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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Beaver County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that tomorrow, weather permitting, lane restrictions on I-376 (Beaver Valley Expressway) in Potter and Vanport Townships will occur. From 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow, a single lane restriction on I-376 along the Vanport Bridge in each direction will occur as steel repairs will be conducted there by crews from Mosites Construction.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that tomorrow, weather permitting, utility work on Route 885 (Bates Street) in the City of Pittsburgh will occur. From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. tomorrow, Single-lane restrictions alternating traffic will occur on Bates Street between the Boulevard of the Allies and Second Avenue. The Westbound I-376 off-ramp to 885 North/Oakland (Exit 73B) and the Westbound I-376 off-ramp to 885 South/Glenwood (Exit 73A) will also close to traffic. According to a release from PennDOT District 11, traffic on these ramps will be detoured, and the detour route can be found below:
Posted Detours
Westbound I-376 to Oakland (Exit 73B)
· Continue on westbound I-376 past the closed ramp
· Take the left-hand off-ramp to Grant Street (Exit 71A)
· Turn right onto the Boulevard of the Allies
· Follow the Boulevard of the Allies back to Bates Street
· End detour
Westbound I-376 to Glenwood (Exit 73A)
· Continue on westbound I-376 past the closed ramp
· Take the left-hand off-ramp to Grant Street (Exit 71A)
· Turn right onto Second Avenue
· Follow Second Avenue back to Bates Street
· End detour
During this work, pole installation work for the Frazier Street Stairway Project will be conducted on Route 885 (Bates Street) by crews from the Duquesne Light Company.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – This April 2, 2021, file photo shows bridges spanning the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh. Republicans in Congress are making the politically brazen bet that it’s more advantageous to oppose President Joe Biden’s ambitious rebuild America agenda than to lend support for the costly $2.3 trillion undertaking for roads, bridges and other infrastructure investments. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that tonight through Sunday afternoon, weather permitting, the removal of the southbound I-579 crossover in the City of Pittsburgh will occur. Starting at approximately 9 p.m. tonight, the present traffic configuration from southbound I-279 to southbound I-579 that was implemented on June 23rd, 2025 will be removed as work to reestablish the original traffic pattern through 1 p.m. on Sunday will be worked on by crews from Swank Construction. According to a release from PennDOT District 11, here are the places that this work will be done and more information on this work can be found below:
The places that work will be performed are as follows:
More information about this work is as follows:
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) A fire occurred at a home in the South Side Slopes of Pittsburgh this morning which caused four firefighters that battled it to get taken to the hospital. The cause of this fire that occurred at around 8 a.m. this morning at a home on Monastery Avenue is still under investigation. When battling this fire, the four firefighters got shocked because their ladder made contact with a power line that was live. According to the commander of this incident, when they rolled up to it this morning, they found a significant fire on the third floor. Nobody was inside the home when the fire occurred and flames were going out of the roof of that building. According to Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire Assistant Chief Matthew Davis, all four firefighters are in stable condition after they were taken to UPMC Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh this morning.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Imperial, PA) The Free Grandstand Admission Night event which will help to fight hunger across the region of Pittsburgh will be held at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 6th. This event has free admission on Saturday, September 6th and fans can bring food items that day that are non-perishable to the gates of the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Motor Speedway so mini food pantries throughout the greater Pittsburgh area can be restocked. The “Racing Against Hunger” initiative will also be launched by Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Motor Speedway as they will partner up with 25fortyPGH and a company that has served the area of the Beaver Valley for 85 years, A&S Federal Credit Union. The gates of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Motor Speedway will open at 5 P.M. on Saturday, September 6th with some races starting at 7 P.M. There will also be races by The Auto House Hobby Stocks, the Crawford Auto Repair Four Cylinders, Pittsburgh Truck Center Penn Ohio Pro Stocks, RUSH Sprint Car Series and Rohrich Parts Center & Chevrolet Performance RUSH Late Models. According to a release from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Motor Speedway and A&S Federal Credit Union, here is some more information about donation items you can bring to the Free Grandstand Admission Night event at the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Motor Speedway and how you can find more information on the organizations that are involved in this event:
