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Story by Beaver County Radio News Staff. Published January 6, 2023 6:55 A.M.

(Hopewell Township, PA) State Police in Beaver have released details involving an accident that took place in December in Hopewell.  A vehicle travelling east on I-376 towards the Hopewell exit crested a hill and saw a seed cart obstructing the roadway and was unable to avoid it.  The operator of the Hyundai Sonata struck the cart, causing minor damage to their vehicle. There were no injuries reported.

FILE – The New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell broadly on Wall Street and Treasury yields rose after another hot reading on the job market raised worries that the Federal Reserve will need to continue inflicting pain on the economy in order to fight inflation. The S&P 500 was down 1.2% in afternoon trading Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the the Nasdaq also fell. The pullback came after payroll company ADP reported a bigger-than-expected increase in jobs at private companies last month. The continued strength in the job market makes the Fed’s job of reining in inflation more difficult by putting upward pressure on wages.

LAKE CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa woman who was believed to be the oldest living person in the U.S. has died at the age of 115. Lampe & Powers Funeral Home in Lake City confirms that Bessie Laurena Hendricks, of Lake City, died Tuesday at the Shady Oaks Care Center. Hendricks celebrated her 115th birthday at the home on Nov. 7 and was listed last year by the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group as the country’s oldest living person until her death. Born in 1907, Hendricks was alive to witness news of the sinking of the Titanic, World War I and II, the Great Depression and both the Spanish flu and COVID-19 pandemics.

President Joe Biden speaks about border security in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Washington. Vice President Kamala Harris stands at left. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the U.S. will immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the border from Mexico illegally. It’s his boldest move yet to confront spiraling arrivals of migrants since he took office two years ago. The new rules expand on an existing effort to stop Venezuelans attempting to enter the U.S., which led to a dramatic drop in Venezuelans coming to the U.S. border. Together the changes represent a major revision to immigration rules that will stand even if the U.S. Supreme Court ends a Trump-era public health law that allows American authorities to turn away asylum seekers.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., arrives to the House chamber as the House meets for the third day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House stalemate over choosing a new speaker is continuing. Kevin McCarthy is determined to win over enough fellow Republicans, but he failed again on Thursday. This is Day 3 of the standoff between McCarthy and 20 olleagues who are withholding the support the California Republican needs. So far, seven roll call votes have failed to elect a speaker. The impasse has left the House unable to fully form and govern. McCarthy’s conservative detractors appear intent on waiting him out, as long as it takes.

Beaver County Radio is looking at the photo albums to celebrate our 75th year in operation! We’ll be sharing a few photos every Thursday, so we hope you can take a trip down memory lane with us.

Photo 1: Chuck Wilson in the Geneva College press box, circa 1960s. Photo courtesy of Bobbie Wilson-Tkacic

Photo 2: The WMBA Volkswagon Remote Broadcast Bus sits out front of the former WMBA studios on Duss Avenue in Ambridge, circa 1971. Photo courtesy of John Poister.

Photo 3: Dave Felts broadcasting in the WBVP studio, circa 1981

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania says he’ll undergo surgery for prostate cancer, but is expected to make a full recovery. The 62-year-old Casey said in a statement Thursday that he was diagnosed last month. He says the news came as a shock, but he says he has an excellent prognosis and is confident that treatment will allow him to continue working in the U.S. Senate “with minimal disruption.” Casey is serving his third term. He hasn’t said whether he will run for a fourth term in 2024, a year when Democrats face a difficult Senate map.

FILE – Britain’s Prince Harry, left, reacts as he walks with his best man, Prince William the Duke of Cambridge, as they arrive for the the wedding ceremony of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle in Windsor, near London, England, Saturday, May 19, 2018. Prince Harry has said he wants to have his father and brother back and that he wants “a family, not an institution,” during a TV interview ahead of the publication of his memoir. The interview with Britain’s ITV channel is due to be released this Sunday. (Ben Birchhall/pool photo via AP, File)

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry alleges in a much-anticipated new memoir that his brother Prince William lashed out and physically attacked him during a furious argument over the brothers’ deteriorating relationship. The Guardian reported the claims on Thursday, saying it obtained an advance copy of the book. The memoir, titled “Spare,” is due to be published next week. It said Harry recounts a 2019 argument at his Kensington Palace home, in which he says William called Harry’s wife, the former actress Meghan Markle, “difficult,” “rude” and “abrasive.” Harry claims William grabbed his brother by the collar and ripped his necklace before knocking him down. Buckingham Palace has not commented on the claims.

FILE – Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., and members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, from left, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., talk to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 13, 2022. Biggs and this core group are leading the effort to thwart Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., from becoming speaker of the House at the start of the 118th Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure is building on Republican Kevin McCarthy to determine whether or not he can win over enough fellow Republicans to become House speaker. Thursday is Day 3 of the standoff between McCarthy and 20 colleagues withholding the support he needs for the job. So far, six votes have failed to elect a speaker. The impasse has left the House unable to fully form and govern. McCarthy said after a round of late talks Wednesday that progress is being made. But Colorado Republican Ken Buck has told the GOP leader to “figure out” the path forward. His right-flank detractors appear intent on waiting him out, as long as it takes.