(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the City of Beaver Falls Fire Department, Posted on February 9th, 2026)

Noah Haswell,  Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) A horse was rescued after officials said it had fallen into barbed wire and became stuck in it for hours in Beaver County early yesterday morning. According to The City of Beaver Falls Fire Department, just before 10 a.m., they responded to an emergency call involving a Clydesdale horse named Shamrock. The horse fell into some barbed wire and was stuck for roughly five hours and became hypothermic during that time. Multiple responders and Rehab services were requested before crews used a skid steer from Sullis Towing to get Shamrock up on his feet. Shamrock was able to eat and walk around on his own after he was evaluated. 

(File Photo of Police Siren Lights)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Hopewell Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported via release yesterday that an unidentified driver was not charged after a crash in Hopewell Township yesterday morning. At 11:04 a.m., the driver was traveling on I-376 East and the crash involved their vehicle and the vehicle of fifty-eight-year-old Laura Crevar of Beaver Falls. There were no injuries.  

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Potter Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported via release yesterday that an unidentified driver caused a single-vehicle crash in Potter Township yesterday morning. At 9:17 a.m., the driver was traveling on I-376 West north of Main Street and left the roadway before entering a shoulder that was covered with snow and hitting a guard wire. The vehicle was stuck in the deep snow and Hertzog’s Towing helped before the driver wanted the vehicle towed. There were no injuries.  

(File Photo of a Police Siren Light)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(McKees Rocks, PA) More information is coming out about the incident in which a woman was shot in McKees Rocks on Saturday. A woman was shot in the 100 block of Jane Street that morning and detectives identified twenty-two-year-old Edward Sparrow as a suspect. Detectives determined Sparrow was involved in a crash on the 100 block of Langer Way in Kennedy Township around 8:17 p.m. on Saturday while investigating this shooting. A witness later told investigators that Sparrow jumped the guard rail on Langer Way after the crash even though the vehicle was unoccupied when officers responded to the crash. Investigators that searched the steep hillside close to the guardrail yesterday morning located a man matching Sparrow’s description dead. Detectives are now working with area fire departments to recover the body and the formal identification of the man who passed away will be made by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. 

(File Photo of Handcuffs)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Police apprehended a person yesterday afternoon after they tried to run from the scene after hitting a pedestrian with their vehicle in the North Side of Pittsburgh. Authorities went to East Ohio Street and East Street at 2:45 p.m. after reports of a hit-and-run that involved a pedestrian. According to medics, the victim, an unidentified man, was taken to the hospital from the scene. He was last said to be in stable condition. The driver of the vehicle tried to leave the scene on foot and was later taken into custody by police not too far away on Tripoli Street.  

(File Photo: Source for Photo: A woman looks at signs at a store closed due to COVID-19 in Niles, Ill., Wednesday, May 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A longtime bar in the Brookline neighborhood of Pittsburgh recently announced that it will close its doors for good at the end of February, citing the expansion of its neighbor, Fiori’s Pizza. Slick’s Bar will be closing and according to one of its owners, Mary Rose Louis, Fiorentino Moscatiello, who owns Fiori’s and the building that Slick’s currently occupies stated that he is expanding the space following orders from the Allegheny County Health Department. The owners of Slick’s Bar also confirmed that once they close, they will not relocate. 

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Yuengling Black and Tan cans are stacked in the warehouse of the D.G. Yuengling & Son Brewery Mill Creek plant on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. (Lindsey Shuey/Republican-Herald via AP)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The city of Pittsburgh was recently nominated for USAToday’s 10Best awards for the best city for beer in the United States of America in 2026. Pittsburgh is the only city in Pennsylvania to get this recognition and according to USAToday’s 10 Best website, 20 cities from across the United States were chosen by a panel of beer experts for hosting the best beer scenes in the nation. You can vote once per day until February 23rd at noon and the top ten cities will be announced on March 4th. The link to vote for Pittsburgh for these awards can be found on our website by clicking here.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Cleanup continues, Feb. 24, 2023, at the site of a Norfolk Southern freight train derailment that happened on Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio. The costs related to the East Palestine derailment continue to grow to reach $966 million for Norfolk Southern, but the railroad’s service is improving and its insurance companies have started to pay their share of the cost of the crash in eastern Ohio early this year. (AP Photo/Matt Freed, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(East Palestine, OH) On the three-year anniversary of the 2023 East Palestine train derailment last Tuesday, a permanent physical office opened where residents from East Palestine and Beaver County areas can now go for health information and monitoring by a group of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Kentucky and Yale University. It is located at The Way Station on 109 West Rebecca Street in East Palestine, Ohio. You can find out more information about a program related to health following the 2023 derailment by clicking here.

(Credit for Photo: Courtesy of Ashley Marina)

Beaver County Radio Staff Report

(Universal City, CA) Watch “The Voice” to see a local teenager perform. Ashley Marina, a Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School graduate, posted a message on Facebook on Monday, recommending followers watch her audition on the popular NBC singing contest. “It’s official! I auditioned for ‘The Voice: Battle of Champions,” Marina said. “Tune in Mondays starting February 23rd on NBC and streaming the next day on Peacock TV.” Marina is no stranger to televised singing competitions, having dazzled judges and viewers alike as a 12-year-old contestant on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” in 2020. She has performed locally at events like the Beaver Light-Up Festival, the Fire & Ice festival in New Brighton and the Women Who Rock concert at Pittsburgh’s Stage AE.

(File Photo of Road Work Ahead Sign)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that overhead sign inspection activities in various locations in the City of Pittsburgh will occur today, weather permitting. From 9 A.M. to 3 P.M., overhead sign inspection activities requiring single-lane restrictions will occur on Liberty Bridge (Route 3069) in both directions and Eastbound 10th Street Bypass (Route 2128) as crews from Mackin Engineers & Consultants and the Sofis Rigging Company will conduct the inspection work.