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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Coraopolis, PA) On Saturday, a vigil was held for the man that was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Coraopolis last Sunday. Sixty-one-year-old Ulises Media Montalvo of Coraopolis was killed last Sunday when a driver of a black SUV hit him when he was crossing Fourth Avenue in Coraopolis. This occurred near the Citgo gas station there, which was where the vigil took place to honor Montalvo. According to those that attended the vigil, Montalvo will be remembered as somebody that made his community a better place. The unidentified male suspect that allegedly caused the hit-and-run crash that killed Montalvo is in ICE custody after being arrested at his Ambridge home. That suspect is an immigrant that is undocumented and his identity has not been released yet.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Center Township, PA) Work is currently taking place to reopen a Spirit Halloween store in the Center Township plaza located off Route 18. It is not confirmed yet why this Spirit Halloween store will reopen, but it will be in the former location of the McKinney’s Furniture and Mattress Direct in that same plaza in Center Township to sell items like Halloween decorations and pop-up retail Halloween costumes. In 2024, a Spirit Halloween store was behind the Beaver Valley Mall in the spot where the Planet Fitness store there used to be located. A Spirit Halloween store was inside the Beaver Valley Mall in 2023. According to the Spirit Halloween website, Spirit Halloween has not yet announced a date to open its store in Beaver County, but it will be sometime in August of 2025. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that beginning today through Friday, August 15th, weather permitting, a lane restriction on eastbound Route 3104 on the McKees Rocks Bridge will occur. As needed daily through this Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., flagging operations will take place in the eastbound direction on the McKees Rocks Bridge toward Route 65. Cleaning and sealing operations will be conducted by crews on the sidewalk of the bridge and on one of the two lanes going eastbound. Traffic going westbound will not be restricted. Flaggers will guide pedestrians on the sidewalk going eastbound on the McKees Rocks Bridge to utilize the westbound sidewalk while the work occurs.

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Story by Beaver County Radio Staff,    (9:12 AM, Sunday August 10, 2025)

(Aliquippa, Pa.) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver sent out a release early Sunday morning stating that they were requested to the scene of four masked men randomly firing shots in Linmar Terrace Housing Complex in the city of Aliquippa.

According to state police, they were requested by Aliquippa Police to take over and investigate a shooting in the area of  394 Linmar Terrace at 10:55 PM Saturday night. Troopers said via release that three black men dressed in all black and wearing masks, as well as a black man dressed in all white and wearing a mask approached the area on foot and fired multiple rounds from multiple handguns in the direction of Linmar Terrace residents. A woman was hit by at least one of the bullets. She was taken to the hospital but is expected to recover.

Anyone with information is asked to call the PSP, Beaver Criminal Investigation Unit at 724-773-7400.

(Photo Courtesy of the Iron Horse Theatre Company in Ambridge)

AMBRIDGE –Iron Horse Theatre Co. debuts this weekend “Coach and Mrs. Jagoff,” a compelling two-act drama by local playwright Bruce Zewe.

Opening Friday at the Ambridge theater, the play takes place in the fictional town of Fisk, in Western Pennsylvania, exploring the emotional fallout and resilience of a high school football coach and his wife after he is abruptly fired.

