(File Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are sixteen cents higher in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.49 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The report states that at this time a year ago, the average price for a gallon of gas in Western Pennsylvania was around $3.80. The report also notes that the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is about $3.51. According to a release from AAA East Central, here are the average prices of unleaded self-serve gasoline in various Pennsylvania areas:

$3.521      Altoona
$3.508      Beaver
$3.619      Bradford
$3.375      Brookville
$3.574      Butler
$3.426      Clarion
$3.385      DuBois
$3.277      Erie
$3.389      Greensburg
$3.565      Indiana
$3.572      Jeannette
$3.648      Kittanning
$3.206      Latrobe
$3.547      Meadville
$3.564      Mercer
$3.364      New Castle
$3.527      New Kensington
$3.526      Oil City
$3.537      Pittsburgh
$3.412      Sharon
$3.579      Uniontown
$3.664      Warren
$3.564      Washington

(File Photo of Police Lights)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cleveland, OH) A shooting occurred in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday morning during a block party which injured five people and killed one person. According to a report from CBS affiliate WOIO, police said 80 shots were fired by multiple shooters during the party on Luther Avenue after midnight. WOIO also confirmed it was not known immediately if there were any suspects involved in this incident and that there were not any arrests made yet.

(File Photo of a Police Light)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to police, an unidentified male bicyclist was hit by the drivers of two vehicles in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Sunday night. This occurred at the intersection of Frankstown Avenue and North Lang Avenue. The man was on the ground when officers arrived. Police learned the drivers were speeding down Frankstown Avenue side-by-side in a surveillance video. The man is in critical condition in a local hospital and got CPR before being taken there.

(File Photo of the Steel Curtain Roller Coaster at Kennywood Park)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(West Mifflin, PA) On Monday, Kennywood Park was part of the fourth year of the World’s Longest Roller Coaster Ride. The Steel Curtain roller coaster hosted twenty four riders at 2 p.m. yesterday, the time that roller coasters across the world ran with it. The World’s Longest Roller Coaster ride celebrates the anniversary of the first modern roller coaster, Lamarcus Thompson’s Switchback Railway.

(File Photo of the B.F. Jones Memorial Library in Aliquippa)

(Reported by Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano)

(Aliquippa, PA) The B.F. Jones Memorial Library in Aliquippa will be closed to celebrate Juneteenth. According to a Facebook post from the B.F. Jones Memorial Library, the library will close at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 18th, and will be closed on Thursday, June 19th, in observance of the holiday.

(File Photo of the United States Flag)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Carnegie, PA) According to a release from State Representative Anita Kulik’s office, a recent $10,000 grant from America250PA will help preserve Civil War uniform pieces for them to be publicly displayed. These pieces are at the Captain Thomas Espy Post inside the Andrew Carnegie Free Library in Carnegie. The money also assists programs and events that are celebratory, civic and educational leading up to the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States on the fourth of July.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – The United States Steel logo is pictured outside the headquarters building in downtown Pittsburgh, April 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Mon Valley, PA) The ongoing decision regarding the deal between Nippon Steel of Japan and U.S. Steel is causing the presidential administration and the labor union to disagree about it. According to Senator David McCormick, this deal would create investments in plants like the ones in the Mon Valley, but the United Steelworkers are still looking for details. The labor union is not sure that the “golden share” proposed by President Trump would let non-union plants in the South leave.

(File Photo of the McDonald’s Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ellwood City, PA) According to a release from Kerry Ford Public Relations, two Beaver County students will receive the 2025 Viccari-McDonald’s of Ellwood City Scholarship today at 4:30 p.m. This will occur at the McDonald’s located in Ellwood City. $1,000 will go to both Tessa Folino from Lincoln High School and Lucas Moody from Riverside High School for both being leaders and participating in community service.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – The water in the Gulf of Mexico appears bluer than usual off of East Beach, Saturday, June 24, 2023, in Galveston, Texas. (Jill Karnicki/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) The beach at Raccoon Creek State Park in Beaver County has been named in a survey taken in June by Frugal Flyer as one of the best “Hidden Gem Beaches” in the United States. According to this survey, the Raccoon Creek State Park beach ranks number forty-one out of the ninety-five beaches ranked on the survey. That beach is also the only one from Pennsylvania to make that survey. The releasing of the survey was from Frugal Flyer, a travel blog from Canada.

Credit for Photo: Screenshot from video originally posted by Rachel Rausch.

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ellwood City, PA) A police officer from Ellwood City was punished on Monday for a confrontation at a Sheetz on Fifth Street in Ellwood City that was caught in a recent viral video with some profane language. Rob Magnifico pushed twenty-year-old Devin Hartmann on Friday, June 6th. Hartmann wanted his phone back when he got caught recording in the store. Magnifico was demoted to officer, got suspended without pay for ten days and got an order to take anger management classes.