(File Photo of Road Work Ahead Sign)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that on Monday, November 3rd through Friday, November 7th, weather permitting, overnight closures of the southbound Route 65 ramp to the southbound Fort Duquesne Bridge (I-279) in the City of Pittsburgh will occur. From 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. each of those nights, bridge deck and barrier repair work requiring the ramp that carries southbound Route 65 approach to the southbound Fort Duquesne Bridge will close to traffic nightly. During those overnights, the Allegheny Avenue/Ridge Avenue/Reedsdale Street ramps to the Fort Duquesne Bridge will close. Traffic will be detoured, and according to a release from PennDOT District 11, here are the detour routes for this work and more information about it:

Posted Detours

Southbound Route 65 to the Fort Duquesne Bridge

·       From southbound Route 65, take the ramp to South 19/51 toward the West End Bridge

·       Cross the West End Bridge

·       Continue straight onto southbound Route 19/51 (Saw Mill Run Boulevard)

·       Take the ramp to West 376/South 19 toward Carnegie/Pittsburgh International Airport

·       Bear left toward South Truck 19/51 Uniontown

·       Stay left to East 376/South 51

·       Merge onto eastbound (inbound) I-376 (Parkway West)

·       Continue through the Fort Pitt Tunnel

·       End detour

Allegheny Avenue/Ridge Avenue to the Fort Duquesne Bridge

·       Take Ridge Avenue westbound

·       Ridge Avenue becomes Fulton Street

·       Turn left onto Western Avenue

·       Bear left toward South 19/51/North 65 West End Bridge/Ohio River Boulevard

·       Continue straight onto the West End Bridge

·       Cross the West End Bridge

·       Continue straight onto southbound Route 19/51 (Saw Mill Run Boulevard)

·       Take the ramp to West 376/South 19 toward Carnegie/Pittsburgh International Airport

·       Bear left toward South Truck 19/51 Uniontown

·       Stay left to East 376/South 51

·       Merge onto eastbound (inbound) I-376 (Parkway West)

·       Continue through the Fort Pitt Tunnel

·       End detour

Reedsdale Street to the Fort Duquesne Bridge

·       Follow Reedsdale Street to Allegheny Avenue

·       Turn right onto Allegheny Avenue

·       Turn left onto Ridge Avenue

·       Ridge Avenue becomes Fulton Street

·       Turn left onto Western Avenue

·       Bear left toward South 19/51/North 65 West End Bridge/Ohio River Boulevard

·       Continue straight onto the West End Bridge

·       Cross the West End Bridge

·       Continue straight onto southbound Route 19/51 (Saw Mill Run Boulevard)

·       Take the ramp to West 376/South 19 toward Carnegie/Pittsburgh International Airport

·       Bear left toward South Truck 19/51 Uniontown

·       Stay left to East 376/South 51

·       Merge onto eastbound (inbound) I-376 (Parkway West)

·       Continue through the Fort Pitt Tunnel

·       End detour

From 7 A.M. to 3 P.M. through late December, single-lane restrictions will also occur each day, as needed, on the following City of Pittsburgh roadways:

