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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cranberry Township, PA) A part of Glen Eden Road in Cranberry Township will be closed from between 6 P.M. tonight through 5 A.M. on Wednesday, October 8th for roadway improvements. The area of Glen Eden Road between Prestwick Drive and Unionville Road will be closed on those days. The route for a detour because of this work is using Graham School Road, Powell Road, Rochester Road and Unionville Road. The busing for Seneca Valley School District will be the only ones that will have access that is escorted through the closure of a part of Glen Eden Road. This project is managed by Gateway Engineers.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Luigi Mangione is escorted into Manhattan state court in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Blair County, PA) The hearing in Blair County, Pennsylvania scheduled on November 7th, 2025 for twenty-seven-year-old Luigi Mangione, who is accused of allegedly killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4th, 2024, got canceled because Mangione refused to appear in court remotely. Mangione asserted the right for him to be present in person for the court hearing in Blair County, Pennsylvania on November 7th, 2025 and all subsequent court appearances, but the federal government denied his request to make an appearance in Blair County. According to the criminal complaint, Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania on December 9th, 2024 in connection to the killing of Thompson, and is facing charges there, including carrying a firearm without a license, forgery, tampering with records or identification, false identification to law enforcement, and possessing instruments of crime. Mangione is being held in New York with nine state charges as well as federal charges and the federal charges carry the possibility of the death penalty for him. The hearing for Mangione is now on hold and every sixty days in when the court must be updated on his ability to appear. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Columbus, OH) According to a news release on Monday from the Ohio Attorney General’s office, “Operation Next Door,” which was a statewide sex trafficking sting, led to 135 arrests in Ohio. Authorities confirmed that felony charges were what thirty-two people got arrested for and charges with engaging in prostitution or solicitation were what the other 103 got arrested for after search warrants were served on nine massage parlors in Ohio. The news release from the Ohio Attorney General’s office on Monday also stated that sex, even including from minors, was trying to be bought by the suspects that were arrested, and sixty-seven potential survivors of human trafficking were referred to organizations of both health care and social services. The Ohio Attorney General’s Office also noted that among those that were arrested were two teachers and a priest who was seventy-six-years-old. “Operation Next Door” was started last week by over 100 agencies of law enforcement.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Yesterday afternoon, a woman in her late seventies got hit by a car in the South Side of Pittsburgh and she is now in critical condition with head trauma after she was taken to an area hospital. According to a spokesperson from Pittsburgh Public Safety, the incident happened just before 1 p.m. yesterday as a couple was crossing S 28th Street after leaving a restaurant in the area. The woman was hit by a vehicle turning off of Sidney Street to S 28th Street. This incident is being investigated by the Collision Investigation Unit of Pittsburgh.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Meijer, a grocery store chain based in Michigan, is recently preparing to expand some of their businesses into Western Pennsylvania. Meijer spokesperson Cara Lutz told WTAE in a statement: “Building on our success in Northeast Ohio and the amazing response we’ve received from those communities, we have started acquiring properties in Western Pennsylvania.” It has not been announced yet about any specific locations in the region of Pittsburgh where these Meijer stores will be located. Meijer has over 500 stores in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. 

(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

(Pittsburgh, PA) Yesterday morning, a male bicyclist in his sixties was hit by a car in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh and is now in critical condition after being taken to a hospital. This incident occurred on the intersection of Bennett Street and North Homewood Avenue which is where first responders found a man down on the ground at about 6:50 a.m. yesterday. According to police, they reviewed surveillance video that showed the man riding his bike on Bennett Street and being struck by a vehicle that then left the scene. Police are searching for the driver of the vehicle that hit the bicyclist, but investigators confirm they found the vehicle that was involved in this incident. The investigation into this incident is ongoing.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA)  Yesterday, a former physician who used to work at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh got sentenced in federal court for possessing videos of minors that were explicit. According to court papers, fifty-four-year-old Ashok Panigrahy of both Chicago and Pittsburgh, was sentenced to spend four years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, after he was found to have “materials depicting the sexual exploitation of minors.” Documents stated that Panigrahy was able to get these explicit videos on minors through conversations online through a platform that was encrypted. Panigrahy collected those videos in November of 2022. According to court documents, in addition to his sentencing, Panigrahy was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine, a $17,000 assessment pursuant to the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act of 2018, a $5,000 assessment pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, and $10,000 in restitution to his minor victims.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Exposed rocks and aquatic plants are seen alongside the North Platte River at Treasure Island in southern Wyoming, on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. The upper North Platte is one of several renowned trout streams affected by climate change, which has brought both abnormally dry, and sometimes unusually wet, conditions to the western U.S. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Stocking trucks from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will start to deliver approximately 116,500 adult Rainbow, Brown and Brook Trout to 118 sections of streams and lakes around Pennsylvania. The stockings will start today and in October of 2025 and will keep going through the middle of December to provide opportunities of angling this fall and for the ice fishing season during the winter. According to a report from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, their company will stock about 89,000 adult trout into 93 waters in October alone, including 53 lakes and 40 stream sections, including 16 Keystone Select Trout Waters, which are managed under Delayed Harvest Artificial Lures Only regulations.   

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report today that thirty-two-year-old William Underwood of Ambridge was arrested on August 31st, 2025 for driving under the influence of drugs in Aliquippa that evening. Police stopped Underwood after he committed a vehicle violation on Sheffield Avenue. According to police, Underwood was subsequently arrested for driving under the influence of a controlled substance and possessing drugs.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(South Heights Borough, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report yesterday that forty-nine-year-old David Schroeder of Aliquippa was charged after causing a head-on two-vehicle crash in South Heights Borough yesterday morning. Schroeder was driving on State Route 51 on Jordan Street on its intersection with Laurel Road and hit the vehicle of forty-five-year-old Jason Gross of Ambridge while trying to make a left turn onto Laurel Road in front of the vehicle of Gross. Schroeder hit his vehicle head-on to the vehicle of Gross and both vehicles suffered damage that was disabling.