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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver, PA) The death of a man from Beaver that occurred on Wednesday evening from a dog bite at a house in Beaver is still under investigation by both the Beaver County Coroner’s Office and the Beaver Borough Police Department. Beaver County Coroner David J. Gabauer identified the victim as fifty-year-old John Dicks, but he would not release any other information on him, saying the cause of death was “pending investigation.” Beaver police were called to a home along 6th Street right before 6 p.m. Sources say that a man was inside his home with his wife and two dogs when the woman said she heard a loud thud come from the kitchen. WPXI sources say the man’s wife walked into the kitchen and that the man was on the ground and their dog was at his neck, reportedly biting it. It is unclear exactly what happened at this time. Investigators are looking into if the man suffered a medical emergency. 

(Photo Courtesy of the City of Aliquippa Police Department)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) Brett Ours of Aliquippa has now been found guilty of several charges after being accused of assaulting Preston Coleman at the Aliquippa VFW 3577 bar on January 5th, 2025. According to information provided to KDKA-TV, Ours was on trial for charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault, strangulation, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of instruments of crime and simple assault. Ours was found guilty on all of the charges except for attempted murder on Friday and the date of his sentencing has not been confirmed yet. Ours was accused of allegedly assaulting and strangling Coleman for about a half an hour at the bar located at 211 Penn Avenue as well as hitting him with a bar stool. Ronald Brown and Ireland Brown, both of Ambridge, are the other two suspects that were involved in the attack on Coleman. Both of them are expected to face trial at a later date for charges related to the assault of Coleman. 

(Photo Courtesy of WTAE-TV Pittsburgh, Posted on Facebook on January 18th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ambridge, PA) Police are now investigating a deadly shooting that claimed the lives of a man and a woman inside a home in Ambridge early yesterday morning. Police responded to the area of Locust Street just before 3 a.m. for reports of a shooting. When officers arrived and began investigating, they found thirty-eight-year-old Ashley Anne Delucca of Ambridge and fifty-four-year-old Andre Littles of Pittsburgh dead from multiple gunshot wounds. According to a release from Ambridge Police Chief John DeLuca, officers identified the suspect as thirty-nine-year-old Howard James Thomas Jr. of Ambridge and issued a BOLO on him and his vehicle to outside agencies. Chief Deluca confirms that Thomas is now in custody on an arrest warrant for two counts of homicide and at around 8:37 a.m., Ohio State Highway Patrol informed Ambridge police that he had been apprehended after a crash in Zanesville, Ohio. Following the incident, Ambridge Mayor Tina Iorfido-Schmidt issued a post on Facebook, sharing her condolences to the family of the victims, while also telling the community that there is no active threat. 

Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio News. Published January 19, 2026 12:19 A.M.

(Beaver Falls, Pa) Police were involved in an investigation on 5th Avenue between 17th Street and 18th Street in Beaver Falls Sunday night shortly after 11pm.

Initial reports indicated a shooting took place.

Beaver County Radio saw multiple evidence markers on the ground at the scene.

The scene was still active past midnight.

5th Avenue was taped off between the two streets.

We have no additional details to share at this time.

Video from the scene:

Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio Published January 18, 2025 11:53 P.M.

(Monaca, Pa) In a press release issued Sunday, Stoelzle Glass confirmed Saturday’s fire occured on a production line.

The fire was quickly tackled by local fire departments and resulted in no injuries and limited damage.

Remediation is underway and the affected line is expected to be restored with four days.

The other production lines were not affected by the fire and have resumed operation.

No other operations have been affected and the plant is running as normal.

Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio. Published January 17, 2026 6:11 P.M.

(Monaca, Pa) A fire broke out at Stoelzle Glass in Monaca around 5pm Saturday.

Flames and heavy smoke were visible at the plant.

Fire crews appeared to have the fire under control as of 6pm.

We have no additional details at this time.

Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio. Published January 16, 2026 2:04 P.M.

(Ambridge, Pa) Congressman Chris Deluzio held a press conference along with State Representative Rob Matzie and members of Ambridge Borough Council Friday morning.

Congressman Deluzio initiated the conference by presenting a check for $1,015,000 to Ambridge for a community and recreation center. Representative Rob Matzie followed up the Congressman’s check by announcing an additional $42,000 has been secured to help with finalizing plans and conceptual designs for the project.

