A sugar cookie replica of Independence Hall and a gingerbread replica of the White House are on display in the State Dining Room of the White House during a press preview of holiday decorations at the White House, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says first lady Jill Biden drew inspiration from the nation’s founding documents to decorate for the holidays. The first lady’s theme is “We the People.” The White House says the holiday décor represents what unites Americans during the holidays and throughout the year. A copy of the Declaration of Independence is on display in the library. The gingerbread White House includes a sugar cookie replica of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was signed. New this year is a wooden menorah built by White House carpenters and located on the State Floor.

FILE – Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and wife Gisele arrive to vote in Braddock, Pa, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. When Fetterman goes to Washington in January, one of the Senate’s new members will bring along an irreverent style from Pennsylvania that extends from his own personal dress code — super casual — to hanging marijuana flags outside his current office in Pennsylvania’s state Capitol. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — When John Fetterman goes to Washington in January as one of the Senate’s new members, he’ll bring along an irreverent style from Pennsylvania. It’s one that extends from his own personal and very casual dress code to hanging marijuana flags outside his current office in the state Capitol. Pennsylvania’s unique lieutenant governor just flipped the state’s open Senate seat to Democrats and may be the only senator ever to be declared an “American taste god” as GQ magazine once did. He’ll be the country’s tallest senator, and might be its most tattooed as well. But Pennsylvania’s sitting Democratic senator, Bob Casey, says he expects Fetterman will navigate the clubbiness of the Senate just fine.

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(Beaver, Pa.) A Brighton Township police officer has been charged with attempted theft in connection with a false insurance report.
51-year-old Donald Sanders was arrested after investigators say that an investigation into him began in September. Police Chief Howard Blinn requested support from the Beaver County Detectives Bureau after he was tipped off about the incident. The witness told police that they were traveling with Sanders’ son in his car while on their way home from a vacation on April 22 when they struck a deer in West Virginia causing significant damage to the vehicle. The vehicle was towed to the Sanders household.
Sanders then changed the insurance from liability to comprehensive and filed a false police report that said the accident occurred in Brighton Twp. Which officials were able to prove as false because of photos from the witnesses phone. Sanders was charged with felony insurance fraud and a misdemeanor count of making false reports to law enforcement officials.

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(Hopewell Twp., Beaver County, Pa.) Pa State Police in Beaver are reporting Monday morning that they have filed DUI Charges against an Aliquippa man after an incident that took place along Interstate 376 Westbound in Hopewell Twp. on November 5, 2022 at 9:30 PM.
Troopers said via release that 47-year-old Alex Medina lost consciousness while driving and stopped his vehicle on Interstate 376 west bound. EMS personnel had to administer Narcan to Medina to revive him. Medina admitted to Troopers that he used narcotics and was arrested on suspicion of DUI. Charges are currently pending against him.

(Story and photos by Frank Sparks and Daniel Campbell)

(Beaver Falls, Pa.) Saturday night was a perfect night for the 2022 Beaver Falls Lighted Christmas Parade. Beaver County Radio’s Frank Sparks and Eddy Crow anchored the broadcast for Beaver County Radio on Facebook and You Tube.

People lined 7th Avenue in Beaver Falls to grab sweet treats that parade participants were throwing out to celebrate. McMahons Harley Davidson led off the parade as they do each year followed by local fire departments, high school bands, dignitaries and many community groups. It all led up to the arrival of Santa Claus at the end of the parade traveling on a classic Dodge Fire Truck.
You can check out all of the photos of the fun below:

A person shops in an Apple store on Black Friday, Nov. 25, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, HALELUYA HADERO and ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Retail Writers
NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers eager to start holiday shopping but weighed down by inflation are hunting for the best deals at stores and online this Black Friday. Retailers that had offered mostly lackluster discounts earlier in the season responded this week with new bargains. Elevated prices for food, rent, gasoline and other household costs have taken a toll on shoppers. As a result, many are reluctant to spend unless there is a big sale and are being more selective with what they will buy — in many cases, trading down to cheaper stuff and less expensive stores. Shoppers are also dipping more into their savings, turning increasingly to “buy now, pay later” services that allow users to pay for items in installments. They are also running up their credit cards.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a man convicted of third-degree murder in a Thanksgiving Day 2016 crash that killed three people following a police chase can be sentenced to a mandatory life prison term. The Tribune-Review reports that the state’s highest court cited what it called the “clear and unambiguous language” of the statute in siding with an appeals court that ordered a new sentencing hearing for 28-year-old Demetrius Coleman of Homewood, who is serving a 70- to 140-year term. Prosecutors said Coleman reached speeds of 100 mph while fleeing a traffic stop before colliding with a car, killing the driver, his fiancée and their toddler daughter.