MOSCOW (AP) — Lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner have filed an appeal against her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drugs possession. Griner is a center for the Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist. She was convicted on Aug. 4. Griner was arrested in February at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage. Griner played for a women’s basketball team in Yekaterinburg during the WNBA offseason.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A major economic bill headed to the president has “game-changing” incentives for the nuclear energy industry, experts say, and those tax credits are even more substantial if a facility is sited in a community with a coal plant that’s closing. Among the many things the transformative bill could do, nuclear energy experts say, is spur more nuclear reactor projects like one Bill Gates is planning in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Companies designing and building the next generation of nuclear reactors could pick one of two new tax credits available to carbon-free electricity generators. Both include a 10-percentage point bonus for facilities sited in fossil fuel communities.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — An annual 10-day music festival in eastern Pennsylvania resumed Sunday after a reported shooting sent participants scrambling for safety just before the conclusion of Saturday night’s concert. Bethlehem police converged on the area just before the Musikfest entertainment was to end for the night at 11 p.m. Saturday after people reported hearing a gunshot. Sgt. Brad Jones told WLVR that there had been a shooting but did not provide other details. There was no immediate word on whether anyone was injured. Police called it “an isolated incident” and said “the festival was shut down for the safety of patrons.” The city had authorized the festival to resume at noon Sunday,

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say a man drove his car into a barricade near the U.S. Capitol and then began firing gunshots in the air before fatally shooting himself. Police say the man didn’t seem to be targeting any member of Congress. The incident happened just before 4 a.m. at a vehicle barricade set on Capitol Hill. Authorities say that as the man was getting out of the car, the vehicle became engulfed in flames. Police say he then opened fire, shooting several bullets into the air as police approached. The man’s identity hasn’t been released, but investigators have located addresses for him in Delaware and Pennsylvania and have learned he had a criminal history in the past decade.

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(Center Twp., Beaver County, Pa) Pa State Police have identified the man who shot and killed himself inside of a Center Twp. Police Cruiser early Friday afternoon.

Troopers said via release that 43-year-old Arpad Sooky of Center Twp. shot and killed himself inside a Center Twp. Police cruiser along Brodhead Road near Pleasant Ave. while being transported to the Center Twp. Police Department after he was arrested on an outstanding warrant at his residence on Geneva Drive.

Beaver County 911 Center reported early Friday afternoon that the Center Township Police Department and firefighters were called at 12:43 PM to the scene of a male suffering from a gun shot wound near the Center exit on Brodhead Road.  It was then reported by Beaver County District Attorney David Lozier that Sooky shot and killed himself inside the cruiser. It is still unclear how Sooky acquired a gun.

Stay tuned to Beaver County Radio as we continue to follow this story as police continue to investigate. Brodhead has been re-opened after being closed for over three hours as officials investigated.

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Story by  Sandy Giordano
(Center Twp., PA.) Beaver County District Attorney David J. Lozier reported Friday afternoon that  at 12;08 p.m. Friday, August 12, 2022,  Center Township  Police served a search warrant  at 252 Geneva Drive and an adult male was taken into custody at that residence. He was being transported  in a police vehicle  to the Center Township Police Department and it is believed  at that  time the individual discharged a firearm while being transported  and in custody. According to Lozier he now deceased.  Because the male died while in police custody, and in order to insure an objective, outside investigation, Center Township Police referred the matter to the PA State Police.

(Center Twp., Beaver County , Pa.) Beaver County 911 Center is reporting that the Center Township Police Department and firefighters were called at 1243 PM Friday afternoon to the scene of a male suffering from a gun shot wound near the Center exit.  As of 2:00 PM Brodhead Road was closed from at Pleasant Drive. No other information is available at this time as it is an ongoing investigation.

Update: Pa.  State police said a man shot and killed himself inside a Center Township police vehicle. Police have set up a perimeter along Broadhead Rod near Pleasant Drive to investigate.  It’s unclear why the man was in the police vehicle and how he got a gun inside a police vehicle.

The man’s identity has not been released.

Social media posts stated that a male was suffering from Gun Shot Wound to the head and police were requesting Center Fire Department to block off the road and a helicopter was on standby.

This is a breaking news story. Stay tuned to Beaver County Radio. We will post an update once one becomes available.

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(Ambridge, Pa.) A child was struck by a car  at 6th and Merchant Streets in Ambridge early Friday afternoon.  Police and firefighters were still on the scene as of 2:00PM and no other information is available according to Beaver County 9-1-1.

Social media posts stated that the child was injured and was transported to a local hospital.

This is a developing story. Stay tuned to Beaver County Radio and we’ll post an update as soon as one is available.