(File Photo of the American Flag)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The Fort Pitt Museum in the Steel City recently launched their new exhibit which highlights the role of Pittsburgh in the American Revolution. The exhibit is called “Pittsburgh’s Revolution,” and it has pieces that connect that city’s history to the birth of the United States of America like cannons, fine china, rare horns and muskets. The “Pittsburgh’s Revolution” exhibit opened yesterday and another new exhibit will launch at the Fort Pitt Museum in June of 2026. 

(Photo Courtesy of Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, (PennDOT), Posted on Facebook on December 30th, 2025)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) Three local municipalities in Pennsylvania will receive a total of almost $555,000 in grant funding to improve existing traffic signals in their communities through the Green Light-Go Program. These grants were part of nearly $30 million in funding awarded to 57 municipalities across the state, according to PennDOT, which announced the grant awards in late December of 2025. Center Township received $132,024 to upgrade signal equipment at the intersection of Autumn Street and Pleasant Drive (Route 3017), Moon Township received $193,792 for updated traffic equipment at the intersection of Beaver Grade and Thorn Run roads and Sewickley received $229,168 for the replacement of outdated signal equipment at the intersection of Beaver and Broad streets and Thorn and Broad streets. The guidelines of the Green Light Go Program state that these projects must be finished by the spring of 2028. 

(File Photo of a Gavel)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Pennsylvania announced on Friday that a man illegally residing in Pittsburgh has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges including fraud and misuse of visas, permits, and other documents, as well as aggravated identity theft. The six-count indictment names the sole defendant as forty-four-year-old Mahmoud Almasry, also known as Mohammad Jiham. According to the indictment, Almasry fraudulently entered the United States in 2016 by assuming another person’s identity and continued using that identity for nearly a decade. Prosecutors allege he relied on multiple forms of identification belonging to that individual, who was already deceased at the time Almasry assumed the identity to gain entry into the country. Almasry faces a maximum possible sentence of up to 25 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, or both if he is convicted. 

(File Photo of the Top of a School Bus)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) The Shapiro Administration announced on Friday that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is investing nearly $250,000 to help seven schools and transportation providers across Pennsylvania cover the costs to train new bus drivers, including commercial driver’s license (CDL) training, trainee wages, and testing and permit fees. This first-ever investment is part of the newly established School Bus Safety Program from the Shapiro administration to increase school bus safety for the students and communities of Pennsylvania. 

(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS))

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release in Pittsburgh on Friday from VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS), they announced on Friday planned infrastructure upgrades to ensure safe and effective patient care. These improvements will create a more sustainable experience, so Veterans will have access to the care they deserve that is easier. These projects are part of a nationwide VA spending of a record $4.8 billion to improve, modernize, and repair department health care facilities in the fiscal year of 2026 via the Non-Recurring Maintenance program of the Veterans Health Administration. 

(File Photo of Senator John Fetterman)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) U.S. Senators John Fetterman (D-PA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and U.S. Representatives Dan Goldman (D-NY-10) and Mike Lawler (R-NY-17) introduced their bipartisan, bicameral Enhanced Cybersecurity for SNAP Act on Thursday which is meant to boost security of electronic Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit cards during a sharp rise in theft by both hackers and scammers. According to a release from Fetterman’s office, tens of millions of dollars in SNAP benefits have been stolen by criminals that are exploiting lax cybersecurity of electronic SNAP benefit cards.  

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Moon Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Pittsburgh reported via release on Saturday that sixty-six-year-old Edward Papst of Coraopolis was charged after causing a two-vehicle crash in Moon Township on the morning of January 8th, 2026. At 11:11 a.m., Papst was driving on I-376 East and he was merging left onto that road from the I-376 Business Loop. Papst hit the vehicle of fifty-year-old Leslie Shaffer of Shelocta, Pennsylvania when Shaffer was in the right lane. There were no injuries. 

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Photo Courtesy of WPXI-TV Pittsburgh, Posted on Facebook on February 28th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Someone climbed to the top of the Gulf Tower without getting permission. According to a spokesperson for Pittsburgh Public Safety, two people, a man and a woman, who were believed to be involved were detained at the Gulf Tower on Friday and the duo was cooperative and provided full statements to police. A photo taken from an office window in the U.S. Steel Tower around 3 p.m. on Thursday appears to show a person at the highest point of the Gulf Tower on Grant Street. A witness said that they were up there for about 15 minutes that day. Pittsburgh police confirm that no permission was given before the climb to the top of the tower began. Police identified the individuals as twenty-seven-year-old Austin Seik of Hookstown and thirty-three-year-old Mariah Lynn Barnes of Munhall. Officials state that they are both charged with criminal trespass. Pittsburgh Bureau of Police announced on Saturday that Downtown Public Safety Center officers had obtained arrest warrants for Seik and Barnes, alleging they “gained illegal access” to the tower. 

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Independence Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported via release today that thirty-year-old Jessica Mattheus of Monessen was arrested for driving under the influence in Beaver County early on the morning of January 31st, 2026. At 12:27 a.m., a one-vehicle crash into a hillside occurred on 188 Lincoln Highway in Independence Township and Mattheus was subsequently arrested for driving under the influence. Charges against Mattheus are pending.