Parking meters out. Two hour limit in.  Beaver County Radio News Correspondent, Sandy Giordano , has more:

Yesterday Beaver County Radio news intern Malik Garrett reported on 2 Beaver County Emergency Services calls for the Hazmat team. We have since learned that a Brush Creek Park employee called the police around 3:15 pm when he noticed a man who appeared to be unconscious inside the car. It turns out it was an apparent suicide. North Sewickley Township Police Chief Jeff Becze said that the responding officers noticed two tanks in the passenger seat so they called the Hazmat team. It turns out they were helium tanks. Becze said “Everyone followed protocol.” The incident is under investigation.

The former Pittsburgh Penguins all-star Kevin Stevens who was part of the Penguins Stanley Cup championship teams in the 1990s, is still having an impact on the people of Western Pennsylvania, but in a different way.

He was one of the best players in the NHL back then, but he says one split second decision changed everything. Stevens started with cocaine, but it led to painkillers and an opioid addiction following a knee injury playing for the Pens in 1993.

Steven’s said “So I was 28-years-old, I never did anything, & I activated this thing with the cocaine, and I didn’t do it all the time, but the change, the chemistry, the way I thought and the way I perceived things changed. Once I left Pittsburgh, I got in trouble. I was in total denial because I didn’t want to believe that this was happening” .

Stevens was in denial for 23 years, and then he hit rock bottom when he spent 6 days in jail….which might have saved his life.
For the last two and a half years Stevens has been clean.

Now Stevens is helping other addicts and families through his “Power Forward Foundation” which is working to combat the opioid crisis and addiction across the area.

DOUBLE SHOOTING IN ALIQUIPPA

The coroner was called at about 1:15 a.m. to the scene of a double shooting in Aliquippa on Wednesday morning.

An official said “It is believed it was an attempted home invasion. Both of the suspects had D.E.A. (Drug Enforcement Agency) shirts on.” It was stressed that the suspects were not actual law enforcement officers.

It was the homeowner who shot and killed one of the suspects and may have hit the other one who got away. Pennsylvania State Police say they are looking for 36-year-old Dana Penny, who is considered armed and dangerous.

The homeowner was also shot during the exchange and was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Pittsburgh where he was treated for non life-threatening injuries.

The shooting happened along the 100 block of Third Avenue. State police, Aliquippa police and Hopewell Township police were all on the scene.

IMPERIAL, Pa. —
A petition on the website MoveOn.org seeks to end the summer reading and math program in the West Allegheny School District.

The petition which has almost 1,000 signatures asks that summer reading and math requirements be removed from the district with an organizer writing “What happened to kids being kids in the summer?”

The organizer did not offer any details about what the particular reading and math requirements are.

The petition was be delivered to Dr. Jerri Lippert, the superintendent of the school district, and will be presented at a school board meeting Wednesday.

State troopers say they received numerous tips to the state’s ChildLine late last year about the behavior of a former Kiski Area School District employee.

Ryan O’Toole, 27, of Verona, faces one count of intercourse/sexual contact with a student, three counts of corruption of minors and a count of harassment.

District officials told investigators they’d questioned O’Toole about those reports and subsequently fired him.

When troopers interviewed him at his home, he allegedly confessed to engaging in inappropriate behavior and conduct with current and former students at the high school before and during his time working there.

An Ambridge man is facing charges after police said he punched a 12 year old child in his care.

The police report says 36 yr old Thaddeus Yohe punched the girl in the head. The investigation revealed Yohe had choked the child on a previous occasion.

Yohe has been charged with aggravated assault, strangulatiion, simple assault, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child.

Former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Gabe Rivera passed away Monday at the age of 57.
Rivera was drafted by the Steelers with the 21st overall pick of the 1983 NFL draft.

The pick was thought of as somewhat controversial at the time as the Steelers selected Rivera before legendary quarterback Dan Marino.
Rivera only played six games for the Steelers before a car accident ended his career. He was driving drunk when he crashed on Babcock Boulevard, suffering a spinal cord injury when he was thrown from the car. That injury left him paralyzed for the rest of his life.

DOUBLE SHOOTING IN ALIQUIPPA

The coroner was called at about 1:15 a.m. to the scene of a double shooting in Aliquippa on Wednesday morning.

Beaver County officials confirmed one person was pronounced dead at the scene and the second victim was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital. The person’s condition was not immediately available.

The shooting happened along the 100 block of Third Avenue. State police, Aliquippa police and Hopewell Township police were all on the scene.

No suspects have been named.