Scott Tady Going Solo on “The Beaver Morning Show” Also Expanding to 4 Hours

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(Brighton Twp., Pa.) Have you wondered what Scott Tady has been up to since he left the newspaper? Well he has been co-hosting “The Beaver Morning Show” weekdays on 95.7 FM, 1460 WMBA and beavercountyradio.com. The show started in April with Tady and then co-host Frank Sparks weekdays from 7-10 AM. In August, Sparks left Tady and moved over to 99.3 FM, 1230 WBVP, and beavercountyradio.com to host “Driving in the Fast Lane” weekdays from 6:30 AM to 9 AM to replace the retiring Mike Romigh. Scott then took over the show by himself until a new cohost was found. In late December management decided that he has done such a good job with the show that he would host the show by himself on a permanent basis.

It is also being announced that starting on Monday, January 6, 2025 the show will expand to four hours per day from 6-10AM weekdays.

Tady joined the Beaver County Radio Staff part time in April. After a long tenure at the local paper he left and moved into a full-time role with the station in early October.

Scott and Frank started a weekly show on Thursdays from 8-10AM during the morning show titled “Backyard Beaver County” that  features all local home grown music. The Beaver is also the only local station that has local artists in rotation with all the popular hits you have come to know.

Since 2000 when WMBA was purchased by then owner Frank Iorio  the station had been simulcast with WBVP forming Beaver County Radio. In In September of 2023 management at St. Barnabas Broadcasting decided to once again split the stations after the addition of 95.7 FM as a translator for WMBA. The format that was decided on was a country slash rock format and the station was rebranded and launched as The Beaver that same month.

Make plans to tune you radio to 95.7 FM, and 1460 WMBA or listen on our App weekdays from 6-10A M.

Great sponsorship opportunities are available for “The Beaver Morning Show” by calling 724-846-4100 or emailing fsparks@beavercountyradio.com.

 

Gas prices in Western Pennsylvania drop by a penny, according to AAA East Central’s gas price report

(File Photo: Source for Photo: A customer holds a credit card at the pay-at-the-pump gasoline pump in Rolling Meadow, Ill., Thursday, June 30, 2022. The U.S. economy shrank from April through June for a second straight quarter, contracting at a 0.9% annual pace and raising fears that the nation may be approaching a recession. The decline that the Commerce Department reported Thursday, July 28, in the gross domestic product — the broadest gauge of the economy — followed a 1.6% annual drop from January through March. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are a penny lower in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.36 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The report confirms that the average price for gas in Western Pennsylvania last week was about $3.38. The report also states that the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is about $3.41.

According to the report, here are the prices this week for a gallon of unleaded self-serve gasoline in Western Pennsylvania areas:

$3.332      Altoona
$3.410      Beaver
$3.490      Bradford
$3.227      Brookville
$3.437      Butler
$3.364      Clarion
$3.354      DuBois
$3.329      Erie
$3.360      Greensburg
$3.408      Indiana
$3.379      Jeannette
$3.454      Kittanning
$3.397      Latrobe
$3.331      Meadville
$3.454      Mercer
$3.148      New Castle
$3.368      New Kensington
$3.399      Oil City
$3.340      Pittsburgh

$3.221      Sharon
$3.354      Uniontown
$3.499      Warren
$3.284      Washington

2025 Pennsylvania Farm Show debuts theme of “Powering Pennsylvania”

(File Photo: Caption for Photo: Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding speaks during the kick-off of the 2020 Pennsylvania Farm Show on Saturday, January 4, 2020.)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding was the leader of a tour at the 2025 Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg on Thursday. The theme was revealed as “Powering Pennsylvania” for this year. Redding spoke about the importance of how agriculture fills us up and how people from all walks of life work for the agriculture industry. According to Redding, agriculture not only drives the economy, but also benefits the quality of life and the communities of Pennsylvania.

City of New Orleans returns to normal following truck attack that killed fourteen on New Year’s Day

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Trevant Hayes, 20, sits in the French Quarter after the death of his friend, Nikyra Dedeaux, 18, after a pickup truck crashed into pedestrians on Bourbon Street followed by a shooting in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A mix of law enforcement, street performers and football fans has filled New Orleans’ blocks as the city inches back to normalcy while mourning victims of the deadly New Year’s rampage in which an Army veteran plowed a truck into revelers.

