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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) Pennsylvania State Police at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh report that thirty-eight-year-old Nicholas Domen of Uniontown, Pennsylvania was arrested on Sunday for entering the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh that day even though he was alreay banned from there for life. According to police, charges will be filed against Domen for violating his lifetime ban from the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is announcing slide repair work on Route 65 (Mercer Road) in North Sewickley Township, Beaver County will begin Wednesday, September 17 weather permitting.
Beginning at approximately 9:00 AM Wednesday morning, a portion of Route 65 between Grandview Road and Bennett Drive will close to traffic continuously through mid-November. Municipal crews will relocate a water line and PennDOT forces will conduct cross pipe repair work, slide remediation, and pavement restoration. Traffic will be detoured via Harpers Ferry Road (Route 1012) and Chapel Drive (Route 1005).
Please use caution if traveling on this roadway. Work zone safety is everyone’s responsibility.
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.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: This photo released by the Utah Governor’s Office on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025 shows Tyler Robinson. (Utah Governor’s Office via AP)
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah university, was charged on Tuesday with aggravated murder.
The charge means Robinson could face the death penalty if convicted of killing Kirk last week at Utah Valley University in Orem, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Salt Lake City.
“The murder of Charlie Kirk is an American tragedy,” Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray said in announcing the charges. He Robinson’s DNA was found on trigger of the gun used to kill Kirk
Kirk was gunned down on Sept. 10 as he spoke with students and died soon after. Prosecutors allege Tyler Robinson shot Kirk in the neck with a bolt-action rifle from the roof of a nearby campus building.
Robinson, 22, also was charged with felony discharge of a firearm, punishable by up to life in prison, and obstructing justice, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. He was scheduled to appear on camera for a virtual court hearing Tuesday afternoon.
It was unclear whether Robinson had an attorney who could speak on his behalf, and his family has declined to comment to The Associated Press.
Robinson was arrested late Thursday near St. George, the southern Utah community where he grew up.
Investigators have spoken to Robinson’s relatives and carried out a search warrant at his family’s home in Washington, Utah, about 240 miles (390 kilometers) southwest of where the shooting happened.
Kirk, a dominant figure in conservative politics, became a confidant of President Donald Trump after founding Arizona-based Turning Point USA, one of the nation’s largest political organizations. He brought young, conservative evangelical Christians into politics. His shooting raised fears about increasing political violence in a deeply polarized United States.
While authorities say Robinson hasn’t been cooperating with investigators, they say his family and friends have been talking. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said over the weekend that those who know Robinson say his politics shifted left in recent years and he spent a lot of time in the “dark corners of the internet.”
FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday on the Fox News Channel show “Fox & Friends” that DNA evidence has linked Robinson to a towel wrapped around a rifle found near the Utah Valley campus and a screwdriver recovered from the rooftop where the fatal shot was fired.
Before the shooting, Robinson wrote in a note that he had an opportunity to take out Kirk and was going to do it, according to Patel.
The FBI also is looking at “anyone and everyone” who was involved in a gaming chatroom on the social media platform Discord with Robinson, Patel said Tuesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington. The chatroom involved “a lot more” than 20 people, he said.
“We are investigating Charlie’s assassination fully and completely and running out every lead related to any allegation of broader violence,” Patel said in response to a question about whether the Kirk shooting was being treated as part of a broader trend of violence against religious groups.
Investigators are working on finding a motive for the attack, Utah’s governor said Sunday, adding that more information may come out once Robinson appears for his initial court hearing.
Cox said Robinson’s romantic partner was transgender, which some politicians have pointed to as a sign the suspect was targeting Kirk for his anti-transgender views. But authorities have not said whether that played a role. Kirk was shot while taking a question that touched on mass shootings, gun violence and transgender people.
Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason said Monday that Robinson’s partner has been cooperative. He said investigators believe Robinson acted alone during the shooting, but they also are looking at whether anyone knew of his plans beforehand.
In the days since Kirk’s assassination, Americans have found themselves facing questions about rising political violence, the deep divisions that brought the nation here and whether anything can change.
Despite calls for greater civility, some who opposed Kirk’s provocative statements about gender, race and politics criticized him after his death. Many Republicans have led the push to punish anyone they believe dishonored him, causing both public and private workers to lose their jobs or face other consequences at work.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) Pennsylvania State Police at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh report that seventy-one-year-old Darlene Ann Janus of Pittsburgh trespassed into the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh yesterday. According to police, Janus was not licensed or privileged to enter the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh and a notice against trespass was given to Janus in communication by security of the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Washington, D.C.) According to a release from Congressman Chris Deluzio’s office, Deluzio (D-PA-17) and Congressman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY-02) introduced the new Bipartisan Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program Expansion Act today. The introduction of this bill would increase the amount that can be reimbursed to states, units of local law enforcement and federally recognized Native American tribes when they participate in the Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Program. Deluzio and a police chief in his district, the 17th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, had a meeting in which the Bipartisan Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program Expansion Act came about in which that 17th Congressional District of Pennsylvania police chief mentioned that the price of bulletproof vests for his police force were skyrocketing. According to that same release from Deluzio’s office, more specifically, the bill would:
The introduction of the Bipartisan Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program Expansion Act got support from the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), The International Union of Police Associations (IUPA) and the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association. The Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program reimburses states, units of local government and federally recognized Indian tribes for up to 50 percent of the cost of body armor vests purchased for law enforcement officers after being created by the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 1998. Over 13,000 jurisdictions have participated in the Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program since 1999, with a total of $573 million in federal funds for the purchase of over 1.5 million body armor vests.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro pauses during a news conference at the governor’s official residence discussing the alleged arson that forced him, his family and guests to flee in the middle of the night on the Jewish holiday of Passover, Sunday, Apr. 13, 2025, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy, File)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania said Tuesday that the nation must “turn the tide” against political violence and the belief that government can’t solve problems while also rejecting vengeance.
