(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – This July 6, 2012 file photo D’Angelo performs at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. (Photo by Cheryl Gerber/Invision/AP, File)

(AP) D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer recognized by his raspy yet smooth voice and for garnering mainstream attention with the shirtless “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” music video, has died. He was 51.

The singer, whose real name was Michael Eugene Archer, died Tuesday after a long bout with cancer, his family said in a statement.

It called him “a shining star of our family and has dimmed his light for us in this life,” adding that they are “eternally grateful for the legacy of extraordinarily moving music he leaves behind.”

In his music, D’Angelo blended hip-hop grit, emphatic soul and gospel-rooted emotion into a sound that helped spearhead the neo-soul movement of the 1990s. Earlier this year, the Virginia native celebrated the 30th anniversary of his debut studio album “Brown Sugar,” a platinum-selling offering that produced signature hits like “Lady” and the title track. The 1995 album earned him multiple Grammy nominations and cemented him as one of R&B’s most original new voices.

D’Angelo’s sultry vocal style — a mix of raspy texture and church-bred fluidity — set him apart from his peers. That voice became inseparable from the striking visuals of his 2000 single “Untitled (How Does It Feel).” The minimalist, shirtless music video became a cultural touchstone, igniting conversations around artistry, sexuality and vulnerability in Black male representation. The song earned him a Grammy for best male R&B vocal performance and propelled his sophomore album “Voodoo,” topping the Billboard 200 chart and winning the Grammy for best R&B album.

With an idiosyncratic spirit not unlike Prince, D’Angelo’s devotion was always to the craft — not the machinery around it. In a 2000 interview with The Associated Press, he spoke candidly about the cost of chasing commercial success.

“(Musicians) have gotten trapped into that mode of thinking marketable and commercial. That destroys art, that destroys the essence of what it is about,” he said. “You cannot, you cannot work like that. You cannot make music like that. That’s not what this is about.”

That same year, D’Angelo reflected on his need for solitude amid fame: “I used to hang out a lot, but now I’ve become more of a recluse,” he told AP. “I long for just peace and silence.”

Beyond his own catalog, D’Angelo’s artistry shined in collaborations. He memorably duetted with Lauryn Hill on the soulful ballad “Nothing Even Matters,” a highlight of her landmark 1998 album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.” He also contributed to The Roots’ 1996 album “Illadelph Halflife” and was part of the supergroup Black Men United, which yielded one song: “U Will Know,” which D’Angelo wrote and co-produced, for the film “Jason’s Lyric” in 1994.

“I remember hearing your music for the first time… I said to myself damn whoever this is they are anointed,” Jamie Foxx said on social media. “Then when I finally got a chance to see you… Like everyone when they saw the most incredible music video of our time… I was blown away… I thought to myself I have to see this person in concert… I had my chance to see you at the house of blues… You came out and got right down to business… Your voice was silky and flawless… I was graciously envious of your style and your swag…”

Years before stepping back from public view, D’Angelo’s life and music were closely intertwined with Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone in the ’90s. The pair met while he was finishing “Brown Sugar” and bonded over their shared Southern roots and deep church upbringing. Stone contributed to the album and later collaborated with him on “Everyday,” a song from her 1999 debut album, “Black Diamond.”

Stone once described D’Angelo as her “musical soul mate,” to the AP in 1999, adding that their working relationship was “’like milk and cereal …. Musically, it was magic. It’s something that I have not been able to do with any other producer or musician.” They had a son together, the artist Swayvo Twain, born Michael Archer Jr.

Stone died earlier this year in a car crash. She was 63.

D’Angelo also has a daughter, Imani Archer, who is also a music artist.

In the years that followed, D’Angelo’s life became as defined by absence as by acclaim. After “Voodoo,” he withdrew from the spotlight for more than a decade, fueling speculation about personal struggles and creative battles. His long-awaited return came in 2014 with “Black Messiah,” credited to D’Angelo and The Vanguard. The urgent and politically charged album that arrived amid nationwide protests and helped usher in a wave of activist music responding to police killings of Black Americans and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The album debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart and won him a Grammy for best R&B album, reaffirming his stature as a generational voice. Its standout single, “Really Love,” earned him another Grammy for best R&B song and earned a nomination for record of the year.

