(File Photo of Police Siren Lights)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Hookstown, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported via release today that thirty-four-year-old Austin Miller of Hookstown was arrested for possessing drugs in Aliquippa early on Friday morning. At 12:51 a.m., PSP Beaver conducted a traffic stop on the 200 block of Spring Street and Miller was found to be in possession of drug paraphernalia during the stop. Charges against Miller are pending.
(File Photo; Source for Photo: FILE – In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks under a portrait of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, in a ceremony meeting a group of officials, in Tehran, Iran, March 8, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)
(AP) Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of regional instability.
Iranian state television and the state-run IRNA news announced the 86-year-old’s death early Sunday. President Donald Trump had announced his death hours earlier, saying it gave Iranians their “greatest chance” to “take back” their country.
The announcements came after a joint U.S. and Israeli aerial bombardment that targeted Iranian military and governmental sites. Trump said the “heavy and pinpoint bombing” was to continue through the week or as long as necessary.
The strikes opened a stunning new chapter in U.S. intervention in Iran, marking the second time in eight months that the Trump administration has attacked the country during talks over its nuclear program. The reported killing of Khamenei after decades in power appeared certain to create a significant leadership vacuum given the absence of a known successor and because the Supreme Leader had final say on all major policies.
On Sunday, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened to launch its “most-intense offensive operation” ever targeting Israel and U.S. bases.
(File Photo: Caption for Photo: PennDOT, PSP, PTC, Construction Industry Highlight National Work Zone Awareness Week)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Raccoon Township, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that a long-term lane restriction on the Route 18 (Frankfort Road) structure over Service Creek in Raccoon Township will begin today, weather permitting. Beginning at 8 A.M., a long-term single-lane restriction controlled by temporary traffic signals will occur on the Route 18 bridge located between Upper Service Road and Service Church Road as crews will conduct concrete approach slab repair work there through mid-April.
(File Photo: Caption for Photo: PennDOT, PSP, PTC, Construction Industry Highlight National Work Zone Awareness Week)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Beaver County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that a culvert replacement project on Pine Run Road (Route 1021) in Marion Township will begin today, weather permitting. Beginning at approximately 7:00 A.M., culvert replacement work requiring the closure of Pine Run Road near Ben Venue Road will occur through late May. During the replacement work, drivers will be detoured via Hartzell School Road and Route 588. Replacement work on this project worth $981,000 will be conducted by crews from Pugliano Construction Company, Inc.
SCOTT TADY
There’s more than televised basketball to get excited about this March.
Get out of the house, to see one of the many cool concerts on the calendar here in western Pennsylvania.
From an album release show by Beaver Valley chart-toppers The Jaggerz, to the farewell Pittsburgh performance from Journey; and rising country star Cody Johnson to acclaimed tribute band Brit Floyd, you’ve got choices.
Here’s a list to help:
PPG PAINTS ARENA
March 2: Journey
March 3: Three Days Grace
March 6: Cody Johnson
March 20: Bert Kreischer
May 5: Bring Me The Horizon; May 19: Bruce Springsteen; May 23: Don Toliver; June 11: 5 Seconds of Summer; June 16: Megan Moroney; June 23: Alex Warren; June 30: Lionel Richie with Earth, Wind & Fire; July 11: Meghan Trainor; July 20: Zayn; July 30-31: Nate Bargatze; Aug. 13: Zac Brown Band; Dec. 21: Andre Bocelli.
JERGEL’S RHYTHM GRILLE
March 12: FireHouse
March 15: Jaggerz CD release party
March 19: Max Weinberg’s Jukebox
March 26: Slaughter
March 28: Steelheart
March 29: Struggle Jennings
April 2: A Flock of Seagulls; April 7: Lynch Mob; April 8: Throwing Muses; April 9: Kylie Morgan; April 22: Uli Jon Roth; April 23: The Band Perry; April 28: Paul Gilbert; May 8: Crack The Sky; May 9: Buckethead; May 18: Buckcherry; May 19: Samantha Fish; May 21: Nazareth; June 22: Ana Popovic; July 5: Quiet Riot; July 12: Chris Kirkpatrick, O-Town, LFO, BBMak and Ryan Cabrera; July 13: Robert Jon & The Wreck; Sept. 16-17: Leonid & Friends.
STAGE AE
March 13: Rise Against
March 19: Dark Star Orchestra
March 22: Zara Larsson
April 8: The Last Dinner Party; April 10: 49 Winchester; April 14: The Maine; May 12: Ashnikko; May 15: Black Veil Brides; May 22: Ryan Bingham; June 1: Taking Back Sunday; June 10: Mt. Joy; June 14: Dance Gavin Dance; June 23: Young The Giant; June 24: Trombone Shorty; July 10: Louis Tomlinson; July 23: O.A.R.; Aug. 2: Black Keys; Sept. 1: Sierra Ferrell; Sept. 23: Rainbow Kitten Surprise; Sept. 25: Caamp; Oct. 10: Sugar.
