(Freedom, PA) According to Beth and Anthony Gaus, their five-year-old granddaughter got dropped off at the wrong bus stop in Freedom on Monday afternoon on a bus from ABC Transit, which happened to be her first day of school. The destination of 4th Avenue and 6th Street was where the grandaughter of Beth and Anthony Gaus was supposed to be dropped off at, but at the time of the drop-off, she was not on the bus when it stopped there. The parents of this five-year-old girl also saw her on 3rd Avenue. According to Anthony Gaus: “The bus driver was very nonchalant about it. She didn’t even care that she was missing kids. I asked several times, and she was more worried about moving on than finding our kids, which was bothersome to both of us.” After speaking with one of the parents of that five-year-old girl, the Freedom Area School District superintendent told Channel 11 the drop-off location was a mistake and said a plan is now in place to prevent it from happening again.
(Beaver, PA) Several topics were discussed at the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session this morning in Beaver. Among them were that the Beaver County Commissioners praised the response that came from the incident in which a bus that crashed in Economy Borough on Saturday. That bus carried the Aliquippa Junior High School football team. Meetings are going to be held within the next month to see how this incident could have been handled better. Twenty-two people were taken to the hospital as a result of this incident, but no lives were lost. In other business, Beaver County Recration and Tourism Director Tony Caltury also mentioned that this Saturday and Sunday, August 30th and August 31st of 2025, Project Mayhem Racing will be hosted at Brady’s Run Park in Beaver County. This event is an obstacle course through the trails at Brady’s Run Park. Beaver County Commissioner Jack Manning also encouraged Beaver County residents to go to the 2025 Big Knob Fair going on in Rochester this week. Manning also encouraged State Representative Roman Kozak, who he saw at the Big Knob Fair to pass the state budget for Pennsylvania, because that budget went past the deadline on June 30th, 2025 to pass it. Manning also talked about an event that happened on Saturday at the Ready Yourself Youth Ranch in North Sewickley which is part of a ten-week course from them and Children’s Youth Services there where juveniles are teamed up with a horse while they went through other educational processes and the changes of behavior were seen as a different prospect on their lives.
(New Sewickley Township, PA) A fifty-three-year-old male suspect who the Raccoon Township Police Department accused of physically assaulting and seriously injuring an elderly female on August 21st, 2025 in Beaver County got taken into custody yesterday. According to a release from the Raccoon Township Police Department, at about 6:30 p.m., yesterday, wanted suspect Steven F. Bombiani was located hiding out at a trailer in New Sewickley Township and Raccoon Police began to receive detailed and reliable tips from viewers and listeners of those media outlets who helped. New Sewickley Township Police, the Beaver County Sheriff’s Office, and Detectives from the Beaver County District Attorney’s Office Task Force were able to validate and verify Bombiani’s location quickly along with police from the Raccoon Township Police Department. K-9s and drones also assisted in the capturing of Bombiani, who is still in the Beaver County Jail at this time. According to a release, Raccoon Township Police responded to an incident on August 21st, 2025. They were summoned by a neighbor who heard the victim yelling for help. Bombiani is alleged to have stolen $119 from the victim. When confronted, Bombiani allegedly pushed and punched the victim, who fell to the ground and was not able to get back up. The female victim can now focus on her recovery at this time.
(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from Senator Elder Vogel, Jr.’s office, Vogel will be holding a food drive throughout September in honor of Hunger Action Month in Pennsylvania and across the nation. From September 1st through September 30th, the district offices for Vogel in Cranberry Township and Rochester will be accepting non-perishable, unexpired food items, which will be donated to a local food bank at the end of the month to help those in need. These two district offices mentioned are located at 8001 Rowan Road, Suite 205 in Cranberry Township and 488 Adams Street in Rochester. The legislative Hunger Caucus, which seeks to increase awareness of hunger across Pennsylvania and is the main sponsor of a measure from the Senate designating September of 2025 as Hunger Action Month in Pennsylvania, and Vogel is the co-chair of the legislative Hunger Caucus.