In May, D’Angelo withdrew from being a headliner for the 2025 Roots Picnic in Philadelphia due to “an unforeseen medical delay regarding surgery (he) had earlier this year,” the artists shared in a statement. D’Angelo said he was advised the performance “could further complicate matters.”

Beyond his biggest singles, D’Angelo’s catalog includes fan favorites like “Me and Those Dreamin’ Eyes of Mine,” “Cruisin’” and “Devil’s Pie.” His influence stretched far beyond the charts: he inspired a wave of artists including Maxwell, Alicia Keys and Frank Ocean.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and First Lady Lori Shapiro made a statement in Harrisburg yesterday following the guilty plea to charges including attempted murder yesterday by thirty-eight-year-old Cody Balmer, who was accused of setting fire to Governor Shapiro’s mansion in April. Balmer will be in state prison for 25 to 50 years after being sentenced under a plea deal. Balmer also made guilty pleas to burglary, loitering, terrorism, aggravated assault, aggravated arson, 22 counts of arson and 21 counts of reckless endangerment in the April 13th attack which caused damage worth millions of dollars to the mansion of Shapiro. Shapiro admitted something about Balmer yesterday when he said: “It’s especially hard to know that he tried to burn our family to death while we slept.” Shapiro told reporters after the statement that he and his wife have struggled to make sense of this whole incident that Balmer caused. Shapiro also noted that the words “attempted murder” were difficult to say aloud knowing that he was the one that Balmer was targeting.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Diane Keaton appears at the Ralph Lauren Spring 2023 Fashion Experience in Pasadena, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

(AP) Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star of “Annie Hall,” “The Godfather” films and “Father of the Bride,” whose quirky, vibrant manner and depth made her one of the most singular actors of a generation, has died. She was 79.

A family member told The Associated Press that Keaton died in California with loved ones. People magazine first reported the death on Saturday, noting that her health had suddenly declined. No other details were immediately available and representatives did not respond to request for comment.

The unexpected news was met with shock around the world.

Francis Ford Coppola, who cast her in “The Godfather,” wrote on Instagram that, “Words can’t express the wonder and talent of Diane Keaton. Endlessly intelligent, so beautiful…Everything about Diane was creativity personified.”

Bette Midler, who she costarred with Keaton in “The First Wives Club,” wrote, “She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star. What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!”

Leonardo DiCaprio, who played her nephew in “Marvin’s Room” when he was 18, wrote on Instagram that she was “one of a kind. Brilliant, funny and unapologetically herself…she will be deeply missed.”

Keaton was the kind of actor who helped make films iconic and timeless, from her “La-dee-da, la-dee-da” phrasing as Annie Hall, bedecked in that necktie, bowler hat, vest and khakis, to her heartbreaking turn as Kay Adams, the woman unfortunate enough to join the Corleone family.

Her star-making performances in the 1970s, many of which were in Woody Allen films, were not a flash in the pan either, and she would continue to charm new generations for decades thanks in part to a longstanding collaboration with filmmaker Nancy Meyers.

She played a businessperson who unexpectedly inherits an infant in “Baby Boom,” the mother of the bride in the beloved remake of “Father of the Bride,” a newly single woman in “The First Wives Club,” and a divorced playwright who gets involved with Jack Nicholson’s music executive in “Something’s Gotta Give.”

Keaton won an Oscar for “Annie Hall” and would go on to be nominated three more times, for “Reds,” playing the journalist and suffragist Louise Bryant, “Marvin’s Room,” as a caregiver who suddenly needs care herself, and “Something’s Gotta Give,” as a middle-aged divorcee who is the object of several men’s affections.

In her very Keaton way, upon accepting her Oscar in 1978 she laughed and said, “This is something.”