PETERSEN EVENTS CENTER
March 20: Brit Floyd
March 26: Toby MAC
April 4: B2K, Bow Wow; April 11: Bailey Zimmerman; April 25: Jeezy; June 7: Teddy Swims; Aug. 21: Koe Wetzel; Sept. 17: Phil Wickham.
PALACE THEATRE
March 15: Steven Curtis Chapman
April 19: Kenny Wayne Shepherd; May 3: The Jaggerz, Chuck Blasko’s Vogues, The Skyliners, The Marcels and Pure Gold; May 19: ZZ Top; June 5: Cinderella’s Tom Keifer; July 22: Stewart Copeland; July 23: Air Supply; Oct. 15: Micky Dolenz
ROXIAN THEATRE @ CITIZENS
March 14: Earnest
March 17: Gary Numan
March 28: Thievery Corporation
April 4: Our Lady Peace and the Verve Pipe; April 7: Ally and AJ; April 14: Snarky Puppy; April 21: Band of Horses; April 24: Soulja Boy; April 26: Steel Panther; May 14: Sevendust; May 18: Altar Bridge; May 27: The Toadies; June 3: Corinne Bailey Rae; June 25: String Cheese Incident; July 16: Trampled by Turtles; Aug. 12: Courtney Barrett.
BENEDUM CENTER
March 2: Jason Isbell
March 3: Patti LuPone
March 7: Joe Bonamassa
April 8: CeCe Winans; April 10: Anne Wilson; April 11: The Temptations & The Four Tops.
CARNEGIE OF MUSIC HOMESTEAD
April 9: Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood; April 30: Jim Breuer; May 5: Melissa Etheridge; May 8: Gino Vannelli; May 28: Airplane! Live With Julie Hagerty and Robert Hays; June 7: Napoleon Dynamite – A Conversation with “Napoleon Dynamite’s” Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, & Jon Gries; June 9: Ben Folds; June 19: Patton Oswalt; June 27: Christopher Cross.
CITY WINERY PITTSBURGH
March 9: California Guitar Trio
March 15: Dar Williams
March 20: Low Cut Connie
April 13: Soul Asylum acoustic; April 14: Rufus Wainwright; April 21: BBMak; April 22: Lloyd Cole; April 24-25: Vanessa Carlton; April 29: Melissa Manchester; May 10: Willie Nile.
MR. SMALLS THEATRE
March 20: Sebastian Bach
March 27: Hunter Hayes
March 28-29: Lotus
April 7: Madison Cunningham; May 2: Afghan Whigs; May 7: Pete Thorn; May 22: Donna The Buffalo; July 30: Cat Power; Sept. 26: Ben Harper.
OAKS THEATER
March 17: Jim Messina
March 26: Spyro Gyra
March 29: Joanne Shaw Taylor.
May 7: Al Di Meola; Aug. 7: BoDeans.
CRAFTHOUSE GRILL
March 5: Sponge
March 26: The Fell.
May 18: Powerman 5000; May 31: Adelitas Way.
BYHAM THEATER
March 6: Kathleen Madigan
April 18: David Spade.
UPMC EVENTS CENTER
April 7: Bush; May 11: Bilmuri; June 15: Yellowcard, New Found Glory, Plain White T’s.
TIMBER ROCK AMPHITHEATER
April 17: Gov’t Mule; May 28, Jo Dee Messina; May 29: Gary Allan; June 12: Niko Moon; June 19: Brantley Gilbert; July 17: Blackberry Smoke; July 31: Jeff Foxworthy.
HEINZ HALL
April 11: Lake Street Dive with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; June 2: St. Vincent with the PSO; July 3: Derek Hough.
ACRISURE STADIUM
June 5-6: Morgan Wallen; Aug. 29: Bruno Mars.
PNC PARK
July 3: Noah Kahan
THUNDERBIRD CAFE
March 8: Lights
March 24: The Travelin’ McCourys
March 25: Brent Cobb
March 26: The Vindys
April 11: Kashus Culpepper; April 16: Whitney; April 23: Walter Trout; May 2: Bahamas; May 12: Marc Broussard; May 22: Southern Culture on The Skids; June 23: S.G. Goodman.