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Allegheny County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that tonight, weather permitting, single-lane restrictions on Route 4003 (McKnight Road) in Ross and McCandless Townships of Allegheny County will occur. From 8 pm. tonight until 6 a.m. tomorrow, a single-lane restriction on McKnight Road in each direction will occur as needed between Seibert Road and Nelson Run Road as sawing and sealing operations there will be conducted by crews.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Aliquippa, PA) Josh Pratt, who is a senior that plays basketball as a guard for Lincoln Park High School, was ruled fully eligible for the 2025-2026 Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League basketball season after a hearing on Tuesday by the WPIAL Board of Directors. According to WPIAL executive director Scott Seltzer, a hearing panel granted Pratt playoff eligibility. Pratt and his brother Jeremiah Pratt both transferred on June 12th, 2025 to Lincoln Park High School from Aliquippa High School. Pratt has college basketball offers including offers from Robert Morris University in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, along with Columbia University, Drexel University, Hofstra University, Robert Morris University and Northeastern University. Pratt has a Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Assoication and a WPIAL title as a sophomore playing for Aliquippa High School and went to the playoffs for both the PIAA and the WPIAL playing for Aliquippa High School as a junior. Pratt had 22 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game as a junior and during that time, he became the WPIAL Class 3A player of the year. During Pratt’s sophomore and junior seasons playing for Aliquippa High School, Pratt was named in the Pennsylvania all-state teams for the PA Sports Writers. Pratt is hoping to get the Lincoln Park High School basketball team back on track now that he is on their team, because during the 2024-2025 basketball season, the Lincoln Park High School Leopards finished 0-12 in WPIAL Class 5A Section IV play and 2-20 overall.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) Pennsylvania State Police at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh report that twenty-five-year-old Delaney Eliza Gregorius of Bethel Park trespassed into the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh on August 29th, 2025. According to police, Gregorius was not licensed or privileged to enter the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh and a notice of trespass was given to Gregorius.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: Giorgio Armani gestures at the end of the Giorgio Armani Prive Haute Couture Spring Summer 2025 in Paris on Jan. 28, 2025 (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, File).
MILAN (AP) — Giorgio Armani, the iconic Italian designer who turned the concept of understated elegance into a multibillion-dollar fashion empire, died Thursday, his fashion house confirmed. He was 91.
Armani died at home, “peacefully, surrounded by his loved ones,” the fashion house said. “Indefatigable to the end, he worked until his final days, dedicating himself to the company, the collections and the many ongoing and future projects,” the fashion house said in a statement.
Armani, one of the most recognizable names and faces in the global fashion industry, missed Milan Fashion Week in June 2025 for the first time during the previews of Spring-Summer 2026 menswear to recover from an undisclosed condition.
He was planning a major event to celebrate 50 years of his signature Giorgio Armani fashion house during Milan Fashion Week this month.
A public viewing will be held in the Armani Theater where he unveiled his ready-to-wear collections on Saturday and Sunday. The funeral will be held privately, and no details were released.
Condolences and remembrances poured in from political leaders and other Milan fashion designers.
“The world lost a giant today. He made history and will be remembered forever,” said Donatella Versace, whose late brother Gianni Versace was a stylistic rival of Armani in the 1990s.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, who often dressed in Armani’s business attire, remembered the designer for his ”elegance, sobriety and creativity,” and said he was “a symbol of the best Italy.”
Starting with an unlined jacket, a simple pair of pants and an urban palette, Armani put Italian ready-to-wear style on the international fashion map in the late 1970s, creating an instantly recognizable relaxed silhouette that has propelled the fashion house for half a century.
From the executive office to the Hollywood screen, Armani dressed the rich and famous in classic tailored styles, fashioned in super-soft fabrics and muted tones. His handsome black tie outfits and glittering evening gowns often stole the show on award season red carpets.
At the time of his death, Armani had put together an empire worth over $10 billion, which along with clothing included accessories, home furnishings, perfumes, cosmetics, books, flowers and even chocolates, ranking him in the world’s top 200 billionaires, according to Forbes.
The designer also owned several bars, clubs, restaurants and his own basketball team, EA7 Emporio Armani Milan, better known as Olympia Milano. Armani opened more than than 20 restaurants from Milan to Tokyo since 1998, and two hotels, one in Dubai in 2009 and another in Milan, in 2010.
Armani style began with Giorgio Armani himself, from the penetrating blue eyes framed in a permanent tan and early-age shock of silver hair, to the trademark dark trousers and T-shirt work clothes and the minimalist decoration of his private homes.
Armani’s fashion vision was that of easygoing elegance where attention to detail made the difference.
“I design for real people. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothes and accessories that are not practical,” he liked to say when asked to identify his clientele.
In conversation, the designer’s disarming smile and exquisitely mild manners belied the tough businessman underneath, who was able to turn creative talent into a fashion empire worth over $10 billion. Never a merger nor a sale, Re Giorgio (King George) as the Italians call him, was always his own boss.
Born July 11, 1934, in Piacenza, a small town south of Milan, Armani dreamed of becoming a doctor before a part-time job as a window decorator in a Milan department store opened his eyes to the world of fashion.
In 1975, Armani and his partner Sergio Galeotti sold their Volkswagen for $10,000 to start up their own menswear ready-to-wear label. Womenswear followed a year later.
