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By ZEKE MILLER and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has delivered an impassioned plea to Congress to act on gun control. In an address to the nation Thursday night, he called on lawmakers to restore limits on the sale of assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines. He says that if legislators fail to act, voters should use their “outrage” to turn gun violence into a central issue in November’s midterm elections. Biden is trying to drive up pressure on Congress to pass stricter laws, though such efforts have failed in the wake of past violence. The speech follows recent mass shootings in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York.

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By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano, has offered to sit for a voluntary interview with the congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection. Mastriano’s lawyer said Thursday that Mastriano already was interviewed by FBI agents last year about the Capitol attack. Mastriano was seen outside the Capitol on the day of the insurrection and was in regular communication with then-President Donald Trump as Trump sought to reverse his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Mastriano’s lawyer says Mastriano told the FBI he didn’t know about any coordination behind the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Mastriano is a state senator and won the GOP nomination for governor last month.

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By MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A state court is agreeing in a ballot-counting lawsuit with the campaign of David McCormick, who is in a neck-and-neck Republican primary contest for U.S. Senate against celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz. In the decision, Commonwealth Court Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer ordered counties Thursday night to count the ballots in question. However, her decision could be reversed, depending on what the U.S. Supreme Court does in the coming days on a separate case. McCormick and Oz are in the midst of a statewide recount over a margin of roughly 900 votes separating them in the May 17 primary.

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Story by Frank Sparks, Beaver County Radio Program/News Director
(Beaver Falls, Pa.) Beaver County Radio, 1230-WBVP, 1460- WMBA, 95.7 and 99.3 FM, and beavercountyradiodotcom is proud and excited to announce that Fox  Across  America with Jimmy Failla will be joining the Beaver County Radio weekday line-up from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM Monday thru Friday starting on Monday, June 13, 2022.

Jimmy has family that is from Beaver Falls and Ambridge and he will fit in perfectly with our Beaver County Radio Line-up. Jimmy said in an e-mail “THANK YOU for adding our show it is not only a huge deal for me  but also for my family in Ambridge and Beaver Falls.”

Jimmy Failla is a former New York City Cab Driver turned professional standup comedian. He joined FOX News in 2015 providing his writing talents while also appearing on the channel’s biggest shows. His easy conversational style  makes listeners feel like they’re talking politics with a buddy over a beer or ten. His debut standup special “State Of The Union” is one of the highest rated comedies on Amazon Prime and is a testament to his ability to keep the mood light no matter how heavy the news gets.

Failla appears regularly on FOX News Channel programs such as FOX News Primetime, Gutfeld!, The Faulkner Focus, Kennedy, Your World with Neil Cavuto, America’s Newsroom, FOX & Friends, FOX & Friends First, The Sean Hannity Show and FOX Nation, FOX’s video subscription streaming service. Jimmy co-hosted FOX News Channel’s “All-American New Year” and performed standup comedy live from the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, TN.

Failla will join a radio line-up on Beaver County Radio that starts at 6 AM weekdays with the Hugh Hewitt Show, followed by AM Beaver County with Matt Drzik and Frank Sparks from 6:30 AM to 9 AM and Teleforum with Eddy Crow from 9AM to Noon.

 

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to criminal homicide and other charges in a three-day crime spree in western Pennsylvania that included the ambush and murder of a couple in their driveway. The Tribune-Review reports that 54-year-old Victor Steban of North Huntingdon pleaded guilty Wednesday in Westmoreland County to more than 30 criminal charges in seven separate cases including the May 2021 deaths of 40-year-old Jacob Erdeljac and 27-year-old Mara Casale in Penn Township. Prosecutors dropped plans to seek the death penalty in exchange for the pleas. The Tribune-Review reports that Steban was sentenced to two life terms and concurrent sentences totaling 46 to 96 years.

WAYNE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say two people were taken to a hospital after a small plane made an emergency landing on a golf course in eastern Pennsylvania. Police in Chester County say the plane came down just before 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. David’s Country Club in Tredyffrin Township. The male pilot and female passenger were able to get out of the plane with help from witnesses on the golf course and were taken to Paoli Memorial Hospital with “injuries of unknown severity.” Police said the plane was on its way to Wings Field in Blue Bell from Fort Myers, Florida. Federal authorities are investigating.