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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Hershey, PA) The wave pool at the Boardwalk at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania has reopened after a nine-year-old child died on Thursday following an incident there. Out of respect for the family of the child, that wave pool closed on Friday. The police chief of Derry Township confirms the child that was pronounced dead at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center on Thursday was a nine-year-old girl. An anonymous witness told WGAL that they saw a limp child pulled from the wave pool at the Boardwalk at Hersheypark. A lifeguard started CPR, but the child was not saved. The investigation regarding the death of this nine-year-old girl is ongoing. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Greene Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that a woman from New Cumberland, West Virginia was charged after causing a two-vehicle crash in Greene Township on July 21st, 2025. Thirty-eight-year-old Tabatha Norton was driving on U.S. Route 30 at the intersection between it and Upper Service Road on Lincoln Highway. Norton crossed the line in the center of the road and hit the vehicle of thirty-five-year-old Charles Seiber of Georgetown, Pennsylvania. Norton was taken to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital for serious suspected injuries in addition to her charge.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington County, PA) According to a release from Pennsylvania State Police, they are still investigating the fraudulent activity of Shannon Nicole Womack and they are trying to correctly identify her. Womack is in custody for allegedly working unprofessionally as a nurse. Womack allegedly worked at Beaver Valley Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center and eight other Pennsylvania healthcare facilities. Womack also used at least ten aliases, which are as follows: 

• Shannon Nicole Parham
• Shannon Nicole Abiola
• Shannon Nicole Armstrong
• Shannon Abiola-Parham
• Shannon Nicole Grimes
• Shannon Nicole Womack
• Shannon Nicole Lawson
• Shannon Nicole Lethco
• Shannon Nicole Robinson
• Shannon Lee Lawson

You can also view these photos of Womack below:

If anyone from a provider of health care in Pennsylvania notices that one of those names matches a name in their facility employment records, call 724-223-5200.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Homestead, PA) A man that has charges that are connected with a shooting that occurred on Wednesday in Homestead that hurt a man has turned himself in to the Allegheny County Jail. Thirty-seven-year-old Joseph Poole reportedly went to the West Homestead police station and told officers, “I just shot somebody on 13th,” before being arrested. Poole is in the Allegheny County Jail, being held there leading up to his preliminary arraignment. According to police, a call came in on Wednesday night for a man who’d been shot in the 300 block of East 13th Avenue. The male victim was wounded by a gunshot in his leg and he was found in a house by emergency crews. The victim is in stable condition after he was taken to the hospital and he did not talk about the information about the shotting in court records. According to Allegheny County police, the charges for Poole include aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person. If you have any other information about this shooting, call 1-833-ALL-TIPS.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Twenty dollar bills are counted on June 15, 2018, in North Andover, Mass. The number of Americans who do not have a bank account fell to a record low last year, as the proliferation of online-only banks and an improving economy is bringing more Americans into the traditional financial system, according to a report Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

(Reported by Danielle Smith of Keystone News Service)

(Harrisburg, PA) A new report finds raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to 15-dollars an hour would benefit more than 865-thousand workers from diverse demographic backgrounds. Pennsylvania’s minimum wage has remained stagnant at seven-dollars-25-cents per hour for 16 years. Supporters of raising it point out that state lawmakers get automatic annual raises. Claire Kovach with the Keystone Research Center says the report highlights the types of workers who would gain from a higher minimum wage. She emphasizes the majority would be experienced workers – many of whom are raising families and employed in essential, in-demand roles. She adds a minimum wage hike would also benefit people of color, who make up 34-percent of workers who’d see a raise, despite representing just 27-percent of the state’s population. The report says single parents and home health care workers would benefit, too.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: The Stellantis sign is seen outside the Chrysler Technology Center, Jan. 19, 2021, in Auburn Hills, Mich. Stellantis on April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) According to a recall notice on Wednesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Stellantis is recalling 121,398 Jeep Grand Cherokees over faulty second-row headrests. The parent company of Chrysler made the recall because the headrests in these vehicles may not lock to the position in the vehicle that is upright, resulting in higher risk of injury. Certain 2023-2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Jeep Grand Cherokee L vehicles are which vehicles this recall affects. You can either go to www.nhtsa.gov for more information about this recall or call either 1-800-853-1403 or 1-888-327-4236.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Hershey, PA) The CEO of Hershey’s Parks, John Lawn, confirms that a nine-year-old child died on Thursday after an incident at The Boardwalk at Hersheypark, a waterpark in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Lawn did not release any details leading up to the incident or details of what actually happened to the child. The child was pronounced dead at Milton S. Hershey’s Medical Center despite the efforts of those that tried to help the child survive. There is currently an open and ongoing investigation into the death of this child.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Indiana County, PA) A man from San Antonio, Texas got arrested for trying to obtain photos that were sexually explicit from a minor in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. According to a news release on Thursday, Marcoctavio Romero got charges of attempting to transfer material that was obscene to a minor and enticement and coercion of a minor, or attempted. The Indiana County District Attorney’s office confirms that Romero sent photos that were obscene of himself to the minor and wanted the minor to send the same types of images to him. The Indiana County District Attorney’s office also notes that obtaining search warrants for Romero were seen on a bank account, Google, Instagram and Roblox. A federal court in Texas was where the charges against Romero were filed.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) The board of the Pennsylvania Game Commission will talk about adding ten more dates on a Sunday this year to the 2025-2026 hunting season in Pennsylvania on Monday, July 28th. House Bill 1431 was signed by Governor Josh Shapiro on July 9th, 2025 to give Pennsylvanians more Sundays to hunt. A proposal would add Sunday hunting opportunities on September 14th, September 21st, September 28th, October 5th, October 12th, October 19th, October 26th, November 2nd, November 9th and December 7th. The only Sundays this year as of now available for Pennsylvanians to hunt are November 16th, November 23rd and November 30th. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Raccoon Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that a woman from Pittsburgh was charged after causing a two-vehicle crash in Raccoon Township on Wednesday. Eighty-two-year-old Francesca Shane was driving on Route 18 and went to 100 Holt Road after making a U-turn onto that road. Shane hit the vehicle of seventy-eight-year-old John Erikson of Shippingport. A utility trailer that was on the vehicle of Erikson hit a tree when Erikson lost control of his vehicle. Erikson had charges withdrawn by police and Shane was charged by them.