·       West General Robinson Street between Chuck Noll Way and Mazeroski Way

·       Reedsdale Street between Art Rooney Avenue and Tony Dorsett Drive

·       Tony Dorsett Drive between Reedsdale Street and North Shore Drive

·       North Shore Drive between Chuck Noll Way and Mazeroski Way

(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release from The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, they are taking applications for its 20th annual $5,000 Bob Fryer Memorial Scholarship as well as the $2,500 Press Club of Western Pennsylvania Scholarship awarded to aspiring journalists. Candidates need to be current sophomores or juniors enrolled in an accredited university or college and they must be able to demonstrate why they should receive the award. Their primary residence also must be in one of Western Pennsylvania’s 29 counties. The aforementioned counties are as follows: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Cambria , Cameron,
Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Fayette, Forest, Greene, Huntingdon,
Indiana, Jefferson, Lawrence, McKean, Mercer, Potter, Somerset, Venango, Warren,
Washington and Westmoreland. You can get an application by either contacting 412-281-7778 or pressclubwpa@gmail.com or by downloading one from www.westernpapressclub.org. You can also receive further information, you can contact scholarship committee chairman Rick Monti at
rick.monti@gmail.com or by calling him at 412-600-0606.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Morgan Wallen appears at the 56th annual CMA Awards, Nov. 9, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Country singer Morgan Wallen will bring his Still The Problem Tour 2026 to Pittsburgh on Friday, June 5th and Saturday, June 6th, 2026. Wallen will have special guests Brooks & Dunn on June 5th and Ella Langley on June 6th, with all of them performing at Acrisure Stadium. Tickets go on sale on Friday, November 7th at 10 a.m. Eastern Time and the website to buy tickets is stilltheproblem.com., which can also be used for pre-sale registration open now through Thursday, November 6th at 10 p.m. at your local time zone. There will also be performers Gavin Adcock and Zach John King at both of Wallen’s 2026 Pittsburgh shows.

 

(File Photo: Source for Photo: An FBI agent enters a home in a Dearborn, Mich., neighborhood on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Multiple people who had been allegedly plotting a violent attack over the Halloween weekend were arrested Friday in Michigan, FBI Director Kash Patel said in a social media post.

The law enforcement effort was focused on suburban Detroit. Patel said more information would be released later.

FBI and state police vehicles were in a neighborhood near Fordson High School in Dearborn. People wearing shirts marked FBI walked in and out of a house, including one person who collected paper bags and other items from an evidence truck.

Jordan Hall, an FBI spokesperson in Detroit, said investigators were also in Inkster, another suburb.

“There is no current threat to public safety,” said Hall, who declined further comment.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said on X that she was briefed by Patel. She said she was grateful for “swift action” but disclosed no details.

Separately, in May, the FBI said it arrested a man who had spent months planning an attack against a U.S. Army site in suburban Detroit on behalf of the Islamic State group. The man, Ammar Said, didn’t know that his supposed allies in the alleged plot were undercover FBI employees.

Said remains in custody, charged with attempting to provide support to a terrorist organization. The criminal complaint was replaced in September with a criminal “information” document, signaling that a guilty plea is likely.

(File Photo of the PennDOT logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT recently outlined its regional plans for winter maintenance in Beaver, Allegheny and Lawrence counties and encouraged the public to be prepared ahead of the first snowfall that will accumulate those local areas. According to a release from PennDOT District 11, here are some things they want you to keep in mind for winter and some more information about these preparations:

