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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(New Brighton, PA) The Sunrise Pool is now offering swimming lessons for three difficulty levels in New Brighton. Swim lessons for beginner and intermediate level swimmers will occur for six weeks and will be taught by certified lifeguards.

They will go on Saturday mornings from October 17th to November 21st. The beginner class is from 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and the intermediate class is from 11:30 a.m. to 12 noon.

The cost for those lessons are non-refundable and it is $90 per child, which is due by the first session.

A clinic for advanced swimmers will also be offered for ten weeks starting on September 30th on Wednesday evenings from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Those lessons are $250 non-refundable, and this is due by the first session.

A requirement for these lessons is that you need to pass a deep-water test at Sunrise Pool.

You can call 724-843-8443 to register for the upcoming swim lessons. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cranberry Township, PA) Cranberry Artists Network will sponsor its open art show for the first time during an open art show called “Mistletoe & Masterpieces,” and they are looking for artists within a radius of 150 miles of Cranberry Township. 

The opening reception will be on November 13th, 2026 at the Cranberry Township Municipal Building. 

The show will be from November 9th, 2026 to January 2nd, 2027.

The show will be juried by Patricia Zona, who is a 34 year art educator who specializes in drawing and painting.

Zona is a former Art Education professor at Westminster College and PA Governor’s School Juror.

The deadline for artists to enter this show is October 31st.

If any artist screens in to become a member of the Cranberry Artists Network before October 1st, they will be eligible to enter 5 pieces in that show. People that are not members may enter 2 pieces. 

You can visit cranberryartistsnetwork.com to register for this art show.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cranberry Township, PA) A Cranberry Township man was recently charged after police said that he sent sexually explicit messages to a member of a private pedophile-catching group who was posing as a 13-year-old online. 

Thirty-two-year-old Eric Zachary Trylko was charged on Wednesday with felony criminal attempt to receive child sexual abuse material and felony criminal use of communication facility. 

Cranberry Township police confirmed that officers were called to a house on Glenbrook Drive as a private group named Predator Poachers was trying to confront Trylko. 

A representative of the group told police that they were posing as a 13-year-old on Telegram. The representative also told police that they were contacted on September 14th by a user that was called “Jax,” who was later identified as Trylko. 

Police affirmed that Trylko confirmed his age as 32 years old and he sent pictures of himself to the representative. Trylko described acts that are sexual and he repeatedly asked the representative to take sexually explicit videos or images to send to him. 

Police stated that Trylko’s messages also noted that he previously received images and videos from at least three other children. 

According to police, Trylko admitted during an interview on September 19th that he messaged the representative, whom he believed to be a 13-year-old at the time.

Trylko will be undergoing a preliminary hearing soon.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Robinson Township, PA) The LA Fitness in Robinson Township is closed for the remainder of this week after an explosion occurred inside the gym yesterday. 

According to emergency responders, they were called to the gym around 11:30 after a water heater that was located in a back room exploded. 

Police confirmed that a gas leak was the cause of the explosion. 

An officer on the scene stated that one of the workers of the gym suffered a minor head injury from the shockwave of the blast. 

LA Fitness employees told its patrons that the gym would be closed for several days.  

Members of the gym were told to go to the LA Fitness location in Bridgeville during that time. 

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – A campaign rally site for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is empty and littered with debris on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Moon Township, PA) James Copenhaver of Moon Township has died.

Copenhaver was one of the three campaign rally attendees shot on July 13th, 2024 during an assassination attempt on then-candidate, now President Donald Trump.

Copenhaver was 76 years old and his lawyer announced his death yesterday.

Copenhaver was seen in the bleachers during the event in Butler, Pennsylvania, when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire from a nearby rooftop. 

President Trump’s right ear was grazed with one bullet. Copenhaver was struck in the arm and in the abdomen, which were wounds that left him walking with a cane and suffering lingering injuries. 

Crooks was shot and killed by a counter sniper team from the Secret Service.  

Two other attendees were also shot during the assassination attempt. 

David Dutch was the only person who survived the attack besides Copenhaver. 

Corey Comperatore, who was a firefighter, was the only one who was killed during the attack, but he became a hero because he shielded his family from gunfire before he died.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported yesterday that they arrested two people for possessing drugs in Aliquippa on August 28th.

Police stopped forty-one-year-old Brittany Tucker of Aliquippa because she committed a vehicle violation in the area 108 Economy Street at 7:40 p.m.

According to police, Tucker was subsequently arrested for driving under the influence of a controlled substance.

Police were at the same location at 8:08 p.m. and made contact with forty-two-year-old Corey Tucker of Pittsburgh and they confirm that he was subsequently arrested because he possessed drug paraphernalia.

Charges are pending against Corey Tucker. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ambridge Borough, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported that twenty-year-old Olivia Taylor Edwards of Red Oak, Texas was arrested after possessing drugs in Ambridge Borough yesterday.

Police conducted a traffic stop along 2206 Duss Avenue at 5:13 p.m.

After an investigation occurred, Edwards was found to be in possession of suspected marijuana and was found to be impaired.

Charges will be filed against her.  

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Youngstown, OH) The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today that Mercy Health Physicians Youngstown, LLC and Bon Secours Mercy Health, Inc. (Mercy) in Youngstown, Ohio violated federal law by subjecting a Jewish orthopedic surgeon to unfavorable terms and conditions of employment and firing him because of his religion and race, shortly after the October 7th, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel. 

According to the EEOC’s suit, the surgeon had a successful practice with Mercy for many years and performed well, including exceeding Mercy’s productivity goals

However, Mercy subjected the surgeon to remarks that were antisemitic throughout his employment and fired him in November of 2023, as well as advising him that he was being let go for a reason that was not his work performance.  

The EEOC charged that during the employment of the surgeon, Mercy also subjected him to treatment that was unfavorable which interfered with his practice because of his race and religion. 

This alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and this prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and religion.

The EEOC filed suit (called EEOC v. Mercy Health Physicians Youngstown, LLC and Bon Secours Mercy Health, Inc., Case No. 1:26-cv-02500-CEF) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio after the commission first attempted to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its process of administrative conciliation.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Allegheny County workers scan mail-in and absentee ballots at the Allegheny County Election Division Elections warehouse in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. A federal appeals court must decide if Pennsylvania voters who put the wrong date on the envelope containing their mail-in ballots should have their votes thrown out. The case argued Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Philadelphia could be significant in this year’s presidential contest. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) Congressman Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17), U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Congressman Raúl Ruiz (D-CA-25) recently introduced bicameral legislation to protect election workers and voters from intimidation and threats of violence at polling places.    

The Freedom from Intimidation in Elections Act of 2026 would help ensure that every election worker and voter has the right to conduct their official duties and cast their ballots free from fear and intimidation.  

It would update the existing anti-intimidation provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to limit the presence of visible firearms at the locations where voters are casting their ballots or election workers are performing their official duties, which empowers poll workers and election officials to continue administering elections safely.