(Photo of Braynt Garrett Courtesy of the Pittsburgh Police)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Police are currently searching for a wanted sixty-two-year-old man named Bryant Garrett after he allegedly caused an attack in the Hill District of Pittsburgh. According to police, the alleged attack happened in April 23rd, 2025 on Webster Avenue in Middle Hill. An altercation started when Garrett accused the victim of stealing something from him. An affadavitconfirms that the flat end of “a rusty machete” was what Garrett hit the victim in both the arm and multiple times in the head with at that time. The victim told police Garrett also picked up a pole and hit her in the leg multiple times, saying he was going to kill her. The woman who was allegedly attacked by Garrett sustained some injuries that were significant. Garrett has charges of robbery, aggravated assault and attempted homicide. According to police, Garrett is known to frequent the Hill District and may have shaved his head and goatee to avoid being arrested. If you have information about Garrett, call 412-255-6787 and if you spot him, call 911.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – This photo shows the Facebook’s Messenger Kids application on an iPhone in New York, Feb. 16, 2018. U.S. regulators say Facebook misled parents and failed to protect the privacy of children using its Messenger Kids app. The Federal Trade Commission says Facebook misrepresented the access it provided to app developers to private user data. As a result, the FTC on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 proposed sweeping changes to a 2020 privacy order with Facebook — now called Meta — that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, file)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Some senators in Pennsylvania are trying to push legislation to ban phones in Pennsylvania schools. According to Republican State senator Devlin Robinson, who represents parts of Allegheny County, confirms that when it comes to cell phones, “studies have shown that there is an epidemic, there’s an addiction” with them. Democratic State senator Vincent Hughes, who represents parts of Philadelphia, notes that counselors and psychologists consider mental health challenges increase when material on phones causes stress and anxiety. Both of these senators say that lower test scores and distraction are effects from using phones in the classroom. Robinson proclaims that there is a companion bill that is being introduced in the House of Representatives for Pennsylvania and he is hoping that this bill will be passed by the spring of 2026. 

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE—In this file photo from May 5, 2021, a vehicle speeds by a hiring sign offering a $500 bonus outside a McDonalds restaurant, in Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pa. Pennsylvania will resume work search requirements in July for hundreds of thousands of people receiving unemployment compensation, a top Wolf administration official said Monday, May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) The U.S. Department of Labor said yesterday that filings that were initial for benefits of unemployment in Pennsylvania went up last week compared to the week before that week. That same department also said that new claims without jobs increased in Pennsylvania from 9,469 on the week ending July 26th, 2025 to 9,844 the week ending August 2nd, 2025. Unemployment claims in the United States went up from 219,000 the week ending on July 26th, 2025 to 226,000 the week ending August 2nd, 2025 on a basis that is adjusted seasonally. 

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – A man uses a cellphone in New Orleans, Aug. 11, 2019. On Tuesday, May 23, 2023, attorneys general across the U.S. joined in a lawsuit against a telecommunications company accused of making more than 7.5 billion robocalls to people on the national Do Not Call Registry. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday’s office, Sunday announced the first action under “Operation Robocall Roundup.” This is an effort by the Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force in multiple states to crack down on robocalls across the nation and in Pennsylvania. Fifty bipartisan Attorneys General and Sunday sent letters of warning to thirty-seven voice providers demanding them to stop robocalls that are illegal that are being routed through their networks immediately. You can call 1-888-777-3406 to be on the Pennsylvania Do Not Call list or to be on the same list online at the link below:

Click here for the link: attorneygeneral.gov/dnc

According to that same release from Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday, here are some tips to help avoid robocalls:

• Be mindful of providing your phone number to businesses asking for your telephone number. Signing up for a rewards program or similar with your phone number allows the business to place you on telemarketing lists without requiring further consent.
• Be aware of providing contact information when participating in online surveys of contests. Read the fine print– you may be adding yourself to a telemarketing list.
• Entering contests at fairs and other public events may lead to future telephone solicitations.

Warning letters about robocalls are also being sent to 99 downstream telecom providers by the Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cranberry Township, PA) A U.S. ICE spokesperson confirms that sixteen people were taken into custody yesterday from raids at the Cranberry Township and Richland Township locations of Emiliano’s Mexican Restaurant & Bar. A spokesperson for ICE told KDKA they executed search warrants at both locations where people encountered a similar scene of police and unmarked vehicles. ICE possessed information that the two locations were employing aliens that are illegal. It is unclear at this time when Emiliano’s will reopen their Cranberry Township and Richland Township locations, but the company will open them back up. According to ICE, the investigation into this incident is ongoing.