(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – This Oct. 17, 2023 file photo shows the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh. The Allegheny County jail could significantly increase its mental health staffing and provide more training about use of force and restraint after five inmates alleged that the Pennsylvania facility treats those with mental illness unfairly, under proposed settlement filed Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) An inmate is now charged with trying to bring drugs into the Allegheny County Jail. According to Allegheny County police, detectives were called to the jail on October 15th, 2025 for a reported conspiracy to smuggle synthetic cannabinoids, also called K2, into the jail through the attorney-client mailing process. Detectives alleged that an inmate, forty-four-year-old Edwin Wylie-Biggs worked with people outside the jail to smuggle drugs inside. Police state that witness interviews helped detectives recover documents addressed to Wylie-Biggs that tested positive for K2. Wylie-Biggs is facing multiple charges, including criminal conspiracy and criminal use of a communication facility and the investigation into this incident is ongoing. 

(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Office of the State Fire Commissioner)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from the Pennsylvania Office of the State Fire Commissioner, the Shapiro Administration is now reminding Pennsylvanians to change the batteries in their smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms when moving their clocks ahead one hour for the “spring forward” time change on Sunday during the 2026 Daylight Saving Time. Functioning and properly placed smoke alarms can decrease the risk of someone dying in a home fire by as much as half. Dead or missing batteries are the most common cause of a malfunction of either a smoke or a carbon monoxide alarm. 

(File Photo of a Gavel)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Plum Borough, PA) Two parents are now facing charges after police say more than 60 teenagers were drinking at a large party in their Plum Borough home. According to a criminal complaint obtained yesterday, fifty-year-old Ian Dryburgh and forty-five-year-old Corrinne Dryburgh are facing felony charges of endangering the welfare of children, and misdemeanor counts of corruption of minors, recklessly endangering another person and furnishing alcohol to minors. Authorities arrived at the home of the couple on Saturday, where dozens of minors, along with empty beer, seltzer, and vodka bottles and cans, were found. Police stated that a total of sixty-six underage kids were at the home. The parents told police that a birthday party for their seventeen-year-old daughter got out of hand and that some kids had been kicked out, but more came and they didn’t know what to do.

(Credit for Photo: Courtesy of WPXI)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A landslide shut down part of a street in the South Side Slopes of Pittsburgh yesterday. Emergency crews were called to Josephine Street near Salisbury Street for reports of a tree that had fallen across a roadway just before 8 p.m. The tree brought part of a hillside down onto the road with it when it fell. Crews put barricades up to block off a stretch of Josephine Street that was the closest to the hillside. Traffic continued flowing once those barricades were set up. 

(File Photo of the PennDOT Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT stated in a virtual meeting with neighbors yesterday that the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge will be closed for 25 days starting on March 14th, 2026. The closure will take place so preservation work can occur on the nearly century-old bridge and the work is part of a $50 million project that will last until 2028, which is when a second closure will take place. PennDOT’s presentation stated yesterday that because of the detour, what is currently a one-minute drive, will take at least 20 minutes during the closure from March 14th to April 7th. If everything goes as planned, the bridge will fully reopen to traffic in mid-September of 2028, just after the 100th anniversary of its opening in 1928.   

(File Photo of Police Siren Lights)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) A person is dead after being hit by a vehicle along a major road in Wilkins Township this morning. The call to Allegheny County 911 for the crash in the 3400 block of William Penn Highway came in around 4:33 a.m. Officers on the scene told WPXI that the crash was a hit-and-run. Allegheny County Police detectives are investigating this crash. The westbound lanes are closed from Kingston Street to Hawthorne Street. It is unclear how long this roadway will remain closed. 

(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of Abundance Creative)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Accordign to a release yesterday from Abundance Creative, the Pennsylvania Beef Council joined leaders from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Central Dauphin School District, and local legislators this week at Central Dauphin Middle School so they could celebrate the growing success of farm-to-school partnerships that are connecting Pennsylvania farmers with students across the state. This event highlighted the impact of the PA Beef to PA Schools (PBPS) program and the important role of the Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Product Promotion, Education, and Export Promotion Matching Grant program that has helped expand opportunities for schools to serve locally raised beef while supporting Pennsylvania producers.   

(Photo Courtesy of Orchard Hill Church, Posted on Facebook on December 4th, 2025)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Bridgewater, PA) Orchard Hill Church is now launching a new location on April 5th, 2026 at 10am at 908 Market Street in Bridgewater. The church will continue its services every Sunday following 2026 Easter Sunday at 10 a.m. 

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Gavin Thunberg)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Mahoning Township Volunteer Fire Department and their first alarm were dispatched to a home in Lawrence County on East Main Street in Hillsville for a structure fire around 2 p.m. yesterday afternoon. This fire in Mahoning Township was widespread through what appeared to be places including an attic space as well as an area of the Bravo Charlie corner. It appeared that at least one dog was rescued.