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Pittsburgh, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Engineering District 11-0 is pleased to invite you to attend a public informational meeting being conducted tonight, Tuesday, August 5 at 5:30 p.m. to discuss the Aliquippa East End Gateway project. The purpose of the meeting is to present the alternatives considered, environmental features identified, and the proposed schedule. The project team will be available to answer questions and gather feedback.

The meeting will be held:

Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Date: Tuesday, August 5

Location: Aliquippa Junior/Senior High School, Gene Karmazyn Blackbox Theater, Entrance A, 100 Harding Avenue, Aliquippa, PA 15001

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is working with Beaver County Corporation for Economic Development (BCCED) and the City of Aliquippa on an Alternative Study of the Route 51 Constitution Boulevard and Route 3016 Franklin Avenue interchange. This interchange is located in the City of Aliquippa, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The alternative study aims to modernize the existing interchange to current design standards. The project scope of work will address existing geometric deficiencies and improve roadway continuity. This will provide safer access to downtown Aliquippa and to the Aliquippa Industrial Park.

For those unable to attend, public meeting materials will be posted to the website following the public meeting along with a comment form to gather feedback. The project page can be found here:

Aliquippa East End Gateway | Department of Transportation | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

The meeting location is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In addition, if you or an individual with whom you are familiar does not speak English as their primary language and who has a limited ability to read, write, speak, or understand English desires to participate in this meeting or if you require special assistance to attend and/or participate in this meeting or need additional information, please contact Derreck Poole at 412-429-4866 or dpoole@pa.gov. Pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, age, or disability. If you feel that you have been denied the benefits of, or participation in a PennDOT program or activity, you may contact the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bureau of Equal Opportunity, DBE/Title VI Division at 717-787-5891 or 800-468-4201. Please contact Derreck Poole, Project Manager, at (412) 429-4866 or dpoole@pa.gov.

Subscribe to PennDOT news and traffic alerts in Allegheny, Beaver, Lawrence counties at www.penndot.pa.gov/District11.

Information about infrastructure in District 11, including completed work and significant projects, is available at www.penndot.pa.gov/D11Results. Find PennDOT’s planned and active construction projects at www.projects.penndot.gov.

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Pittsburgh, PA – PennDOT District 11 is announcing cross pipe repair work on Barclay Hill Road (Route 4037) in Industry Borough, Beaver County will begin Wednesday, August 6 weather permitting.

Repair work on a cross pipe on Barclay Hill Road between Route 68 and Todd Road will require an around-the-clock closure from 7 a.m. Wednesday continuously through Friday, August 22. Traffic will be detoured via Pine Grove Road and Doyle Drive.

Crews from A. Liberoni, Inc. will conduct the work on this approximate $75,000 project.

Motorists can check conditions on major roadways by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras. 511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional X alerts.

Subscribe to PennDOT news and traffic alerts in Allegheny, Beaver, Lawrence counties at www.penndot.pa.gov/District11.

