By: KDKA-TV News Staff BEAVER, Pa. (KDKA) – Beaver County’s 21 prescription drug takeback boxes have collected more than 9,400 pounds of prescription drugs over the past four years. READ MORE: Pennsylvania Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Porn Charges In January 2021 alone, the Beaver County district attorney’s office says the boxes collected 500 pounds. READ MORE: Legalizing Marijuana In Pennsylvania Gets First Republican Sponsor The boxes are available 5 days a week during normal business hours. All the prescription drugs collected are incinerated under the watch of DEA agents and/or the Pennsylvania National Guard. MORE NEWS: TSA Looking To Hire Thousands Of New Security Officers The 21 locations can be found here . ...
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Orange County Now Meets 2 Key Metrics To Move From Purple Tier Into Red Tier
SANTA ANA (CBSLA) — Orange County was closer to moving out of the purple tier of the state’s coronavirus monitoring system Tuesday, as the weekly update from the state showed that it meets key criteria to enter the red tier. The county’s test positivity rate improved from 7.8% last week to 5.4% Tuesday, and the adjusted case rate per 100,000 on a seven-day average with a seven-day lag improved from 20.7 to 11.9. The Health Equity Quartile Positivity Rate, which reflects the rates in lower-income and minority neighborhood hot spots, improved from 10.7% to 7%. READ MORE: Tiger Woods 'Responsive And Recovering' After Suffering Serious Leg, Ankle Injuries In Rollover Crash To get to the red tier, the county has to have a positivity rate of 5 to 8%, a case rate per 100,000 of 4 to 7 and a Health Equity Quartile rate of 5.3 to 8%. Under the red tier, more businesses and organizations would be able to reopen. Retail stores could allow half capacity inside instead of 25%, and museums, zoos and aquariums could reopen for indoor activities at 25% capacity. Also, movie theaters, gyms and restaurants could open indoors at 25% capacity. On Tuesday, the county reported 250 new COVID-19 cases and no additional fatalities. READ MORE: LA City Council Set To Approve $5 Hazard Pay For Grocery Store Workers The new numbers brought the county’s caseload to 245,135 while the death toll remained at 3,848. Hospitalizations in the county also continued a downward trend. On Tuesday, the number of people hospitalized with coronavirus dropped from 556 to 538. The number of coronavirus patients in intensive care also decreased, dropping from 179 to 152, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency. The county has 18.9% of its ICU beds available and 61% of its ventilators. MORE NEWS: Steep Stretch Of Road Where Tiger Woods Crashed Described As Dangerous: ‘We Go Through Brakes A Lot’ (© Copyright 2020 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. City News ...
I-75 Modernization Project In Oakland County Resumes Friday With Weekend Closure
(CBS DETROIT) – Weather permitting, the rebuilding of I-75 in Oakland County resumes on Friday, Feb. 26, with a freeway closure for bridge demolition. Beginning at 11 p.m. on Friday, both directions of I-75 will be closed between 8 Mile Road and I-696. READ MORE: New SOS Online, Self-Service Options Coming In March MDOT says this closure is needed to allow crews to safely demolish the Shevlin Avenue vehicular and Highland Avenue pedestrian bridges over the freeway in the city of Hazel Park. I-75 will reopen to traffic by 5 a.m. Monday, March 1, with two lanes open in each direction from just south of 8 Mile Road to just north of 13 Mile Road. Prior to the freeway closure, crews will begin closing ramps at 9 p.m. and start freeway lane closures at 10 p.m. All ramps to northbound I-75 will be closed from Davison Freeway to 9 Mile Road. All ramps to southbound I-75 will be closed from 14 Mile to 9 Mile roads. READ MORE: DDOT/SMART Will Resume Bus Fare March 15, Both Adding More COVID Safety Measures During the closure, northbound I-75 traffic will be detoured west on 8 Mile Road to northbound M-1 (Woodward Avenue), then eastbound I-696 back to northbound I-75. Southbound I-75 traffic will use westbound I-696 to southbound M-1, then eastbound 8 Mile Road back to southbound I-75. In addition to the freeway closure, I-75 will have one lane open in each direction between I-696 and 14 Mile Road over the weekend. Beginning Monday, March 1, the following ramp closures will be in place until the end of the 2021 construction season. The Eastbound and westbound I-696 ramps to southbound I-75, All entrance and exit ramps along southbound I-75 from south of I-696 to 8 Mile Road. In addition, southbound I-75 traffic will be shifted onto the northbound lanes in the vicinity of 13 Mile Road. The shift will allow crews to rebuild the southbound I-75 bridge over 13 Mile Road this construction season. MORE NEWS: Stimulus Check Update: Why Your Next ...