A child of Hollywood breaks through in New York

Keaton was born Diane Hall in January 1946 in Los Angeles, though her family was not part of the film industry she would find herself in. Her mother was a homemaker and photographer, and her father was in real estate and civil engineering, and both would inspire her love in the arts, from fashion to architecture.

Keaton was drawn to theater and singing while in school in Santa Ana, California, and she dropped out of college after a year to make a go of it in Manhattan. Actors’ Equity already had a Diane Hall in their ranks, and she took Keaton, her mother’s maiden name, as her own.

She studied under Sanford Meisner in New York and has credited him with giving her the freedom to “chart the complex terrain of human behavior within the safety of his guidance. It made playing with fire fun.”

“More than anything, Sanford Meisner helped me learn to appreciate the darker side of behavior,” she wrote in her 2012 memoir, “Then Again.” “I always had a knack for sensing it but not yet the courage to delve into such dangerous, illuminating territory.”

She started on the stage as an understudy in the Broadway production for “Hair,” and in Allen’ s “Play It Again, Sam” in 1968, for which she would receive a Tony nomination. And yet she remained deeply self-conscious about her appearance and battled bulimia in her 20s.

Becoming a star with “The Godfather” and Woody Allen

Keaton made her film debut in the 1970 romantic comedy “Lovers and Other Strangers,” but her big breakthrough would come a few years later when she was cast in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather,” which won best picture and become one of the most beloved films of all time. And yet even she hesitated to return for the sequel, though after reading the script she decided otherwise.

She summed up her role as Kay, a role she never related to even though she savored memories of acting with Al Pacino.

The 1970s were an incredibly fruitful time for Keaton thanks in part to her ongoing collaboration with Allen in both comedic and dramatic roles. She appeared in “Sleeper,” “Love and Death,” “Interiors,” Manhattan,” and the film version of “Play it Again, Sam.” The 1977 crime-drama “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” also earned her raves.

Allen and the late Marshall Brickman gave Keaton one of her most iconic roles in “Annie Hall,” the infectious woman from Chippewa Falls whom Allen’s Alvy Singer cannot get over. The film is considered one of the great romantic comedies of all time, with Keaton’s eccentric, self-deprecating Annie at its heart.

In the New York Times, critic Vincent Canby wrote, “As Annie Hall, Miss Keaton emerges as Woody Allen’s Liv Ullman. His camera finds beauty and emotional resources that somehow escape the notice of other directors. Her Annie Hall is a marvelous nut.”

She acknowledged parallels between Annie Hall and real life, while also downplaying them.

“My last name is Hall. Woody and I did share a significant romance, according to me, anyway,” she wrote. “I did want to be a singer. I was insecure, and I did grope for words.”

Keaton and Allen were also in a romantic relationship, from about 1968, when she met him while auditioning for his play, until about 1974. Afterward they remained collaborators and friends. She later appeared in “Radio Days,” in 1987, and “Manhattan Murder Mystery,” in 1993.

“He was so hip, with his thick glasses and cool suits,” Keaton wrote in her memoir. “But it was his manner that got me, his way of gesturing, his hands, his coughing and looking down in a self-deprecating way while he told jokes.”

She was also romantically linked to Pacino, who played her husband in “The Godfather,” and Warren Beatty who directed her and whom she co-starred with in “Reds.” She never married but did adopt two children when she was in her 50s: a daughter, Dexter, and a son, Duke.

“I figured the only way to realize my number-one dream of becoming an actual Broadway musical comedy star was to remain an adoring daughter. Loving a man, a man, and becoming a wife, would have to be put aside,” she wrote in the memoir.

“The names changed, from Dave to Woody, then Warren, and finally Al. Could I have made a lasting commitment to them? Hard to say. Subconsciously I must have known it could never work, and because of this they’d never get in the way of achieving my dreams.”

When Keaton met Nancy Meyers

Not all of Keaton’s roles were home runs, like her foray into action in George Roy Hill’s John le Carré adaptation of “Little Drummer Girl.” But in 1987 she’d begin another long-standing collaboration with Nancy Meyers, which would result in four beloved films. Reviews for that first outing, “Baby Boom,” directed by Charles Shyer, might have been mixed at the time but Pauline Kael even described Keaton’s as a “glorious comedy performance that rides over many of the inanities.”

