(Pittsburgh, Pa.) Workers at several Pennsylvania nursing homes have reached a tentative agreement with Guardian Healthcare.
The tentative deal ends a planned strike for September 10, 2022 at ten different facilities.
The union is still in negotiations with two dozen nursing homes owned by Comprehensive and Priority.
Workers at four of those facilities have filed strike notices for September 9, 2022.

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(Pittsburgh, Pa.) Longtime Allegheny County Labor Council President, Jack Shea has passed away. Shea was the Labor Council President from 1998 until he retired in 2017. There is no word how Shea passed away.

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(Pittsburgh, Pa.)  A resident of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of distribution of a substance containing, heroin, fentanyl, and acetyl fentanyl, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
Zachary Martin Cymbalak, age 35, pleaded guilty to one count before United States DistrictJudge William J. Stickman.
In connection with the guilty plea, the court was advised that on Jan. 6, 2019, law enforcement officers found a deceased individual under circumstances suggesting that the death was caused by an overdose, which was later confirmed by the Beaver County Coroner’s Office. At the location of the death, law enforcement officers found drug paraphernalia and distinctive empty stamp bags. Based on telephone records and other investigative techniques, law enforcement identified Cymbalak as the
likely source of supply of the drugs that caused the death.
Later on Jan. 6, 2019, law enforcement arranged for a confidential informant to purchase controlled substances from the defendant. The stamp bags were the same distinctive stamp bags found at the scene of the death. After the purchase, law enforcement stopped the vehicle in which Cymbalak was a passenger and recovered more of the distinctive stamps bags and the money used in the purchase. Laboratory tests confirmed that the stamp bags purchased from Cymbalak and recovered from Cymbalak’s person contained a combination of heroin, fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl.
As part of the plea agreement Cymbalak took responsibility for causing the death of the decedent.
Judge Stickman scheduled sentencing for Jan. 18, 2023. The law provides for a total sentence of up to 20 years in prison, a fine of $1 million, or both. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed is based upon the seriousness of the offense and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendant.
Assistant United States Attorney Brendan T. Conway is prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.
The Drug Enforcement Administration, along with the Baden and Harmony Township Police Departments, the Beaver County Coroner’s Office, and the Beaver County District Attorney’s Office Anti-Drug Task Force, conducted the investigation that led to the prosecution of Cymbalak.

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Story by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio News
(Beaver, PA) Beaver County Coroner David J. Gabauer  on Monday morning identified the 19-year-old man  that was shot and killed in the Valley Terrace Apartment Complex Friday morning  as Seqan Hasan. Gabauer said that he died from multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and his death has been ruled a homicide . Pennsylvania State Police are continuing to investigate and no other information is available at this time.

(Georgetown, Beaver County, Pa.) Pa Sate Police in Beaver reported that they were contacted by an employee of Pat’s Market in Georgetown last week after the employee discovered a counterfeit one dollar bill during the counting of the stores money deposit.
No other information was released as Troopers continue to investigate.