Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published May 30, 2023 10:21 A.M.

(Aliquippa, PA) Firefighters responded to a fire in the 200 block of Main Avenue in West Aliquippa where a triplex and single family home, both frames, were on fire. Fire Captain Tim Firich reported that the 2 structures were unoccupied.  The single family home at 225 Maine Avenue was destroyed. The triplex at 221 & 223 Main Avenue was heavily damaged. The cause of the fire is under investigation, according to Fire Captain Tim Firich.

Address correction 11:41 A.M. – Maine Avenue, Aliquippa changed to Main Avenue, West Aliquippa

(Story and Photos by Frank Sparks)

(New Brighton, Pa.) The weather presented a beautiful back drop for the Borough of New Brighton to pay tribute to our fallen heroes Monday morning. The New Brighton and Riverside bands marched down Third Avenue along with public officials, civic groups and the stars of the day our veterans, as they paid homage to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

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People walk among the headstones as they visit Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Monday, May 29, 2023, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has lauded the sacrifice of generations of U.S. troops who died fighting for their country as he marked Memorial Day with a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Biden has taken pride that his administration has overseen a time of relative peace for the U.S. military after two decades of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s been nearly 21 months since the Democratic president ended the United States’ longest war in Afghanistan. Biden made good on a campaign promise to end a 20-year-old war that cost the lives of 2,400 U.S. service members. Biden and his wife plan to spend the rest of the holiday at their home near Wilmington, Delaware.

Story by Beaver County Radio News Staff. Published May 29, 2023 11:49 A.M.

(Homewood, PA) State Police in Beaver say they were dispatched to Big Beaver Boulevard in Homewood on May 8th shortly after 10pm. After arriving on scene, Troopers say they located a 16 year old male from Darlington who was in possession of suspected marijuana.

Story by Beaver County Radio News Staff. Published May 29, 2023 11:36 A.M.  

(Aliquippa, PA) An Aliquippa woman was scammed out of $5,000 while trying to sell her antique vehicle. PA State Police report that 64 year old Nancy Fooks arranged the sale with an unknown person who requested the car be shipped to them. The actors sent a fraudulent check to Fooks, who proceeded to pay for the shipping through PayPal before realizing she was being scammed and ultimately reporting it.

FILE – Top Republican debt crisis mediators Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., left, and Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., center, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, with Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, upper right, have a laugh as they stop for questions by reporters on progress in the talks with the Biden administration, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, has blasted the tentative debt ceiling deal struck by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Joe Biden and says he will try to stop it in the House. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The reviews are starting to come in about the debt ceiling agreement reached by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Even before seeing the details, some lawmakers were criticizing the deal as not doing enough to tackle the nation’s debt, while others worried it’s too austere and will harm many low-income Americans. The legislation will probably need support from a significant number of lawmakers from both parties to clear the closely divided House and gain the 60 votes necessary to advance in the Senate. The 99-page bill that resulted from the Biden-McCarthy negotiations was made public Sunday night.

This May 6, 2020, photo shows the World War II Memorial in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Military authorities say an Army Air Force pilot from Pennsylvania killed during World War II has been accounted for almost eight decades later. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says 25-year-old 2nd Lt. James Litherland of South Williamsport will be buried in Williamsport. In February 1944, Litherland was co-piloting a B-17F Flying Fortress that was struck by anti-aircraft fire after a bombing raid in France. His remains weren’t identified until more material was recovered from the crash site in 2018. Military authorities say dental and anthropological analysis and DNA evidence was then used to identify the remains as those of Litherland.