(Photo Courtesy of City of Lebanon, PA Government, Posted on Facebook Page on September 28th, 2025)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lebanon County, PA) A house fire in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania has killed four people yesterday morning and three of them are the ages of seventeen years old or younger. The incident occurred at a home on 815 Church Street. According to authorities, two people were seriously injured, with one victim last listed in stable condition while the other was last listed in critical condition. Four more people got injured as well with injuries that were minor, bringing the total of people injured from this house fire to six. The mayor of Lebanon County sent a Facebook post out yesterday claiming that the fire was an accident in nature and began from an electrical outlet in the living room of the first floor. A total of ten people were in the house when the fire started, with some visiting for a celebration of a birthday yesterday. The victims that passed away from this house fire were seventy-three years old, seventeen years old, four years old and one year old. This fire has been stabilized and is being investigated by the fire marshal’s Office of the Pennsylvania State Police. 

(File Photo of the Allegheny Health Network Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release from Allegheny Health Network, AHN Wexford Hospital announced on Friday it has been recognized as a top performer nationally in the 2025 Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Ranking by Vizient, Inc. The Vizient Quality and Accountability Study, which has been conducted every year since 2005, recognized AHN Wexford Hospital and twenty other hospitals across the United States for their care that is high-quality as well as demonstrating excellence in that care. AHN Wexford Hospital was the only hospital recognized in this study from Western Pennsylvania, which puts it in the top nine percent of community hospitals nationwide in this category. 

(File Photo of Police Siren Lights)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that two people have died because of a shooting that took place in Aliquippa on Saturday. The incident occurred at 952 Franklin Avenue in Aliquippa and forty-three-year-old Cynthia Zipfel of Aliquippa was found dead inside her vehicle because of a gunshot wound. Twenty-six-year-old Jalen Love of Aliquippa died at the scene because of a gunshot wound. Preliminary investigation show that Love and Zipfel were believed to be the only people involved in this incident. Pennsylvania Police are now leading the investigation into this incident and according to Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver, there is no threat to the community and a ruling into this matter will be released at a later date. 

(File Photo of Congressman Chris Deluzio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) According to a release from Congressman Chris Deluzio’s office, Deluzio announced on Friday in Beaver County that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded $440,513 in federal funding to the University of Pittsburgh as part of a $10 million East Palestine, Ohio, Train Derailment Health Research Program to assess the long-term health effects of the 2023 disaster. The University of Pittsburgh is one of three universities leading this program that will oversee a study to assess outcomes of health related to the liver and both the liver and the thyroid axis. The February 3rd, 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio affected residents there and those in Beaver County because it happened on the Pennsylvania-Ohio border. According to that same release from Congressman Chris Deluzio’s office,

• The $10 million research program is administered by NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), and aims to: 

1. Conduct a health needs assessment by engaging organizations, networks, and researchers that are firmly connected to, actively working with, or embedded in communities near the train derailment disaster. 
2. Establish a scientifically rigorous and valid longitudinal study to assess health outcomes and risks associated with the environmental disaster. 
3. Provide training and educational materials as well as report-back of testing results and other findings to community members and local health providers. 
4. Support the development and implementation of a health tracking system, in conjunction with data cyberinfrastructure. This system would leverage health care records (with participant consent) and research data in collaboration with health care providers and others to identify health conditions associated with the derailment and understand factors that might guide health care decisions and public health interventions. 

• The award announced on Friday provides $10 million over five years to a consortium of three universities with a focus on community-engaged, high-impact research. The division of responsivities among the consortium of universities is as-follows:

1. The University of Kentucky will serve as the program lead and collaborate with program partners to develop the health needs assessment, longitudinal study, training, and a health tracking system. 
2. The University of Pittsburgh will assess health outcomes related to the liver and the liver/thyroid axis. Specifically, they will evaluate health outcomes related to the liver and the liver-thyroid axis using advanced, non-invasive technologies, including FibroScan, a device designed to measure liver fibrosis. 
3. Yale University will contribute to the program’s health needs assessment and the longitudinal study by conducting hydrological water quality modeling to identify geospatial patterns leading from the train derailment to potential groundwater and drinking water contamination.

• Together, these research teams will develop and execute a comprehensive strategy to address the health concerns and the needs of the residents impacted by the East Palestine derailment.
• Congressman Deluzio and his team will continue to monitor how these funds address the community’s needs in Beaver County and East Palestine. He will fight to make sure this congressionally authorized funding continues going to projects that make life better for Western Pennsylvanians.

(File Photo of a City of Beaver Falls Police Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver Falls, PA) According to Beaver County dispatchers, a woman was flown to the hospital after being stabbed in Beaver Falls on Friday night. Beaver County dispatchers confirmed to WTAE that a woman got life flighted to a hospital after getting stabbed. The incident happened after 10 p.m. on the 600 block of 17th Street in Beaver Falls. The condition of the woman has not been released. It is not clear if any arrests were made in connection with this stabbing incident. 

(Photo Courtesy of KDKA)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Grove City, PA) According to Pennsylvania State Police, Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania was believed to have been targeted in a false “swatting” call yesterday. A news release that day confirms that the Henry Buhl Library on the Grove City College campus was where a report of shots fired occurred. This report was specifically for somebody reporting someone with a gun in the area of Henry Buhl Library yesterday. Pennsylvania State Police believed that the swatting call was computer generated in this incident. Grove City College went through a shelter in place order and the Henry Buhl Library was evacuated. As of now, the Grove City College campus is secure, and there were no injuries that were reported. There was also no evidence found If you have information about who could be behind this incident, because that is what police are looking for, call 724-748-0044.

