(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – In this Sept. 14, 2021, file photo, a syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at the Reading Area Community College in Reading, Pa. Millions of U.S. workers now have a Jan. 4 deadline to get a COVID vaccine. The federal government on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021 announced new vaccine requirements for workers at companies with more than 100 employees as well as workers at health care facilities that treat Medicare and Medicaid patients.. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a new report commissioned by system advocates, financial instability could force closures at more than a dozen Pennsylvania hospitals in the coming five years if state policymakers fail to act and the industry’s economic climate continues to deteriorate. The study was released yesterday by the consulting firm Oliver Wyman and it found that Medicaid reimbursement rates of Pennsylvania are 11 percentage points lower than the national average, compensating hospitals for just 87 cents of every dollar of care. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Pittsburgh is now represented by a chef and restaurant on the semifinalist list for the prestigious James Beard Awards, which recognizes acheivements in the culinary field. Jamilka Borges, who is the co-owner of Lilith in Shadyside, is a semifinalist for a James Beard award for the best chef in the mid-Atlantic region. The Central and Eastern European vegan restaurant Apteka is also a James Beard award semifinalist for the category of outstanding wine and other beverages. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) According to police, they are searching for a suspect who led officers on a chase in Wilkinsburg last night. Allegheny County dispatchers confirmed to WTAE that police ended up in the area between Franklin Avenue and Rebecca Avenue around 8 p.m. WTAE was also told on the scene that one suspect ran away with no shoes or a cell phone. It is unclear at this time if any injuries were reported or if anyone else was involved in this incident. A Jeep was also found with heavy front-end damage as a result of the chase.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Police confirm that 18-year-old Brena Sample was arrested on accusations that she broke into a vape shop in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, stealing over $7,000 worth of merchandise. Two juveniles were also with Sample and police also expressed that the trio were seen on city surveillance video running from the smoke shop and onto a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus. Sample was arrested at the intersection of Forbes Avenue and Moorewood Avenue, which was where the bus was found. Sample was taken to the Allegheny County Jail and she faces charges of burglary, criminal mischief and corruption of minors. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Pittsburgh reported via release yesterday that fifty-seven-year-old Steven Price of Cranberry Township was charged after causing a single-vehicle crash in Allegheny County on the morning of December 29th, 2025. Price was driving in Aleppo Township and he was trying to negotiate a right curve on the Emsworth off ramp from I-79 South and lost control of his vehicle. Price then hit a guide rail along the east beam of the ramp. There were no reported injuries and Price received his charge for committing summary traffic violations. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A man in Pittsburgh is now accused of stabbing his roommate to death on Tuesday night. Eric Henderson is charged with the death of 62-year-old Timothy Moran, who was found dead in a home in the Friendship neighborhood of Pittsburgh around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday. According to a Facebook post from Pittsburgh Public Safety, police officers were called to a home on South Aiken Avenue for reports of a male found unresponsive and bleeding from the head. Officers found a man on the first floor of the home with “significant” injuries to his head and face at the scene. Pittsburgh Public Safety also confirmed that he was later pronounced dead at the scene by medics. Henderson was taken into custody yesterday morning in Bellevue and he is in the Allegheny County Jail with a charge of homicide. A motive for this stabbing was not released yesterday. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) is now in the process of implementing new seating options at some of its smaller bus stops throughout its region. According to the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette, PRT has over 6,500 bus stops throughout the Pittsburgh area, some of which only consist of a sign on a post. Three of the new seating configurations have been installed in Bellevue and Monroeville and PRT is planning to place 100 of the seats throughout its system in a span of over the next two years. PRT will now be using Simme-Seats, which are made of coated steel with a mounting pole between them and they are said to be able to hold up to 500 pounds each and able to withstand winds of over 160 miles per hour. The new seating options will cost around $650 each with another $400 in costs for installation by PRT workers, compared to the costs of between $4,500 and $11,500 for a full bus shelter.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Grove City, PA) The Joint Commission recently gave certification to Allegheny Health Network’s Grove City Hospital as a Primary Stroke Center. According to a release from Highmark Health (Allegheny Health Network), this certification will designate AHN Grove City as a specialized referral center that is equipped to provide care that is evidence based for stroke patients.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Two teenagers were hit by gunfire from a shooting that occurred in Aliquippa yesterday evening. Beaver County dispatchers confirm that police and medics were called to Valley Terrace Apartments on the 400 block of Superior Avenue at 6:07 p.m. for reports of a shooting. Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver stated in a release this morning that nineteen-year-old Kenneth Evans, Jr. of Aliquippa was found at the scene suffering from a gunshot wound and he was transported by an ambulance to a trauma center in Pittsburgh. Evans is expected to recover from his injuries. However, a sixteen-year-old was also hit by a round of shots, which caused a superficial wound that was non-life threatening. The investigation into this incident is ongoing, and anyone with information about it is encouraged to call 724-773-7400. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver Falls, PA) A Cranberry Township man has now pleaded guilty to 20 charges for a crash that killed two people and seriously injured a third in Beaver Falls on June 29th, 2025. Online court records confirm that forty-six-year-old Israel Tun Cooch entered the plea on Tuesday. The crash occurred at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and 11th Street and killed 23-year-old Sheylee Young-Davis and 25-year-old Matthew Lance Jr. Carrie Koch was also severely injured after being pinned under one of the vehicles while she was walking home from working at Athen’s Family Restaurant. Two counts of third-degree murder were withdrawn. Prosecutors claimed the blood alcohol level of Cooch was more than twice the legal limit and officers also testified that they found both open and empty beer bottles inside the truck. There were concerns initially that Cooch would be deported before the justice was served, because investigators discovered that he was in the United States without legal immigration status. A sentencing hearing for Cooch has not been scheduled yet.