Their next team-up would be in the remake of “Father of the Bride,” which Shyer directed and co-wrote with Meyers. She and Steve Martin played the flustered parents to the bride which would become a big hit and spawn a sequel.

In 2003, Meyers would direct her in “Something’s Gotta Give,” a romantic comedy in which she begins a relationship with a playboy womanizer, played by Jack Nicholson, while also being pursued by a younger doctor, played by Keanu Reeves. Her character Erica Barry, with her beautiful Hamptons home and ivory outfits was a key inspiration for the recent costal grandmother fashion trend. It earned her what would be her last Oscar nomination and, later, she’d call it her favorite film.

She also directed occasionally, with works including an episode of “Twin Peaks,” a Belinda Carlisle music video and the sister dramedy “Hanging Up,” which Nora Eprhon and Delia Ephron co-wrote, and she starred in alongside Meg Ryan and Lisa Kudrow.

Keaton continued working steadily throughout the 2000s, with notable roles in “The Family Stone,” as a dying matriarch reluctant to give her ring to her son, in “Morning Glory,” as a morning news anchor, and the “Book Club” films.

She wrote several books as well, including memoirs “Then Again” and “Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty,” and an art and design book, “The House that Pinterest Built.”

Keaton was celebrated with an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2017, telling the AP at the time that it was a surreal experience.

“I feel like it’s the wedding I never had, or the big gathering I never had, or the retirement party I never had, or all these things that I always avoided — the big bash,” she said. “It’s really a big event for me and I’m really, deeply grateful.”

In 2022, she “cemented” her legacy with a hand and footprint ceremony outside the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, with her children looking on.

“I don’t think about my film legacy,” she said at the event. “I’m just lucky to have been here at all in any way, shape or form. I’m just fortunate. I don’t see myself anything other than that.”

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PITTSBURGH–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct 14, 2025–PPG (NYSE: PPG) today announced the introduction of PPG MIX‘N’SHAKE™ automated stirring technology designed to eliminate traditional manual stirring methods in the automotive refinish industry. The system, which is available globally, improves paint mix consistency, reduces consumable waste and saves time for painters and body shops.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251013065453/en/

PPG MIX’N’SHAKE™ automated stirring technology replaces manual stirring processes to ensure a homogenized paint mix, complete color accuracy, and a better workplace.

The PPG Mix‘n’Shake system will debut at the EQUIP AUTO trade show in Paris taking place Oct. 14-18. PPG will also showcase its PPG LINQ™ digital ecosystem, which is a finalist for the prestigious EQUIP AUTO Innovation Award.

Because the PPG Mix‘n’Shake system eliminates manual stirring, it ensures consistent color accuracy, reduces rework and boosts productive work hours by up to 6%, according to company data. The system delivers a fully homogenized, ready-to-spray paint mix in less than 90 seconds through a unique, automated stirring device combined with an exclusive notched cup that attaches directly to the spray gun. The device and cup design are both patent pending.

“The PPG LINQ digital ecosystem and PPG MOONWALK® automated mixing system have transformed color identification and paint mixing in the refinish industry, but the repetitive final step of stirring has remained largely unchanged,” said Alban d’Epenoux, PPG global marketing director, Automotive Refinish. “The PPG Mix‘n’Shake system addresses this, ensuring that painters achieve an accurate mix every time without the inefficiencies and inconsistencies of manual stirring, ultimately freeing up time for higher value tasks.”

The PPG Mix‘n’Shake technology features pre-programmed settings for primers, basecoats and clearcoats. Users insert the notched cup, select a setting and let the device handle the mixing. Once complete, the cup attaches directly to a spray gun, reducing handling and streamlining workflow.

“We found that body shops that typically do six repairs per day can save up to 16 working days a year with PPG Mix’n’Shake,” said d’Epenoux. “The system also reduces the cost of consumable waste such as stirring sticks, mixing cups, strainers, and other disposables by up to 10%.”