The attack along Bourbon Street killed 14 people, along with the driver, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who officials said was inspired by the Islamic State militant group. Jabbar was fatally shot in a firefight with police after steering his speeding truck around a barricade and plowing into the crowd. About 30 people were injured.

Authorities finished processing the scene Thursday morning, removing the last of the bodies. Bourbon Street — famous worldwide for music, open-air drinking and festive vibes — reopened for business by early afternoon.

On the same block where the attack took place, trombone player and lifelong New Orleanian Jonas Green said it was important for his band to be out there the day after the violence.

“I know with this music, it heals, it transforms the feelings that we’re going through into something better,” Green said. “Got to keep on going.”

The Sugar Bowl college football game between Notre Dame and Georgia, which was postponed by a day in the interest of national security, was played Thursday evening.

The Joan of Arc parade in the French Quarter is still scheduled to take place Monday to kick off carnival season ahead of Mardi Gras, said Antoinette de Alteriis, one of the organizers. She said they expect close to its typical crowd in the thousands.

The FBI has continued to hunt for clues about Jabbar but, a day into its investigation, the agency said it was confident he was not aided by anyone else in the attack, which killed an 18-year-old aspiring nurse, a single mother, a father of two and a former Princeton University football star, among others.

The FBI said that hours before the attack, Jabbar, a 42-year-old American citizen from Texas, posted five videos on his Facebook account in which he proclaimed his support for the Islamic State group and previewed the violence that he would soon unleash in the famed French Quarter district.

It was the deadliest IS-inspired assault on U.S. soil in years, laying bare what federal officials have warned is a resurgent international terrorism threat. It also comes as the FBI and other agencies brace for dramatic leadership upheaval, and likely policy changes, after President-elect Donald Trump’s administration takes office.

Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, stressed there was no indication of a connection between the New Orleans attack and the explosion Wednesday of a Tesla Cybertruck packed with fireworks outside Trump’s Las Vegas hotel.

The New Orleans attack plans also included the placement of crude bombs in the neighborhood in an apparent attempt to cause more carnage, officials said. Two improvised explosive devices left in coolers several blocks apart were rendered safe at the scene. Other devices were determined to be nonfunctional.

Investigators also were trying to understand more about Jabbar’s path to radicalization, which they say culminated with him picking up a rented truck in Houston on Dec. 30 and driving it to New Orleans the following night.

The FBI recovered a black IS flag from Jabbar’s rented pickup and reviewed five videos posted to Facebook, including one in which he said he originally planned to harm his family and friends but was concerned news headlines would not focus on the “war between the believers and the disbelievers,” Raia said.

Jabbar also stated he joined IS before last summer and provided a last will and testament, the FBI said.

Jabbar joined the Army in 2007, serving on active duty in human resources and information technology and deploying to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010, the service said. He transferred to the Army Reserve in 2015 and left in 2020 with the rank of staff sergeant.

A U.S. government official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly, said Jabbar traveled to Egypt in 2023, staying in Cairo for a week, before returning to the U.S. and then traveling to Toronto for three days. It was not immediately clear what he did during those travels.

Abdur-Rahim Jabbar, Jabbar’s younger brother, told The Associated Press on Thursday it “doesn’t feel real” that his brother could have done this.

“I never would have thought it’d be him,” he said. “It’s completely unlike him.”

He said his brother had been isolated in the last few years but also had been in touch with him recently and did not see any signs of radicalization.

On Bourbon Street, flowers and candles were arranged as memorials to the victims, while yellow posts were set up on the surrounding blocks. By Thursday night, bouncers danced to music blasting from clubs, tourists posed for photos and a group of street performers preparing to flip over a line of people had no trouble attracting a massive audience.

Mark Tabor, the manager of a Willie’s Chicken Shack on Bourbon Street, said it was strange to feel the disconnect between the normal hustle of the French Quarter outside and the violence he had witnessed less than 48 hours earlier.

“I’m glad they cleaned up the streets, but it’s like everything’s forgotten,” he said. “It’s sad.”