The symbol of his new style was the liningless sports jacket, which was launched in the late 1970s and became an instant success from Hollywood to Wall Street. The designer paired the jacket with a simple t-shirt, an item of clothing he termed “the alpha and omega of the fashion alphabet.”
The Armani suit soon became a must in the closet of the well-heeled man. And for women, the introduction of the pantsuit in the executive workroom was all but revolutionary. Dubbed the “power suit” with its shoulder-padded jacket and man-tailored trousers, it became the trademark of the rising class of businesswomen in the 1980s.
Over the years Armani would soften the look with delicate detailing, luxurious fabrics and brighter shades for his basic beige and gray palette. His insistence on pants and jackets led some critics to label his fashion “androgynous.”
The 1980 film classic “American Gigolo” launched both Armani and actor Richard Gere on their Hollywood careers. Dressed in Armani, Gere became America’s new favorite heartthrob, and “Geeorgeeo” as they called him, the glam set’s most popular designer.
The Hollywood connection earned him wardrobe film credits in over 200 films, and in 2003 a place on Rodeo Drive’s “Walk of Style.”
Oscar night always sparkled, with smart suiting for the men and glittering gowns for the ladies. The 2009 best actor winner Sean Penn picked up his statue in a black-on-black Armani outfit, while best actress nominee Anne Hathaway walked the red carpet in a shimmering white strapless evening gown from Armani’s latest Prive couture collection.
Other longtime devotees included Jodie Foster, George Clooney, Sophia Loren and Brad Pitt. David and Victoria Beckham were the “face” of his 2009 underwear ad campaign.
So significant was the impact of Armani style, not only on how people dressed but how they approached fashion, that in 2000 New York’s Guggenheim museum presented a retrospective of Armani’s first 25 years in fashion.
“I love things that age well, things that don’t date and become living examples of the absolute best,” Armani said of his efforts.
Armani, who maintained a firm grip on his empire and collections until the end, had been reluctant to discuss succession, but had announced a foundation as a succession tool to avoid his businesses being split up. A rarity in the Italian fashion world, he never sold even a part of his company to an outsider.
He also indicated the creative succession would go to long-time collaborator Leo Dell’Orco and his niece Silvana Armani, who have headed the menswear and womenswear collections, respectively, for all Armani collections: Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani and Armani Exchange.
Today, the Armani empire has an army of more than 9,000 employees, who considered themselves part of a family, with women comprising half of the executive suite, along with seven industrial hubs and over 600 stores worldwide, according to figures released in 2023. Along with clothes and accessories, the company produces perfumes, cosmetics and home furnishings, as well as selling its own candy, flowers and even books. The designer opened his fifth multi-brand store on New York’s fashionable Fifth Avenue in February 2009.
In the realm of fashion hobbies, Armani owned several bars, restaurants and clubs, as well as the basketball team. Recreation time was spent in getaways in Broni in the countryside near Milan, the isle of Pantelleria off Sicily and St. Tropez on the French Riviera. Each home bore the trademark of Armani design: bare walls, important pieces, few knickknacks.
Like many of his colleagues, Armani tried to give back some of the fame and fortune he amassed during the heyday of the “moda Milanese” which put Italian ready-to-wear at the center of the world’s fashion map at the turn of the millennium. Personally involved in several charity organizations devoted to children and a staunch supporter of the battle against AIDS, in 2002 Armani was named a U.N. goodwill ambassador for refugees.
Galeotti died in 1985. Armani had no children but was very close to his niece Roberta. She abandoned a budding film career to become his director of public relations, and often represented her uncle, who wasn’t much of a partygoer, at social events. More recently, she has been was a key go-between with the celebrity world as head of VIP relations.
In 2006, she orchestrated the top-billed wedding of actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes in a medieval castle outside Rome, while Uncle Giorgio designed the attire for both bride and groom.
Armani is survived by his sister Rosanna and her son Andrea Camerana; and nieces Silvana and Roberta, the daughters of his late brother Sergio.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Washington, D.C.) According to a release yesterday from the Transportation Security Administration, the TSA screened nearly 10.4 million travelers at the nation’s airport security checkpoints from Friday, August 29th through Monday, September 1st of the Labor Day holiday weekend in 2025, with Friday marking one of the busiest days in TSA history. 2,971,217 passengers got screened on Friday, which is the biggest ever for volume for the Friday before Labor Day for the TSA. Eight of the top ten busiest days for travel got reported since May 23rd, 2025, and the TSA is on pace to set a record this year for annual volume of passengers. A 3.3% increase of travelers getting screened by TSA over the Labor Day weekend in 2025 from the Labor Day weekend in 2024 was also seen. The 2024 Labor Day weekend when TSA screened travelers was on Friday, August 30th through Monday, September 2nd, 2024. In the twenty-four year history of the TSA, August 29th, 2025 was the 15th busiest day they have ever had for screening travelers.