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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Philadelphia, PA) Governor Josh Shapiro had opening remarks yesterday in Philadelphia speaking at the Summit on the State of PJM Interconnection, which focused on bringing its representatives together for PJM to bothadaptand modernize so they can meet the demands of energy across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest covering 65 million Americans. According to Shapiro in his remarks yesterday, those present were there to “reimagine the future of PJM, build a grid that works better for Pennsylvania and for each of our states. Let’s face it. Change is needed to keep energy costs low, renew energy generation onto the grid more quickly; meet the needs of the nearly seventy million Americans who rely on this grid for everything from running a business to keeping the lights on at home.” Those states that PJM covers are Pennsylvania, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, along with parts or all of the District of Columbia.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A woman died from a crash that occurred yesterday which involved a Pittsburgh regional transit bus. According to a Pittsburgh Regional Transit spokesperson, a 50-year-old woman was killed in this crash that happened around 12:15 p.m. yesterday near the intersection of Rhine and Buente streets in the Spring Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. When paramedics arrived, this unidentified fifty-year-old woman was unresponsive. That spokesperson for Pittsburgh Regional Transit also confirmed that this fifty-year-old woman got taken to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, which was where she was pronounced dead. The investigation into this crash is being handled by the Port Authority police of Pittsburgh. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) According to a recent analysis from Realtor.com, the median home in Beaver County listed for $235,000 in August of 2025, which was same as July of 2025. These houses that were selected for this data were only Beaver County houses that were listed for sale. 1,486 square feet was the size of a Beaver County median home, with the price of each square foot being $157. The price of listing for a median home in Beaver County in August of 2025 increased 27% from August of 2024, which was $185,900.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Philadelphia, PA) Thirty-six-year-old Daryl Beckett of Chester, Pennsylvania, a wanted man who is facing murder charges from the Pennsylvania State Police, was taken into custody without incident yesterday by members of the U.S. Marshals Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force after he was found in a residence located in the 1600 block of Brighton Place in Pittsburgh that night. Investigators from the U.S. Marshals Service learned Beckett was hiding in that residence in Pittsburgh. An arrest warrant was executed by members of both the Pennsylvania State Police Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) West and the Pittsburgh Police Department once Beckett was noticed by a task force surveillance team. Beckett is one of the Pennsylvania State Police’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives. Beckett got charges of murder because he was connected to a fatal shooting that occurred on October 7th, 2023 in Delaware County. Beckett allegedly used a rifle to fire more than forty shots into a vehicle that was moving and traveling on I-95 in Upper Chichester, which killed the driver and hurt the passenger. The driver of the vehicle that passed away was forty-one-year-old Chris Gordy of Brookhaven, Pennsylvania. Beckett was added to the Pennsylvania State Police’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives in December of 2024, which is when Pennsylvania State Police investigators from their Troop K Media barracks obtained a homicide warrant for Beckett.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Darlington Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that fifty-eight-year-old Anthony Pantaleo of Monaca died yesterday at the scene of a single-vehicle crash that occurred on Constitution Boulevard that night. Pantaleo was driving south on State Route 51 near 3585 Constitution Boulevard in Darlington Township and did not have control of his vehicle and exited that road. Pantaleo hit an embankment, a fence, and a gas meter with his vehicle, which caused his vehicle to be overturned with its wheels facing up. Neither Pantaleo nor his passenger, sixty-three-year-old Harvey Marenic of Sewickley, had their seatbelt on at the time this crash occurred. According to police, Marenic was transported by Medic Rescue for further medical attention because of a suspected serious injury. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are five cents lower in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.42 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a regular gallon of gasoline is $3.18, a penny more than last week. The report states that at this time a year ago, the average price for a gallon of gas in Western Pennsylvania was around $3.50. The report also notes that the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is $3.57. According to a release from AAA East Central and AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report, here are theaverage prices of unleaded self-serve gasoline this week in various Pennsylvania areas:

$3.378      Altoona
$3.570      Beaver
$3.587      Bradford
$3.066      Brookville
$3.500      Butler
$3.050      Clarion
$3.283      DuBois
$3.352      Erie
$3.332      Greensburg
$3.418      Indiana
$3.465      Jeannette
$3.486      Kittanning
$3.279      Latrobe
$3.363      Meadville
$3.524      Mercer
$3.441      New Castle
$3.473      New Kensington
$3.557      Oil City
$3.464      Pittsburgh
$3.393      Sharon
$3.538      Uniontown
$3.599      Warren
$3.497      Washington

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that twenty-three-year-old Romero Foster of Aliquippa was arrested on August 28th, 2025 for driving under the influence of drugs in Aliquippa that day. Foster was stopped by police for committing a vehicle code violation on the 1200 block of Saint Titus Alley. According to police, Foster was subsequently arrested for driving under the influence of a controlled substance and his charges are pending.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release yesterday from PennDOT, PennDOT announced yesterday that roundabouts continue to provide safe, efficient travel across the Commonwealth. Findings in studies through 2024 with 20 years of crash data from roundabouts around Pennsylvania used confirmed that crashes decreased by 7 percent and crashes with injuries got reduced by 51 percent. 104 roundabouts across Pennsylvania have been built to improve the flow of traffic and/or decrease the severity of a crash and more than 30 additional roundabouts are in various stages of design and construction around Pennsylvania since 2005. According to that same release from PennDOT yesterday, here is some more information about roundabouts and some tips for safely driving on them:

• Pennsylvania data reflects national studies that found changing two-way sign-controlled intersections to a single-lane roundabout reduced injury crashes by more than 80 percent. Likewise, changing a signalized intersection to single-lane or multilane roundabout reduced crashes with injuries by up to 78 percent.
• The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) lists roundabouts as a “Proven Safety Countermeasure” that improves safety by reducing vehicle speeds by angling incoming traffic. The crashes that do occur tend to be sideswipe crashes with vehicles traveling at slower speeds rather than T-bone or head-on collisions. Additionally, eliminating left turns across opposing traffic results in dramatically fewer injuries.
• In addition to safety improvement, roundabouts carry, on average, approximately 30 percent more vehicles during peak traffic than similar intersections. In off-peak hours, roundabouts cause almost no delay, compared to traffic signals.
• As roundabouts are constructed around the state, it is important to know how to correctly navigate them.

Here are a few key things to remember when navigating a roundabout:

• Slow down and be prepared to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk.
• Circulating traffic has the right of way. Look left and check for approaching traffic. If there are multiple circulating lanes, yield to both before entering. Do not assume the vehicle in the inside lane will stay there.
• Do not stop while in the circulatory roadway, and always use your right turn signal to indicate your exit.

More on roundabouts in Pennsylvania, including videos on navigating the intersections, how to use a truck apron and notable projects in the state can be found on the PennDOT Roundabout web page.Information about state infrastructure in Pennsylvania, including completed work and significant projects, is available online. Find PennDOT’s planned and active construction projects at www.pa.gov/DOTprojects.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that today, weather permitting, a traffic shift on the ramp from westbound I-376 (Parkway West) to northbound I-79 toward Erie (Exit 64A) in Robinson Township of Allegheny County will begin. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day from today through Friday, September 26th, traffic on the ramp from westbound I-376 (Parkway West) to northbound I-79 toward Erie (Exit 64A) will be shifted onto the shoulder to let crews perform compression seal installation work in half-widths there.