(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of Allegheny Health Network)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Zelienople, PA) According to a release from Allegheny Health Network, Allegheny Health Network Pharmacy announced the opening of its new, state-of-the-art central fill and distribution center today. This 20,000 square-foot facility is situated in Jackson’s Pointe Commerce Park in Zelienople and it represents an investment of $10 million and will serve as the central hub for the comprehensive pharmacy operations of Allegheny Health Network. Pharmacy leaders and network officials will gather this afternoon at 1 p.m. for a ribbon cutting event to officially mark the opening of this first-of-its-kind facility for the region. The facility is equipped with the latest technologies for a more automated and streamlined prescription fulfillment across the footprint of Allegheny Health Network and it is staffed by approximately forty pharmacy professionals. The center is designed to significantly improve the efficiency, safety and timeliness of medication dispensing. 

(File Photo: Source for Photo: American rapper Wiz Khalifa poses for a photo at the “Spinning Gold” file premiere at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by American rapper Wiz Khalifa to annul his nine-month jail sentence handed down for drug possession in the Eastern European country.

The Constanta Court of Appeal’s decision came after Khalifa, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, filed an appeal last month against the December conviction. The sentence came after Khalifa was stopped by Romanian police in July 2024 after allegedly smoking cannabis on stage at the Beach, Please! Festival in Constanta County.

Prosecutors said the rapper was found in possession of more than 18 grams of cannabis, and that he consumed some on stage.

The court convicted Khalifa of “possession of dangerous drugs, without right, for personal consumption.”

The appeals court on Thursday rejected as inadmissible Khalifa’s appeal to annul the sentence, and ruled as unfounded a request to suspend the sentence.

The Associated Press contacted Khalifa’s representatives via email to request a comment on the latest legal developments, but has not yet received a response.

That December conviction came after a lower court in April issued Khalifa a criminal fine of 3,600 lei ($830) for “illegal possession of dangerous drugs,” but prosecutors appealed that decision and sought a higher sentence.

Romania has some of the harsher drugs laws in Europe. Possession of cannabis for personal use is criminalized and can result in a prison sentence of between three months and two years, or a fine.

It isn’t clear whether Romanian authorities will seek to file an extradition request, since Khalifa is a U.S. citizen and doesn’t reside in Romania.

(Source for Headline Photo and Photo Below: Photo Courtesy of Pittsburgh Police, WPXI, WPXI)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Pittsburgh Police are looking for a missing woman who has dementia and does not speak English. Officers are considering sixty-seven-year-old Marie Alphonse of Haiti to be endangered. Investigators say that Alphonse will respond to her name even though she does not know English. According to police, she was last seen on Lawndale Street in the Homewood North neighborhood of Pittsburgh near the Penn Hills border. Alphonse was reported to be wearing a brown or tan Carhartt jacket, pants, sneakers and a large tan hat with a big brim at the time of her recent disappearance. She has grey hair, weighs around 90 pounds and is 5 feet, 5 inches tall. Anyone with information about her is asked to either call 911 or call 412-323-7141, which is the phone number for Pittsburgh Police SVE detectives. Her picture can be found below:

(File Photo of Road Work Ahead Sign)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that the closure of the northbound Route 837 ramp under the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge in the City of Duquesne will begin on Monday, March 2nd, weather permitting. Northbound Route 837 will close to traffic at the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge daily from 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. through Sunday, March 8th. All of the northbound Route 837 traffic will be detoured onto the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge, and according to a release from PennDOT District 11, this is the posted detour for this work:

Posted Detour

·       From northbound Route 837 take the left-hand ramp onto the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge toward McKeesport

·       Cross the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge

·       Continue straight to North 148/30

·       Merge onto northbound Route 148 (Fifth Avenue)

·       Turn left onto US 30 (Greensburg Avenue)

·       Turn left onto Navy-Marine Corp Way

·       Turn right onto East Pittsburgh McKeesport Boulevard

·       Turn left on to Braddock Avenue

·       Braddock Avenue becomes Kenmawr Avenue

·       Turn right onto the ramp to the Rankin Bridge

·       Cross the Rankin Bridge to Route 837

·       Turn left onto Route 837 to return to the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge

·       End detour

Crews from Duquesne Light Company will replace poles and connect a new temporary service as part of the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge project.