Deluzio said “This project will bring new opportunities to Ambridge and the surrounding area—for our kids and families, for the whole community, and for the area economy. Congratulations to Ambridge Borough on this well-earned federal funding, and thank you to State Rep. Rob Matzie for going to bat for the project in Harrisburg, too. I’ll always fight down in Washington to bring home federal money to make life better for all of us in Western PA.”

Regarding the center, Ambridge Mayor Tina Iorfido-Schmidt said “Ambridge is such a strong community, and having a place where neighbors can come together, where our kids can play sports, and where we can host neighborhood programming will only make our community even stronger.”

Borough Manager Mario Leone says the center will be located on the former Brownfield steel site along New Economy Drive and 14th Street. A lot that has been cleaned up and vacant since the 1990’s.

Leone says the multipurpose facility with include a turf field, and numerous courts for basketball, pickleball, volleyball and more. It will also serve as a venue for sports and cheerleading tournaments along with other services like educational and job training programs.

Additionally, the site will house a food incubator with efforts by Crop and Kettle and Riverwise.

Tom Cephas of Cephas Elite, a locally based youth development and sports organization, was in attendance of the meeting along with local youth. Cephas says that having a local indoor facility will be beneficial for youth sports, stating that it is “hard to compete for indoor space”, especially for programs that aren’t offered directly by schools.

Conceptual designs of the project are expected to be revealed in the near future.

Construction is estimated to begin in 2027 and a ribbon cutting will be held when the project is complete.

 

(Photo Courtesy of the Allegheny County Jail)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A man from Wilkinsburg who was convicted of shooting and killing a 15-year-old boy in Homewood could spend the rest of his life in prison. Court documents confirm that yesterday was when a judge sentenced Shaun Scott to 35 years to life for the death of the teenager in 2022. October 20th, 2025 was when Scott was convicted of that murder. The fifteen-year-old victim was shot in the head when he was waiting to cross the street in Homewood on his minibike on March 30th, 2022 and that victim later died at the hospital. According to police, Scott, who was seventeen years old at the time, fired three shots and hit the boy once in the head. Scott is also charged with a second deadly shooting because he is accused of killing eighteen-year-old Maleek Thomas in the Hill District of Pittsburgh on June 24th, 2022, because Scott reportedly told police he was throwing rocks at windows outside an apartment building on Chauncy Drive, trying to get the attention of people because the music was too loud. When Thomas approached Scott and asked him who he was, Scott told police that he put on a mask, pulled out a gun and shot him. The trial for Scott in regards to the murder of Thomas is set to start in February.

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Telford, PA) According to Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele and the Towamencin Township police chief, a man from Telford, Pennsylvania is accused of sexually assaulting at least one elderly woman during four alleged break-ins in 2025. Steele made an announcement in a press release yesterday that John Vernon Gray was arrested and charged with rape, attempted rape, sexual assault, burglary and related offenses. The four alleged incidents happened on two days, but two incidents occurred six months apart from the other two incidents. Prosecutors noted that the victims ranged from 46 years old to over 90 years old and they either lived alone or they were presumed to have lived alone. Police confirm that the first two alleged incidents occurred on May 10th, 2025.  A 79-year-old woman told police she awoke to a man breaking into her home through her bedroom window on Dock Drive shortly before 2:30 a.m. and she screamed, which scared the man off, and then the man entered a second home in the Dock Woods Senior Living Community and sexually assaulted a woman in her nineties about an hour later. Then, on November 8th, 2025, police allege Gray broke into two other homes, because a 72-year-old woman told police a man broke into her home on Dock Drive around 3 a.m. and attempted to lift her nightgown and prosecutors stated that the suspect fled after she screamed. Steele also expressed that about 30 minutes later, Gray broke into a home on Crosshill Court in Towamencin Township through a sliding glass door. Gray allegedly entered the bedroom and began touching a 46-year-old woman and according to Steele, he fled after the victim screamed for her husband. The twenty-two-year-old Gray was arrested on Saturday and he denied bail and a preliminary hearing for him is scheduled for February 2nd, 2026. The office of Steele is asking anybody who may have been a victim of incidents that Gray has been involved in to make a call to detectives of Montgomery County at 610-278-3385.