Butler County Republican Committee Votes To Censure Sen. Pat Toomey Over Impeachment Vote
BUTLER, Pa. (KDKA/AP) — The Butler County Republican Committee of Pennsylvania voted to censure Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) over his vote to convict former President Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial. “The BCRC considers his votes to be in blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution and the Rule of Law,” the committee said in an email. READ MORE: 16-Year-Old Girl Dies, 13-Year-Old Boy Hurt After Falling Through Ice; Police Officer Also Dies The committee held a special meeting on Wednesday, with members voting 94 to 2 to censure the senator. Republican leaders from other counties including Clarion, Lawrence, Washington, York, and Centre County have also voted to censure Toomey. READ MORE: Pennsylvania GOP Meets To Discuss Whether To Censure Sen. Pat Toomey Republican Party committee members in Pennsylvania were meeting remotely Wednesday night, possibly for hours, in what is expected to include a discussion of whether to censure U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey . A censure vote is a symbolic gesture that may have no real effect on Toomey, who announced in October that he will not run again for office. Following his vote to convict, Toomey said in part of the former president that “His betrayal of the Constitution and his oath of office required conviction.” President Trump was acquitted of inciting the insurrection during the impeachment trial in the Senate. MORE NEWS: Pennsylvania Lawmakers Ask Biden Administration To Waive School Test Mandate (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.) ...
Restaurants Hopeful Orange County Will Soon Move To Red Tier, Allowing Indoor Dining To Resume
TUSTIN (CBSLA) — As Orange County’s COVID-19 metrics continued to move closer to the less-restrictive red tier Wednesday, restaurant workers began to prepare for the possibility of indoor dining returning. Orange County restaurant owners hope that lower COVID case numbers are a sign that the county will be moving from the most-restrictive purple to the red tier in the coming weeks. READ MORE: Pasadena's Lucky Boy Burgers Sues Postmates Alleging Unfair Business Practices Business has dropped 35 percent at Christakis Greek Cuisine since indoor dining has stopped. (credit: CBSLA) At Christakis Greek Cuisine restaurant in Tustin, staff and customers were counting down the days until the dining room can reopen for business. The tables in the dining room have been sitting empty since November, but that’s expected to change soon. “We’re excited that there’s some movement hopefully,” said one customer. Under the red tier, restaurants would be permitted to reopen indoors at 25 percent capacity. “I’m looking forward to that,” said customer Angel Carrzaco. “So hopefully, knock on wood, we’re almost there.” Meanwhile, all retail would be allowed to double the current capacity, increasing to 50 percent. People would be able to work out at gyms with at 10 percent capacity and museums, zoos and aquariums could reopen at 25 percent capacity. READ MORE: Lynne Thompson Announced As 2021 Los Angeles Poet Laureate “Everything has been very difficult,” said Esmeralda Aguilar, a hostess and server working at Christakis, where business has been down 35 percent since indoor dining closed. She said on windy days it can be a challenge to only have outdoor seating. “It will be amazing to have everyone back inside and it would be like a dream,” Aguilar said. The county’s test positivity rate improved from 7.8% last week to 5.4% Tuesday, and the adjusted case rate per 100,000 on a seven-day average with a seven-day lag improved from 20.7 to 11.9. The ...
