Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio. Published August 21, 2026 2:38 P.M.

(New Sewickley Township, Pa) Officers were dispatched to the scene of a road rage incident on Fezell Road shortly after 10pm Thursday.

According to a release from the New Sewickley Township Police Department, a 911 caller indicated gun shots were being fired from a vehicle involved in road rage.

Officers were told a silver Chevy Impala was fleeing the scene after shooting at another vehicle. 

An officer was able to locate the vehicle on Blackswoods Road at the intersection with Big Knob Road traveling at a high rate of speed away from the area where the incident took place.

The officer conducted a traffic stop with the vehicle on Grange Road and identified the driver as 41-year-old Christopher L. Brown of Brighton Township.

The report states Brown admitted to being involved in the road rage incident and initially denied firing a gun from inside his vehicle.  

Victims told officers the incident started in the 300 block of Big Knob Road as the two  vehicles passed each other while traveling in opposite directions and began flashing their high beams at each other. The victims indicated that Brown turned around and began following them on Big Knob Road, attempted to cut them off several times.

The victims state they had to drive through a yard to avoid a collision with Brown’s vehicle. They say Brown then began to follow them onto Blackswoods Road and then onto Fezell Road, where they say Brown began to shoot at them.

Part of the incident was caught on video. Officers report the video depicts approximately 15 shots being fired. 

While investigating, officers located .40 caliber shell casings along the roadway in the 700 block of Fezell Road and Brown was found to be in possession of a .40 caliber Glock Model 23 pistol with 5 rounds missing from the magazine.

Brown told officers the individuals in the other vehicle threw “some type of liquid at his vehicle” when he initially passed them. Brown claimed that caused him to become angry and turn around to chase the victim’s vehicle.

Brown admitted to firing the handgun from his vehicle but denied shooting at the victims. Brown also indicated that there was an additional magazine for his firearm inside the vehicle.    

When officers executed a search warrant of Brown’s  vehicle, officers located an empty .40 caliber Glock magazine in addition to money and several containers of suspected marijuana and paraphernalia.  

Brown was charged with two counts of Aggravated  Assault, one count of Discharging a Firearm into an Occupied Structure or Vehicle, two counts of Recklessly Endangering Another Person, two counts of Terroristic Threats, and two counts of Simple Assault.

Brown is currently being held in the Beaver County Jail after failing to post a $250,000 bond. Additional charges are pending.  

(Credit and Caption for Photo: Former Vice President Mike Pence delivers speech during a demonstration against the Iranian regime in Brussels on September 6, 2025. (Courtesy of Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP via Getty Images)).

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Grove City, PA) Former Vice President Mike Pence will return to Grove City College this fall in his role as a visitor for the Center for Faith & Public Life. 

Pence has been affiliated with Grove City College since 2024. 

He has taught political science courses on both faith and public life and also has led seminars, mentored students, helped host Grove City College’s annual Ronald Reagan Lecture, and provided leadership through the Center for Faith & Public Life, which will  encourage the expression and influence of the Christian faith in American society. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) The Shapiro Administration announced today that Pennsylvania is investing more than $9.1 million to purchase development rights for 2,565 acres on 34 farms in 16 counties.

This investment will protect prime farmland from future residential or commercial development and it will help ensure that farm families have the fertile land that they need to produce fiber, food and fuel to feed the economy in the future.

According to a release from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Beaver County received these investments for these farms:

Beaver County – Total investment – $891,531; state – $587,073; county – $304,458

Donald J. Kretschmann, Trustee of the Donald J. Kretschmann Revocable Trust, 72-acre crop farm, New Sewickley Township

Carl E. and Sarah L. Sockaci, 121-acre crop and livestock farm, Franklin Township

(File Photo of Road Work Ahead Sign)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that slide repair work on Service Creek Road (Route 3020) in Independence and Hopewell townships will begin Tuesday, August 25th weather permitting. 

At approximately 9 a.m. that day, single-lane alternating traffic controlled by temporary traffic signals will be implemented on Service Creek Road between Parrish Road and Valleyview Drive.

These temporary traffic signals will be utilized around-the-clock through early September as slide repair work will be conducted by crews from A. Liberoni, Inc.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) Allegheny County Sheriff Kevin M. Kraus announced today that a woman who has been a fugitive for almost three years has been taken into custody along with a second fugitive.

Detectives from the Allegheny County Sheriff’s office went to an address on Jersey Street in McKeesport yesterday morning to try to locate 45-year-old Leah Saluga, who has been on the run since September of 2023. That was when two bench warrants were issued against her for failing to appear for sentencing on a DUI case and for a court hearing on a separate drug possession case.

