(File Photo of a Police Siren Light)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Butler, PA) A woman from Beaver County was recently sentenced to three to ten years in jail for causing a fatal crash in Butler County that killed a New Castle man in 2023. According to online court records, twenty-seven-year-old Kassandra Clyde of Franklin Township pleaded guilty to homicide by vehicle while drunk and was sentenced on Thursday in Butler County Court, with her imprisonment to start immediately. Charges including traffic charges, aggravated assault and driving under the influence were dropped in exchange for the plea. According to police, Clyde was driving on Route 422 in Prospect near the Big Butler Fairgrounds around 1:15 a.m. on May 4th, 2023, after a night of drinking, when she crossed the center line and struck a vehicle driven by sixty-five-year-old James Barge of New Castle. According to the Butler Eagle, Barge was a pressman there who was returning home from work. When Barge was killed on May 4th, 2023, he was within two weeks of retirement. According to a report from the New Castle News, Barge’s family filed a civil lawsuit against Clyde and three New Castle bars that served her that night.

(File Photo of Road Construction Ahead Sign)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that tonight through Thursday nights, weather permitting, overnight milling and paving operations on I-376 (Parkway East) associated ramps in the Municipality of Monroeville in Allegheny County will occur. From 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. tonight and tomorrow night, the eastbound I-376 ramp to the Pennsylvania Turnpike Exit 85 will close to traffic for milling and paving. From 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. each night through Thursday night, milling and paving operations will occur on I-376 associated ramps at the Route 48 interchange. While the milling operations occur, traffic will be maintained on the shoulders. During the paving work, these ramps will be closed. According to a release from PennDOT District 11, work will occur according to the following schedule:

Tonight and tomorrow night, August 25th-26th

·       Eastbound I-376 off-ramp to northbound Route 48 (Exit 84B) toward Plum

·       Northbound Route 48 on-ramp to westbound I-376

Wednesday and Thursday nights, August 27th-28th

·       Eastbound I-376 off-ramp to southbound Route 48 (Exit 84A) toward Monroeville

·       Southbound Route 48 on-ramp to westbound I-376

Milling work is expected to occur tonight and Wednesday night. Paving work is anticipated to occur tomorrow night and Thursday night.

Posted Detours

Eastbound I-376 to the Pennsylvania Turnpike

·       From eastbound I-376, continue onto eastbound Route 22

·       Take the ramp to East 286 toward Golden Mile Highway

·       Turn right onto Alpine Village Drive

·       Turn right onto westbound Route 22

·       Follow westbound Route 22 back to the Pennsylvania Turnpike on-ramp

·       End detour

Eastbound I-376 off-ramp to Northbound Route 48

·       From eastbound I-376, continue past the closed ramp onto eastbound Route 22

·       Turn left onto Old William Penn Highway

·       Turn right onto Beatty Road

·       Turn left to continue on Beatty Road at the intersection with Cooper Road

·       Follow Beatty Road back to Haymaker Road

·       End detour

Northbound Route 48 on-ramp to Westbound I-376

·       Continue on northbound Route 48 past the closed ramp

·       Turn right onto Beatty Road

·       Turn right to continue on Beatty Road at the intersection with Cooper Road

·       Turn left onto Old William Penn Highway

·       Turn right onto westbound Route 22

·       Follow westbound Route 22 to the westbound I-376 on-ramp

·       End detour

Eastbound I-376 off-ramp to southbound Route 48 (Exit 84A) toward Monroeville

·       From eastbound I-376, continue past the closed ramp onto eastbound Route 22

·       Turn left onto Old William Penn Highway

·       Turn right onto Beatty Road

·       Turn left to continue on Beatty Road at the intersection with Cooper Road

·       Follow Beatty Road back to Haymaker Road

·       End detour

Southbound Route 48 on-ramp to Westbound I-376

·       Continue on southbound Route 48 past the closed ramp

·       Turn left onto eastbound Route 22

·       Take the ramp to East 286 toward Golden Mile Highway

·       Turn right onto Alpine Village Drive

·       Turn right onto westbound Route 22

·       Follow westbound Route 22 back to the westbound I-376 on-ramp

·       End detour

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Badge)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle made a recent public service announcement that their police station in New Castle will conduct a sobriety checkpoint in Lawrence County during the holiday weekend of Labor Day, specifically, from Saturday, August 29th through Monday, September 1st, 2025. This sobriety checkpoint will be performed because it is an effort to deter and combat drivers that are impaired who drive on the roads of Pennsylvania. Other sobriety checkpoints in the Pennsylvania State Police New Castle Troop D Area will be in conjunction with this sobriety checkpoint that will be conducted in Lawrence County during the 2025 Labor Day weekend. According to police, other roving and mobile enforcement details about this sobriety checkpoint will be ongoing and motorists as well as members of the public are reminded to drive safely, drive sober and conduct themselves responsibly and appropriately.

(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Tourism Office)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Williamsport, PA) According to a release from the Pennsylvania Tourism Office and the Lycoming County Visitor’s Bureau, more than 70,000 players, coaches, and fans recently descended on Williamsport for the 78th Little League Baseball World Series in 2025, injecting an estimated $40 million into Pennsylvania’s economy. Memorial Park in Williamsport is where the Little League World Series first started back in 1947 and has featured teams from 44 of the 50 states of the United States of America and teams from 29 countries around the world. At least $523,000 has been approved to support various activities and improvements around the Little League Baseball World Series since the beginning of the Shapiro administration. This includes the funding going through the Marketing to Attract Tourists program of the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development. The funding supports the street festival called Williamsport Welcomes the World as well as the Grand Slam Parade for the local community of Williamsport which increases traffic on foot to shops that are local there and supports improvements at the site of the Little League World Series, Bowman Field.