• Motorists should prepare their vehicles for the winter by checking fluid levels, lights, defrosters, and windshield wiper blades. Tires should also be checked often for the correct level of air pressure and adequate tire-tread depth to safely perform on ice and snow.
• Once vehicles are travel-ready, drivers should be prepared for winter or vehicle emergencies. PennDOT urges the traveling public to carry an emergency kit, which should include items such as non-perishable food, water, first-aid supplies, warm clothes, a blanket, cell phone charger and a small snow shovel. The kits should be tailored to the specific needs of the individuals in the vehicle, with items such as baby supplies, extra medication, pet supplies or even children’s games.
• If motorists encounter snow or ice-covered roads, they should slow down, increase their following distance and avoid distractions. Last winter in Pennsylvania, preliminary data shows that there were 8,329 crashes, 29 fatalities, and 2,959 injuries on snowy, slushy or ice-covered roadways where aggressive-driving behaviors such as speeding or making careless lane changes were factors.
• When winter weather hits, the department’s goal is to keep roads passable, not completely free of snow and ice. PennDOT’s primary focus is on interstates and expressways. The more traffic volume a roadway has, the more attention it will receive from plows. There may be more accumulations on less traveled streets and driving routes should be adjusted accordingly.
• To help the public prepare for the season and share information about winter services, PennDOT offers operational information and traveler resources on its winter web page. The site also has a complete winter guide with detailed information about winter services in each of PennDOT’s 11 engineering districts.
• The public can access travel information on nearly 40,000 state-maintained roadway miles year-round at www.511PA.com, and during the winter they can find plow-truck locations and details of when state-maintained roadways were last plowed. The information is made possible by PennDOT’s Automated Vehicle Location technology, which uses units in the over 2,600 department-owned and rented plow trucks to send a cellular signal showing a truck’s location.
• Locally, when winter roadway emergencies occur on state roads, PennDOT District 11 will use its social-media platforms to help keep the public informed. Follow PennDOT on X and join the Greater Pittsburgh Area PennDOT Facebook group.
• PennDOT is actively seeking temporary equipment operators statewide for the winter season to supplement the department’s full-time staff. Details on minimum requirements – such as possession of a CDL – as well as application information​, are available at
• www.employment.pa.gov/penndot. Through the same website and www.employment.pa.gov, job seekers can apply for other non-operator winter positions such as diesel and construction equipment mechanics, welders, clerks and more.
• For more information, visit www.PennDOT.pa.gov/safety.
• PennDOT’s media center offers social-media-sized graphics highlighting topics such as seat belts, impaired driving, and distracted driving for organizations, community groups, or others who share safety information with their stakeholders.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Model homes and for sale signs line the streets as construction continues at a housing plan in Zelienople, Pa., Wednesday, March 18, 2020. Sales of new homes fell by 3.5% in September to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 959,000 million units. The Commerce Department said Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, that despite the modest decrease, sales of new homes are up 32.1% from a year earlier, as the housing market remains strong despite the pandemic. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) According to an analysis of data from Realtor.com, the median home in Beaver County listed for $229,250 in September, down 2.5% from the previous month’s $235,000. In comparison to September of 2024, the median home list price in Beaver County increased 22.3% from $188,200.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE -This photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, shows a Dick’s Sporting Goods sign at a store in Miami. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(McKees Rocks, PA) The former Boys and Girls Club in McKees Rocks will now become a new youth sports center in the future thanks to the Josh Gipson Foundation and the DICK’s Sporting Goods Foundation. According to these two foundations, the facility will have a gym, community spaces, and a Miracle League Baseball field, which allows disabled adults and kids to play baseball. The building will also have a learning lab when computers are completed there. The date when this project will be finished is unknown at this time.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FBI director Kash Patel speaks during a roundtable on criminal cartels with President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Multiple people who had been allegedly plotting a violent attack over the Halloween weekend were arrested Friday morning in Michigan, FBI Director Kash Patel said in a social media post.

Patel didn’t release further information about the arrests, but said more information would be coming.

Dearborn Police said in a social media post that the department was made aware that the FBI conducted operations in the city on Friday and assured residents that there is no threat to the community.

Separately, in May, the FBI said it arrested a man who had spent months planning an attack against a U.S. Army site in suburban Detroit on behalf of the Islamic State group. The man, Ammar Said, didn’t know that his supposed allies in the alleged plot were undercover FBI employees.

Said remains in custody, charged with attempting to provide support to a terrorist organization. The criminal complaint was replaced in September with a criminal “information” document, signaling that a guilty plea is likely.

(File Photo: Caption for Photo: police car lights at night in city with selective focus and bokeh background blur, Credit for Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images/iStockphoto/z1b)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to officials yesterday, the man who fell from the stands at PPG Paints Arena during the Pittsburgh Penguins’ game on Monday against the St. Louis Blues and suffered life-threatening injuries was not using the staircases during the incident. An update on his condition was not available yesterday, but the fall happened after 7:15 p.m. during the most recent home game for the Penguins. The investigation of this incident continues, but police believe that it was accidental.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – This April 2, 2021, file photo shows bridges spanning the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh. Republicans in Congress are making the politically brazen bet that it’s more advantageous to oppose President Joe Biden’s ambitious rebuild America agenda than to lend support for the costly $2.3 trillion undertaking for roads, bridges and other infrastructure investments. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The Arts Landing project, which will revitalize downtown Pittsburgh, hit the one-year mark on Wednesday. City, county, and state leaders gathered that day at Market Square to celebrate the achievement as a beam was signed to commemorate it. This project is worth $600 million, and $62 million will go towards residential units, while other work prepares for the 2026 NFL Draft held on the North Shore in April.