(File Photo: Source for Photo: A video game driver races on a simulated track at the F1 Boston Arcade, Monday, July 8, 2024 in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa).)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Duquesne, PA) A retro arcade will be taking over a former Pittsburgh-area church. According to its website, the Church Arcade will hold opening weekend events on January 31st and February 1st, 2026 and that weekend will include tournaments, craft beers, food trucks and a DJ. The Church Arcade, which is located at 32 South First Street in Duquesne, plans to offer over 100 arcade games and 30 pinball machines inside a retired Catholic church, complete with vaulted ceilings and stained glass. Attendees will not have to bring tokens or quarters for the event, because all of the games will be set to “free play.” Click here to purchase tickets or to view the schedule of events.

(Credit for Photo: Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of Cranberry Artists Network)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cranberry Township, PA) According to a release from the Cranberry Artists Network, during the month of February of 2026, the Cranberry Artists Network Art Gallery located in the Cranberry Township Municipal Center will host a Solo Exhibition by member Alan Byrne on Mondays through Thursdays 7:30 A.M. to 8:30 P.M., Fridays from 7:30 A.M. to 5 P.M. and Saturdays from 7:30 A.M. to 4 P.M. The work in this exhibit falls into several categories which includes paintings based on the photography of the Farm Security Administration, Digital Art and Illustratorealism. The mediums of the exhibition include oil, acrylic, digital and pen and ink. Byrne is a resident of Bellevue who has been a member of the Cranberry Artists Network since 2016. 

(File Photo: Source for Photo: The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, and Bishop Julian Smith, left, flank Dr. Martin Luther Kng Jr., during a civil rights march in Memphis, Tenn., March 28, 1968. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Midland, PA) Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which celebrates the life of the late minister and civil rights activist. It is also the 40th year of the holiday, because the first year that it was celebrated was 1986. Students, family members, and staff of PA Cyber will also be supporting their communities in Pennsylvania in the coming days through a united statewide effort to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. They will donate their time, meals and supplies to various organizations, including Allentown Rescue Mission, Caitlin’s Smiles and Steel City Table. According to a release from PA Cyber, they are hosting the following events throughout the state of Pennsylvania:

• Tuesday, January 20 in Erie: PA Cyber families and staff will make 200 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that will be donated to the Emmaus Soup Kitchen.
• Tuesday, January 20 in Philadelphia: The PA Cyber Philadelphia office has partnered with the Delaware County Food Bank to collect and repackage rice for donation.
• Tuesday, January 20 in Pittsburgh (Warrendale): PA Cyber families are invited to make sensory kits and birthday cards for Friendship Factory and children throughout the community.
• Wednesday, January 21 in Allentown: PA Cyber families and staff will assemble personal care kits for the Allentown Rescue Mission.
• Wednesday, January 21 in State College: Participants will make blankets for the Out of the Cold shelter in Centre County.
• Thursday, January 22 in Greensburg: PA Cyber families and staff will make 250 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that will be donated to Feeding the Spirit.
• Thursday, January 22 in Harrisburg: PA Cyber families are invited to assemble craft kits for children in hospitals with serious health challenges. Assembled kits will be donated to Caitlin’s Smiles, which impacts children throughout the Northeast.
• Thursday, January 22 in Pittsburgh (South Side): After making bagged lunches, participants will deliver them to Steel City Table.
• Thursday, January 22 in Wilkes-Barre: After making scarves, students will walk to Public Square and a bus station to distribute scarves to homeless people.

(File Photo of a Police Siren Light)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Coraopolis, PA) Coraopolis terminated its police department’s partnership with ICE after a 4-3 vote by its borough council on Thursday night after a hearing from numerous residents who opposed the deal inked earlier this month. This vote officially ended the Coraopolis Borough’s participation in the 287(g) program, which deputizes local law enforcement to act on behalf of ICE, although Coraopolis borough council and police Chief Jason Stewart stated that the department will still assist the federal government if it is called upon. 

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported via release yesterday that twenty-seven-year-old Caitlyn Pike of Industry was not charged after causing a single-vehicle crash in Beaver County on Friday evening. At 8:24 p.m., Pike was driving west on US Route 30 in Greene Township west of Red Dog Road and did not negotiate a right curve before hitting a utility pole. Pike had a suspected minor injury after the crash occurred, but she refused transportation. 

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported via release yesterday that they are currently investigating a theft that occurred in Hanover Township of Beaver County on November 13th, 2025. It happened between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. along Anderson Hozak Road. The victim of the crime was an unidentified seventy-year-old woman from Clinton, Pennsylvania, and she had $20,000 stolen from her after being involved in a Microsoft scam. The female victim also sent the money via Bitcoin.

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Badge)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported via release yesterday that they are currently investigating the report of a child custody order violation in Beaver County. This happened on Saturday at 1:41 p.m. along Union Lane in Glasgow Borough and the victim was an unidentified fifty-two-year-old man from Midland. 

(File Photo of Police Siren Lights)

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.