Information about infrastructure in District 11, including completed work and significant projects, is available at www.penndot.pa.gov/D11Results. Find PennDOT’s planned and active construction projects at www.projects.penndot.gov.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(North Braddock, PA) The man that tried to kill the pastor of Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church in North Braddock on May 5th, 2024 during their church service that day pleaded guilty, but mentally ill, on Monday. Twenty-seven-year-old Bernard Junior Polite was captured on the livestream video for the church service that day trying to shoot Pastor Glenn Germany with a handgun while Pastor Germany was preaching his sermon. According to police, Polite tried to fire the gun but it did not go off that day. Polite pleaded guilty to criminal attempt homicide and third-degree murder on Monday. The murder charge was given because not too long after, specfically hours after Polite was arrested on May 5th, 2024, his cousin, fifty-six-year-old Derek Polite, was found after being shot dead in the home that the two cousins shared together. This home was located at the 500 block of Stokes Avenue in North Braddock. Polite will get fifteen to forty years in jail for killing his cousin with a sentence that is consecutive after that first jail sentence of five to twenty years in jail for attempting to kill Pastor Germany. The total sentence in jail is twenty to sixty years for Polite.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) PennDOT made an announcement that through Friday, August 8th, 2025, weather permitting, the East-Rochester Monaca Bridge will get reduced to a single lane of traffic this week. This will occur daily through this Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Motorists will be assisted through the zone of work this week on the East Rochester-Monaca bridge by flaggers. Bridge inspection work will be conducted by crews from Mackin Engineering and the Sofis Company.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Greene Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that a sixteen-year-old male juvenile from Georgetown, Pennsylvania was arrested for attempting to steal items from a motor vehicle in Greene Township on Saturday. The juvenile tried to steal from the vehicle of the owner of the home at 231 Hill Road and the victims were forty-two-year-old Thomas Fontana and forty-year-old Elise McKenna, both of Georgetown, Pennsylvania. The juvenile was both detained and caught by the owner of the home there. According to police, the male juvenile got transported to Children’s Hospital for a self-inflicted head injury and for being highly intoxicated and charges will be filed against him for his actions.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that a man from Aliquippa was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in Aliquippa on Friday. Forty-two-year-old Kevin Anderson got stopped by police after committing a vehicle violation on the 600 block of Maratta Road. According to police, Anderson was subsequently arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that a man from Aliquippa was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs in Aliquippa on Sunday. Twenty-three-year-old Jaylen Guy was stopped by police during a traffic stop on the 900 block of Franklin Avenue. According to police, Guy was arrested for driving under the influence and his charges are pending.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen speaks to the media Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025 in front of the Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Courthouse in Anaconda, Mont., about the ongoing search for shooting suspect Michael Brown. (Joseph Scheller/The Montana Standard via AP)

(AP) The former U.S. soldier suspected of killing four people at a Montana bar was still at large early Sunday and may be armed after escaping in a stolen vehicle containing clothes and camping gear, officials said.

Authorities believe 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown killed four people on Friday morning at The Owl Bar in Anaconda, Montana, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) southeast of Missoula in a valley hemmed in by mountains.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said at a news conference Sunday that Brown committed the shooting with a rifle that law enforcement believes was his personal weapon.

The victims ranged in age from 59 to 74 and were a female bartender and three male patrons.

Knudsen warned residents in the town of just over 9,000 people that Brown, who lived next door to the bar where he was a regular, could come back to the area.

“This is an unstable individual who walked in and murdered four people in cold blood for no reason whatsoever. So there absolutely is concern for the public,” Knudsen said.

A good neighbor

The four victims were identified on Sunday morning as Daniel Edwin Baillie, 59, Nancy Lauretta Kelley, 64, David Allen Leach, 70, and Tony Wayne Palm, 74. All four lived in Anaconda.

Robert Wyatt, 70, said he was neighbors with Leach at a public housing complex for elderly people and people with disabilities.

“Everybody is nervous” since Friday, Wyatt said.

Leach was deaf and kept mostly to himself, Wyatt said, and he only recalls Leach having a family visit once almost a year ago. But Leach was always happy to help his neighbors with chores like moving furniture.

“If you needed help, Dave would help,” Wyatt said. “He was a good neighbor.”

Everybody in town knows each other

Numerous public events were canceled over the weekend as the search entered its third day, according to local Facebook pages. As law enforcement scours the wild terrain, the woods southwest of Anaconda have been closed to the public by the National Forest System.

David Jabarek, 70, said that a mass shooting in a place as small as Anaconda is baffling to many. He said that he regularly saw both the shooter and the victims over the course of the 20 years that he has lived in Anaconda.

“We only have 9,000 people, so it’s like, what the hell just happened? Everybody knows everybody here,” he said.

Jabarek was headed to Owl Bar less than 30 minutes before the shooting happened, at around 10:15 a.m. On an impulse, he went to run an errand nearby instead. When he came back to the area, he saw the bar was surrounded by police.

“If I’d have been in there when I was supposed to be, you wouldn’t be talking to me. Somebody be talking to you about me,” he said.

