The Freedom Area School District is under a boil water advisory due to traces of e-coli found in the New Sewickley Township water supply. DEP regional spokesman John Poister tells Beaver County Radio newsman Pat Septak that they notified the district of the notice. Students in the district are being asked to wash their hands with anti-bacterial soap and refrain from drinking from the water fountain until the situation is rectified.

Authorities in Moon Township are looking for the driver of an SUV involved in an alleged road-rage incident Monday that prompted the Moon Area School District’s middle school and high school to be placed on precautionary lock down. Authorities say a woman was driving down University Boulevard and turned into the parking lot of the schools to pick up her children with a black SUV following close behind her. The woman told police that she got out of her vehicle and asked the SUV’s driver what was going on. Moon Township police say the SUV driver pulled out a gun and pointed it out of his window and in the woman’s face. Police say the SUV took off through the parking lot. Officers are looking for a man in his late teens to early ’20’s. The suspect has a scruffy beard, curly black hair and was wearing a white, short-sleeved shirt. The search for a suspect is ongoing.

There was a drug bust in Beaver Falls over the weekend. The Beaver Falls Police Department, assisted by the Beaver County District Attorney’s Office Anti-Drug Task Force, served a narcotics warrant on 45 Mt. Washington apartments for the distribution of narcotics. Items recovered from the warrant include a substantial amount of suspected crack cocaine and heroin, a couple of handguns (one of which was reported stolen), along with several drug paraphernalia items. Two suspects have been charged. They are 19-year-old Donyell Williams, Jr of Detroit, Michigan and 29-year-old Katherine Rose of Beaver Falls. Both are charged with possession with intent to deliver, criminal conspiracy, possession of drug paraphernalia and receiving stolen property.

Pam Fiejdasz, Hopewell Township Parks and Recreation Director, has resigned, according to township manager Norm Krause, Jr. Beaver County Radio News correspondent Sandy Giordano reports that Fiejdasz has taken a job in another field. The supervisors next meeting is tonight at 7 p-m.

Three people were treated for smoke inhalation after fire broke out in a home in Rochester early this morning. The fire broke out shortly after 5 a.m. at the house on Henon Avenue. The three people treated for smoke inhalation were all members of the same family. Three pets were killed in the fire. The cause of the fire is unknown.

Emergency crews battled what officials say was a suspicious fire at a home in Lawrence County early Sunday morning. The fire broke out at round 5:30 a.m. at a vacant home in the 16-hundred block of West Lawrence Avenue near Ellwood City. Wayne Township fire officials say the fire began on the side porch of the home, and the fire chief considers it to be suspicious. No one was reported to be injured.

Police in Ambridge are investigating a reported armed robbery. The call came in shortly before 2:00 this morning that someone held up the Sunoco gas station in the 800 block of Merchant Street in Ambridge. No injuries were reported. Police haven’t released any details on a suspect, or what was taken.

Police were called to Ohio River Boulevard in Edgeworth this morning for reports of a man with a gun who was shooting at parked cars. The shots were fired in a parking lot that was being used by construction crews in the area. The scene is about a mile away from Sewickley Academy. A construction foreman was taken into custody. Police say 37-year-old Alan Smith Jr. was working on a project at the school. According to investigators, Smith was going to take some of his crew members over to the school at around 7 a-m when he became irritated with them. Police say Smith shot his work truck and another car. No one was hurt. Once police arrived, Smith surrendered peacefully.