Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published October 8, 2024 11:53 A.M.
(Aliquippa, Pa) A drug deal gone bad occurred at 1300 Main Street in Aliquippa Monday night at 8:30pm. Aliquippa Police reported this morning that a male suffered a laceration to the forehead during the incident. SWAT was called out due to a report that 2 males were barricaded in the house. No one was in the home when it was searched no arrests have been made, according to police. The investigation is ongoing.
Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published October 8, 2024 11:48 A.M.
(Aliquippa, Pa) Aliquippa Police have received several complaints about speeding on city streets. The speed limit is 25 miles per hour in residential areas of the city and many drivers ignore it, according to police.
Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published October 7, 2024 6:22 P.M. Photo by Eddy Crow.
(Ambridge, Pa) On Monday morning, a driver of a a Honda drove into the wall at the CVS Pharmacy on Eighth Street in Ambridge. It is unknown if anyone was injured, and the closed Monday following the incident. Beaver County Radio is waiting to hear from Ambridge Police.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Billionaire tech executive Elon Musk cast the upcoming presidential election in dire terms during an appearance with Donald Trump, calling the Republican presidential nominee the only candidate “to preserve democracy in America.”
The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla who also purchased X, Musk joined Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday at the site where the former president survived an assassination attempt in July. Musk said “this will be the last election” if Trump doesn’t win. Wearing a cap with the “Make America Great Again” slogan of Trump’s campaign, Musk appeared to acknowledge the foreboding nature of his remarks.
“As you can see I am not just MAGA — I am Dark MAGA,” he said.
It was the first time that Musk joined one of Trump’s rallies and was evidence of their growing alliance in the final stretch of the presidential election. Musk created a super political action committee supporting the Republican nominee and it has been spending heavily on get-out-the-vote efforts. Trump has said he would tap Musk to lead a government efficiency commission if he regains the White House.
Trump joined Musk in August for a rare public conversation on X, a friendly chat that spanned more than two hours. In it, the former president largely focused on the July assassination attempt, illegal immigration and his plans to cut government regulations.
Before a large crowd Saturday, Musk sought to portray Trump as a champion of free speech, arguing that Democrats want “to take away your freedom of speech, they want to take away your right to bear arms, they want to take away your right to vote, effectively.” Musk went on to criticize a California effort to ban voter ID requirements.
The event took place at the same property where a gunman’s bullets grazed Trump’s right ear and killed a Trump supporter, Corey Comperatore. The shooting left multiple others injured.
Several members of Comperatore’s family, as well as other attendees and first responders from the July rally, returned to the site on Saturday. Also appearing with the former president were his running mate Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance, son Eric Trump, daughter-in-law and RNC co-chair Lara Trump, along with Pennsylvania lawmakers and sheriffs.
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) today announced that all driver license and photo centers, including its full-service center in Harrisburg, will be closed Saturday, October 12, 2024, through Monday, October 14, 2024, in observance of Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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Story by Sandy Giordnao – Beaver County Radio. Published October 7, 2024 10:58 A.M.
(Aliquippa, Pa) Allison Allinder, 47, was arrested by State Police following a traffic stop in the 100 block of Jarvis Street in McDonald Heights on Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 2pm. According to the report, she admitted to police that she had used crack cocaine, and was found to be impaired and was arrested for suspicion of DUI. State police reported that charges are pending against Allinder.
HARRISBURG, Oct. 4 – State Rep. Rob Matzie has been awarded the Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association’s 2024 Distinguished Service Award for his legislative efforts to strengthen protections for ratepayers and municipal water authorities.
Matzie – who has introduced legislation to protect the interests of consumers when private companies seek to purchase municipal water and wastewater systems – said he was honored to work with PMAA to safeguard ratepayers and bring greater fairness to these transactions.
“Municipal water authorities and their workers provide safe and reliable water to millions of Pennsylvanians, including those in my legislative district,” said Matzie, who is majority chairman of the Pennsylvania House Consumer Protection, Technology, and Utilities Committee. “I appreciate PMAA’s work to support and strengthen those authorities.