The close call is now keeping Jabarek up at night. But he said that he isn’t afraid of the prospect of Brown returning.

“Everybody around here has two dozen firearms in their house, and right now they’re within hands reach,” Jabarek said.

The suspected shooter’s past

Investigators are considering all possible options for Brown’s whereabouts, the attorney general said. That includes searching the woods where Brown hunted and camped while he was a kid. But Knudsen noted that during peak tourist season in western Montana some law enforcement officials would have to return to their local jurisdictions for their regular responsibilities.

Brown served in the Army as an armor crewman from 2001 to 2005 and deployed to Iraq from early 2004 until March 2005, said Lt. Col. Ruth Castro, an Army spokesperson. Brown was in the Montana National Guard from 2006 to March 2009, Castro said, and left military service at the rank of sergeant.

Brown’s niece, Clare Boyle, told The Associated Press that her uncle has struggled with mental illness for years, and she and other family members repeatedly sought help.

“This isn’t just a drunk/high man going wild,” she said in a Facebook message. “It’s a sick man who doesn’t know who he is sometimes and frequently doesn’t know where or when he is either.”

Appeals to the public for help

Knudsen said on Sunday that Brown was known to local law enforcement before the shooting. It was widely believed that he knew at least some of the victims, given how close he lived to the bar.

Law enforcement released a photograph of Brown from surveillance footage taken shortly after the fatal shootings. He appeared to be barefoot and in minimal clothing.

But law enforcement now believes Brown ditched the vehicle he escaped in and stole a different one that had camping gear, shoes and clothes in it — leaving open the possibility that Brown is now clothed.

The last time that law enforcement saw Brown was on Friday afternoon, but there was “some confusion” because there were multiple white vehicles involved, Knudsen said.

There is a $7,500 reward for any information that leads to Brown’s capture.

“This is still Montana. Montanans know how to take care of themselves. But please, if you have any sightings, call 911,” Knudsen said.

Riddle is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Needham, MA) Three amusement parks in Pennsylvania got included in a recent TripAdvisor ranking of the best waterparks and amusement parks in all of the United States. According to TripAdvisor, this list is compiled through Tripadvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Awards Best of the Best, which they say get awarded to any places that “receive a high volume of above-and-beyond reviews and opinions from the Tripadvisor community over a 12-month period.”  Number 3 on that list went to Knoebels Amusement Resort of Elysburg, Pennsylvania, which is the biggest amusement park in the United States with free admission. Knoebels Amusement Resort includes friendly rides for kids like a haunted mansion and bumper cars, roller coasters, a championship 18-hole golf course, camping, swimming and a museum for mining. In 2026, Knoebels Amusement Resort will be celebrating its 100th season in operation. Number 15 on that list went to Splash Lagoon Indoor Water Park Resort of Erie, Pennsylvania. Splash Laggon Indoor Water Park Resort has an inviting feel throughout the season, with a variety of slides and rides, a lazy river, pools, a surf wave experience, a VR arcade and more close to Lake Erie. Number 18 on that list went to Hersheypark of Hershey, Pennsylvania. This park was created for Hershey’s Chocolate Company employees back in 1906 and its treats and rides make it an iconic park. The closest to these three parks on this TripAdvisor best waterparks and amusement parks in the United States list is Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio with its extreme roller coasters, including the Steel Vengeance and Top Thrill Dragster. Known by some as the roller coaster capital of the world, Cedar Point made it to Number 16 on this list by TripAdvisor of the best amusement parks and waterparks in the United States.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(McKees Rocks, PA) A man is now in stable condition after he got shot in the leg in McKees Rocks on Monday night. According to the Allegheny County Police Department, 911 officials were notified of a reported gunshot victim in the 900 block of Gray Street at 9:49 p.m. that night. The unidentified male victim got taken to a hospital after first responders discovered that he had been shot in the leg. This incident is currently being investigated and if you have any other information on it, you can call 1-833-ALL-TIPS. You can also be an anonymous caller when you call this phone number, which is for the Allegheny County Police Tip Line.