(File Photo: Source for Photo: Traffic going eastbound on the Pennsylvania Turnpike proceeds through the electronic toll booths in Cranberry Township, Pa., on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. More than $104 million in Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls went uncollected last year as the agency fully converted to all-electronic tolling. Turnpike records show the millions of motorists who don’t use E-ZPass have a nearly 1 in 2 chance of riding without paying under the “toll-by-plate” license plate reader system. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Berks County, PA) Democratic Pennsylvania State Senator Katie Muth plans on an introduction for legislation to make front license plates on vehicles a requirement. Muth confirms the reason for this legislation is for safety for others that is public. Muth also made a comment that the legislation would improve collection for tolls. According to AutoList, twenty-nine states and Washington, D.C. require front and back plates.
(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Badge)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that an unidentified thirty-year-old man was shot by an unknown suspect in Aliquippa on Monday. The man was shot in the leg while walking his dog in the area of Irwin, Main and Reed Streets and one or two shots came from a vehicle that is unknown. The vehicle then went in a direction that was unknown after the person in the vehicle hit the victim with it. If you have any information about this incident, call 724-773-7400 and reference the incident of #PA 25-871530.
(Ambridge, PA) According to a release from Allegheny Health Network, AHN’s pediatric institute will offer sports physicals to student athletes at Ambridge High School today at noon. This AHN initiative helps to give access that is convenient to sports physicals that are required, making sure students are prepared for the athletic season that is upcoming. Walk-ins can be accepted and students need to be enrolled the Ambridge School District to receive these physicals. If you are planning on going, call 412-596-2679 by 10:30 a.m. today (Tuesday, July 15th, 2025). On the site of Ambridge High School, free parking will also be available.
PITTSBURGH — For three-hours, eight-minutes, Vince Gill provided real deal country music to a nearly sold-out Heinz Hall on July 12.
“We’re loaded up on pickles and ready to go,” Gill joked upon taking the stage at 7:30 sharp, referencing the sprawling Picklesburgh festival right outside the hall’s front doors.
Gill’s guitar wizardry is enough to make other guitarists green with envy, as he demonstrated from the get-go, starting the set with a blazing “One More Chance.”
The 68-year-old Oklahoman is a top-notch storyteller, too, stirring up laughs and tears. The funny moments included his tale of a mean-looking cowboy in an Amarillo dive bar telling him he looks just like Vince Gill except much heavier.
Vince Gill headlining Heinz Hall on July 12.
Gill also elicited smiles when praising country music for its predilection for cheating songs, noting all that cheatin’ also has resulted in a bunch of gospel songs. Gill performed a few of both those sub-genres.
He talked about sad songs, too, praising an early mentor, Vern Gosdin, for writing the poignant line “you don’t know sorrow till it’s etched in stone.” The only song sadder than that is “Old Shep,” a traditional folk song about a young man having to put down his beloved, crippled dog, according to Gill, who mentioned how his dad tormented his childhood by singing him that song.
“But after years of therapy…’ Gill wisecracked.
The night’s most touching moment came when Gill set up “Benny’s Song,” a tribute to his childhood friend and longtime musical collaborator Benny Garcia, who died in 2020 in hospice care just hours before Gill was scheduled to visit him one last time.
Gill tipped a hat to two of his biggest influences, soaring through Merle Haggard’s “The Bottle Let Me Down” and Buck Owens’ “Together Again.”
Surrounded by a stellar band — Jim “Moose” Brown (keyboards), Tom Bukovac (guitar), Eddie Dunlap (steel guitar), Jedd Hughes (guitar, vocals), John Jarvis (keyboards), Wendy Moten (vocals), Jimmie Lee Sloas (bass), Billy Thomas (drums), and Jeff White (guitar, vocals) — Gill shined on hits (“Look at Us,” “When I Call Your Name”), and deeper cuts like “Colder Than Winter.”
The country star gave well-deserved spotlight time to vocalists Hughes and Moten, who both bedazzled on lead mic, with crowd-pleasing performances, respectively, on “Loving You Is The Only Way to Fly” and a cover of “Ode to Billie Joe.” Some fans in the audience wore Moten concert T-shirts, familiar with her runner-up appearance on NBC’s “The Voice” and her work as a harmonizing vocalist on Faith Hill and Martina McBride tours.
Vince Gill headlining Heinz Hall on July 12.