The self-contained system eliminates spills and splashes to create a cleaner, more organized and attractive workspace. It is also compatible with both waterborne and solvent-borne formulations and integrates with the PPG LINQ digital ecosystem for enhanced workflow management. For more information, visit ppgmixnshake.com.

PPG will be exhibiting at EQUIP AUTO at Hall 3 Stand B090, where attendees can experience live demonstrations of the PPG Mix‘n’Shake system and learn more about PPG’s digital solutions during scheduled presentations and speaker sessions. View the commercial video here.

The system will be marketed and distributed under PPG’s SEM brand as SEM Mix’n’Shake in its U.S. and Canada, and Australia and New Zealand regions and as PPG Mix’n’Shake in Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cranberry Township, PA) The Yinzer Dogs food truck will have its pre-opening for its brick-and-mortar location in Cranberry Township starting at 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. through four days, tomorrow through Saturday, October 18th. Restaurant locations of the Yinzer Dogs brand are also planned in both the Cranberry Springs plaza at 2085 MacKenzie Way and in the Strip District of Pittsburgh to prepare for business at the 2026 NFL Draft in Pittsburgh, which will be from April 23rd through the 25th of 2026. This food truck is owned by Pittsburgh radio personalities Jim Krenn and Larry Richert, along with former Pitt and Miami Dolphins quarterback and Pro Football Hall of Famer Dan Marino. This food truck sells menu items including: their signature Yinzer Dog, which is a pork-and-beef hot dog, a kielbasa sandwich on Mancini bread that has provolone cheese, onion and bell peppers topped on it, mini-pierogies topped with their “secret” ingredient, “Yinzer Dust” and Steel City French Fries, which are straight-cut fries that also have “Yinzer Dust” on them. A topping bar that is self-service with a projected twenty items and rotating flavors of Yinzer Dogs Yinzer Pop, which is bottled locally by Grandpa Joe’s Candy Shop, will also be other offerings planned at this food truck. Richert also has promised “Yinzer-oriented” trinkets to be sold there.

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Noah Haswelll, Beaver County Radio News

(New Brighton, PA) According to a release from the Beaver Valley Artists, the Merrick Art Gallery in New Brighton will host an event on Thursday, November 6th at 7 p.m. to showcase some art. The featured artist for both the Beaver Valley Artists in November of 2025 and for this event is Lynn Jacques, an artist from Pittsburgh, specifically of Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania. Jacques will share her approach to collages at this event, and collages are one of the types of projects that she is known for, along with her watercolor and pen paintings of some locations in Pittsburgh. Besides creating art for over thirty-five years, Jacques works as a vocational rehab counselor full-time. Jacques has also worked in acrylic, collage and watercolor after attending both Grove City College and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that on Thursday, October 16th, weather permitting, bridge inspection activities on I-376 (Beaver Valley Expressway) in Potter and Vanport Townships will occur. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, bridge inspection activities requiring a single lane restriction in each direction on the I-376 Vanport Bridge over the Ohio River will occur between the Monaca/Shippingport (Exit 39) interchange and Beaver (Exit 38B) exit as crews from the Mackin Engineering Group, Inc. and the Sofis Company, Inc. will conduct inspection work there.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Cody Balmer, accused of setting a fire at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s official residence, leaves Dauphin County Courthouse on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025 in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man who scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and used beer bottles filled with gasoline to ignite the occupied Pennsylvania governor’s mansion pleaded guilty Tuesday to the attempted murder of Gov. Josh Shapiro and other charges.

Cody Balmer also entered pleas to terrorism, 22 counts of arson, aggravated arson, burglary, aggravated assault of Shapiro, 21 counts of reckless endangerment and loitering in the April 13 attack that caused millions of dollars in damage to the state-owned brick building.

Under a plea deal, Balmer was sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison, far less than he could have faced if the case had gone to trial. He declined to address the judge about the crime, answering questions with short, simple answers.

