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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced lane restrictions on I-376 (Parkway East) in Edgewood Borough and the City of Pittsburgh will begin tomorrow, weather permitting. Median barrier reconstruction work that will require around-the-clock lane shifts will be implemented on I-376 in each direction between the Squirrel Hill Tunnel and the Edgewood/Swissvale (Exit 77) interchange through mid-April. Single-lane restrictions will occur from 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. to allow this work to occur as line eradication, painting, and temporary barrier installation will be conducted to facilitate traffic shifts for median barrier reconstruction work. Once that work is finished, traffic will be shifted into the new long-term configuration. 

(Photo Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Lottery)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Armstrong County, PA) A Pennsylvania Lottery player in Armstrong County is one of the newest millionaires in the state. Pennsylvania Lottery officials announced yesterday that a “$1,000,000 a Year for Life” lottery scratch-off ticket was sold at a retailer in Armstrong County. The winning ticket was sold at a BP gas station along Buffalo Street in Freeport Borough. The retailer will receive a bonus of $100,000 for selling the ticket. The $50 scratch-off game offers either a top prize of $1 million annually for life or a one-time cash option of $14.5 million, before applicable withholding. Winners need to sign the back of their ticket immediately and call the Pennsylvania Lottery at 1-800-692-7481. Prizes from scratch-offs expires one year from the official end-sale date of each game. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A man was arrested in Station Square yesterday afternoon after police said he led them on a chase through the area and later jumped into the river in an attempt to escape. According to Pittsburgh Public Safety officials, at around 4 p.m., officers attempted to pull over a vehicle along Wood Street and Forbes Avenue when the suspect left the scene and led police on a chase. Officials state that the man was suspected of stealing firearms from a vehicle in a Downtown Pittsburgh parking garage earlier in the day. Allegheny County Sheriff’s deputies picked up the pursuit to follow the vehicle over the Fort Pitt Bridge. The vehicle then turned onto West Carson Street and eventually hit a pole close to Station Square. Public safety officials confirm that the driver then ran from the vehicle and jumped into the river. The man later pulled himself out and was arrested. Police express that he faces multiple charges. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) A man was taken to the hospital out of caution after a fire broke out inside a home in South Fayette Township yesterday evening. Allegheny County dispatchers confirmed to WTAE that officials were called to a home in the 7000 block of Clubview Drive following reports of a fire. It was reported after 3 p.m. The fire later appeared to be under control, with light smoke seen coming from one of the windows of the house. The Fairview Fire Chief told WTAE that the fire was believed to have started in the kitchen of the home, taking out the whole first floor.One man was at the home at the time and was taken to the hospital out of caution. He is expected to be okay and the cause of this fire is unknown at this time.

(File Photo of a Sign in Zelienople)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Zelienople, PA) Two women and a man are dead after an investigation lead to self-inflicted gunshot wounds. A Pennsylvania State Police report states this investigation began yesterday in Illinois, where a man reported to the Hillside Police Department that two people were dead at a home in Zelienople. When the Hillside, Illinois officers responded to speak with that man, he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the village just fifteen miles west of Chicago. The home where the two women died was on Dior Drive in Zelienople. Police note that officers used forced entry to get into the home and found two women dead from apparent gunshot wounds. Investigators state that it is believed the two women were family members of the man who passed away in Illinois. PSP is now investigating the circumstances around these deaths, but they express that investigators do not believe there is a threat to the public. Law enforcement is not searching for anyone else that is in connection with this incident. 

