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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Mahoning Township Volunteer Fire Department and their first alarm were dispatched to a home in Lawrence County on East Main Street in Hillsville for a structure fire around 2 p.m. yesterday afternoon. This fire in Mahoning Township was widespread through what appeared to be places including an attic space as well as an area of the Bravo Charlie corner. It appeared that at least one dog was rescued. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release from PennDOT and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), those two organizations, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, and the Pittsburgh Steelers teamed up yesterday to encourage Pennsylvanians to “Pick Up PA” ahead of the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh in April. “Pick Up PA” is the 2026 Pick Up Pennsylvania litter cleanup initiative that is a collaborative effort between PennDOT, and DEP, and Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful that gives Pennsylvanians across the state the opportunity to help keep their communities clean and free from litter.   

(File Photo: Source for Photo: This image provided by Apple shows a display of the new iPhones equipped with technology for use with faster new 5G wireless networks that Apple unveiled Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. (Apple via AP)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A Pittsburgh-area man is not just giving people living with ALS a voice. He is giving them their own voice. David Bess, recently created “Talk to Me, Goose!”, named after the character Goose from “Top Gun.” This is an AI-powered text-to-speech app that uses voice cloning to help people with speech loss sound like themselves again. Bess lives in Mt. Washington with his wife, Anna, who was diagnosed with ALS at the age of fifty-seven. 

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Britney Spears arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” on July 22, 2019. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs near her Southern California home and released, authorities said. A statement from Spears’ representative calls the arrest “inexcusable.”

The California Highway Patrol said officers received a report shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday that someone in a black BMW 430i was driving fast and erratically on U.S. 101 in Newbury Park, California in Ventura County near the Los Angeles County line.

The 44-year-old pop star, the only person in the car, exited the freeway and pulled over, a CHP statement said. She appeared to be impaired, took a series of field sobriety tests, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of a combination of alcohol and drugs and was taken to a Ventura County jail, the CHP said. Chemical test results are pending and the case remains under investigation.

Spears was booked early Thursday morning and released at about 6 a.m., according to jail records.

“This was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable,” a statement from a Spears representative said. “Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney’s life. Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.”

The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office will determine whether charges will be filed. Spears has a May 4 court date scheduled.

The arrest was a few miles from Thousand Oaks, California where Spears has a home. The CHP listed her as living in nearby Westlake Village.

Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Spears was a teen pop phenomenon who became a defining superstar of the ’90s and 2000s. She rose to fame from Disney Channel’s “The Mickey Mouse Club” to MTV and beyond, with such era-defining hits like “ … Baby One More Time,” “Oops! … I Did It Again” and “Toxic.”

Most of her albums have been certified platinum, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, with two diamond titles: 1999’s “ … Baby One More Time” and 2000s “Oops! … I Did It Again.” Her last full-length album, “Glory,” was released in 2016.

Spears became a focus of tabloids in the early 2000s, and a source of public scrutiny, as she battled mental illness and paparazzi documented the details of her private life.

Later, as cultural opinion evolved to recognize the misogynistic media coverage of the time, Spears’ fight to control her life became the focus of the #FreeBritney movement.

In 2008, Spears was placed under a court-ordered conservatorship, run primarily by her father and his lawyers, that would control her personal and financial decisions for well over a decade. It was dissolved in 2021. Two years later, she released a bestselling, tell-all memoir, “The Woman in Me.”

(File Photo of the Front of an Ambulance)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Rochester, PA) Primary Health Network recently opened a new healthcare center in Rochester, which reinforces its commitment to expanding access to high-quality, patient-centered healthcare in Beaver County. The center is located at 176 Virginia Avenue and the Rochester Health Center is part of a multi-service facility which was acquired by Primary Health Network in July of 2023. The site offers integrated family medicine as well as dental and behavioral health services for adults, children and adolescents. 

(File Photo of Daylight Saving Time Picture)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) 2026 Daylight-Saving Time begins this Sunday at 2 a.m. The holiday which starts on March 8th this year leads up to the season of spring because of the traditional reminder to spring your clocks forward in the United States by one hour. The alternative is the autumn conclusion of Daylight-Saving Time, in which clocks go back one hour in the United States to fall back during the season of fall.