FILE – Talk show host Jerry Springer speaks in New York on April 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

CINCINNATI (AP) — Jerry Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show unleashed strippers, homewreckers and skinheads to brawl and spew obscenities on weekday afternoons, has died. He was 79. A family spokesperson says he died Thursday at home in suburban Chicago. At its peak, “The Jerry Springer Show” was a ratings powerhouse and a U.S. cultural pariah. The show known for chair-throwing and bleep-filled arguments was a favorite American guilty pleasure, at one point topping Oprah Winfrey’s show. It ran for 27 years, ending in 2018. The Jewish immigrants’ son who was born in an underground bomb shelter was active in politics most of his adult life.

Pittsburgh, PA – PennDOT District 11 is announcing inspection activities Route 65 bridges in Bellevue, Avalon, and Ben Avon boroughs, Allegheny County will occur Monday through Friday, May 1-5 weather permitting.

Single-lane and shoulder restrictions will occur in each direction for four bridge inspections on Route 65 located between Millerton Road in the City of Pittsburgh and Dickson Avenue in Ben Avon. Restrictions will occur weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Friday, May 5.

PennDOT crews will conduct the routine inspection activities.

Motorists should be prepared for changing traffic patterns. Please use caution when driving through the area.  Work zone safety is everyone’s responsibility.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Chris Deluzio voted NO on the Republicans’ dangerous debt limit bill that threatens veterans, seniors, and families in Western Pennsylvania and across the country. Ahead of the vote, Congressman Deluzio joined fellow veterans and advocates at an event exposing Republicans’ massive cuts to veterans and their care. However, House Republicans nonetheless passed the bill without a single Democratic vote and with several Republican defections.

Following the passage of the bill, Rep. Deluzio released the following statement:

“Republicans’ 22% cuts to the VA means millions of veterans are going to suffer. If this becomes law, they’re going to get worse medical care on everything from cancer screenings to mental health services, and would have to wait longer to have their claims for disability resolved.

“It would risk funding for the Veterans’ Crisis Hotline and would result in an estimated 30 million fewer veteran outpatient visits and 81,000 jobs lost across the Veterans Health Administration, according to White House estimates. It means fewer doctors, fewer nurses, and less care for those who served.

“America owes a sacred debt to those willing to lay it all on the line. This Republican budget plan betrays that promise, and I am furious. I took to the House Floor today to tell the world just what this dangerous Republican plan would mean for veterans and the VA.

“Not only that, these 22% cuts would take away nutrition services, like Meals on Wheels, from more than a million seniors – and would make rail more dangerous and put communities like ours at risk. Republican cuts would result in 7,000 fewer rail safety inspection days and 30,000 fewer miles of tracks inspected each year.

“I came to Washington to put the Common Good first. These budget cuts that my Republican colleagues forced through the House today endanger our community, harm our seniors, and betray my fellow veterans. I hope that this plan is dead on arrival in the Senate, but I will do everything I can to stand up for veterans, for the people, and fight back against this lousy plan.”

FILE – This June 21, 2013, file photo, shows the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. The federal government wrote duplicate checks to doctors who provided care for veterans, costing taxpayers $128 million in extra payments over the last five years, according to a new watchdog report out this week. In nearly 300,000 cases, private doctors were paid twice – once by the Veterans Health Administration and another time by Medicare – for the same care provided to veterans from 2017 to 2021, the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General found in its report. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government wrote duplicate checks to doctors who provided care for veterans, costing taxpayers as much as $128 million in extra payments, according to a new watchdog report out this week. In nearly 300,000 cases, private doctors were paid twice — once by the Veterans Health Administration and another time by Medicare — for the same care provided to veterans from 2017 to 2021, the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General found in its report. There’s been a spike in those duplicate payments since 2020, when the program that allows veterans to seek care from private doctors was expanded.

FILE – Smoke is seen in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Warring factions trying to seize control of the east African nation of Sudan have plunged the country into chaos, and thousands are fleeing the capital of Khartoum and nearby battle zones. Some countries, including the U.S., have shuttered their embassies and many are coordinating daring evacuations of their staffs and other residents in an array of convoys, flights and frantic getaway drives. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The effort to get private citizens out of Sudan by countries around the globe continues, by military airlift, ship and over land. But thousands of Americans remain as violence escalates between Sudan’s two warring factions. While the U.S. has said it won’t conduct a large-scale military evacuation for Americans still in Sudan, it is considering how Navy ships or establishing an increased State Department presence at a key Sudanese sea port or across the sea in Saudi Arabia could help get people out. The State Department has advised U.S. citizens for years not to travel to Sudan and continues to advise them to shelter in place.

FILE – Tucker Carlson, host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio on March 2, 2017, in New York. Fox News says it has agreed to part ways with Tucker Carlson, less than a week after settling a lawsuit over the network’s 2020 election reporting. The network said in a press release Monday that the popular and controversial prime-time host’s last program aired on Friday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — Tucker Carlson has emerged publicly two days after Fox News fired him. He posted a two-minute monologue on Twitter Wednesday night that did not address why he suddenly became unemployed. He said one thing you notice “when you step away from the noise for a few days” is how stupid some of the debates on television are. He said corporate media and political parties work to prevent discussion of big issues. He said “as long as you can hear the words, there is hope. See you soon.” Fox fired its most popular personality on Monday with no explanation, a week after settling a lawsuit concerning the spread of lies about the 2020 election.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania lawmakers are sending a bill to Gov. Josh Shapiro’s desk that they say will save lives by helping patients diagnose breast cancer more quickly. The bill passed the state House unanimously Wednesday after it won unanimous Senate approval last month. Shapiro, a Democrat, says he’ll sign it. Under the bill, health insurers must cover out-of-pocket costs for patients who are deemed to be at risk for breast cancer when they undergo a second screening during a coverage year. Insurers also must cover patients’ costs for genetic counseling and genetic testing for the gene mutations that raise the risk of breast cancer. Those out-of-pocket costs can run into the thousands.

FILE – An historical marker at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., is seen on Feb. 21, 2023. Democrats advanced four gun-control bills in Pennsylvania’s state House of Representatives on Wednesday, April 26, after years of a virtual standstill on legislation amid a politically divided government. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrats advanced gun-control bills in the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives, after years of a virtual standstill on legislation amid a politically divided government. The bills passed through committee on party lines on Wednesday, and they could come before the floor as early as next week. Democrats tout the bills as relatively moderate gun-control bills and an effort to reduce gun violence, trafficking, suicides and accidents. Republicans, who voted jointly against the measures, have concerns about who the bills ultimately impact.

Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published April 27, 2023 8:18 A.M.

(Aliquippa, PA) Aliquippa City Council held its work session Wednesday night  approved a lease between the city and the post office for the land formerly occupied by Shiflet Enterprises at 475,465, and 457 Franklin Avenue.  The annual rental is $12,000 a year for 3 years.