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Company faces criminal charges over pipeline explosion in Western Pennsylvania
District attorney consulted with Pennsylvania State Police before shooting, then ruled it justified
The case has become the impetus for sweeping new recommendations to reform who investigates state troopers when they injure or kill someone.
Beaver County nursing home staff say conditions are bleak, hope union negotiations bring higher staffing levels
More than a dozen nursing home workers gathered outside the Beaver Valley Healthcare and Rehab Center to protest working conditions at the facility.
Black man in Beaver County sues police officer for excessive force, firing weapon
The 23-year-old Black man filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, alleging that a White police officer from Raccoon Township — about 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh — pointed a gun at him from a moving unmarked police car before punching him in the face at least twice.
Federal agents search Beaver County nursing home with many virus deaths
Federal agents searched two nursing homes Thursday near Pittsburgh, one of which had the worst coronavirus outbreak of any in Pennsylvania and was already being investigated by the state on suspicion of criminal neglect.
