a loner,” he added.
Dakota Mutchler, a 17-year-old junior, said he used to be close friends with Cruz but hadn’t seen him in more than a year following his expulsion from school.
“He started progressively getting a little more weird,” Mutchler said.
Mutchler recalled Cruz posting on Instagram about killing animals and said he had talked about doing target practice in his backyard with a pellet gun.
“He started going after one of my friends, threatening her, and I cut him off from there,” Mutchler said.
“I think everyone had in their minds if anybody was going to do it, it was going to be him,” Mutchler said.
Broward County School District Superintendent Robert Runcie told reporters on Wednesday afternoon that he did not know of any threats posed by Cruz to the school.
“Typically you see in these situations that there potentially could have been signs out there,” Runcie said. “I would be speculating at this point if there were, but we didn’t have any warnings. There weren’t any phone calls or threats that we know of that were made.”
However, a teacher told The Miami Herald that Cruz may have been identified as a potential threat to other students. Jim Gard, a math teacher who said Cruz had been in his class last year, said he believes the school had sent out an email warning teachers that Cruz shouldn’t be allowed on campus with a backpack.
“There were problems with him last year threatening students, and I guess he was asked to leave campus,” Gard said.