(Philiadelphia, PA) Governor Josh Shapiro spoke about items including celebrating the legacy of fleets and an international partner of trade to help boost the economy of Pennsylvania yesterday at the Hanwa Philly Shipyard in Philadelphia for the christening of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Security Multi-Mission Vessel, State of Maine. According to Shapiro and his remarks yesterday in regards to the city of Philadelphia, “It was right here that our nation began its journey, and it’s been here in this city, in our naval shipyard, that we’ve built the American fleets that have protected our freedoms at home and abroad around the world since 1776.” Shapiro also showed his pride in his remarks for the facts of the international partner of South Korea employing thousands of people from Pennsylvania at companies including Hanwa and Pennsylvania being home to more than 52,000 Korean Americans. Shapiro also noted in his remarks that the economy needs to grow in Pennsylvania and wants the attraction there of greater investment from Korea across industries, from shipbuilding to manufacturing to life sciences.
(Cedarville, OH) According to a release today from Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio, students and professionals pursuing a career in health care, higher education or cybersecurity now have a clearer path as the result of three new agreements between Cedarville University and Geneva College in Beaver Falls. The first is an agreement of post-graduate affiliation between Geneva College and Cedarville University will provide admission that is preferred and benefits of enrollment to students of Geneva College entering the professional health care program of Cedarville University.Eligible programs include athletic trainingnursing, pharmacy and physician assistant studies. Students from Geneva College who meet the criteria of admissions for Cedarville University may receive priority scholarships, interviews that are guaranteed and other support that is personalized for them. According to that same aforementioned release from Cedarville University, as part of the agreement, Geneva students admitted to Cedarville’s PharmD program will receive benefits including scholarships and access to mentoring and support resources and similar benefits are extended across other programs, with guaranteed admission for Master of Athletic Training and Master of Science in Nursing candidates and preferred review for Doctor of Nursing Practice applicants. Cedarville University alumni and staff that are interested in higher education careers can get tuition that is discounted for the Master of Arts in Higher Education program at Geneva College in another separate agreement between the two colleges. Employees of Cedarville University are eligible for a tuition remission of 25%, and alumni of Cedarville University will receive a discount of 10% for a remission of tuition. The final agreement between Geneva College and Cedarville University is that students that complete the graduate-level certificate in Cybersecurity Management at Cedarville University may transfer up to credit hours totaling twelve toward the Master of Science Cybersecurity program at Geneva College. This Master of Science Cybersecurity program at Geneva College is online fully for students. Students who are interested in what this agreement entails need to earn a grade of at least a “B” or higher in certificate courses that are specified and meet requirements of admissions for the graduate program at Geneva College, who will provide the 21 credit hours remaining, along with advising for academics and support services for students.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) An unidentified twenty-five-year-old man died from a shooting that occurred last night in the East Hills neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The 2300 block of East Hills Drive was where the shooting occurred, and a ShotSpotter Alert of seven rounds went off for this incident, which happened in the 9 p.m. hour of last night. A twenty-five-year-old man who was unresponsive at the time of the shooting was found shot in his upper body. Even though officers and medics tried to save his life, he was pronounced dead at the scene by medics last night. Police also confirm that an ongoing investigation is being held into this incident. The man who died from this shooting has not been identified yet and no arrests have been made yet as of early this morning.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA)A dog named Steeler, who is a canine that detects explosives from the Pittsburgh International Airport, has won the 2025 Transportation Security Administration’s Cutest Canine Contest. The public voted Steeler the winner on social media from four finalists from TSA that each represented a different region of the United States of America. There were initially 97 dogs nominated for this contest. Steeler is a two-and-a-half-year-old Laborador retriever who has been detecting explosives for just more than a year and works with his handler, Mark Smith, at the Pittsburgh International Airport as part of the multilayered security approach of the Transportation Security Administration. This announcement came yesterday, August 26th, 2025, which is National Dog Day, which is celebrated each year on the date of August 26th. Steeler, who won the 2025 TSA Cutest Canine Contest by votes totaling just a few hundred, will be on the front cover of the TSA’s 2026 Canine Calendar, which is scheduled to be released in December of 2025. Steeler enjoys eating jumbo hot dogs, fetching balls and playing with a tug rope. February 12th, 2023 was when Steeler and the rest of his litter were born, which was the Sunday that the Super Bowl was played that year and these dogs were all named after NFL teams.
