State police in Beaver County are investigating two instances that happened 30 minutes apart in which rocks were thrown at moving vehicles on Interstate 376 in Brighton Township. The first incident happened shortly before 1 a.m. Monday when rocks were thrown from alongside the highway in Brighton Township at two Gordon Food Service Trucks. No one was hurt in that incident, which happened in the eastbound lanes near mile marker 35.5 Thirty minutes later police reported a rock was thrown at a moving vehicle near Chapel Road. In that situation the rock hit the hood and went through the windshield of the vehicle which had two people inside. No injuries were reported. No arrests have been announced.

Authorities in Beaver County are investigating after two separate shootings last night. The first occurred at around 8 p.m. One person was shot in the 700 block of Riverview Drive in Rochester. One hour later, a person was shot in the 1000 block of Davis Street in Aliquippa. Both victims were taken to the hospital by ambulance. No word on their conditions or what prompted either shooting.

The 2016 edition of the New Brighton Halloween Parade was quite the smash (of the graveyard variety), and the crowd that was aligned along 3rd Street enjoyed the sights and sounds through the cold weather. And so did Beaver County Radio! Take a look at some of the pictures from the night below.

Commissioners chairman Sandie Egley says she and her family are paying for the cost of renovating her office. Egley says it cost less than 12-hundred dollars to paint the walls and lay down a hardwood floor. The renovation of Egley’s office was in question because of no available information at the time added to the county budget crunch.

A local panhandler in Hopewell is accused of hiding a dead body for at least three weeks under his bed – the same bed where his girlfriend died from a heroin overdose in August. 36-year-old Donald Teaford was arrested last week on charges of abuse of a corpse. The dead man is 33-year-old Justin Cogan, according to the coroner in Beaver County. The cause of death has not been determined. Teaford is being held in the Beaver County Jail pending a hearing next month.

Some bad news today involving hundreds of layoffs in Beaver County. Allegheny Technologies announced that it’s closing its doors permanently at the plant in Midland. As a result, 250 people will be out of a job. The A-T-I plant was idled back in January but officials initially said that they did plan to re-open it. The company is also officially closing its electrical steel finishing facility in Bagdad, Pennsylvania.