Beaver News

Aug 29, 2008 10:47 pm US/Eastern BEAVER, Pa. Thousands packed Irvine Park in Beaver as Democratic Presidential Nominee Sen.

Democrats are aggressively courting Pennsylvanians as crucial voters in the presidential election with a visit by Sen.

The state Attorney General's office on Thursday charged the former borough manager of Rochester and a current council member with theft and related charges.

The national Democratic ticket of Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will include Pennsylvania among its earliest campaign stops following the Democratic National Convention.

Sen. Joe Biden, who has often referred to himself as Pennsylvania's third senator, claimed the mantle again in a surprise visit to the Pennsylvania delegation breakfast this morning.

Aug 27, 2008 1:44 pm US/Eastern BEAVER Sen. Barack Obama and his running mate, Sen.

A 3-year-old from Freedom, Beaver County, died on Monday after accidentally shooting himself with a handgun.

Monaca at Western Beaver 12:30 p.m. Sept. 13 at Western Beaver Stadium Monaca suffered its only 2007 conference loss to the Golden Beavers.

TAYLOR TWP. Assault charged William Francis Wimer, 25, of West Pittsburg , was charged with simple assault after a reported incident around 11 p.m. Aug.

A Beaver County mother is accused of threatening her daughters with a stun gun and a man is accused of using it on one girl.

A Beaver County couple faces a preliminary hearing next month on charges that the woman's daughters had been assaulted routinely with a stun gun last month.

Across Allegheny County, 25,231 Social Security and Veterans Affairs benefits recipients are missing out on their federal economic stimulus payments -- and the deadline is getting closer.

Police say they arrested two men and confiscated a collection of more than 50 weapons and ammunition from a house in Franklin Township early Sunday morning.

Jason Petrella is the choice of the Lawrence County Democratic Party's executive board for state Senate.

A member of the Beaver Falls High School cross country team has been hospitalized after falling off a bridge.

The wife of state Sen. Gerald LaValle was charged yesterday with stealing thousands of dollars from a Beaver County nonprofit group she ran for 20 years.

The wife of Democratic state Sen. Gerald LaValle is charged with stealing thousands of dollars from a nonprofit she headed, inflating her salary and denying employees pension benefits.

Local road and bridge projects are falling victim to soaring prices for energy and construction materials.

The state Department of Environmental Protection plans to restore a 26-acre abandoned strip mine in South Beaver Township.

Since state Rep. Sean Ramaley ended his state Senate bid Friday after his indictment on corruption charges, seven Democratic candidates have contacted Beaver County Democratic Committee chairman Mike "Doc" Sisk ...