A couple made it out safely after a fire consumed their Hanover Township home this morning. Investigators said the fire started at a home in the 200 block of Pleasant Hills Road in  just before 8:30 a.m. When fire crews arrived on the scene, the house was fully engulfed in flames. Heavy smoke was also pouring out of the home. Firefighters say an elderly couple made it out of the house, but the older man suffered minor injuries. The home is a total loss, since the roof caved in. No word on what caused the fire.

ATTENTION ALL RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES AND PROPERTY OWNERS IN HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP…BETTER MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR ADDRESS OR HOUSE NUMBER PROPERLY POSTED. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDNAO EXPLAINS. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

Closing arguments may begin this morning…with deliberations starting by afternoon…in an Aliquippa double-homicide trial. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has been covering the trial at the county courthouse…

 

WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, APRIL 19TH, 2018

TODAY – CLOUDY WITH SNOW SHOWERS THIS MORNING.
HIGH – 42.

TONIGHT – SOME CLOUDS. LOW AROUND 30.

FRIDAY – SOME CLOUDS IN THE MORNING WILL GIVE WAY
TO MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES FOR THE AFTERNOON.
HIGH – 51.

SATURDAY – CLOUDY. HIGH – 57.

SUNDAY – MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 62.

Community College of Beaver County hosted their annual Job and Career Fair on Wednesday April 28th from 10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. With over 100 Companies in attendance, it was a great opportunity for people to bring their resumes and find future employment.

Take a look at some of the pictures from the event below.

The ground around the pedestrian footbridge at Bradys Run Park is collapsing and public works director Dan Colville told Beaver County Commissioners Dan Camp and Sandie Egley that he considers it an emergency repair situation. Camp and Egley agreed to add repairing the ground as part of the new pedestrian bridge project. Commissioner Tony Amadio is away on vacation. A sandstone wall will stabilize the ground and Jet Contractors say the work will cost 60 thousand dollars. A resolution authorizing the contract add on will be presented for final approval at next Thursday’s commissioners meeting.,

BREAKING NEWS: THE BEAVER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS – MINUS THE VACATIONING TONY AMADIO – HEARD SOME DISTURBING NEWS CENTERING AROUND BRADY’S RUN PARK. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO’S GREG BENEDETTI HAS DETAILS. Click on ‘play’ to hear Greg’s report…

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A FORMER ALIQUIPPA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT IS EXPECTED TO BE CROSS-EXAMINED THIS MORNING…IN AN ALIQUIPPA DOUBLE-HOMICIDE TRIAL. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE TRIAL AT THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s two reports…

PART 1

PART 2

A Mars man has been sentenced for his role in an alleged fraud scheme at a Beaver County-based pharmacy chain.  48 year old Gino Cordisco has been sentenced to serve one year and one day after his conviction on one count of conspiracy. Cordisco was the Vice President of Store Operations for Med-Fast Pharmacy. The company is accused of defrauding Medicare and Pennsylvania Medicaid programs by intentionally mislabeling and re-using old medication from nursing homes.