(Photo Courtesy of Commonwealth Media Services)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Manhiem, PA) Governor Josh Shapiro joined Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Colonel Christopher Paris on Friday in Manhiem, Pennsylvania to congratulate fifty-nine new troopers of the 173rd Cadet Class of the Pennsylvania State Police Academy graduating that day after twenty-eight weeks of comprehensive training. As these troopers go across Pennsylvania to serve their respective communities, one of the topics that Shapiro talked about was the massive responsibility that comes with putting on a Pennsylvania State Police uniform. Shapiro said in his remarks on Friday: “I believe the Pennsylvania State Police is the finest law enforcement agency in the entire country.” Shapiro also addressed the graduating troopers and told them that he has the confidence that they will serve their communities with the distinction that comes with being a trooper for the Pennsylvania State Police and to keep other Pennsylvanians safe for the future.

(File Photo of an Ellwood City Police Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ellwood City, PA) An electrical explosion occurred at the Ellwood City Forge in Ellwood City yesterday which sent two people that work there to the hospital. According to Ellwood City Fire Chief Rick Myers, around 11 a.m. yesterday, crews responded to Ellwood City Forge on Commercial Avenue for a reported electrical explosion. Meyers also confirmed that the power inside the whole facility got turned off and all of the other employees got sent home and a ground-level electrical room was where the explosion was contained. About an hour was the amount of time that firefighters were on scene during this incident. One person injured from this explosion suffered burns that were severe and that person was flown to a hospital in the Pittsburgh area for treatment. The other person that was injured from this explosion had injuries that were less severe and got taken to a local hospital to be evaluated. According to fire officials, the explosion occurred in a large fuse panel inside the facility. The cause of the explosion is unknown at this time and the investigation into this explosion is still ongoing.

(File Photo: Caption for Photo: Construction Industry Highlight National Work Zone Awareness Week)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that beginning today, weather permitting, bridge cleaning activities on the Route 168 Shippingport Bridge over the Ohio River in Industry and Shippingport Boroughs will occur. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays through Tuesday, September 2nd except for Monday, September 1st, single-lane restrictions on the Shippingport Bridge will occur as bridge cleaning operations there will be conducted by crews from Green Acres Contracting.

(File Photo of Congressman Chris Deluzio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Sewickley Borough, PA) Congressman Chris Deluzio was the moderator of a conversation with Pennsylvania State Senator Devlin Robinson, a parent, a student and educators in western Pennsylvania on Friday that was bipartisan to talk about the impact of smartphones in classrooms. Earlier in the summer of 2025, Deluzio sent letters to the 59 school districts in the 17th Congressional District to ask them if they will ban cellphones in the classroom this year and recently launched a survey that was public to ask Western Pennsylvanians if they think schools should ban smartphones in classrooms for grades K-12. This conversation was to collect information for Deluzio for his efforts to help ban cellphones from classrooms to stop the distraction and addictiveness that phones can cause in school. The office of Deluzio also plans to release a report including this information. According to a release from Deluzio’s office, other participants in the roundtable included: PA State Senator Devlin Robinson (SD-37), who recently proposed bipartisan legislation in Harrisburg to make every PA school phone-free all day; Melissa Costantino-Poruben, a PA State Education member who has taught math for 26 years at all levels in Avonworth School District and currently teaches 6th grade; Erin Ruggiero, also a PSEA member and Teacher at Moon Area School District; Kelly Marsh, PhD, the PA legislation lead for PA Unplugged and a local parent worried about how smartphones are hurting their kids; and Kim Francisco-Martinez, a senior at Duquesne University and 2022 High School graduate who grew up in the smartphone era.

(File Photo of Road Closed Signs on a Road)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Hanover Township, PA) A two-vehicle crash that occurred in Hanover Township yesterday which overturned a tractor-trailer shut down Route 22 close to Burgettstown for about six hours and caused two people to get taken to the hospital. According to a Washington County 911 supervisor, the crash at mile marker one on westbound Route 22 in Hanover Township was first reported at 6:13 p.m. yesterday. A tractor-trailer and another vehicle were involved and two people were taken to hospitals in the area of the crash and one of them was taken to an area hospital in a medical helicopter. After the crash, Route 22 between Exit PA 18 – Florence/Burgettstown and the West Virginia line was closed in both directions for almost 6 hours. This crash is being investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police.

(File Photo of a Gavel)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A man from West View in Pittsburgh recently got indicted on federal charges that are related to the sexual exploitation of a child. According to the Department of Justice, twenty-five-year-old Kevin Patrick Brown Jr., is accused of producing, receiving, and possessing child sexual abuse material. In August of 2019, Brown allegedly coerced, enticed, induced, persuaded and used a minor to engage in conduct that was sexually explicit to make a visual depiction of the minor of that conduct. The penalties that are potential for the charges against Brown include an up to thirty-year prison sentence and an up to $250,000 fine. The sentence that will be put on Brown will be determined by both the seriousness of the offenses that he committed and if any, the previous criminal history of Brown. Brown got another charge for receiving material of child sexual abuse in the same month and having possession of it in October of 2021.