(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – This April 2, 2021, file photo shows bridges spanning the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh. Republicans in Congress are making the politically brazen bet that it’s more advantageous to oppose President Joe Biden’s ambitious rebuild America agenda than to lend support for the costly $2.3 trillion undertaking for roads, bridges and other infrastructure investments. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) According to a release from the Senate Republican Communications Office, a bipartisan group of state legislators announced the approval of more than $3 million in Gaming Economic Development Tourism Fund (GEDTF) grants for community development projects throughout Allegheny County today. The funded projects include replacement for waterlines, upgrades for parks, sanitary sewer rehabilitation, improvements for flood control, modernization of trffic signals, renewal of stormwater systems, ADA-accessible playgrounds and trails, emergency infrastructure planning and enhancements to gathering spaces for the community. This funding supports 18 projects across municipalities that are represented by Senator Devlin Robinson (R-37) and Representatives Anita Kulik (D-45), Dan Deasy (D-27), Valerie Gaydos (R-44), Arvind Venkat (D-30), Natalie Mihalek (R-40), Jason Ortitay (R-46), Jeremy Shaffer (R-28) and Andrew Kuzma (R-39). According to that same release from the Senate Republican Communications Office, the project awards from these grants include:

• Robinson Township – Forest Grove Road Waterline Replacement: $100,000
• Thornburg – Sanitary Sewer Pipe Lining: $85,000
• Pennsbury Village – Sewage Treatment UV System Installation: $130,000
• Bell Acres – Borough Park Improvements (Phase II): $200,000
• Franklin Park – Blueberry Hill Park Accessible Playground Update: $205,000
• Bridgeville – McLaughlin Run Flood Control and Culvert Replacement: $305,000
• Rosslyn Farms – Active Pathways Project: $100,000
• Oakdale – Cottonwood Drive and Highland Ave. Stormwater Improvements: $400,475
• Marshall – The Woodlands Accessible Nature Trail Renewal: $200,000
• Edgeworth – Academy Avenue Traffic Signal Project: $251,000
• Bethel Park – Millennium Park Bandshell: $153,150
• Jefferson Hills – Tepe Park Improvement Project (Phase 1): $246,000
• Upper St. Clair – Gilfillan Farm Foundation Restoration: $450,157
• Glenfield – East Beaver Street Road Rehabilitation: $125,000
• Leet – Salt Storage Facility Project: $75,150
• Leetsdale – Emergency Exit Study and Design Project: $139,500
• Sewickley Heights – Fern Hollow Nature Center Addition: $84,125
• Sewickley – Beaver and Broad Street Upgrade Project: $150,000
• Wexford – McCandless-Franklin Park Ambulance Authority: $105,000

The Gaming Economic Development Tourism Fund provides grants for improvement to communities, upgrades for infrastructure and development projects for economics in Allegheny County with funding administered through the Commonwealth Financing Authority.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Findlay Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Pittsburgh reported via release today that fifty-four-year-old Andrew Jenkins of Pittsburgh crashed his vehicle into a deer in Findlee Township in the early morning of November 3rd, 2025. Upon further investigation, Jenkins was traveling in the right-hand lane of I-376 East at 12:28 a.m., west of the Moon Business Loop, and when a deer entered that lane, he could not stop in time to avoid hitting it with his vehicle. Jenkins was not injured during this crash. 

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Moon Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Pittsburgh reported via release today that an unidentified driver was charged after causing a three-vehicle crash in Moon Township on the morning of November 5th, 2025. This driver was traveling on I-376 West and crashed their vehicle with two other vehicles at 11:36 a.m. at mile marker 58. The driver that was charged was traveling in the center lane and was trying to merge into the left lane, but they did not see another driver’s vehicle traveling in the left lane and also hit a third driver’s vehicle traveling in the right lane when the first driver traveled across the center lane. There were no injuries after this crash occurred. 

(File Photo of a Police Siren Light)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Findlay Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Pittsburgh reported via release today that thirty-nine-year-old Jeremy Wood of Niles, Ohio was charged after causing a two-vehicle crash in Findlay Township on the morning of September 3rd, 2025. Wood was driving on the left lane of I-376 East at approximately mile marker 57 at 11:01 a.m. and merged into the right lane and hit a truck that had merged onto I-376 East from McClaren Road. There were no injuries after this crash occurred.

(Photo Courtesy of KDKA-TV, CBS Pittsburgh, posted on Facebook post on August 25th, 2025)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) A ruling came last Wednesday from the Pennsylvania Superior Court that the seller of a home that is now in Beaver County did not have to inform potential buyers of hate symbols embedded in his property. This comes after the Wentworth family filed a lawsuit when they found a swastika and what appeared to be a German war eagle which was tiled under rugs and a table on the floor of their basement. The court decided that symbols tiled into the basement home of homeowner Lynn Rae Wentworth were not “material defects” that the seller needed to disclose prior to the purchase of the home. Wentworth now has just under thirty days to appeal. 

(Photo Courtesy of the Chippewa Township Volunteer Fire Department, Beaver Falls)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Darlington Township, PA) A big fire occurred yesterday afternoon at BrickYard Auto Parts, a scrap yard and auto parts store in Darlington Township. The Chippewa Township Volunteer Fire Department and dozens of other fire departments responded and started working on the blaze on Morris Street in Darlington, and officials confirm the blaze started at approximately 2 p.m. Hazmat was also called to help contain the fire after several hours, and the cause of it is unknown at this time. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Swissvale, PA) WPXI sources confirm that twenty-six-year-old Moniem Strothers was arrested by U.S. Marshals and Pittsburgh SWAT in Swissvale yesterday. Strothers is the suspect of a shooting that occurred on October 12th, 2025 in the South Side Flats neighborhood of Pittsburgh in which thirty-three-year-old Steve Robertson of Squirrel Hill was shot and killed on East Carson Street. According to online court records, Strothers is charged with criminal homicide and firearms charges. Strothers is being held in the Allegheny County Jail and was denied bail.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) According to police, two children were taken to the hospital in stable condition, and a woman suffered minor cuts on her hand following an altercation in Allegheny County. Officials told WTAE that Pittsburgh police were called to the 1100 block of Brownsville Road at 4 p.m. yesterday following reports of a physical altercation. One woman reported she was assaulted by two other women that she knew while she was outside with her children. One of the two women pulled out a knife towards the mother and swung it in the direction of her. The mother refused medical treatment after suffering minor cuts to her hand. City officials later stated two of the children told authorities they had willingly entered the vehicle of one of the women involved in the altercation. The unidentified woman returned the children to officers a short time later. A spokesperson for police noted the children were returned to officers in the 1200 block of Banksville Road. Both children were evaluated on the scene by Pittsburgh EMS and later taken to a local hospital in stable condition. An investigation into this incident is ongoing.