SEWICKLEY — A locally produced documentary about arguably the greatest athlete to ever play for a Pittsburgh professional sports team will be screened as part of upcoming documentary offerings at the Lindsay Theater.
“Clemente” will play at the Sewickley theater from Sept. 12-18, with the possibility of additional dates added.
Director David Altrogge’s film spotlights Pirates legend Roberto Clemente’s amazing life and baseball career, and examines why “The Great One” remains such a revered figure in Pittsburgh and beyond.
The film starts with Clemente’s childhood in Puerto Rico, takes viewers through his Pirates heyday, and immortalizes the hall-of-famer’s philanthropic legacy that was tragically exemplified by his 1972 death in a plane crash while delivering aid to earthquake-stricken Nicaragua.
The documentary includes interviews with Clemente’s sons, Luis and Robert Jr.; the last interview with his late wife, Vera; multiple Pirates legends; contemporary Major League Baseball stars like Francisco Lindor and Yadier Molina; Pittsburgh-raised movie star Michael Keaton; and Rita Moreno, an Oscar-winning actor and fellow Puerto Rican icon.
Poster for the Roberto Clemente documentary opening Sept. 12. (Image provided by the Lindsay Theater).
Altrogge co-founder of locally based production company Vinegar Hill with Michael Barnett alongside a group that also includes renowned director Richard Linklater (“Dazed & Confused”) and the SpringHill Company duo of Maverick Carter and NBA superstar LeBron James.
This is the second Altrogge-directed film to play at The Lindsay. “Neat: The Story of Bourbon”was part of the Theater’s 2024 Documentary Series, where he also hosted an audience Q&A.
“And we hope he’ll be available again to discuss making this beautiful tribute to The Great One with Lindsay patrons,” the Lindsay’s website says.
“Clemente is a quintessential Pittsburgh story,” Altrogge says. “His mission was about bringing people together. We hope this film brings people together in Pittsburgh and across the world.”
Tickets for “Clemente” can be purchased now at thelindsaytheater.org.
The Lindsay’s separate Documentary Series runs Aug. 29-Sept. 11, enabling moviegoers to soak up a wealth of information on art, ecology, language, health care and much more.
Art enthusiasts will want to check out “Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light” and the Thomas Kinkade study “Art for Everybody.” “Sanibel” explores the devastating effects of natural disasters, while “Single-Use Planet” enlists Beaver County residents to examine effects and consequences of the Shell petrochemicals plant. Others are “Rebel With a Clause,” a lighthearted experiment in sewing divisions through bringing out our inner grammar nerds. “Caregiving” is a moving snapshot of the many Americans facing the daunting task of caring for a sick or aging loved one.
(Pittsburgh, PA) A robbery that was armed was reported at a Pizza Hut store in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Monday night and a male suspect has been taken into custody for it. According to police, the suspect, forty-four-year-old Jason Fields held a cashier of the Pizza Hut on Baum Boulevard at gunpoint, demanding money.The criminal complaint states that the cashier told police they believed anywhere from $400 to $600 was around how much money Fields had taken from the safe and the cash register. Police also confirm that the area of Lincoln Road and Verona Road is where Fields crashed with his vehicle after police officers from Pittsburgh chased him in his vehicle into the Penn Hills area and an ongoing investigation is being held into the armed robbery. Fields is now in custody and has charges against him which include robbery, receiving stolen property, reckless driving along with other offenses.