Shapiro, a Democrat, delivered the remarks as the keynote speech at the Eradicate Hate Global Summit in Pittsburgh, days after the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.
Shapiro said political leaders must condemn all forms of political violence and reject the “rhetoric of vengeance.”
“It is all wrong, and it makes us all less safe. During moments like these, I believe we have a responsibility to be clear and unequivocal in calling out all forms of political violence, making clear it is all wrong,” Shapiro said. “That shouldn’t be hard to do.”
Violence must not be used as a pretext for more violence or to prosecute constitutionally protected speech, he said, saying that political violence not only injures or kills, but affects everyone because it terrorizes, silences and “tears at the fabric of American society.”
Shapiro has criticized President Donald Trump as using the “rhetoric of rage” in the wake of Kirk’s killing, and on Tuesday, he again referenced Trump, saying some people “in the dark corners of the internet, all the way to the Oval Office, want to cherry-pick which instances of political violence they want to condemn.”
In April, Shapiro and his family fled the governor’s official residence in the middle of the night after an alleged arsonist broke in and set it on fire in an attempt to kill Shapiro.
The governor, who is considered a potential White House contender in 2028’s presidential election, had been asleep with his wife, children and extended family after celebrating the Jewish holiday of Passover there.
In his remarks, Shapiro said too many people don’t believe government and the nation’s institutions can solve problems. Instead, they find refuge on the internet where their frustration is taken advantage of and used to foment hate, he said.
“It leads to a belief among some that the only way they can address their problems is through violence,” Shapiro said. “They find online those who glorify violence and urge it on.”
That, he said, “is dangerous for our democracy, and we need to turn the tide.”
The Eradicate Hate conference, in its fifth year, was started after a gunman attacked and killed 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Hookstown, PA) According to a release today from Dollar General, Dollar General has announced the opening of its store at 3428 State Route 18 in Hookstown and the grand opening event for this store will be on Saturday, September 20th, 2025 at 8 a.m. This Dollar General store opening in Hookstown will open for people to buy items that are essential for their household. In addition to the grand opening of this new Dollar General store in Hookstown, the first fifty adult customers at that new store will get $10 complimentary gift cards and the first 100 customers at that new store will get Dollar General tote bags. This new Dollar General store opening in Hookstown is expected to employ approximately six to ten people, depending on the individual needs of the store to make new jobs in the community of Hookstown. Dollar General plans to create new jobs in the Hookstown community as the store is expected to employ approximately six to ten people, depending on the individual needs of the store. You can also download the Dollar General app for hours of operation for either this new Dollar General that is opening in Hookstown or other Dollar General stores.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) Acting United States Attorney Troy Revetti announced today that a citizen of Guatemala illegally residing in the United States pleaded guilty to
a charge of assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal law enforcement officer and was sentenced to time served on his conviction. Thirty-three-year-old Juan Jose Antuche-Garcia was sentenced yesterday. According to information presented to the Court, Antuche-Garcia, a native and citizen of Guatemala, illegally entered the United States on September 3rd, 2023. An immigration judge ordered Antuche-Garcia to be removed from the United States after he got released on bond by immigration authorities but failed to appear before the immigration court in May of 2024 as directed. Antuche-Garcia was found by immigration authorities on Friday in the area of Robinson Township, Pennsylvania after officers of federal law enforcement tried to pull over a vehicle in which a passenger was the defendant. A traffic stop was initiated by federal law enforcement officers by activating both the sirens and emergency lighting on five vehicles that were not marked. The driver of that vehicle that these officers were trying to pull over rammed his vehicle into one of the vehicles of one of the federal enforcement officers instead of coming to a complete stop, which pinned a leg of an officer between the door frame and the door of his own vehicle. The rear seat passenger and the driver of the vehicle that was pulled over escaped apprehension. Antuche-Garcia was the front passenger of the vehicle and he also tried to escape by forcefully and repeatedly opening his door into the door of the vehicle behind which the leg of one of the officers was pinned, which caused that officer to get injured additionally. According to Revetti, Antuche-Garcia has been in custody since his arrest and will remain in custody pending his removal from the United States.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle report that twenty-six-year-old Theoplic Williams of Euclid, Ohio was apprehended early this morning for causing a single-vehicle crash driving under the influence of drugs in Scott Township of Lawrence County. Williams was found by Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle both possessing drugs and under the influence of drugs on Old Route 19 and Harlansburg Road, which was the location of the crash this morning that he caused. Williams was put in the Lawrence County Jail.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Hopewell Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that forty-six-year-old Erica Mickens of Beaver was charged after causing a single-vehicle crash yesterday in Hopewell Township. Mickens was driving on the Aliquippa interchange on Westbound I-376 when a determination was made on scene that she got distracted on that road, which caused her to hit a guide rail there after she left that road. According to police, Mickens did not get injured from this crash and was charged for “driving on roadways that were laned for traffic.” Both Herzog’s and the Hopewell Volunteer Fire Department assisted on the scene of this crash.