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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that thirty-five-year-old Malleck Council of Aliquippa was arrested on August 31st, 2025 for possessing drugs in Aliquippa. Council was stopped by police during a traffic stop on the 400 block of Franklin Avenue. Council was arrested because he had a small amount of marijuana and charges against him are pending.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that tonight through Friday, weather permitting, there will be work on the southbound Route 65 ramp to the southbound Fort Duquesne Bridge (I-279) in the City of Pittsburgh. From 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. nightly tonoight through Friday, bridge deck and barrier repair work requiring the ramp that carries southbound Route 65 approach to the southbound Fort Duquesne Bridge will close to traffic. Traffic will get detoured, and according to a release from PennDOT District 11, here are the detour routes for this work:

Posted Detours

Southbound Route 65 to the Fort Duquesne Bridge

·       From southbound Route 65, take the ramp to South 19/51 toward the West End Bridge

·       Cross the West End Bridge

·       Continue straight onto southbound Route 19/51 (Saw Mill Run Boulevard)

·       Take the ramp to West 376/South 19 toward Carnegie/Pittsburgh International Airport

·       Bear left toward South Truck 19/51 Uniontown

·       Stay left to East 376/South 51

·       Merge onto eastbound (inbound) I-376 (Parkway West)

·       Continue through the Fort Pitt Tunnel

·       End detour

During the nights of any events at the North Shore stadiums and PPG Paints Arena, overnight closures are not permitted. However, two hours after any event at those locations, single-lane may restrictions may occur.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Fifty-one-year-old John Reznickcheck of Tarentum is now in the Allegheny County Jail after he got accused of allegedly stabbing a man in the Homewood North neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Police got called to Brushton Avenue on Tuesday for a stabbing report and when police arrived on the scene, they found him sitting on a sidewalk near the Pittsburgh Student Achievement Center. This male victim was taken to the hospital and was helped by EMS and multiple people because of this incident and he told police that he and his girlfriend were heading to the house of a friend when they were stopped by Reznickcheck just to talk, but after a period of time that was short, they went on their way and continued doing that. When the male victim arrived at the home of their friend he left again on his bicycle to go to the grocery store. The male victim was riding that bicycle at the time of the alleged stabbing and Reznickcheck allegedly jumped on his back, put a knife to his neck, and demanded he give him everything in his pocket. The victim told police Reznickcheck took “a couple hundred dollars” and sliced his neck and the male victim was able to recognize Reznickcheck from their last meeting. Reznickcheck tried to escape even though the male victim described Reznickcheck to police. Reznickcheck was taken into custody on Wednesday in the Frankstown Avenue area and faces charges of aggravated assault, evading arrest, robbery and recklessly endangering another person.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Hopewell Township, PA) The Hopewell Township Police Department now has a new part-time police officer in their department after he got sworn in on Monday in Hopewell Township. Officer Calvary Moyer got sworn in on Monday at the office of Judge Felicia Santillan and got welcomed by the Hopewell Township Board of Commissioners at their meeting that evening.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ohio Township, PA) Students from Avonworth High School got dismissed early today after a response was taken by emergency crews responding to a smell of natural gas that was reported in Ohio Township. According to Ohio Township police, emergency vehicles were at Avonworth High School around 10:30 a.m. today and school district staff there took preventive measures following reports of the smell to ensure students’ safety. Around 11:15 a.m., students went on buses or got picked up in private vehicles from Avonworth High School.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from the Pennsylvania State Police, as part of its ongoing mission to protect Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) today released the results of its 2025 Labor Day weekend enforcement initiative. The PSP investigated 747 crashes that resulted in 129 injuries and six deaths from August 29th, 2025 to September 1st, 2025. In those crashes, impaired driving was a factor in 64 of them and two of those crashes were fatal. According to that same release from the Pennsylvania State Police, here are some other statistics from the the results of its 2025 Labor Day weekend enforcement initiative:

• Troopers arrested 535 motorists for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and issued 24,182 citations, including, 6,860 for speeding, 776 for failing to wear a seatbelt and 147 for not securing children in safety seats.

Table 1: Labor Day Weekend Crash Statistics

Table 2: Labor Day Weekend Enforcement Statistics

These statistics do not include incidents to which other law enforcement agencies responded and cover only those incidents investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police. You can visit psp.pa.gov for more information on the Pennsylvania State Police.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Duncannon, PA) Pennsylvania Department of Education Acting Secretary Dr. Carrie Rowe and the Pennsylvania School Bus Association visited Duncannon, Pennsylvania yesterday to present the role that bus drivers play across Pennsylvania and in their communities in which they are needed, to let drivers know about school bus safety, and that bus drivers need resources to make their jobs easier, along with touring the Rohrer bus facility. Rowe made remarks after this event yesterday and said that the bus drivers are the“first link in the education process” and are very important in their roles. Rowe also told a story to highlight how simple interactions and “hellos” from bus drivers can transform the whole experience of riding the bus to school for any student. Rowe was speaking with a female bus driver earlier this year in between an event that she was doing and this bus driver brought a stuffed animal puppy to a female kindergarten student one day on the bus that cried every day at the start of the school year. According to Rowe, this female bus driver she spoke to told that female kindergarten student that the stuffed animal puppy she brought for her “needed to go to school with the student so that the puppy can learn its ABCs.” Rowe confirmed that this female kindergarten student stopped crying immediately since that moment and interaction from this female bus driver and she has not cried heading to school ever since that kind gesture from this female bus driver.