(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – The Church Pews bunker on the fairway of the third hole at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pa. is shown in a Sept. 21, 2015, file photo. The course in Oakmont, Pa., already has hosted a record nine U.S. Opens. It now will be an anchor site for U.S. Opens and will host three more through 2049. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

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(Walla Walla, WA) An amateur golfer from Cranberry Township has earned his way into the 2025 U.S. Open Championship at Oakmont Country Club, happening on June 12th-15th, 2025. Matthew Vogt qualified for this golf tournament by recently scoring two rounds of 68 at the Wine Valley Golf Club in Walla Walla, Washington. Aside from qualifying for one of the four major tournaments of the PGA Tour, Vogt is a dentist who practices his craft in Indianapolis, Indiana. Vogt is also an alumni of Seneca Valley High School who played college golf at Butler University in Indianapolis.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Students catch their bus near Ambridge Area Senior High School, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, in Ambridge, Pa. Pennsylvania school districts will soon be allowed to modify or end the mask mandate for K-12 students in January, Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday, Nov. 8, 2021 saying it is “time to prepare for a transition back to a more normal setting.” (Andrew Rush /Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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(Montgomery County, PA) A Pennsylvania lawmaker has the intention to make a draft of legislation to consolidate school districts in the state. According to a cosponsorship memorandum by State Representative Greg Scott, his legislation would consolidate and reorganize Pennsylvania school districts from 500 to 100. This was submitted last Tuesday and back in 2009, Governor Ed Rendell tried to do the same action. Central Valley School District was merged from Center Area and Monaca school districts that same year.

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(Harrisburg, PA) According to a Facebook post from State Representative Roman Kozak, the House Judiciary Committee unanimously reported House Bill 808 in Pennsylvania, also known as Nicholas’ Law. This would get rid of the statute of limitations for crimes against a care-dependent person that is nonverbal. These crimes are aggravated assault, abuse or neglect, rape, involuntary deviate sexual assault and simple assault. Kozak named the law after Nicholas Maravich, who could not be able to communicate the actions of abuse from a staff member at a local resident facility. Maravich passed away later because of the abuse.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – David McCormick, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, speaks during a campaign stop in Lititz, Friday, May 13, 2022. McCormick is expected to announce his second bid for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, according to people familiar with his plans, taking on Democratic Sen. Bob Casey after narrowly losing an expensive and bruising GOP primary last year to a Donald Trump-endorsed rival. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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(Boston, MA) On Monday, Pennsylvania Senators John Fetterman and David McCormick had a talk together that was livestreamed about several topics that they believe in. The topics included policy that is foreign and antisemitism and this took place in Boston, Massachusetts at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute. Both policy and politics were discussed to take part in the Senate Project and its sixth edition, so senators of parties that oppose each other could take part in the discussion. 

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(Hanover Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that a woman from East Liverpool, Ohio was charged after causing a two-vehicle crash in Hanover Township on Friday without a license. Twenty-two-year-old Olivia Dorsey hit the vehicle of twenty-five-year-old Jacob Chambers of Oakdale, Pennsylvania. This occurred on the intersection of Frankfort Road on the Lincoln Highway, U.S. Route 18. According to police, Dorsey was charged for not having a license while driving.

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(Chippewa Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that a nineteen-year-old from Freedom was charged after causing a single-vehicle crash in Chippewa Township on Monday. Joshua Hohman went off the left side of the road and hit a guard wire when traveling on I-376 West. According to police, Hohman was charged for “driving on roadways that were laned for traffic.”

(File Photo of Senator Elder Vogel, Jr.)

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(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from Senator Elder Vogel, Jr.’s office, Vogel is hosting a press conference on Wednesday, June 4th, at 9:30 a.m. to celebrate June as National Dairy Month. This event will be in the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex in Harrisburg in the East Wing Rotunda. Vogel and seven other speakers will speak during the event to talk about how diary has good effects on the state of Pennsylvania.

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(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are six cents lower in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.39 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The report states that at this time last year, the average price for a gallon of gas in Western Pennsylvania was around $3.84. The report also notes that the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is about $3.56. According to a release from AAA East Central and AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report, here is the average price of unleaded self-serve gasoline in various Pennsylvania areas:

$3.467      Altoona
$3.557      Beaver
$3.604      Bradford
$3.228      Brookville
$3.333      Butler
$3.378      Clarion
$3.235      DuBois
$3.225      Erie
$3.169      Greensburg
$3.465      Indiana
$3.237      Jeannette
$3.658      Kittanning
$2.946      Latrobe
$3.491      Meadville
$3.484      Mercer
$3.324      New Castle
$3.344      New Kensington
$3.549      Oil City
$3.452      Pittsburgh
$3.321      Sharon
$3.470      Uniontown
$3.697      Warren
$3.391      Washington

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PITTSBURGH, Pa. – A former resident of Ambridge, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a total of 132 months and one day of imprisonment, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor and violation of the terms of his supervised release, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti
announced today.
Senior United States District Judge Nora Barry Fischer imposed the sentence on Bradley J. Schrott, 43, on June 2, 2025, sentencing Schrott to 120 months in prison on the possession of material count, and to an additional 12 months and one day of imprisonment to be served consecutively for violating the terms of his supervised release from an earlier federal conviction for the same offense.
According to information presented to the Court, on February 17, 2023, Schrott possessed a video depicting the sexual exploitation of a prepubescent minor. At the time of the offense, Schrott was serving a term of supervised release imposed following an earlier federal conviction for possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, for which he had been sentenced to 30 months of imprisonment and 10 years of supervised release.
Prior to imposing sentence, Judge Fischer highlighted that Congress treats repeat sex
offenders very seriously and encouraged Schrott to take full advantage of mental health, sex offender, and drug treatment programs while serving his significant sentence of imprisonment.
Assistant United States Attorney Carolyn J. Bloch prosecuted this case on behalf of the
government.
Acting United States Attorney Rivetti commended the Department of Homeland Security for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Schrott.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit
www.justice.gov/psc.