Defense attorney Bryan Walk said Balmer “is taking full responsibility” and paying “a hefty price for a man who’s 38 years old.”

Shapiro said during a news conference soon after the sentencing that he and his family support the plea deal, and that it provides real accountability.

Shapiro and members of his family had to be awakened and evacuated, but no one was injured in the fire. The multiple arson and endangerment charges reflected the number of people in the residence at the time, including the governor’s family, guests and state troopers.

Shapiro lamented the impact of political violence, warning it is discouraging candidates from running for office. He said his family isn’t alone in experiencing political violence, and it shouldn’t be accepted as the normal course of doing business.

Shapiro said as leaders across the world have reached out to him after the attack, “inevitably, those conversations turn to their own sense of vulnerability and their own worry about political violence.”

He says he has talked to potential candidates who said they don’t want to run because it would put their families at risk.

The fire was set hours after the family celebrated the Jewish holiday of Passover with a Seder in the residence. Prosecutors played video clips that showed Molotov cocktails going off and a figure inside and outside the residence. Judge Deborah Curcillo called the video “horrific” and “very frightening.”

Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo told the court the video shows Balmer hitting the doors leading to where Shapiro and his family were sleeping, but he was unable to get through. Smoke was building up inside as Balmer deployed the second incendiary device. Fifteen overnight guests — including children — and two state troopers were inside.

Shapiro and his wife, Lori, provided a victim statement read in court that described how they were left feeling exposed in ways they would not have imagined, calling it “a fear and anxiety we are learning to live with.” The experience has added stress to their children’s lives, they wrote.

Balmer told police he planned to beat Shapiro with a small sledgehammer if he had encountered him after breaking into the building, according to court documents. Balmer turned himself in the next afternoon.

Police say Balmer broke in through the southern wing of the residence, into a room often used to entertain crowds and display art. Investigators recovered two broken glass beer bottles containing gasoline. The fire charred walls, tables, buffet serving dishes, plates and a piano. Window panes and brick around doors and windows were also damaged.

The attack against a Jewish governor during the Passover weekend raised questions about Balmer’s motivation, but Balmer told The Associated Press in a May letter from jail that had not been a factor in his decision.

“He can be Jewish, Muslim, or a purple people eater for all I care and as long as he leaves me and mine alone,” Balmer wrote.

Chardo said Balmer told investigators he was concerned about the war in Gaza and “the potential for many millions dying — his words. And he said, you know, even if I just have to take a life, I’m not crazy about having to take a life, but I will if it’s because of the millions endangered. So he viewed this as an offset to the the war in the Middle East.”

Balmer told the AP in a brief June 9 video interview from Camp Hill State Prison that he did think beforehand about whether children might be injured.

“Does anyone ever consider children?” Balmer said in June. “It doesn’t seem that way. I sure as hell did. I’m glad no one got hurt.” Asked why he felt Shapiro had somehow done him wrong, Balmer replied: “I’m not going to answer that.”

Balmer’s mother said days after his arrest that she had tried to get him assistance for mental health issues, but “nobody would help.” Court proceedings were delayed while he received mental health treatment, his lawyer has said.

A letter from Balmer’s relatives read in court on Tuesday said he stopped taking medication, leading to manic episodes and a “dark and difficult path.”

At a court hearing a few days after the fire, Balmer told a judge he was an unemployed welder with no income or savings and “a lot of children.”

The residence, built in 1968, did not have sprinklers. Work to fix the damage and to bolster its security features continues.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Rochester, PA) The AAA branch office in Rochester will host AAA’s free Battery Wellness Clinic on Thursday, October 16th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This is for residents of the Pittsburgh area or others that need their car battery and electrical systems checked. Attendees of this event can buy batteries on-site if needed and technicians at this event will determine if the batteries of attendees have enough strength to endure the cold months of winter. According to AAA, summer heat breaks down the components inside a car’s battery, which can lead to battery failure during cold weather and dead batteries are the number one reason for service calls. Over 270,000 battery-related calls are what the AAA East Central office responds to each year.