A 2013 law that increased gas taxes and motorist fees is helping 109 Pennsylvania municipalities – including one here in Beaver County – improve their traffic signals. The Wolf administration says it is distributing 12-million dollars in grants for PennDOT’s Green Light-Go program. Ambridge borough will receive more than 16-hundred dollars to replace L-E-D’s at the intersection of Route 989 (Eighth Street) and Duss Avenue.

Boaters this morning discovered the body of a man in the Ohio River, according to Ohio Township authorities. Police say the body was found near Neville Island between Haysville and Glenfield. Neville Island firefighters retrieved the body shortly after 11:30 a.m., turning it over to state police in Moon for an investigation. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office also responded to the scene. No other details are available at this time.

Police are looking for the driver who allegedly hit a man and kept going in Lawrence County. The hit-and-run was captured on security video showing a dark-colored sedan striking the victim then taking off. According to police, the incident took place around 10:30 Saturday night on Route 65 in Shenango Township. The victim suffered broken bones and other internal injuries. Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call police.

Crews worked to put out a fire at the Pittsburgh International Race Complex in Big Beaver yesterday afternoon. The fire possibly involved two cars and a fence. No injuries were reported. No word on how the fire started.

If you’re on your way to do some banking this afternoon at the Huntington Bank in Chippewa Township, you’re going to have to use the drive-thru. Witnesses tell Beaver County Radio newsman Pat Septak that someone crashed their vehicle into the entrance at the bank. Beaver County Radio’s Al Goehring drove by the scene today and said it was a mess. There’s didn’t appear to be any injuries. So if you need to do banking there today, you’ll need to use the drive-thru. No other information has been released at this time.

Dozens of people turned out to speak at the Blackhawk School Board meeting last night. The big topics of the evening were proposed teacher layoffs and the future of an elementary school building. There were hundreds of people in attendance at the Blackhawk High School gym. The meeting lasted more than four hours. The board was scheduled to vote on laying off teachers, athletic coaches and custodians. However, they decided to postpone the vote on teacher furloughs until the next meeting, scheduled for May 20th. The other plan on the agenda was to end a contract to renovate Northwestern Primary School, where work has already begun. The board took a vote and decided to keep that contract and go on with the construction.

A Cranberry Township woman died early this morning in a crash that shut down part of Interstate 79. The crash happened around 12:30 a.m. in the northbound lanes, near mile marker 75. State police say 55-year-old Jacqueline Maloney swerved to miss a deer on the road and lost control. Her SUV hit a guardrail, overturned and Maloney was ejected from the vehicle. She was not wearing a seatbelt. Police say Maloney was in the middle of the roadway when she was run over by another vehicle. That vehicle did not stop at the scene. Crews closed the northbound lanes between the Wexford and Warrendale exits to investigate. The northbound lanes reopened to traffic around 3:00 this morning. If you have any information on the other vehicle involved, call state police at (412) 787-2000.