Beaver County Commissioners chairman Dan Camp says Susquehanna Accounting and Consulting of Harrisburg has been selected to start the 2019 county budget and lead the search for a replacement to the fired budget director Ricardo Luckow. Camp says contract terms are still being worked out with Susquehanna. Camp also disclosed the consulting firm will work on budget matters the first two weeks they’re on the job. Camp noted commissioners are still interviewing applicants for the budget directors post. Commissioners met in a brief 12 minute work session minus commissioner Tony Amadio who is on vacation.

A WEEK AFTER HIRING A FINANCIAL CONSULTING FIRM, THE BEAVER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ARE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO DETERMINE WHO WILL SUCCEED RICARDO LUCKOW. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO’S GREG BENEDETTI HAS MORE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Greg’s report…

An Ambridge father is facing charges after police say they found him passed out in a car with drugs inside and his young son in the backseat on a 90-plus degree day. Police and paramedics were called to the intersection of Kennedy Drive and 10th Street in Ambridge around noon on Monday. First responders found 34-year-old Kristofer Lee Wigton, of Leet Township, unconscious in his car there with a male passenger, and Wigton’s 10-month-old son was in a car seat in the back sweating profusely. Police say Wigton was behind the wheel and the vehicle was stopped but still in gear, and it had no air conditioning. A search of the vehicle turned up heroin, hypodermic needles, marijuana, and suboxone and a prescription medicine used to treat symptoms of drug addiction and withdrawal. Wigton is now in the Beaver County Jail, facing charges that include child endangerment.

THE HOPEWELL AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS ADOPTED ITS 2018-19 BUDGET LAST NIGHT…AND IT DOES INCLUDE A TAX INCREASE. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS DETAILS. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

WEATHER FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20TH, 2018

TODAY – SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE
DAY. HIGH – 77.

TONIGHT – THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING…THEN
REMAINING CLOUDY AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW
AROUND 60.

THURSDAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 83.

Beaver County Radio Newsman Pat Septak is putting together a three-part news series on FirstEnergy’s plan to shut down the Beaver Valley Power Station by 2021. Listen to this promo…

The three-part series will air on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week      (June 25-27) during our regularly scheduled newscasts on 1230 WBVP and 1460 WMBA.

The cause of a house fire in West Aliquippa Monday afternoon is now under investigation. Crews were called to the scene of a two-alarm fire in the 400 block of Allegheny Avenue around 4:30 p.m. There were no reports of any injuries. Beaver County Radio’s Sandy Giordano is talking with investigators to find out just how that fire started…and she’ll have a full report tomorrow morning on AM Beaver County right here on 1230 WBVP and 1460 WMBA.

Van, pickup collision sends vehicles into creek; 2 killed
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a crash involving a van and a pickup truck sent both vehicles down an embankment and into a western Pennsylvania creek, killing both drivers.
Butler Township police say the eastbound van apparently went through a stop sign and collided with the southbound truck just before 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Police say both vehicles went through a guiderail, down an embankment and into the Little Connoquenessing Creek.
Police said 85-year-old Thomas Shaffer of Ellwood City and 66-year-old Glenn Davis Jr. of Harrisville were killed. The crash remains under investigation.