For Gill, songs like “Guitar Slinger” and the delightful pre-encore romp “Oklahoma Borderline” provided a musical landscape to stretch out a bit and thrill spectators with his guitar prowess.
Briefly mentioning his “other gig,” as a member of The Eagles the past eight years, Gill finished one song by riffing a guitar solo snippet from that famed band’s “New Kid in Town.” Later would come a quick Allman Brothers guitar medley that included “Blue Sky.”
Powered by musicianship, songcraft, storytelling, work ethic and a genuinely friendly disposition, Gill captivated from start to finish.
(File Photo of Busses Parked at South Side Area School District)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Hookstown, PA) A high school football player that stood out at South Side High School in Hookstowncommitted to Syracuse University to play college football thereas a punter on Thursday. The commitment by Mateja Pavlovich to Syracuse University is rare air for South SideHigh School to get an athlete to commit to a Power football program. According to theSouth Side Area School District Athletic Department, the commitment by Pavlovich is potentially the first South Side football player to commit to a Power football program since the early 1980s. Aside to being a punter at South Side High School, he was a running back, tight end and kicker there during his four years there. He also got offers to be a punter at Robert Morris University, Bowling Green and West Virginia and as a linebacker at some Division II schools. He also got kicker offers in 2023, with Kentucky most notably. He also joins former South Side standouts to go to Division I programs, joining Harold Garren, who committed to the University of Virginia, Mark Shaw who committed to the University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP) and Doug Wassel, who committed to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – The Nittany Lion logo taken before an NCAA college football game between Penn State and Delaware, Sept. 9, 2023, in State College, Pa. (AP Photo/Barry Reeger, File)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(University Park, PA) A fraternity at the University of Penn State is facing charges after according to officials, at least two of its members allegedly subjected pledges to physical and emotional abuse. According to court documents obtained Sunday, leaders of the Phi Beta Sigma chapter at the state college are accused of conducting physical hazing rituals. These led to pledges being subjected to paddling and other forms of abuse that are both physical and mental. Hazing and simple assault charges went to the president of the fraternity, twenty-year-old Jayson Archer and the chapter of the dean of the fraternity, twenty-three-year-old Jacob D. Francis. August 13th will be the date of the preliminary hearing that will be held inCentre County, Pennsylvania.
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(Lancaster, PA) The mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is voicing concerns about the state budget delay, warning it could impact the over 58-thousand people living in the city. Lawmakers missed the June 30th deadline for the fourth year in a row. Mayor Danene Sorace says she’s closely monitoring both the state budget and the federal transportation, housing, and urban development budget coming before Congress today (7/14), noting that both have significant implications for the city of Lancaster. Governor Josh Shapiro said the state budget talks are making progress and expects a deal soon.
(McKeesport, PA) Twenty-one-year-old Brian Dixon got multiple charges after according to officials, an irate man was stabbed and another person suffered minor injuries during an altercation at an Allegheny County bus station. This occurred on Saturday at the McKeesport Transportation Center. WTAE was told that a passenger from a 61-C bus that was stopped at the station had approached a bus driver while they were on their break and then began to take their clothes off. Dixon then began to argue with bystanders and officials confirm a man that was punchedby Dixon stabbed Dixon to defend himself. Officials are investigating this incident. The charges for Dixon are open lewdness, indecent exposure, a felony count of aggravated assault, misdemeanor counts of simple assault and a summary charge of disorderly conduct.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: Flowers and a tribute to fallen firefighter Corey Comperatore are pictured at the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company in Buffalo Township, Pa., Monday, July 15th, 2024. Comperatore was shot and killed at the Trump rally in Butler, Pa., Saturday, July 13th, 2024. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Saxonburg, PA) A parade, concert and unveiling of a statue were held to honor the late Corey Comperatore over the weekend. The fifty-year-old Buffalo Townshipvolunteer firefighter was the victim of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butleron July 13th, 2024. According to an organizer, roughly 1,000 people participated in “Corey’s Cruise,” a 49-mile-long motorcycle ride. The parade and the statue unveiling of Corey was in Saxonburg, Pennsylvaniaand the concert was in Russellton, Pennsylvania.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Butler, PA) Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the Butler Farm Show grounds during a Trump rally. Twenty-year-old assassin Thomas Crooks of Bethel Park shot Trump in the ear during the July 13th, 2024 event and was then killed that day by a team with snipers from the Secret Service. There is still an unknown reason as to why Crooks wanted to shoot Trump on that day last year in Butler.