“I’m honored and humbled to receive this award, and I continue to advocate for Act 12 reform in Harrisburg to protect ratepayers and ensure an even playing field between municipal authorities and private water companies.”
“Representative Matzie has been instrumental in raising awareness about Act 12 reform and the impact of so-called ‘fair market value’ on the ratepayer,” said PMAA President Bill Ross. “He is also the prime sponsor of House Bills 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1865, which place much needed guiderails on Act 12 of 2016.”
The Distinguished Legislative Service Award identifies state legislators for their dedication and distinguished service to municipal authorities in the commonwealth and for their actions to support or defend local voices making local choices.
The award was presented on Sept. 16 at the PMAA’s 82nd annual Conference.
Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published October 7, 2024 10:54 A.M.
(Aliquippa, Pa) Last Thursday at 7:10pm, Aliquippa police responded to the parking lot of Linmar Terrace. When they arrived a 33 year old male was found to have been shot several times. Police secured the scene, and the male was life flighted to a Pittsburgh hospital. PA State Police reported late Friday that a 16 year old male was arrested in connection with the shooting on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm by a minor.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to step in and immediately decide issues related to mail-in ballots in the commonwealth with early voting already under way in the few weeks before the Nov. 5 election.
The commonwealth’s highest court on Saturday night rejected a request by voting rights and left-leaning groups to stop counties from throwing out mail-in ballots that lack a handwritten date or have an incorrect date on the return envelope, citing earlier rulings pointing to the risk of confusing voters so close to the election.
“This Court will neither impose nor countenance substantial alterations to existing laws and procedures during the pendency of an ongoing election,” the unsigned order said.
Chief Justice Debra Todd dissented, saying voters, election officials and courts needed clarity on the issue before Election Day.
“We ought to resolve this important constitutional question now, before ballots may be improperly rejected and voters disenfranchised,” Todd wrote.
Justice P. Kevin Brobson, however, said in a concurring opinion that the groups waited more than a year after an earlier high court ruling to bring their challenge, and it was “an all-too-common practice of litigants who postpone seeking judicial relief on election-related matters until the election is underway that creates uncertainty.”
Many voters have not understood the legal requirement to sign and date their mail-in ballots, leaving tens of thousands of ballots without accurate dates since Pennsylvania dramatically expanded mail-in voting in a 2019 law.
The lawsuit’s plaintiffs contend that multiple courts have found that a voter-written date is meaningless in determining whether the ballot arrived on time or whether the voter is eligible, so rejecting a ballot on that basis should be considered a violation of the state constitution. The parties won their case on the same claim in a statewide court earlier this year but it was thrown out by the state Supreme Court on a technicality before justices considered the merits.
Democrats, including Gov. Josh Shapiro, have sided with the plaintiffs, who include the Black Political Empowerment Project, POWER Interfaith, Make the Road Pennsylvania, OnePA Activists United, New PA Project Education Fund Pittsburgh United, League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and Common Cause Pennsylvania.
Republicans say requiring the date is an election safeguard and accuse Democrats of trying to change election rules at the 11th hour.
The high court also rejected a challenge by Republican political organizations to county election officials letting voters remedy disqualifying mail-in ballot mistakes, which the GOP says state law doesn’t allow. The ruling noted that the petitioners came to the high court without first litigating the matter in the lower courts.
The court did agree on Saturday, however, to hear another GOP challenge to a lower court ruling requiring officials in one county to notify voters when their mail-in ballots are rejected, and allow them to vote provisionally on Election Day.
The Pennsylvania court, with five justices elected as Democrats and two as Republicans, is playing an increasingly important role in settling disputes in this election, much as it did in 2020’s presidential election.
Issues involving mail-in voting are hyper-partisan: Roughly three-fourths of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania tend to be cast by Democrats. Republicans and Democrats alike attribute the partisan gap to former President Donald Trump, who has baselessly claimed mail-in voting is rife with fraud.
