(File Photo of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday’s office, Sunday announced charges against an Allegheny County woman for forging nomination paperwork earlier this year for a candidate for the Pine-Richland School Board election. Thirty-six-year-old Kayla Michelle Van Blargan of Wexford was charged yesterday with perjury, four counts of forgery and related offenses. An investigation from the Pennsylvania Attorney General confirmed that Van Blargan forged elector signatures on a nomination petition for candidate Kathleen Rivotti. Van Blargan forged at least four elector signatures, and a candidate that was competing against her filed a lawsuit. Rivotti also dropped out of the race of the Pine-Richland School Board election. The investigation showed that Van Blargan compiled paperwork for nomination, including the ten signatures that were necessary from electors required to get on the ballot. A determaintion was made that at least four elector signatures on the petition were forged. An agent had an interview with each of the electors whose names were on the petition, and they all confirmed they did not sign it. A Statement of Circulator, which is a legal document regarding the petition process, was signed by Van Blargen. Van Blargan is also charged with unsworn falsification to authorities, false signatures and statements in nomination petitions and papers, and nomination petitions, certificates and papers, destruction, fraudulent filing and suppression along with her charges of forgery and perjury.

(Photo of Donald Henson Courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Forty-six-year-old Doanld Henson of Penn Hills, who was accused of hitting a gate at the FBI Pittsburgh Field Office Complex in the South Side of Pittsburgh and leaving an American flag on that gate on September 17th, 2025, recently faced a judge for the first time. Henson told the FBI after the incident that he rammed the security gate at the FBI Pittsburgh Field Office complex because he wanted to “make a statement” even though he knew that at the time he hit that gate that there was a guard in the security booth. According to an FBI agent who testified, Henson told officers that he believed an FBI agent was living under his home, and he heard voices speaking to him. Henson is in custody and faces charges which include damaging government property. 

(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District is announcing that all essential services will continue during the lapse in Fiscal Year 2026 funding and all navigation facility operations will follow their existing schedules. The district-operated recreation facilities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District that are currently operating are visitor centers, campgrounds and restrooms. According to that same release from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineeers Pittsburgh District, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District provides value to the nation through operations at their 22 locks and dams, 16 multi-purpose flood-control reservoirs, 328 miles of navigable waterways, 42 local flood-protection projects, and other projects designed to protect and enhance the nation’s water resources, infrastructure, and the environment.

(File Photo of a Gavel)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) A juror from a trial that took place in 2021 in Beaver County came back in court this week for an evidentiary hearing which stemmed from an appeal. This hearing was requested from the defense of Sheldon Jeter, Jr., who is in prison for life for the 2020 murder of Tyric Pugh in Aliquippa, because of the behavior of the juror that testified in this hearing this week, but initially, the hearing was denied. Beaver County District Attorney Nate Bible predicted that until after December is when a final decision in this evidentiary hearing could be seen. Jeter was also named as a primary suspect in 2023 for the murder of Rachel DelTondo in addition to his prison sentence that he received for the murder of Pugh. 

(File Photo: Caption for Photo: PennDOT, PSP, PTC, Construction Industry Highlight National Work Zone Awareness Week)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that from Monday, October 6th through Friday, October 10th, weather permitting, restrictions on the southbound Interstate 79 on-ramp from Route 910/Wexford Bayne Road (Route 4042) in Franklin Park Borough of Allegheny County will occur. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each of those weekdays next week, the southbound on-ramp to I-79 from Route 910/Wexford Bayne Road will be reduced to a single-lane of traffic to let utility relocation work to occur there. There will also be a closure of one of the two turning lanes from westbound Route 910/Wexford Bayne Road to the southbound I-79 on ramp to let that work occur on the on-ramp. Shoulder restrictions will also continue on the southbound Interstate 79 on-ramp through the middle of October every weekday from 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. 

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Badge)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Darlington Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that twenty-one-year-old Cole Young of Darlington got charged by police after causing a single-vehicle crash in Darlington Township on the night of September 25th, 2025. A determination was made that Young was driving under the influence on Taggert Road and wrecked into a tree on purpose, which caused a serious injury to Young. Charges have been filed against Young by police. 

(File Photo of the Vitalant Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(New Castle, PA) Vitalant is holding some blood drives in October of 2025 in some locations in both Beaver County and New Castle and one location in New Wilmington. Vitalant is encouraging those to give blood or platelets to do so, especially as platelets and type O blood is needed the most during October of 2025, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, in which you can donate blood or platelets to help those undergoing treatments of cancer as well as other patients. According to a release from Vitalant, anyone who donates blood or platelets with Vitalant during October will be automatically entered to win a prepaid gift card they can use to upgrade their tech or spend however they wish, which is a chance to win $10,000 in their Tune Up Your Technology Giveaway. Here are the locations of these blood drives as well as more information about how to give blood or platelets can be found below, according to that same release from Vitalant:

Upcoming Blood Drives

 

Ambridge

Tuesday, October 28th

Ambridge Area High School

909 Duss Avenue

8 A.M. – 12 P.M.

 

Darlington

Monday, October 20th

Darlington Township Building

3590 Darlington Road

1 P.M. – 7 P.M.

 

Fombell

Friday, October 31st

Hero-Franklin Township Building

897 State Route 288

12 P.M. – 4 P.M.

 

New Brighton

Friday, October 10th

Rich DeFilippi Replenishment Drive

2236 3rd Avenue

12 P.M. – 6 P.M.

 

New Castle

Monday, October 6th

Shenango High School

2550 Ellwood Road

8 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

 

Friday, October 17th

Holy Spirit Parish – St Camillius, McGurk Hall

314 West Englewood Avenue.

11:30 A.M. – 4:30 P.M.

 

Friday, October 17th

UPMC Jameson North Campus

1211 Wilmington Road

10:30 A.M. – 3 P.M.

 

Monday, October 27th

Mohawk High School – Auxiliary Gym

385 Mohawk School Rd.

8:30 A.M. – 1 P.M,

 

New Wilmington

Wednesday, Oct. 8th

Wilmington Area High School

400 Wood Street

8 A.M. – 1 P.M.

Information about Making Appointments from Vitalant:

• Learn more and make an appointment to give by visiting vitalant.org by clicking here, download the Vitalant app by clicking here or call 877-25-VITAL (877-258-4825).

(File Photo of a Police Siren Light)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle report today that forty-two-year-old Kevin Woodhouse of Washington, Pennsylvania got transported to UPMC Jameson Hospital in New Castle yesterday evening for a suspected overdose. Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle went to I-376 for a report about the truck of Woodhouse, which was traveling east, then exited to State Route 18 to go south. Police officers intercepted the truck of Woodhouse at the intersection of State Route 18 and State Route 208 in Wilmington Township of Lawrence County. Charges against Woodhouse for driving under the influence are pending and the investigation into this incident is ongoing.