(File Photo of a Gavel)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

UPDATE: Over the weekend Attorney Robert G. Del Greco Jr. released a statement from his client David Sunseri. Sunseri is the retired Co-Owner of the Pennsylvania Macaroni Company who was facing a misdemeanor charge of terroristic threats after an alleged incident that happened at a building in Pittsburgh on September 15th, 2025 . Below is the statement:

Statement made by David Sunseri as submitted by me as his lawyer:

On September15, 2025, I went to Pennsylvania Macaroni and had an argument with my Brother.  The reason for the argument is private amongst family.  The firearm alleged to have been picked up  on the sidewalk was my cell phone that I dropped . I never possessed a firearm. Thank you.

David Sunseri

Sunseri allegedly banged on a window and yelled, telling someone inside to come outside so that he could fight him, later allegedly saying he would kill that person inside. A criminal complaint confirms that Sunseri tried to get in the building when he went to the back of the building but could not get into it. Then, Sunseri allegedly went back to the front of the building and continued to make threats and yell. According to the criminal complaint, the victim told police that Sunseri eventually went back to his car and, while getting into the vehicle, picked up a firearm that was lying on the sidewalk. Police gave the victim advice to get a protection from abuse order against Sunseri, who has a misdemeanor charge of terroristic threats against him.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Jimmy Kimmel poses in the press room with the award for host for a game show for “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” during night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group brought Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show back to their local TV stations on Friday night, ending a dayslong TV blackout for dozens of cities across the U.S.

The companies suspended the program on Sept. 17 over remarks the comedian made in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killing. Disney-owned ABC suspended Kimmel the same day, following threats of potential repercussions from the Trump-appointed head of the Federal Communications Commission.

The companies’ dual moves Friday mean “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return to local TV on Nexstar’s 28 ABC affiliates, from Topeka, Kansas, to New Orleans, along with Sinclair’s 38 local markets, from Seattle to Washington D.C.

Kimmel’s suspension lasted less than a week, while the affiliate blackout stood for just over a week.

When the boycott began, Sinclair, which is known for its conservative political content, called on Kimmel to apologize to Kirk’s family and asked him to “make a meaningful personal donation” to Turning Point USA, the nonprofit that Kirk founded.

When Kirk was killed, Kimmel called it a “senseless murder” and shared a message of support for his family and other victims of gun violence on social media, which he reiterated during his Tuesday return.

Kimmel’s original comments didn’t otherwise focus on Kirk. He instead lambasted President Donald Trump and his administration’s response to the killing. On his first show back, the comedian did not apologize, but did say “it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man” and acknowledged that to some, his comments “felt either ill-timed or unclear or maybe both.”

He also used a blend of humor and pointed messages to emphasize the importance of free speech.

Maryland-based Sinclair and Texas-based Nexstar continued to preempt the show for three days even after ABC and Disney returned it to national airwaves.

New episodes of the show air Monday through Thursday. Friday night’s rerun will be of Tuesday’s show — so the previously blacked-out stations will air Kimmel’s emotional return to the show. Viewers will have to wait until Monday to get the host’s take on the new developments.

In its statement Friday, Sinclair pointed to its “responsibility as local broadcasters to provide programming that serves the interests of our communities, while also honoring our obligations to air national network programming.”

The company added that it had received “thoughtful feedback from viewers, advertisers and community leaders,” and noticed “troubling acts of violence,” referencing the shooting into the lobby of a Sacramento station.

Sinclair said its proposals to Disney to strengthen accountability, feedback and dialogue and appoint an ombudsman had not yet been adopted.

In a similar statement Friday, Nexstar said it appreciated Disney’s approach to its concerns and that it “remains committed to protecting the First Amendment” while airing content that is “in the best interest of the communities we serve.”

Both companies said their decisions were not affected by influence from government or anyone else.

Disney representatives declined comment.

As a result of the boycott, viewers in cities representing roughly a quarter of ABC’s local TV affiliates had been left without the late-night program on local TV. The blackouts inflamed a nationwide uproar around First Amendment protections — particularly as the Trump administration and other conservatives police speech after Kirk’s killing. They also cast a spotlight on political influence in the media landscape, with critics lambasting companies that they accuse of censoring content.

Ahead of his suspension, Kimmel took aim at the president and his “MAGA gang” of supporters for their response to Kirk’s killing, which Kimmel said included “finger-pointing” and attempts to characterize the alleged shooter as “anything other than one of them.”

These remarks angered many supporters of Kirk — as well as FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who accused Kimmel of appearing to “directly mislead the American public” with his remarks about the man accused of the killing. He warned that Disney and ABC’s local affiliates could face repercussions if the comedian was not punished.

Carr later applauded Sinclair and Nexstar, for their decisions to preempt the show.

Sinclair Vice Chairman Jason Smith on the day the blackout began called Kimmel’s comments “inappropriate and deeply insensitive,” and said that ABC’s suspension wasn’t enough, calling instead for “immediate regulatory action.”

While local TV affiliates broadcast their own programming, such as local news, they also contract with larger national broadcasters — and pay them to air their national content, splitting advertising revenue and fees from cable companies.

Matthew Dolgin, senior equity analyst at research firm Morningstar, said he wasn’t surprised by Kimmel’s return to the local stations.

“The relationship with Disney is far too important for these firms to risk,” Dolgin said. And setting aside legal rights from either side, he added, “Disney would’ve been free to take its affiliate agreements elsewhere in 2026 if these relationships were too difficult. That scenario would be devastating to Nexstar and Sinclair.”