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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Sewickley, PA) A new piazza recently opened in Sewickley around a courtyard with spaces fronted with glass that are designed for guests to both socialize and dine. The project for this new piazza got conceptualized more than five years ago and the announcement for it came in 2022. Sam DiBattista, who is a longtime chef from the Pittsburgh area and the restauranteur of Vivo Kitchen in Sewickley, led development for this new piazza in Sewickley, with backing financially from the president of Pitt Ohio, Chuck Hammel. David Saint Jacques of dsjDESIGN in Sewickley, who is an architectural designer, partnered with DiBattista on this new piazza in Sewickley. The buzz of this new piazza in Sewickley has already started with the two initial tenants, which are both restaurants, continuing their businesses. The first is Torogoz, located on 525 Locust Place in Sewickley, which is a Latin American restaurant run by Julio Peraza, a chef that was born in El Salvador and was raised in Southern California. Peraza also opened a cocktail and wine bar with small bites, Mi Cita, on Beaver Street in Sewickley. The culinary career of Peraza includes being an executive chef at fl.2 at the Fairmont Hotel in Pittsburgh when he came to Pittsburgh in 2018. The second is Moonlit Burgers, located on 523 Locust Place in Sewickley, a restaurant known for its smashburgers. The menu for Moonlit Burgers Sewickley also includes chicken sandwiches, fries and sides. Moonlit Burgers also has two locations in Pittsburgh, Moonlit Burgers Dormont on Potomac Avenue and Moonlit Burgers Uptown on Forbes Avenue. A ramen shop was also supposed to be added to this new piazaa in Sewickley, but that concept fell through during the build-out of the piazza which was extended. According to DiBattista, he is currently looking for a new tenant and he also expects a shared events space above Torogoz to open in the near future.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) People’s Natural Gas is reminding Pennsylvanians to keep their residences both warm during the upcoming winter months and safe when it gets colder. Appliances that are powered by gas and appliances for heating like furnaces need to be under maintenance and inspected regularly so they will not need to be fixed and so less energy will be used during the season when heat is needed. According to a release yesterday from People’s Natural Gas, here are some tips that People’s Natural Gas recommends to keep warm and to save money while doing that, as well as more information about ways you can do these things:

People’s Natural Gas’ safety and operations leaders recommend the following actions:

• Replace your furnace filter regularly, ideally at least three times during the heating season;
• Avoid using or storing flammable products near any gas or heat-producing appliances; and
• Ensure your furnace and indoor/outdoor vents are clear from obstructions including furniture, lint, dust, snow, and ice;
• Use the change in seasons to inspect smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, replacing as needed;
• If you smell gas, leave the area immediately, then call 911 and Peoples at 1-800-400-4271; and
• Consult the Peoples website for more safety tips by clicking here

More information from People’s Natural Gas

• Making your residence more resilient against cold temperatures can also make a major impact in comfort and costs incurred during colder months. While major moves like replacing old windows make homes more efficient, inexpensive updates can also make a meaningful difference in preventing heat loss.
• Peoples offers programs such as Budget Billing, which spreads higher winter heating costs across the entire year, as well as a variety of Customer Assistance Programs (CAP) for those who qualify. Programs can assist qualifying customers by making arrangements for payment plans, assist with emergency repairs, and more. Some programs are available year-round, while others, like the Dollar Energy Fund that begins accepting applications on October 1st, can only be accessed during the heating season.
• For more information, please visit Peoples-Gas.com/help or call 1-800-400-WARM (4276).

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from the Pennsylvania Department of State, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt reminded Pennsylvanians today that the deadline to register to vote in the November 4th municipal election is four weeks away, which is on October 20th, 2025. This is to make sure that every voter that is eligible in Pennsylvania can make their voices heard and that elections can be conducted both fairly and freely, which the Shapiro Administration puts as top priorities for them. According to that same release from the Pennsylvania Department of State, here is some more information about both voter eligibility and how to get ready for the November 4th, 2025 municipal election in Pennsylvania.

• The department’s candidate database, which you can click here to see, lists county and statewide judicial candidates running for office.

To be eligible to register to vote in the Nov. 4 municipal election, a person must be:

• A U.S. citizen for at least one month before the election,
• A resident of the election district in which the person plans to register for at least 30 days before the election, and
• At least 18 years old on or before Nov. 4.

 

• Pennsylvanians who are already registered to vote can check their registration status online by clicking here. They can also update their voter record by clicking here with any name, address, or party affiliation changes online.

Eligible Pennsylvanians can also get a voter registration application at the following locations:

• their county voter registration office,
• county assistance offices,
• Women, Infants & Children (WIC) program offices,
• Armed Forces recruitment centers,
• county clerk of orphans’ courts or marriage license offices,
• area agencies on aging,
• county mental health and intellectual disabilities offices,
• student disability services offices of the State System of Higher Education,
• offices of special education in high schools, and
• Americans with Disabilities Act-mandated complementary paratransit providers.

