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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) According to a release from Tenaris, ten Beaver County high school seniors that have Roberto Rocca scholarships recently got awards from Tenaris worth $25,000 from both their academics and pursuing of a STEM career. The winners were: Summer Hartman, Hannah Larimore, Reanna Ramirez, Cody Roper, and Anthony Speicher from Ambridge Area High School, and Taja Bridges, Ethan Chen, Markae Pisano, Elizabeth Spilsbury, and Derrick Wilder from Beaver Falls High School.

(File Photo of the Aliquippa Quips Logo and Flag)

(Reported by Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano)

(Aliquippa, PA) The Aliquippa City Council accomplished several actions at their regular session yesterday. Aliquippa Police Chief John Lane, Aliquippa Mayor Dwan B. Walker, and Aliquippa Councilman Donald Walker addressed the mindfulness of where children are during summer. According to a report from Chief Lane, a fight was broken up at one of the city’s parks recently. Lane said the police and council should come up with better solutions to prevent any issues among the youths in the community. Rich and Jeannie D’Agostino also purchased a property at 2362 Sheffield Road for future development. Two female residents who passed away recently were also recognized yesterday, Elverna Barbee Cuffie and Jo Lorraine Woods. The Aliquippa City Council will hold a work session on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 7 p.m.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from Senator Elder Vogel, Jr.’s office, Vogel hosted a press conference yesterday in Harrisburg to celebrate June as National Diary Month. The top five counties that produce dairy in Pennsylvania are Berks, Blair, Franklin, Lancaster and Lebanon counties. Vogel and seven other speakers spoke at the event to show the impacts that are positive for the industry of dairy in Pennsylvania and how it affects businesses, residents and communities.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to Senator Devlin Robinson, legislation to protect Pennsylvania seniors from losing access to life-sustaining prescription medications passed the state Senate. Robinson supported Senate Bill 731, which would keep the practice of getting rid of adjustments for cost-of-living in Social Security going. The PACE and PACENET programs will also have income eligibility calculated and give prescriptions that are low cost to those aged 65 or older.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a spokesperson from Primanti Bros. on Wednesday, the Primanti Bros. on Penn Avenue in the Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh has closed. The spokesperson confirmed that there was an ending lease for this restaurant and the company did not renew it. Primanti Bros. has 24 of its 42 locations in Western Pennsylvania.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Pennsylvania poker players who play online now can play with people in five other states. State officials have approved combining pools for players in Pennsylvania with players in Delaware, Michigan, New Jersey, Nevada and West Virginia. Since Governor Josh Shapiro allowed this change in April, games in multiple states already started through BetMGM and World Series of Poker.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Today is when Paul Miller’s Law goes into effect in Pennsylvania. This law prohibits people from using mobile devices while driving. People also cannot use items like their phones when they are at a stop that is momentary, when they are at a red light or when they are at a delay of traffic. However, if hands-free technology is in their car, phones can connect to the car to be used. The law is named after Paul Miller, who was killed in 2010 because of a distracted driver. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) According to a report from the Pennsylvania Lottery on Monday, an unidentified Beaver County person has recently won $1.35 million from the Jackpot Spectacular online game. Jackpot Spectacular is a game in which multiple states have progressive jackpots that can be connected and can be won at any time. The player won the money from playing the game on either a device that is mobile, a computer or a tablet.

(File Photo of State Representative Rob Matzie)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from State Representative Rob Matzie’s office, a strong bipartisan majority of the Pennsylvania House passed Matzie’s bill to ban speculative ticketing yesterday. House Bill 463 has a statement that aims to get rid of a practice that resellers of tickets list tickets for events for sale before they have those tickets with them. Matzie believes speculative ticketing does not help small businesses and venues because of lost revenue and public credibility.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to an announcement last Wednesday from Point Park University, the college is teaming up with Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School for education purposes. The collaboration is for high school juniors and seniors, who can get a maximum enrollment of two courses for college during the semester in the fall. If the students have good academic standards, they can have potential enrollment of up to three college courses instead of just two.