PAVILION AT STAR LAKE
June 10: MGK; June 14: Mumford & Sons; June 17: Chris Stapleton; June 20: Kid Rock; June 23: Godsmack; June 26: Riley Green; July 3: Jack Johnson; July 17: Motley Crue; July 18: Tim McGraw; July 24: Dave Matthews Band; Aug. 1: “Weird” Al Yankovic; Aug. 2: Ne-Yo & Akon; Aug. 7: Five Finger Death Punch; Aug. 8: Parker McCollum; Aug. 14: Goo Goo Dolls; Aug. 29: Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson; Sept. 3: Rufus Du Sol; Sept. 15: Breaking Benjamin.
YOUNGSTOWN FOUNDATION AMPHITHEATER
July 10: Jason Aldean; July 11: Eric Church; Aug. 9: Joe Bonamassa and Gov’t Mule.
Others
March 13: Skillet, Rivers Casino, Pittsburgh.
April 22: Rev. Horton Heat, Preserving Underground, New Kensington; June 27: Dustin Lynch, Beaver County Boom on The Bridge, Bridgewater.
(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Bedillion Honey Farm)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Industry, PA) Tens of thousands of honey bees were killed yesterday after a bee yard was set on fire in Industry. Beekeepers Mark Bedillion and Lily Bedillion, the owners of Bedillion Honey Farm, discovered the destroyed hives while performing a routine maintenance check of the facility. The fire destroyed the colonies of bees along with the wooden boxes and pallets that are used to house them. If you have any information about this fire, you can contact 724-747-4645, and a $1,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest and the conviction of the suspect(s).
(File Photo of a Police Siren Light)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Penn Hills, PA) Kelshon Lovelace, Trevor Twyman, and Lemoyne Williams were charged yesterday in connection with the death of twenty-one-year-old Vanderlee Stevenson IV. Stevenson IV passed away on December 6th, 2024 when he was shot multiple times along Universal Road in Penn Hills. Police confirm that Twyman showed up to an area hospital with a gunshot wound to his hand a few hours after the shooting took place and investigators stated that surveillance video and witness interviews helped them determine that he, Lovelace and Williams were responsible for the shooting that killed Stevenson IV. According to police, Williams was taken into custody yesterday and was taken to the Allegheny County Jail. Lovelace and Twyman were incarcerated on other unrelated criminal charges. The trio of suspects face conspiracy, criminal homicide and firearms violations charges.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – SNAP EBT information sign is displayed at a gas station in Riverwoods, Ill., Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, file)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Harrisburg, PA) According to state officials, more than 59,500 Pennsylvanians have lost federal food assistance in the six months since the imposition of work requirements for program recipients. These changes were ushered in by the marquee tax legislation from President Donald Trump, which stripped away Pennsylvania’s broad exemption from job mandates that were attached to federal nutrition assistance. As of September 1st, 2025, that meant that many able-bodied adults without young children had to show that they were working or volunteering for at least 20 hours every week to remain enrolled in the program. Recipients of food stamps who do not comply are limited under the rule to three months of benefits over a three-year period. The requirements expanded further November 1st, 2025 to cover people up to the age of sixty-four and parents of children that are fourteen years old or older. People over the age of fifty-four or parents of children younger than eighteen were exempt. The Department of Human Services for Pennsylvania confirms that 59,578 Pennsylvanians were expelled from SNAP in these recent months.
(File Photo of a Gavel)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Washington County, PA) Eighteen-year-old Zachariah Meyers, a Peters Township High School senior appeared in court today in the Washington County Courthouse for a preliminary hearing on charges that accuse him of sextorting over twenty victims under the age of eighteen. Meyers was denied bail a second time at this court appearance, a week after a judge denied his bail the first time. Meyers now faces only sixty-seven charges after he initially faced more than three hundred. Lawyers for Meyers asked the judge if he could be let out on bond, but the judge denied that, saying that he remains a threat to the community and he is a flight risk. This comes after a recent incident in which according to investigators, at least twenty-one boys were catfished and sextorted after Meyers pretended to be an adult film star from the Netherlands, with at least 14 teenagers sending pornographic pictures of themselves. After executing a search warrant at the home of Meyers on Windermere Court earlier this year, police confirm that they took Meyers into custody and a search of his phone found evidence that tied him to the social media accounts that targeted the minors. Meyers is still in the Washington County Jail without bond and his charges included trafficking in minors, sexual abuse of children, sexual exploitation of children, sexual extortion and unlawful contact with a minor.
(File Photo of an American Flag)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Annville, PA) According to a release today in Annville, Pennsylvania from the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA), they announced that its mobile veterans outreach team is available for free throughout the state to assist veterans by obtaining information and initiating benefit claim paperwork through the assistance of accredited veterans service officers. The DMVA brings services that are essential directly to veterans and can also be booked online for community events like county fairs, festivals and more. Their team offers on-site assistance that is no cost with veterans’ benefits that are supported by the DMVA’s accredited veterans service officers. Links with more information can be found below: