(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – The Nittany Lion logo taken before an NCAA college football game between Penn State and Delaware, Sept. 9, 2023, in State College, Pa. (AP Photo/Barry Reeger, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(University Park, PA) A fraternity at the University of Penn State is facing charges after according to officials, at least two of its members allegedly subjected pledges to physical and emotional abuse. According to court documents obtained Sunday, leaders of the Phi Beta Sigma chapter at the state college are accused of conducting physical hazing rituals. These led to pledges being subjected to paddling and other forms of abuse that are both physical and mental. Hazing and simple assault charges went to the president of the fraternity, twenty-year-old Jayson Archer and the chapter of the dean of the fraternity, twenty-three-year-old Jacob D. Francis. August 13th will be the date of the preliminary hearing that will be held inCentre County, Pennsylvania.

(Source for Photo: -Danielle Smith, Keystone News Service: Credit for Photo: Courtesy of (Christian Hinkle/Adobe Stock)

(Reported by Danielle Smith of Keystone News Service)

(Lancaster, PA) The mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is voicing concerns about the state budget delay, warning it could impact the over 58-thousand people living in the city. Lawmakers missed the June 30th deadline for the fourth year in a row. Mayor Danene Sorace says she’s closely monitoring both the state budget and the federal transportation, housing, and urban development budget coming before Congress today (7/14), noting that both have significant implications for the city of Lancaster. Governor Josh Shapiro said the state budget talks are making progress and expects a deal soon.

(File Photo of a Gavel)

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(McKeesport, PA) Twenty-one-year-old Brian Dixon got multiple charges after according to officials, an irate man was stabbed and another person suffered minor injuries during an altercation at an Allegheny County bus station. This occurred on Saturday at the McKeesport Transportation Center. WTAE was told that a passenger from a 61-C bus that was stopped at the station had approached a bus driver while they were on their break and then began to take their clothes off. Dixon then began to argue with bystanders and officials confirm a man that was punched by Dixon stabbed Dixon to defend himself. Officials are investigating this incident. The charges for Dixon are open lewdness, indecent exposure, a felony count of aggravated assault, misdemeanor counts of simple assault and a summary charge of disorderly conduct.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Flowers and a tribute to fallen firefighter Corey Comperatore are pictured at the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company in Buffalo Township, Pa., Monday, July 15th, 2024. Comperatore was shot and killed at the Trump rally in Butler, Pa., Saturday, July 13th, 2024. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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(Saxonburg, PA) A parade, concert and unveiling of a statue were held to honor the late Corey Comperatore over the weekend. The fifty-year-old Buffalo Township volunteer firefighter was the victim of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler on July 13th, 2024. According to an organizer, roughly 1,000 people participated in “Corey’s Cruise,” a 49-mile-long motorcycle ride. The parade and the statue unveiling of Corey was in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania and the concert was in Russellton, Pennsylvania.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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(Butler, PA) Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the Butler Farm Show grounds during a Trump rally. Twenty-year-old assassin Thomas Crooks of Bethel Park shot Trump in the ear during the July 13th, 2024 event and was then killed that day by a team with snipers from the Secret Service. There is still an unknown reason as to why Crooks wanted to shoot Trump on that day last year in Butler. 

(File Photo of a Police Siren Light)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A late-night crash occurred in the Strip District of Pittsburgh on Saturday which sent three people to the hospital. First responders went to the 27th Street and Smallman Street intersection at about 10:30 p.m. that day. A motorcycle was thrown on its side, according to footage from the scene. Allegheny County first responders told WTAE that three people got taken to hospitals. All three identities of the victims and their conditions have not yet been released at this time.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – A Carnegie Mellon University sign is displayed outside Baker Hall on the university’s campus in Pittsburgh, June 7, 2019. Carnegie Mellon University and the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation, named for a home-building supplies entrepreneur and his wife who built their fortune despite early struggles, hope a $150 million initiative will support a new generation of students trying to achieve that American dream. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) President Donald Trump and Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick will be visiting Carnegie Mellon University on Tuesday for an event to talk about both innovation and energy. Specifically, the two men will highlight the potential for Pennsylvania to lead a revolution into artificial intelligence. This event will help to bring a national awareness to the role of Pennsylvania to give power in the future to both technology and energy.

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Badge)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Hanover Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that PSP responded to a call regarding a theft that occurred in Hanover Township on Rogers Drive last Monday. An unidentified fifty-five-year-old man from Clinton, Pennsylvania got his pool stolen that was worth $17,500. According to a complaint, that man paid someone to build this pool and the contractor did not finish the work he was assigned to do with it. That is all the information that we have at this time.

(FIle Photo of Raccoon Creek State Park)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Hookstown, PA) Officials from Raccoon Creek State Park in Beaver County confirmed on Saturday that the lake there has been reopened. The park announced Thursday that the higher levels of E. coli bacteria in the water caused the lake and the beach area to be closed for swimming. Now that the levels of E. coli bacteria in the water there are back to acceptable levels, people can swim again there. As of today, food concessions will also continue at the park located in Hookstown.