(File Photo of Pittsburgh Police Car in front of businesses in Pittsburgh with a bystander walking near the scene)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) Pepper spray was employed by Pittsburgh police on Tuesday afternoon because protesters resisted police at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit in Pittsburgh. This occurred in the Oakland neighborhood of the cityand reportedly, the protesters were confronting attendees of the summit and blocking a street. Orders were given to them by police to disperse.A Pittsburgh Public safety spokesperson confirms that an officer got pulled into the crowd and some protesters pushed officers. As of this time, police did not anticipate making any arrests from this incident.
(File Photo of Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Badge)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Beaver County, PA) During the period of sobriety checkpoints held by Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver between July 5th and 6th of 2025, police made two arrests, gave four warnings and gave out one citation. 22 arrests over the 2025 Fourth of July weekend were also affected by the Beaver Patrol Unit, with seven arrests for drug possession and fifteen arrests for driving under the influence. Police are reminding residents that you cannot drink alcohol if you are under twenty-one years old and that .08 percent is the legal blood alcohol limit in the state of Pennsylvania.
(Beaver, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that a man from Aliquippa was arrested for assaulting another man from Aliquippa on July 5th, 2025outside of a restaurant in Beaver. Twenty-five-year-old Zeb Mawhinney started a fight in the parking lot area of Kelly’s Riverside Saloonand assaulted twenty-one-year-old Adam Ware there. According to police, Mawhinney fled the scene and charges have been filed against him.
(File Photo: Caption for Photo: police car lights at night in city with selective focus and bokeh background blur) Credit for Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images/iStockphoto/z1b)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Darlington Township, PA)Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that a woman from Enon Valley was charged after causing a single-vehicle crash on Monday in Darlington Township. Twenty-year-old Hayley Koty was driving on Hollow Road on State Route 551 and lost control of her vehicle on a hard right hand turn. Koty then went into the wrong lane and then her vehicle started rotating before she hit an embankment with it. Koty did not get injured despite her getting charged by police.
(Hanover Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that a man from New Waterford, Ohio has an arrest warrant after he stole a pool from a man without finishing a contracting job on July 7th, 2025. The suspect is thirty-seven-year-old Andrew Smith, whofailed to complete a job ona $17,500 pool from an unidentified fifty-five-year-old man from Clinton, Pennsylvania. This occurred on Rodgers Drive in Hanover Township through Smith and his business, AJ’s Concrete & Pools. If you know where Smith is, contact 724-773-7400.
(File Photo of Beaver County Coroner David J. Gabauer)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Beaver County, PA) According to a Facebook post on Tuesday from Beaver County Coroner David J. Gabauer, he is looking for assistance in finding a next of kin for a seventy-two-year-old man. The name of the man in question is Mark Worry and Pittsburgh was where his last known address is. Gabauer exhausted through all searches on the Internet. If you have any information on the next of kin for Worry, please send a Facebook message to the Facebook page of David J. Gabauer, Beaver County Coroner.
(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are nine cents lower in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.41 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s gas price report. The report states that at this week a year ago, the average price for a gallon of gas in Western Pennsylvania was around $3.77. The report also notes that the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is $3.52. According to a release from AAA East Central and AAA East Central’s gas price report, here are the average prices of unleaded self-serve gasoline this week in various Pennsylvania areas:
(Allegheny County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that on both Wednesday, July 16th and Thursday, July 17th, weather permitting, an overnight ramp closure will occur in Collier and Robinson Townships. From 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. on both nights, afull closure on the eastbound I-376 ramp (Exit 64A) which goes to northbound I-79/Erie will be happening.Approach slab work and bridge deck work will be conducted by crews.Permittedtraffic will beutilized from Exit 64A going towards southboundI-79/Washington. Northbound I-79 traffic will be detoured, and according to a release from PennDOT District 11, here is the detour route during this work:
Posted Detour
Eastbound I-376 ramp to northbound I-79
· From eastbound I-376, take the southbound I-79/Washington (Exit 64A) exit
· Take the Carnegie (Exit 57) exit
· Turn left onto West Main Street
· Take the on-ramp to northbound I-79 toward Erie
· End detour
A single-lane restriction on Boyce Road in both directions between Ridge Road and Campbells Run Road will also occur from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m. on Wednesday, July 16th and Thursday, July 17th as touch up work on the I-376 structure over the roadway will be conducted by crews.
ROCHESTER — Award-winning saxophonist, composer and bandleader Stephen Philip Harvey returns home to Rochester to perform a concert blending original jazz with powerful works of Black American literature.
Harvey and his eight-member band booked the Beaver County concert as part of a mini-tour supporting “The Pen Is Mightier,” a new suite of music inspired by authors like Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Amanda Gorman and more.
“We’re premiering these works and celebrating the vinyl release of our album ‘Elemental (Live),'” Harvey, a Rochester native now dwelling in Maryland, said.
The local matinee show will take place 3 p.m. Aug. 3 at the Sandy Reigel Theater (Borough Theater) in Rochester. Tickets cost $23 at eventbrite.com.
Harvey has been awarded a 2025 Chamber Music America New Jazz Works grant, supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, to fund the creation, performance and eventual recording of a new extended work for his jazz octet, to be developed, composed, premiered, and documented through 2027.
The grant marks a powerful milestone in Harvey’s artistic evolution, according to a press release. “Over the past year, his compositional voice has embraced a new focus—a programmatic celebration of Black American culture, drawing inspiration from literature, history and spiritual traditions.”
Stephen Philip Harvey, an award-winning musician and composer, returns home to Beaver County for a show in Rochester.
It’s a shift Harvey sees as both personal and political: “In a time when African American culture faces being displaced, discarded, or divested, I feel called to create a work that preserves, produces, and proliferates our histories, voices, and visions,” he said.
The first fruit of this new direction is “The Pen is Mightier,” with Harvey’s genre-bending music reimagining the words of esteemed Black authors, fusing jazz with funk, gospel, hip-hop and contemporary classical textures.
“The Pen is Mightier” tour performances:
• Aug. 1, Blu Jazz+ (Akron, OH)
• Aug. 3, Sandy Reigel Theatre (Rochester, PA)
• Aug. 12 Blues Alley (Washington, D.C.)
The tour also coincides with the vinyl reissue of “Elemental (Live),” the group’s acclaimed 2024 concert recording.
These performances represent a culminating chapter for the octet. Following this tour, Harvey will pivot his focus toward his 17-piece Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra,
carrying his large-ensemble explorations forward into 2026.
“This is a kind of swan song for the octet,” Harvey said. “’The Pen is Mightier’ captures the heart of what we’ve built together—narrative-driven music that I hope begs the listener to dive deeper into the stories or venture towards new ones. I’m proud to send it out into the world with this band.”
(Photo Courtesy of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Oakland, PA) Bishop Mark Eckman became the 13th Bishop of the Dioceses of Pittsburgh at an installation Mass at St. Paul Cathedral in Oakland on Monday. Bishop Eckman succeeded Beaver County native and former Bishop David Zubik, who resigned from his role. Zubik turned 75 in September, which is the mandatory age for retirement. Bishop Eckman said at his installation Mass: “It’sthe loving actions that we do for one another that we’re able to build up God’s kingdom.”