 

• In 2023, all PennDOT driver and photo license centers began offering automatic voter registration, which provides eligible Pennsylvanians with a convenient way to apply to register to vote when they obtain a new driver’s license or ID card or renew their existing identification. The Shapiro Administration launched the automatic registration initiative as part of its continued commitment to ensuring free, fair, and secure elections.
• Registered voters can also request a mail ballot online by clicking here. Mail ballot applications must be received by a voter’s county elections board by 5 p.m. Oct. 28. Completed mail ballots must be received by county election offices by 8 p.m. Nov. 4.
• The Department’s voter information website, vote.pa.gov, is available in English, Spanish, and Chinese and offers a polling place locator which you can click here to see and contact information for county elections offices by clicking here. It also includes tips for first-time voters by clicking here, mail-in and absentee voters by clicking here, elderly and disabled voters by clicking here, and members of the military by clicking here.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Arrest warrants have been issued for Nerson Amini, Abdi Mnongerwa, Zyquon Tot, and Gabriel Metusera, who are accused of allegedly killing mice by strapping them onto fireworks with duct tape before lighting these fireworks in the Northview Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh in August of 2025. These four men also face filed charges of animal cruelty, numerous felony charges and other offenses. Pittsburgh Public Safety confirms that the Pittsburgh Police Violence Prevention Unit got notified on August 13th, 2025 about videos on social media of the alleged actions of these four men. The incident was thought to have happened on the 410 block of Pleasant Road and detectives went to Mount Pleasant Road and found a roll of tape, a plastic bin and remnants from fireworks. Investigators interviewed witnesses and reviewed surveillance video before they executed a search warrant, and their investigation confirms that the mice that these men allegedly killed were bought at the Petco store in the Waterworks Mall and the Petco store on McKnight Road in Ross Township.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Philadelphia, PA) Governor Josh Shapiro had opening remarks yesterday in Philadelphia speaking at the Summit on the State of PJM Interconnection, which focused on bringing its representatives together for PJM to bothadaptand modernize so they can meet the demands of energy across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest covering 65 million Americans. According to Shapiro in his remarks yesterday, those present were there to “reimagine the future of PJM, build a grid that works better for Pennsylvania and for each of our states. Let’s face it. Change is needed to keep energy costs low, renew energy generation onto the grid more quickly; meet the needs of the nearly seventy million Americans who rely on this grid for everything from running a business to keeping the lights on at home.” Those states that PJM covers are Pennsylvania, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, along with parts or all of the District of Columbia.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A woman died from a crash that occurred yesterday which involved a Pittsburgh regional transit bus. According to a Pittsburgh Regional Transit spokesperson, a 50-year-old woman was killed in this crash that happened around 12:15 p.m. yesterday near the intersection of Rhine and Buente streets in the Spring Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. When paramedics arrived, this unidentified fifty-year-old woman was unresponsive. That spokesperson for Pittsburgh Regional Transit also confirmed that this fifty-year-old woman got taken to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, which was where she was pronounced dead. The investigation into this crash is being handled by the Port Authority police of Pittsburgh. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) According to a recent analysis from Realtor.com, the median home in Beaver County listed for $235,000 in August of 2025, which was same as July of 2025. These houses that were selected for this data were only Beaver County houses that were listed for sale. 1,486 square feet was the size of a Beaver County median home, with the price of each square foot being $157. The price of listing for a median home in Beaver County in August of 2025 increased 27% from August of 2024, which was $185,900.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Philadelphia, PA) Thirty-six-year-old Daryl Beckett of Chester, Pennsylvania, a wanted man who is facing murder charges from the Pennsylvania State Police, was taken into custody without incident yesterday by members of the U.S. Marshals Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force after he was found in a residence located in the 1600 block of Brighton Place in Pittsburgh that night. Investigators from the U.S. Marshals Service learned Beckett was hiding in that residence in Pittsburgh. An arrest warrant was executed by members of both the Pennsylvania State Police Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) West and the Pittsburgh Police Department once Beckett was noticed by a task force surveillance team. Beckett is one of the Pennsylvania State Police’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives. Beckett got charges of murder because he was connected to a fatal shooting that occurred on October 7th, 2023 in Delaware County. Beckett allegedly used a rifle to fire more than forty shots into a vehicle that was moving and traveling on I-95 in Upper Chichester, which killed the driver and hurt the passenger. The driver of the vehicle that passed away was forty-one-year-old Chris Gordy of Brookhaven, Pennsylvania. Beckett was added to the Pennsylvania State Police’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives in December of 2024, which is when Pennsylvania State Police investigators from their Troop K Media barracks obtained a homicide warrant for Beckett.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Darlington Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that fifty-eight-year-old Anthony Pantaleo of Monaca died yesterday at the scene of a single-vehicle crash that occurred on Constitution Boulevard that night. Pantaleo was driving south on State Route 51 near 3585 Constitution Boulevard in Darlington Township and did not have control of his vehicle and exited that road. Pantaleo hit an embankment, a fence, and a gas meter with his vehicle, which caused his vehicle to be overturned with its wheels facing up. Neither Pantaleo nor his passenger, sixty-three-year-old Harvey Marenic of Sewickley, had their seatbelt on at the time this crash occurred. According to police, Marenic was transported by Medic Rescue for further medical attention because of a suspected serious injury. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are five cents lower in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.42 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a regular gallon of gasoline is $3.18, a penny more than last week. The report states that at this time a year ago, the average price for a gallon of gas in Western Pennsylvania was around $3.50. The report also notes that the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is $3.57. According to a release from AAA East Central and AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report, here are theaverage prices of unleaded self-serve gasoline this week in various Pennsylvania areas:

$3.378      Altoona
$3.570      Beaver
$3.587      Bradford
$3.066      Brookville
$3.500      Butler
$3.050      Clarion
$3.283      DuBois
$3.352      Erie
$3.332      Greensburg
$3.418      Indiana
$3.465      Jeannette
$3.486      Kittanning
$3.279      Latrobe
$3.363      Meadville
$3.524      Mercer
$3.441      New Castle
$3.473      New Kensington
$3.557      Oil City
$3.464      Pittsburgh
$3.393      Sharon
$3.538      Uniontown
$3.599      Warren
$3.497      Washington