With winter fast approaching, AAA East Central is offering free battery and electrical system checks for Pittsburgh-area residents. At the Battery Wellness Clinics, technicians will determine if attendees’ batteries are strong enough to endure the cold winter months.  If needed, attendees can purchase batteries on-site.

Summer heat breaks down the components inside a battery, making them susceptible to failure in cold weather.  AAA’s number one service call during the winter is for dead batteries, and each year, AAA East Central responds to more than 270,000 battery-related calls. To celebrate AAA Car Care Month, AAA East Central is offering this free service to help members and the public avoid being stranded with a dead battery in the dead of winter.

WHERE & WHEN:
The free Battery Wellness Clinic will be held at the following AAA Branch office from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.:

Thursday, Oct. 10

North Hills (4790 McKnight Road)

Thursday, Oct. 10

Monroeville (2725 Mosside Boulevard)

Tuesday, Oct. 15

Pleasant Hills (9 Clairton Boulevard)

Thursday, Oct. 17

Rochester (300 Adams Street)

(Story written by Beaver County Radio News Corespondant Sandy Giordano)

DRAW Collective’s Dan Engen presented the final options and their costs.  At Tuesday night’s meeting, residents and board members were permitted to ask questions at the October 22, 2024 meeting. The board meets in regular session on Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at 7 p.m. and their decision will be presented.

This week, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) and his wife Zoë Bunnell welcomed their fourth child into their family, a healthy baby boy.   

Congressman Deluzio and his family are thrilled to share this news and released the following statement:   

“We are over the moon to welcome our son into our family and are grateful that both the baby and Zoë are healthy and recovering well.   

“We want to thank the dedicated team of nurses, doctors, and staff at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital who helped us begin this new chapter for our family!   

“Our hearts are full, and we thank everyone for their well wishes. We’re so proud to be raising our family in Western Pennsylvania.” 

(Hanover, PA) The superintendent of South Western School District confirmed on Friday that the Pennsylvania school district has boarded up window openings it recently installed that allowed people in a middle school hallway to peer into two gender-neutral-designated bathrooms. After a vote in August from the South Western School District’s conservative-majority school board, the board president asserted that this action was designed to monitor and prevent misbehavior. The windows were not installed in any of the school’s non-gender-neutral bathrooms. Here in Pennsylvania, the Education Law Center wrote in a January analysis that federal appeals courts have ruled students have a right to use bathrooms and locker rooms aligned with their gender identity. 

(Pittsburgh, PA) Pennsylvania is one of the top states in the country where automobile crashes occur, most of them involving deer. According to new data from State Farm insurance, the chance of crashing into a deer in Pennsylvania is 1 in 61, the fourth highest in the country, while the chance of an animal crash in Pennsylvania is 1 in 128.

(Pennsylvania) Panera Bread has settled a case with the family of twenty-one-year-old Sarah Katz, who passed away after drinking the company’s Charged Lemonade. In 2023, Katz’s family filed an incorrect death lawsuit which stated that Panera Bread did not warn customers of the ingredients in the drink or did not call it an “energy drink.” Katz went into cardiac arrest in September 2022 after drinking the lemonade at a Panera Bread location and died after a second cardiac arrest. The lawsuit said that Katz had no idea how much caffeine the drink had, because she was not warned. According to NBC, this case was supposed to go to trial this month and details of the settlement were not released. 

(East Palestine, Ohio) After a train derailment that happened in East Palestine, Ohio in 2023, some residents should still be able to receive personal injury payments even while the bulk of their $600 million class action settlement with Norfolk Southern railroad remains on hold during an appeal. The lawyers haven’t provided any breakdown of how many of the roughly 55,000 claims they received are for injuries and how many are for property damage, nor have they said how much each person will receive. Only 370 households and 47 businesses opted out of the deal. Residents don’t really know exactly how much they will receive. 

Source for Photo: FILE – A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains, Feb. 6, 2023. Norfolk Southern announced new details Monday, Sept. 18, about its plan to compensate East Palestine residents for lost home values since the fiery derailment disrupted life in the eastern Ohio town in February. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

(Sewickley, PA) A man who exposed himself to children at a Scoops Ice Cream store appeared in court on Tuesday when 82-year-old David Whitten walked into his preliminary hearing and tried to cover his face with a jacket. In the middle of a Wednesday afternoon last month, police say Whitten pulled his pants down near Scoops Ice Cream store, exposing himself, and began touching himself inappropriately. The district judge told Whitten he’s not to have any contact with Scoops’ witnesses or victims, no contact with minors without supervision, and must stay 100 yards away from schools and parks. Whitten’s defense attorney decided to waive the hearing even though there were two female witnesses that were ready to testify if needed.

(Story written by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio News Correspondant, Published on October 9th, 2024 at 8:01 A.M.)

(Ambridge, PA) CVS in Ambridge is back in operation. Beaver County Radio was told they are back in operation and no other information was available.

Source for Photo: A box of Maximum Strength Zantac tablets is shown at a pharmacy, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019, in Miami Beach, Florida. CVS has halted sales of the popular heartburn treatment and the store generic version after warnings by U.S. health regulators. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

(Ambridge, PA) After holding his two-year-old daughter hostage on Tuesday, a Beaver County man is behind bars and will face charges. Beaver County 911 confirmed law enforcement was called to 6th Street in Ambridge around 2:30 p.m. and spotted a man barricading a child. SWAT team officers were called after police tried to negotiate for several hours, and police say it was because of a language barrier. Ambridge Police Chief John Deluca said that the home officers found the man in is the same one where on Monday the man faced charges after jumping on the roof of that home, a neighbor’s roof, and running after an Ambridge police officer was injured. The child According to police, the two-year-old has been returned to her mother. The man is currently in the Beaver County jail, and the charges he will face are unclear at this time.