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) A multi-vehicle crash affected traffic on the Parkway East yesterday. According to PennDOT, the crash happened around 6:30 p.m. on I-376 westbound, just west of the Edgewood/Swissvale exit. Allegheny County 911 dispatchers confirm that at least one person has been taken to a hospital from the scene. The crash caused a lane restriction, which backed traffic up beyond the Route 8 interchange. The crash has now cleared and traffic is continuing again. The cause of the crash is unknown at this time. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner yesterday, a man has died days after a multi-vehicle crash on the Liberty Bridge. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that twenty-eight-year-old Jaren Wilkerson of Duquesne, died yesterday, which was three days after the crash occurred between three vehicles over the weekend. This crash that occurred on the Liberty Bridge early on Sunday morning also killed twenty-five-year-old Laila Makaylea Jones of Baldwin Borough and injured the lifelong friend of Jones. The GoFundMe pages for both victims that died in the crash that were started by their families to assist with their funeral and medical costs can be found below:

Click here to support Jaren Wilkerson and click here to support Laila Jones. 

The cause of this crash is still being investigated. 

(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver, PA) One of the topics discussed this morning at the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session at the Beaver County Courthouse in Beaver was when Beaver County Recreation and Tourism Director Tony Caltury brought up the situation of the liner of the pool at Old Economy Park in Baden during the department head report of the session. Caltury said that it has been determined that the liner of that pool is “no longer viable for the last couple of years,” and he also added that last year, it was getting to the point of water getting added to the pool each day because of the holes that were in it. Caltury stated that there will need to be a remediation to open the Old Economy Park pool, and he gave the Commisioners a report which included the full attendance of that pool from the last two years that was provided by the Beaver County YMCA, the expenses oustide of the replacement of the liner of that pool, and the cost for a replacement liner, which would have a ten-year warranty. However, Calutry noted that the life span is twenty-five years for that replacement liner. Caltury will meet with the Beaver County YMCA early next week to do a walktrough of the Old Economy Park pool. The other main topic that was discussed was an update on bringing documents from the Wampum Mushroom Mines to a facility owned by St. Barnabas. Beaver County Solicitor Garen Fedeles expressed during the solicitors’ report of the session that effective immediately, a maximum of 250 boxes a week can be brought from the mines to the facility after they are ordered each week to transport them. In other business, Commissioner Jack Manning praised the recent reinstitution of an act for railway safety from lawmakers like Senator John Fetterman and addressed the recent hack that was targeting Pittsburgh mayor Corey O’Connor that was believed to be from a pro-Nazi group in the Commissioners’ report. After Commissioner Manning addressed the hack, he let Beaver County Emergency Service Director Eric Brewer respond to this development, and he said that “it could happen,” and “the hackers are ahead of us.” The Director and Recycling Coordinator of the Beaver County Office of Sustainability and Waste Management, Becca Naber, also expressed that she sent a memo about a process for landfill in Beaver County during the department head report of the session. There were eleven responses to that and ten of them were found to be adequate to provide landfill capcity for the residents of Beaver County for the next decade.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Allegheny Health Network (AHN) announced the appointment yesterday of Ashley M. Carlucci, DNP, MHA, RN, CEN, CENP, as its new Chief Nurse Executive (CNE), effective April 13th. According to a release in Pittsburgh yesterday from AHN, Carlucci brings a wealth of experience and a proven track record of advancing operational and nursing excellence and nursing workforce innovation within large, integrated health systems, and when she becomes AHN’s new CNE, she will become AHN’s highest-ranking nursing leader, overseeing the network’s 6,000 bedside, clinic and administrative nurses. Carlucci comes to Pittsburgh from University Hospitals, which is a 21-hospital system based in northeast Ohio. Carlucci provided executive leadership for nursing strategy, operations, and workforce engagement across a market that included seven regional hospitals as a Market Chief Nursing Officer for University Hospitals. Carlucci played a significant role in integrating multiple hospital systems, advancing system-wide care model transformation, and leadership development initiatives that produced measurable improvements in engagement, quality, and operational performance during her tenure as a University Hospitals market chief nursing officer. Carlucci is a registered nurse who earned her associate’s degree in applied nursing science and her Bachelor of Science in nursing from Kent State University, her master’s degrees in nursing science and health administration from Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, and her Doctorate in Nursing Practice from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.