There's more snow in the forecast for tonight, but Accu-Weather's Joe Lundberg says most of us will be asleep for the entire event. "The snow is probably going to break out somewhere in the neighborhood of midnight, but by 6 or 7 o'clock in the morning, it's gone," Lundberg says. While it won't snow long, it will snow enough to leave behind one-to-three inches, with the three inches more likely the further south you go.
In an 8-0 vote, Northampton County Council has greenlighted St. Luke's University Health Network to sell as much as $450 million in bonds. The network's CFO told council about $225 million of that will be spent on expanding the Anderson Campus on Freemansburg Avenue in Bethlehem Township. That project will add a five-story building to include 146 additional beds. The other $225 million will be used to refinance debt, allowing St. Luke's to get better interest rates.
An Allentown couple is accused of a 2020 murder. Jose and Latasha Santiago are charged with robbing and killing 21-year-old Christian Lopez-Rodriguez in the 100 block of East Hamilton Street. The Lehigh County DA's office says Lopez-Rodriguez punched Jose Santiago after Santiago pulled a gun and demanded his wallet. At that point, Jose Santiago allegedly shot Lopez-Rodriguez and hopped over the railing of the Hamilton Street bridge and into a car that was waiting for him. Prosecutors say Latasha Santiago was the driver of the car.
Terrorism charges have been added to the counts against a Pennsylvania man accused of beheading his father. The Bucks County attorney said Thursday that 32-year-old Justin Mohn faces a dozen new charges in the death last month of his father Michael Mohn. Prosecutors allege Mohn fatally shot his father with a gun he bought the day before, then severed his head and posted video of it on YouTube. He also reportedly ranted against the government in the footage. Mohn is additionally alleged to have had a thumb drive with him when he was arrested near a National Guard training center that included shots of federal buildings and instructions for making a bomb. His preliminary hearing is set for April 2nd.
Pennsylvania election directors say they're in great need of poll workers to staff voting locations ahead of the April 23rd presidential primary. State wide, the Commonwealth will need about 45,000 workers to staff all 9000 voting locations by April. The workers will be trained by county election boards and officials in what experts say is a particularly challenging election environment. Officials say recruiting efforts haven't been helped by extra scrutiny from the stigma of the 2020 presidential election and its false claims of voter fraud.
Penn State trustees and high-ranking university representatives reportedly met privately twice last month to discuss whether to name the football field at Beaver Stadium after former coach Joe Paterno. A group of trustees are reportedly pushing to name the football field after Paterno, while board and university officials are hesitant. If those meetings occurred, they could violate the state's Sunshine Law that requires governing bodies to conduct business in public. Paterno was fired in 2011 during the fallout of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
The amount of money wagered in Pennsylvania on Sunday's Super Bowl decreased by 15% over the total bet in 2023. The Gaming Control Board says Pennsylvania residents placed $71,554,099 in wagers on Super Bowl LVIII. In 2023, when the Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles, Pennsylvania's betters put up $84,313,189 in wagers. After payouts, the total wagering revenue is expected to be $11,062,911, compared to $29,722,902 in 2023.
The Super Bowl meant big bucks for Atlantic City's casinos. The state Division of Gaming Enforcement says Garden State gamblers plunked down more than $141 million on the Chiefs and Niners. That's a thirty percent increase from big-game bets in 2023. New Jersey's casinos, racetracks, retail and online sports books paid out $133 million, which means the sports books made $8.5 million from the Super Bowl bets.
Phillies ace pitcher Zack Wheeler's contract expires at the end of the 2024 season. Upon arriving at spring training, Wheeler said he hopes to be in Philadelphia well after this season ends. "I love it here. We're happy here. It's a good organization. We're winning and all things are looking great, so I'd love to be here," Wheeler says. Wheeler is 43-25 since arriving in Philadelphia in 2020.
Former major league outfielder Lenny Dykstra is recovering from a stroke at a Los Angeles hospital. According to the New York Post, former Mets teammates Darryl Strawberry and Kevin Mitchell said that Dykstra was in good spirits and set to undergo further evaluation at UCLA Medical Center. He has been moved out of intensive care and will likely be hospitalized into next week. Dykstra was on the 1986 Mets championship team with Strawberry and Mitchell and played for New York from 1985-89 before being traded to the Philadelphia Phillies.