(File Photo of a Top of an Ambulance)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Surviving members of the legendary Freedom House Ambulance Service were part of the audience who listened to U.S. Representative Summer Lee announce on Friday that she is co-sponsoring a bill to honor their history and legacy. If the bill passes in Congress, with the endorsement from President Donald Trump, Freedom House Ambulance Service will be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, which is one of the most esteemed civilian honors. Freedom House started back in 1967 as the first ambulance service anywhere to provide advanced medical care to patients while in transport to hospitals, and it was an all-Black unit that responded to calls in the Hill District of Pittsburgh’s Black community. 

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Shown is the Capitol ahead of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s scheduled budget address for the 2022-23 fiscal year to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release in Harrisburg from the Senate Republican Communications office, Senators Wayne Langerholc, Jr. (R-35), Pat Stefano (R-32) and Judy Ward (R-30) announced their intent on Friday to introduce legislation to substantially reform pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to better serve Pennsylvania residents. PBMs are third-party companies which act as intermediaries in the prescription drug supply chain to manage drug benefits on behalf of health insurers, employers, government programs and others. 

(File Photo: Caption for Photo: police car lights at night in city with selective focus and bokeh background blur, Credit for Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images/iStockphoto/z1b)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) A tree fell on a home in West View in Allegheny County and it went through part of the house. Ross West View EMSA shared pictures from the scene at Perrysville Road on Friday afternoon. There were no reported injuries and there were strong gusts of wind on Friday afternoon in the Pittsburgh area. 

(File Photo of Water)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has approved a rate settlement for Pittsburgh Water totaling about $25 million across water, wastewater, and stormwater services. This will begin on March 8th, 2026 and a typical residential customer will see about an increase of $15 per month, which is roughly an increase of 10%. 

(File Photo of a Police Siren Light)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Pittsburgh reported via release on Saturday that forty-five-year-old April Fisher of Claysville, Pennsylvania was charged for tailgating in Pittsburgh on the afternoon of February 7th, 2026. At 2:32 p.m., Fisher was driving on I-376 East and hit the vehicle of twenty-eight-year-old Patrick Gregory of Ambridge when Gregory reduced the speed of his vehicle because of traffic ahead of him. There were no reported injuries.  

(File Photo of Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Cars)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Swissvale Borough, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Pittsburgh reported via release on Saturday that forty-one-year-old Cory Cowherd of Swissvale was not charged after causing a two-vehicle crash in Allegheny County on the morning of February 10th, 2026. The crash happened at 7:41 a.m., which was when Cowherd was exiting a gas pump from the BP gas station on South Braddock Avenue in Swissvale Borough. The vehicle of Cowherd drove into the side of the vehicle of thirty-one-year-old Stefan Lawson of Moon Township. There were no injuries. 

(File Photo: Source for Photo: The Clairton Coke Works, a U.S. Steel coking plant, is seen Monday, Aug 11, 2025, in Clairton, Penn. (AP Photo/Gene Puskar)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Clairton, PA) The family of thirty-nine-year-old Timothy Quinn of Fitz Henry in Westmoreland County, who was one of the two steelworkers who died in the explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works plant outside of Pittsburgh on August 11th, 2025, has filed a lawsuit against the owner of U.S. Steel, Nippon Steel, accusing it and companies it has worked with of not taking steps that could have prevented the explosion that killed Quinn. The lawsuit that was filed last week, names as defendants Nippon Steel, which completed its purchase of U.S. Steel in the months before the explosion, along with MPW Industrial Services and Valves Incorporated. It claims they were all negligent. The lawsuit also accuses Nippon Steel of prioritizing revenue over worker safety. This stands in contrast to a common refrain from leaders of U.S. Steel that safety is a core value for the company. 

(File Photo of the Pittsburgh International Airport Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to Pittsburgh International Airport’s online flight status board, around 25 flights scheduled to depart the airport between this morning and this afternoon have been cancelled. This is because of a massive winter snowstorm that is hitting parts of the East Coast. Flights that were headed to New York City, Newark, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. are among those that have been cancelled. Around 15 flights that were scheduled to arrive to Pittsburgh from East Coast cities were also cancelled.

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Chippewa Township Volunteer Fire Department, (Beaver Falls) Posted on February 21st, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Chippewa Township, PA) The Chippewa Township Volunteer Fire Department (Station 22) and its first alarm assignment were dispatched to Pizza Hut in Chippewa Township for a reported structure fire at approximately 1:36 p.m. on Saturday. Crews found a small pile of boxes that were burning against the rear of the building, extending to a nearby wooden fence, with the fire beginning to go into the attic space. Additional crews that were at the scene completed overhaul and investigation and all of the units that were present were released shortly thereafter.