(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Bedillion Honey Farm)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Industry, PA) Tens of thousands of honey bees were killed yesterday after a bee yard was set on fire in Industry. Beekeepers Mark Bedillion and Lily Bedillion, the owners of Bedillion Honey Farm, discovered the destroyed hives while performing a routine maintenance check of the facility. The fire destroyed the colonies of bees along with the wooden boxes and pallets that are used to house them. If you have any information about this fire, you can contact 724-747-4645, and a $1,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest and the conviction of the suspect(s).

(File Photo of a Police Siren Light)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Penn Hills, PA) Kelshon Lovelace, Trevor Twyman, and Lemoyne Williams were charged yesterday in connection with the death of twenty-one-year-old Vanderlee Stevenson IV. Stevenson IV passed away on December 6th, 2024 when he was shot multiple times along Universal Road in Penn Hills. Police confirm that Twyman showed up to an area hospital with a gunshot wound to his hand a few hours after the shooting took place and investigators stated that surveillance video and witness interviews helped them determine that he, Lovelace and Williams were responsible for the shooting that killed Stevenson IV. According to police, Williams was taken into custody yesterday and was taken to the Allegheny County Jail. Lovelace and Twyman were incarcerated on other unrelated criminal charges. The trio of suspects face conspiracy, criminal homicide and firearms violations charges.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – SNAP EBT information sign is displayed at a gas station in Riverwoods, Ill., Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, file)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to state officials, more than 59,500 Pennsylvanians have lost federal food assistance in the six months since the imposition of work requirements for program recipients. These changes were ushered in by the marquee tax legislation from President Donald Trump, which stripped away Pennsylvania’s broad exemption from job mandates that were attached to federal nutrition assistance. As of September 1st, 2025, that meant that many able-bodied adults without young children had to show that they were working or volunteering for at least 20 hours every week to remain enrolled in the program. Recipients of food stamps who do not comply are limited under the rule to three months of benefits over a three-year period. The requirements expanded further November 1st, 2025 to cover people up to the age of sixty-four and parents of children that are fourteen years old or older. People over the age of fifty-four or parents of children younger than eighteen were exempt. The Department of Human Services for Pennsylvania confirms that 59,578 Pennsylvanians were expelled from SNAP in these recent months.

(File Photo of a Gavel)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington County, PA) Eighteen-year-old Zachariah Meyers, a Peters Township High School senior appeared in court today in the Washington County Courthouse for a preliminary hearing on charges that accuse him of sextorting over twenty victims under the age of eighteen. Meyers was denied bail a second time at this court appearance, a week after a judge denied his bail the first time. Meyers now faces only sixty-seven charges after he initially faced more than three hundred. Lawyers for Meyers asked the judge if he could be let out on bond, but the judge denied that, saying that he remains a threat to the community and he is a flight risk. This comes after a recent incident in which according to investigators, at least twenty-one boys were catfished and sextorted after Meyers pretended to be an adult film star from the Netherlands, with at least 14 teenagers sending pornographic pictures of themselves. After executing a search warrant at the home of Meyers on Windermere Court earlier this year, police confirm that they took Meyers into custody and a search of his phone found evidence that tied him to the social media accounts that targeted the minors. Meyers is still in the Washington County Jail without bond and his charges included trafficking in minors, sexual abuse of children, sexual exploitation of children, sexual extortion and unlawful contact with a minor.

(File Photo of an American Flag)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Annville, PA) According to a release today in Annville, Pennsylvania from the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA), they announced that its mobile veterans outreach team is available for free throughout the state to assist veterans by obtaining information and initiating benefit claim paperwork through the assistance of accredited veterans service officers. The DMVA brings services that are essential directly to veterans and can also be booked online for community events like county fairs, festivals and more. Their team offers on-site assistance that is no cost with veterans’ benefits that are supported by the DMVA’s accredited veterans service officers. Links with more information can be found below:

Click here to schedule the Mobile Veterans’ Outreach Team for an Event | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Click here to find out more about the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs | Department of Military and Veterans Affairs | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE—In this file photo from March 12, 2020, work continues at a shale gas well drilling site in St. Mary’s, Pa. Pennsylvania attorney general Josh Shapiro is scheduled to release results on Thursday June 25, 2020 of a grand jury investigation into natural gas hydraulic fracturing. The fracking process has raised environmental concerns while turning the state into a major energy producer. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) The production of natural gas in Pennsylvania went up by 5.1%, which is the biggest increase in the state since 2021. The annual natural gas production report from the Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) in Harrisburg released on Wednesday found that 7.76 billion cubic feet of production and 446 new wells begun in 2025. The volume for natural gas production increased all year and the number of wells were a higher amount beginning in the second quarter, even as the average price in Pennsylvania was the highest in the first quarter at a total of $3.69 per thousand British Thermal Units. $2.83 per thousand British Thermal Units was the average price in 2025, which was up 70% from a year ago. According to the IFO, the number of new wells that began in Pennsylvania was the first increase in annual totals since 2022.

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of WPXI-TV Pittsburgh, Posted on Facebook on February 27th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Robinson Township, PA) A tanker truck overturned on the I-79 on-ramp near Steubenville Pike in Robinson Township today. The truck was on its side at the bottom of the ramp. There were no reported injuries.

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Gibsonia reported via release today that a two-vehicle crash occurred in Lawrence County on the evening of February 17th, 2026. At 11 p.m., an unidentified driver was traveling on I-76 East in North Beaver Township and tried to pass the vehicle of twenty-two-year-old Cameron Hores of Valencia, Pennsylvania after the driver was behind the vehicle of Hores. The driver ended up hitting the vehicle of Hores and did not stop and give information to police. There were no injuries. 

Pittsburgh Pirates broadcaster Greg Brown spoke on the Beaver County Radio Morning Show on Friday.

Chatting with WBVP-WMBA morning host Scott Tady, Brown shared his thoughts on Andrew McCutchen’s potential future with the Pirates. Brown also discussed a new Major League baseball rule change regarding players challenging called balls and strikes.

Listen to Brown’s interview here:

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