(File Photo of the Vitalant Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) The nonprofit Vitalant is holding several blood drives this March in Beaver County and anyone who donates has a chance to win $10,000. Every blood type and platelets are needed to help patients, which include cancer patients, that need them, but O blood is needed the most. You can make an appointment today by either going to vitalant.org by clicking here, downloading the Vitalant app, which you can find out more about by clicking here or by calling 877-25-VITAL (877-258-4825). According to a release from Vitalant, here are the dates, times and locations for their upcoming Beaver County blood drives this March:

Aliquippa

Tuesday, March 3

Raccoon Township Municipal Building – Meeting Room

1234 State Route 18

1 P.M. – 5 P.M.

Ambridge 

Thursday, March 19th

Ambridge Area High School

909 Duss Avenue

8 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

Beaver Falls   

Thursday, March 5th

Concord United Methodist Church – Bethany Hall

285 Concord Church Road

2 PM – 6 PM

Monaca 

Friday, March 27th

Beaver Valley Mall – Unit 344

570 Beaver Valley Mall

12:30 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.

(File Photo: Credit for Photo: Courtesy of Visit Pittsburgh)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The Pittsburgh-based nonprofit Downtown Neighbors Alliance is looking for street-performers to perform at various locations throughout the city, including Acrisure Stadium and Point State Park, during the festivities of the 2026 NFL Draft on April 23rd-25th. Anyone who is interested needs to apply by tomorrow by clicking here. Performances would be between 10 a.m. and midnight each day and it must have content that is family-friendly. According to Downtown Neighbors Alliance, performers will receive $150 to $200 each for 90-minute shows. Submissions will be held onto for one year in consideration of future events in Pittsburgh. Those that are chosen for the performances during the 2026 NFL Draft will be notified by March 23rd, 2026.

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of WPXI/WPXI)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(West Mifflin, PA) Three amusement parks in the Pittsburgh area are holding upcoming job fairs to hire their 2026 workforces. Kennywood, Idlewild & SoakZone and Sandcastle Water Park are all looking to hire hundreds of people, and will begin to fill roles at job fairs. There are 2,500 roles to fill between the three properties. Idlewild & SoakZone’s job fair will be on Saturday, February 28th from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ligonier Valley Library.  Kennywood and Sandcastle will hold a dual job fair on Saturday, March 7th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Kennywood in West Mifflin. Online applications are available at each park’s website, by clicking here for Kennywood, clicking here for Idlewild & SoakZone, and clicking here for Sandcastle Water Park.

(File Photo of a Gavel)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) Sixty-five-year-old Jeffrey Glowatski of Natrona Heights was sentenced yesterday to three to six months in jail for his role in the death of an eleven-year-old girl from Harrison Township. The girl died on August 20th, 2024 and was hit by a car that evening while crossing a road near her home. Emergency crews were called to Kuntz Street at 7:20 p.m. According to police, the man that was driving the car had twelve beers on the day of the crash. 

(File Photo: Source for Photo: In this image provided by NASA, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is helped out of the SpaceX Crew-11 capsule after they re-entered the Earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP, File)

(AP) NASA’s Mike Fincke identified himself Wednesday as the astronaut whose medical condition prompted the space agency’s first medical evacuation.

In a written statement, the 58-year-old spaceflight veteran revealed he was the ailing crew member last month aboard the International Space Station. He did not say what was wrong with him but explained that his condition quickly stabilized thanks to his crewmates and flight surgeons on the ground.

Fincke said he’s doing well now.

“Spaceflight is an incredible privilege, and sometimes it reminds us just how human we are,” he said in the statement.

Fincke launched with three others on a SpaceX flight last summer. Their mission came to an early end on Jan. 15, a week after he experienced what he called a “medical event that required immediate attention” by his fellow astronauts. The health concern also forced the cancellation of a planned spacewalk by Fincke and another NASA astronaut.

Following their splashdown in the Pacific, all four astronauts were taken to a San Diego hospital. They flew home to Houston the next day.

With the sick astronaut’s identity still a secret, Fincke said at a news conference a week after returning that the space station’s ultrasound machine came in handy during the medical crisis.

With the sick astronaut’s identity still a secret, Fincke said at a news conference a week after returning that the space station’s ultrasound machine came in handy during the medical crisis.

He elaborated Wednesday, stressing that his situation was not an emergency but that everyone wanted “to take advantage of advanced medical imaging not available on the space station.”

Fincke, a retired Air Force colonel who became an astronaut in 1996, has logged 549 days in space over four missions.

(Source for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Western Beaver High School Musical, Posted on Facebook on February 26th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Industry, PA) Western Beaver Jr. Sr. High School will perform “Hadestown, Teen Edition” as its 2026 musical tomorrow, February 27th and on Saturday, February 28th, both at 7 p.m., as well as on Sunday, March 1st at 2 p.m. in the school auditorium on 216 Engle Road in Industry. This is a full-length adaptation as a play of the Grammy- and Tony-winning “Hadestown,” that follows the stories of the young dreamer Orpheus and Eurydice, his love, and the immortal couple Hades and Persephone that are interwoven, as they journey from a world filled with hope to the depths of the underworld before going back again. Tickets are worth $12 for adults and are worth $9 for both students and senior citizens. They are available at cur8.com by clicking here. When the search comes up, type in Western Beaver.