(Credit for Photo: Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of Sheetz)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Altoona, PA) Sheetz announced on Monday that it is celebrating National Coffee Day with a special offer that is for its customers. 

That offer is a free self-serve coffee with any qualified purchase, any size, hot or iced, which includes extra large.

This limited-time offer is available starting on National Coffee Day, which is Tuesday, September 29th, and it will go from that day through Thursday, October 1st at all of Sheetz’s more than 850 locations.

Customers need to be enrolled in the My Sheetz Rewardz loyalty program (click here to learn more) to redeem that offer.

According to a release from Sheetz, that offer is limited to one redemption per loyalty member and is not valid with purchases of fuel, alcohol, cigarettes, tobacco, lottery items, half-gallon or gallon milk, financial or prepaid cards, or Sheetz gift cards. 

Customers can become a member of MySheetzRewardz and participate in Sheetz’s promotion for National Coffee Day by downloading the Sheetz app (click here to learn more). 

(File Photo of Beaver County District Attorney Nate Bible)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) Beaver County District Attorney Nate Bible is now pushing back after a group that is aiming to expose alleged child predators accused him of not filing charges against Ronald Antolik, Jr. 

Bible is defending himself after the vigilante justice group 814 Pred Hunters went online and said that he did not file charges against Antolik, even after the group had evidence of a sting that they did in July.  

The group claims that Antolik would never have been able to try to lure a teenage girl that was walking home from school two months later if those charges had been filed. 

The group contacted Rochester police on July 17th and eventually learned that Antolik sent explicit videos and pictures to someone who was posing as a child.  

Antolik then drove up to a fourteen-year-old girl from Rochester Area School District on September 10th and told her that he can take her back to his cabin. 

Police eventually tracked Antolik down, and they then went to his home. Antolik resisted arrest before being taken into custody after a brief standoff occurred. 

Bible did not file charges, and he said that it is because his hands are tied. 

(File Photo of a Road Work Ahead Sign)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that high friction surface treatment (HFST) and pavement marking work on various roads in Lawrence County will begin today, weather permitting.

There will be short-term traffic stoppages and lane restrictions between 7 A.M. and 5 P.M. daily through late November to accommodate high friction surface treatment (HFST) and pavement marking work, in the following locations, according to a release from PennDOT District 11:

• West State Street (Route 224) between North Edinburg Road (Route 551) and Skyhill Road in Mahoning Township
• Ellwood Road (Route 65) between Gardner Center Road and Cherrywood Place in Shenango Township
• North Croton Avenue (Route 108) between East Washington Street (Route 65) and North Ray Street in the City of New Castle
• Butler Avenue (Business 422) between John Street and Frew Mill Road (Route 1012) in the City of New Castle

This work will be conducted by crews from The Truesdell Corporation.

(File Photo of Police Siren Lights)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Raccoon Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported yesterday that twenty-eight-year-old Christopher Ricci of Aliquippa was given a written warning after a two-vehicle crash occurred in Raccoon Township on Thursday.

Ricci was driving on State Route 18 at 3:35 p.m. and lost control of his vehicle because of slick and wet road conditions when he was negotiating a left curve in the road.

Ricci crossed over into the oncoming lane of travel that was ahead of twenty-seven-year-old Justin Christy of East Palestine, Ohio and Ricci hit Christy’s vehicle with his vehicle. 

Ricci suffered a suspected minor injury but was not transported and he was the only one that was involved in this crash that was injured. 

(File Photo of Handcuffs)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported yesterday that forty-one-year-old Richard Rosser of Monaca was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs in Aliquippa on August 26th.

Rosser was stopped by police along 252 Sheffield Avenue at 9:38 a.m. because he committed a vehicle violation.

Rosser was ultimately arrested for driving under the influence of a controlled substance. 

(File Photo of Congressman Chris Deluzio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Carnegie, PA) Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) helped introduce the Reverse Big Ugly Tax Breaks for Data Centers Act last week. 

This bill would reverse tax giveaways for data center development from the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill.  

Congressman Deluzio is a co-sponsor of the measure and Congressmembers Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI-08) and Don Davis (NC-01) lead the bill. 

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) that President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans passed into law in 2025 cut over $1 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP food assistance and added trillions of dollars in debt to pay for reckless giveaways of taxes for things like AI data construction. 

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Pittsburgh International Airport, Posted on Facebook on September 9th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Pittsburgh International Airport has been named the 2027 Airport of the Year by Air Transport World, which is a global air transportation publication.  

The airport also won the same award in 2017 and it is now the first airport in the United States to win this award twice.

Air Transport World’s Airline Industry Achievement Awards recognize excellence throughout operations of airports and they are said to be considered the most desired awards in the industry of air transportation.

One of the reasons that Pittsburgh International Airport received this award is the new, $1.7 billion terminal that opened at Pittsburgh International Airport in 2025.

(File Photo of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday recently announced preliminary approval of a plan to distribute funds to consumers following multiple national settlements with drug manufacturers accused of conspiring to inflate prices of generic prescription drugs.

Consumers that are impacted are encouraged to file claims or inquire about eligibility for compensation.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut granted preliminary approval of a plan this month, which was filed by Pennsylvania and a coalition of 47 other states and territories, to distribute settlement funds that are paid by generic drug manufacturers in exchange for the settlement of claims that those companies illegally conspired to raise the prices of generic drugs.

You may be eligible for compensation if you purchased a generic drug that is listed here (click here to learn more) between May of 2009 and December of 2019. You can also call 1-866-290-0182 (Toll-Free), email info@AGGenericDrugs.com or visit www.AGGenericDrugs.com (click here) to determine your eligibility.

You can click here to submit a claim for compensation.

(File Photo of the Allegheny Health Network Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Researchers from Allegheny Health Network (AHN) Cancer Center recently contributed to a major international study that evaluated a new blood-based test that could help detect pancreatic cancer earlier, when the treatment is most effective.

Investigators found that this blood test achieved high sensitivity for detecting early-stage disease and it showed potential to reduce false-positive results compared with existing approaches.

This study was published in Nature Medicine, and it included over 1,700 patients from institutions across the United States, Europe and Asia.

It highlighted a large-scale collaborative effort to improve strategies of early cancer detection.

The AHN Cancer Center played a key role in this study by contributing data of patients, clinical expertise and biospecimens.

The prospective, multicenter study assessed a novel liquid biopsy approach which analyzed microRNA markers in the blood and combines them with the commonly used biomarker called CA 19-9.

The resulting composite score, which was known as PANXEON, demonstrated strong performance in identifying early-stage pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the most common form of pancreatic cancer and a disease which is often difficult to diagnose at an early stage.

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is one of the deadliest cancers and it has a five-year survival rate of about 12 percent and the majority of its cases are diagnosed at advanced stages.

AHN researchers also supported a cohort that was used to evaluate how some biomarker levels change before and after treatment and they helped to inform the potential clinical applications of the assay.