State Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman says Governor Tom Wolf needs to talk with GOP House leaders if the budget stalemate is ever going to end. After a bipartisan budget deal collapsed in the House last month, Wolf administration officials suggested the Democrat was done negotiating.

A Philadelphia official wants to require youngsters in the city to wear helmets and wrist, knee and elbow pads to ride hoverboards. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports city council member William Greenlee’s proposal also would fine parents if their kids don’t wear the gear. Dozens of people have been hurt in board falls.

The FBI is offering a $2,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of a man who authorities say robbed an Ambridge bank at gunpoint on Friday. Police say surveillance cameras captured the robbery at the New Alliance Federal Credit Union on Merchant Street. In the video, the armed robber is seen jumping over counters and going to several different tellers, grabbing cash and leaving the bank within 34 seconds. No one was injured, but police confirmed that the robber had a gun and threatened the tellers with it. Ambridge police say they’re not ruling out the possibility that Friday’s robber is the same man responsible for robbing the Wesbanco on Merchant Street on Dec. 9. Officers say both robbers used the same tactics . Anyone with information on either robbery is asked to contact police by calling (724) 266-3270.

Monaca borough police are investigating an attempted robbery that took place over the weekend…and they’re asking for the public’s help. Sergeant Patrick Young tells Beaver County Radio that a man wearing a Halloween mask attempted to rob the Shanks’s Citgo with a 12-inch knife and then fled towards 9th Street. Sergeant Young says no one was hurt and the robber left empty-handed. If anyone has information, Sergeant Young can be reached at (724) 775-9613.

A horse was rescued this morning after it slipped on ice in New Sewickley Township. The animal slipped at the bottom of a hill on Cunning Road in New Sewickley and it was unable to get up. A sled was brought in to pull the horse to safety.

Some centrist lawmakers suggest there is plenty of blame to go around in the continuing state budget stalemate, with Governor Tom Wolf and top GOP leaders both getting criticism. Wolf is set to deliver his second budget address early next month, even though this year’s budget fight remains unresolved.

Close to 50 students at Penn State Beaver took part in the schools regional Martin Luther King Day of Service today. This year…about a dozen students from the Beaver campus headed to the Greater Allegheny campus in McKeesport to serve….while more stayed closer to home to help out at the Sisters of St. Joseph in Baden….or to conduct a community discussion with the Franklin Center. Penn State has done the regional day of service since 2007.

Authorities say a man has been found dead following a fire at a Pittsburgh duplex. The blaze was reported Saturday night in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood. Authorities have identified the victim as 68-year-old Joseph Mats. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Pittsburgh-area gasoline prices have dropped to $2.10 a gallon on the latest crude oil’s latest plunge. The plunge has weighed down retail gas prices even further, with Pittsburgh-area stations dropping 4 cents in the past week and averaging $2.10-a-gallon today. That’s according to price-tracking website GasBuddy.com. But analysts expect the bottom-out point could be near.