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Updated Feb 05, 2021;
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Today in Pa. Daily Podcast | Feb. 5, 2021
A man from Burgettstown is charged with beating his girlfriend’s three-year-old son to death. The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations continues to drop across the state. Plus, one Pittsburgh veteran will serve as an honorary team captain during Super Bowl LV. And, speaking of football, guess which Pennsylvanian city was named the number one spot for football fans in the nation?
Pa. man charged in beating of girlfriend’s son, who later died
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
CORAOPOLIS, Pa. (AP) A western Pennsylvania man has been charged with beating his girlfriend’s young son, who later died from his injuries.
Tyler Scott Mason, 25, of Burgettstown, was alone with 3-year-old Aiden Lombardi in the girlfriend’s apartment in Coraopolis when the child became unresponsive Tuesday night, Allegheny County authorities said. The boy was taken to a hospital but died the following night.
The child’s mother had left him with Mason while she drove a friend home. Mason soon called his girlfriend and told her the boy had stopped breathing. She told Mason to call 911, but because he was so distraught, she called herself.
The state Department of Agriculture shut down 21 restaurants last week for violating COVID mitigation orders.
While restaurants were allowed to reopen Jan. 4 following a three-week shutdown ordered by Gov. Tom Wolf, they still must abide by capacity limits of 25% to 50%, masking of employees, and limits on alcohol sales.
Each of the restaurants ordered to be shut down were found to be operating in violation of the orders, and management refused to make corrections while an inspector was present, officials said.
The Department of Agriculture inspects restaurants only in counties that do not have health departments .They do not perform restaurant inspections in Allegheny, Bucks, Chester, Erie, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties.
Two dozen more Pa. restaurants receive closure notices for defying COVID orders
Updated Jan 13, 2021;
Posted Jan 13, 2021
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture announced another round of closure notices for restaurants.
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More restaurants in Pennsylvania have been ordered to close for not following the state’s COVID-19 enforcement orders.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture announced today 24 restaurants received closure notices for defying Gov. Tom Wolf’s measures. The inspections took place Jan. 4-10.
In the one week period, the department conducted 729 inspections of which 171 visits were prompted by complaints about COVID-19 mitigation orders not being followed. An additional 130 of those visits were deemed followups for COVID-specific complaints.
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Penny Cracas, with the Chester County, Pa., Health Department, fills a syringe with the Moderna covid-19 vaccine.
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As vaccine rollout gets underway in hospitals and long-term care facilities, participants in the trials that made it possible are coming forward to share their experiences – and to assure members of the public there is nothing to fear.
“I just thought, maybe people might have a better understanding,” said Dennis Mader, 72, a resident of Burgettstown in Washington County who participated in the Moderna vaccine trial via UPMC. “A lot of people I talk to, they just hear things. And they hear the bad things. And I thought, maybe to throw some positive thoughts in this process might not be a bad thing.”