Detectives arrived at the residence, Saluga opened the door and was promptly taken into custody.

A subsequent safety check of the residence led to the arrest of 22-year-old Terron Porterfield, who was wanted on a bench warrant issued last month for a probation violation on a 2025 guilty plea to a gun charge.

Porterfield also has an active warrant out of West Mifflin for fleeing a police officer.

Detectives saw indications of weapons and what appeared to be marijuana in the process of making the arrests.

Detectives then applied for and were granted a search warrant for the residence and they recovered two handguns, which included a .45-caliber Glock 21 and just over a half pound of suspected marijuana.

Saluga and Porterfield were transported to the Allegheny County Jail on their existing warrants and Porterfield is also facing new gun and drug charges that were based on the search.

SCOTT TADY

BURGETTSTOWN — Billy Idol peeled off a layer of leather, then another layer, then another — finally finding a comfortable, less bulky wardrobe for the first segment of his crowd-pleasing performance Thursday at The Pavilion at Star Lake.

By night end, he’d be briefly shirtless, setting a high standard for fellow 70-year-olds, and looking utterly stoked to be effectively commanding a stage — and like the title of his leadoff song — “Still Dancing.”

From the jump, Idol grabbed the audience’s attention and never let it wane.  I’ll estimate 9,500 were there, enjoying Idol’s expertly crafted set that featured radio hits “Cradle of Love” and “Flesh for Fantasy” as songs #2 and #3. Later would come popular picks like “Eyes Without a Face” and “Mony Mony,” both receiving slightly tweaked intros that built the anticipation and yielded excitement once spectators were certain what they were hearing.

Idol added quick-to-the-point banter when necessary, like setting up “77” with the explanation it was his 2025 collab with pop-punk rocker Avril Lavigne.

Bookending Idol on stage were two guitar wizards — Steve Stevens and Billy Morrison.

As he did decades ago at the late great Station Square Amphitheater, Stevens proved he’s a vastly underrated six-stringer, unleashing a dazzling arsenal of creative guitar effects, but still keeping his general tones smooth and stinging. In short: Stevens utterly amazed, even adding a few solo snippets of Led Zeppelin’s “Over The Hills and Far Away” and “Stairway to Heaven,” and later a slice of Jimi Hendrix’s “Third Stone from The Sun.”

With two female backup singers helping flesh out the vocals, Idol kept the entertainment brisk and fun. He did his signature fist pumps, tossed a handful of Frisbees into the crowd and saved a little vocal power by flipping the mic toward the crowd for them to sing bits of the choruses.

Many of those who would have been night clubbing in the 1980s gleefully added the naughty word refrain as Idol sang his cover  of Tommy James and The Shondells’ “Mony Mony.”

Stevens took advantage of multiple solo moments to treat fans to a blaze of guitar.

Recognizing his other guitarist is an ace, too, Idol also encouraged Morrison to play a solo and at one point, to pick the next song. Morrison opted for the breezy “Ready Steady Go” from Idol’s pre-solo days leading Generation X — the influential-if-not-renowned band that gave the name to the generation sandwiched between Boomers and Millennials.

Idol did a handful of quick outfit changes, all befitting his post-punk oeuvre.

Song-wise, “Blue Highway” was a nice pick for fans who knew more than just the big hits.

Idol set up the pre-encore “Rebel Yell” with the tale of how he wrote that song after being invited to an early 1980s party where his heroes the Rolling Stones were holding sway. Rebel Yell was the name of the whiskey the Stones were swigging that fateful night.

Many in the Burgettstown crowd collectively danced to “Dancing With Myself,” which launched the encore. Next came “Hot in The City,” for which Idol reminisced about his early impressions of 1979 New York City, where in the summer heat the leather-clad locals looked like characters from the street gang action thriller movie “The Warriors.” Idol said that look inspired what would be come his leather and spikes visual image.

The handful of Star Lake concertgoers wearing costumed wedding gowns got their moment to shine as “White Wedding” brought the concert to a close.

Hooray for Idol, for still being a captivating performer.

(File Photo of a Gavel)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today that a resident of Pittsburgh, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of four years on his conviction of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possessing a machinegun. 

Twenty-two-year-old Andrew Rocco was sentenced.  

According to information presented to the Court, Rocco’s residence was searched on February 2nd, 2024, and police found three firearms, along with magazines and ammunition.  

One of those firearms was equipped with a mechanism that is frequently referred to as a “switch” or auto-sear, which renders it capable of fully automatic firing.

That means that one of the firearms was a machinegun.  

All three of the pistols were outfitted with loaded, extended magazines. 

This is the third time that Rocco has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for a gun-related crime.