(File Photo: Credit for Photo: Courtesy of Sebastian Foltz/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Caption for Photo: A sign welcomes guest to new terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. (Sebastian Foltz/ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The Transportation Security Administration shared advice yesterday for people flying through Pittsburgh International Airport this Thanksgiving.

TSA recommends that all passengers should get to the airport two hours early for domestic flights and three hours early for international flights.

Passangers are only allowed to pack certain items in terms of food.

According to TSA regional spokesperson Eric Guthier, “The kind of foods you can carry on are going to be those solid items. Those are your marshmallows, your chocolate chips, things that are hard. Things that kinda stand on their own. If it’s an item that if you take it out of its container and it’s gonna fall apart and be a mess in your bag, like peanut butter or liquids, things like that, those are the ones that need to go in a checked bag.”

TSA is rolling out PreCheck touchless ID for the first time, which is biometric technology that allows TSA PreCheck members to go through security without needing a boarding pass or a physical ID.

Officials state that anyone else with questions can go to the TSA website at tsa.gov, or they can text the word “TRAVEL” to 275-872, which spells out “ASK-TSA,” for live support and updates that are from before a passenger leaves home all the way up until they get to the security checkpoint.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: A large billboard sign beckons customers to this Family Dollar store in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday, along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 16 other states, recently secured a $63 million national settlement with Family Dollar Stores to resolve allegations that the company routinely charged customers more at the register than the prices that were displayed on shelves, price tags, and advertisements.

In a proposed order that was filed by Pennsylvania and the partners, Family Dollar will be prohibited from misrepresenting the price of its goods and services.

According to the complaint, thousands of Family Dollar stores nationwide have overcharged shoppers while failing to correct the issue despite thousands of failed inspections, hundreds of consumer complaints, and multiple enforcement actions.

Consumers have reported widespread pricing discrepancies consistently, and regulatory inspections confirmed inaccurate price labels in Family Dollar stores nationwide.

The complaint also alleges that Family Dollar charged customers more at the register than as labeled and on its website and mobile app.

Family Dollar will be required to establish a $40 million consumer redress fund, payable to eligible consumers, and a $20 million discount program for Family Dollar consumers under the proposed order.

Family Dollar must also notify customers of their redress fund eligibility by clearly posting notices on its digital platforms and in its stores.

The company also must establish a pricing accuracy program that requires it to regularly monitor and verify prices, train employees to identify discrepancies, and promptly correct errors to ensure that customers are charged the prices that are advertised or displayed.

The enforcement action against Family Dollar also included: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin, in addition to the FTC.

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News, taken by him)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(East Rochester, PA) The Beaver County Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting at 9:45 a.m. to celebrate the reopening of the Long John Silver’s seafood quick-service restaurant at 750 Ohio River Boulevard in East Rochester.

This restaurant is open from Sundays through Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Fridays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to midnight.

It was rebuilt at its original location from the ground up and it offers a setting for guests to enjoy the favorite meals that they love with chicken and seafood that is updated, which includes batter-dipped fish, chicken, hushpuppies, grilled salmon, shrimp, shrimp tacos and more.

It features a coastal-inspired interior that is along with digital menu boards, kiosks for self-order, and an updated layout which still includes seaworthy seating and ordering options that are personalized.

These enhancements create an environment that is more welcoming while supporting carryout, dine-in and mobile orders.

Some representatives from the County Chamber of Commerce were present at the event, including its president, Lance Grabel.

Grabel commented about what the reopening of the restaurant means for Beaver County by saying: “I think it means that a restaurant that has been a staple of East Rochester for years and years and years, is back, refreshed, reopened, and ready to go, and I think it is spectacular for Beaver County. It just shows the support of community and organizations that wanna come in and be a part of Beaver County.

The employees of the establishment were also present, including Susan Staub, who is the District Manager of the East Rochester Long John Silver’s restaurant.

Staub shared her thoughts about what the reopening of the restaurant means for Beaver County and she thought about the process that it took for the restaurant to reopen again.

Staub stated: “We ended badly, as at the old store. It was hard. This gives Long John Silver’s a chance at rebirth, with a new store, new people; get everything that they need to get done done. We didn’t have enough employees, like a month before we closed. So, it’s our chance to make it up to Beaver County.”

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) The Department of Justice, through the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team, joined Europol yesterday to announce the results of Operation TorNado, which is a coordinated, multi‑agency and international law enforcement effort targeting criminal enterprises that use Dark Web markets to traffic fentanyl, opioids, and other illicit drugs.

This operation was conducted across the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

It included actions against Dark Web vendors and buyers that were active on prominent Dark Web drug markets seized by law enforcement which included: Archetyp, Bohemia, Nemesis, Kingdom, and Tor2Door.

Operation TorNado actions have resulted in the arrest of 354 Dark Web drug traffickers and fraudulent criminals that engaged in tens of thousands of sales of illicit goods and services across the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

The operation resulted in the seizure of over $234 million in both cash and virtual currencies, approximately 5.7 metric tons of illicit drugs worldwide, and these included fentanyl and other opioids, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, methamphetamine, and MDMA, as well as 38 pill presses and 209 firearms.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced yesterday that a resident of McKees Rocks has been sentenced in federal court to 151 months of imprisonment on his conviction of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and fentanyl, and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.

Thirty-five-year-old Glendale Smith was sentenced on November 6th, 2026.

According to information presented to the Court, on July 24th, 2024, police officers approached Smith, who was the subject of multiple active arrest warrants, in the Larimer area of Pittsburgh.

As Smith escaped from the officers, he threw a bag that contained 22 grams of crack cocaine and 30 stamp bags of fentanyl, as well as the keys to his vehicle.

Law enforcement found a stolen firearm loaded with an extended magazine inside the vehicle.

At the time that he committed the instant offense, Smith was on parole for illegally possessing a firearm and possessing with intent to distribute a controlled substance in an Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas case.

This federal conviction is his third adult conviction, and fourth conviction overall, for illegally possessing a firearm, as well as his third drug trafficking conviction.

Federal law prohibits a convicted felon possessing either ammunition or a firearm.