Midland Fine Wine and Good Spirits will be closing temporarily due to renovations

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Midland, PA) According to a release from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board on Thursday, Fine Wine and Good Spirits at 508 Midland Avenue will close at 7 p.m. on Saturday, January 4th. A renovation project will occur for the business. The release also states that the Midland store will open again in late winter and the date for reopening has not been confirmed yet. The locations for Fine Wine and Good Spirits that are still open while the renovations continue at the Midland store include:

  • 1476 Old Brodhead Road, Center Township
  • 3113 Green Garden Road, Hopewell Township
  • 730 Ohio River Boulevard, East Rochester

There were no details about how Midland’s Fine Wine and Good Spirits will be renovated during the Thursday announcement.

 

American Lung Association provides tips to avoid radon exposure in January 2025, National Radon Awareness Month

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from the American Lung Association on Thursday, radon remains the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States. In Pennsylvania, 39.1% of radon test results equal or exceed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) action level of 4 pCi/L., according to the latest American Lung Association “State of Lung Cancer” report. January 2025 is known as National Radon Action Month and the main reason why lung cancer occurs in non-smokers is radon. Here are some tips from the American Lung Association to help you avoid being exposed to radon: 

  • Perform radon tests in your house.
  • Before buying a home, test for radon always.
  • After the results of the radon test are seen, make sure the picocuries per liter is in a range of 2 and 4 picocuries per liter and not more than four.
  • Do not smoke or get exposed to radon.

 

Beaver Falls woman jailed after a disturbance in Aliquippa

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) The City of Aliquippa Police Department issued information on a Facebook post that confirmed on Wednesday, police responded to the 2000 block of Main Street in reference to a disturbance. At 5:35 a.m., twenty-nine-year-old Aniyah Rascoe of Beaver Falls was trying to enter the home of a male friend of hers. The homeowner called the police about the disturbance. Rascoe was highly intoxicated and was warned by both the homeowner and police that she was not allowed inside. Rascoe did not cooperate multiple times with officers after entering the home and even grabbed a jacket of an officer. Rascoe was taken to the Beaver County Jail and received two filed charges of criminal trespass as well as filed charges of both resisting arrest and public drunkenness.

 

Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver arrest Beaver man for escaping from police in his vehicle

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Industry, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that a man from Beaver was arrested and jailed on Tuesday for trying to escape from police and causing a single-vehicle accident in the process in Industry. At around 8:30 a.m., twenty-nine-year-old Douglas Nevill of Beaver had felony arrest warrants coming from the Brighton Township Police Department. The information was known to Corporal Thomas, the officer that noticed Nevill driving on State Route 68. Nevill initially escaped from Thomas when Thomas tried a traffic stop. The vehicle of Nevill rolled after he did not execute a curve on Willowbrook Road West. When Nevill tried to escape from Corporal Thomas after the accident, an altercation got physical between the two. Nevill is waiting for arraignment and is now in the Beaver County Jail.

 

Former Upper Saint Clair resident indicted for lying to FBI and supporting the terrorist organization Hizballah

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release from United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan on Thursday, a former resident of Upper St. Clair was indicted by a Pittsburgh federal grand jury for supporting the terrorist organization Hizballah and lying to a department or agency of the United States. Twenty-four-year-old Jack Danaher Molloy was charged and arrested on December 6th, 2024. Molloy falsely told FBI agents at Pittsburgh International Airport on October 20th, 2024 that he did not have anything to do with Hizballah and that he did not have a meeting with someone from Syria. During that same month, Molloy traveled to Pittsburgh after making stops in Lebanon and Syria. Olshan confirmed that the actual sentence has not been confirmed yet and every false statement is eight years maximum in prison for Molloy with a $250,000 fine, or both. Olshan also stated that the material support offense could result in a twenty-year prison sentence for Molloy with a fine of $250,000, or both.

 

 

Snow Watch: Cancellations and Delays 01/03/2025

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The following school districts have either delayed or canceled for today: 01/03/25 (We will continue to update the list throughout the morning)

Central Valley School District: 2 Hour Delay Friday Morning

Seneca Valley School District: 2 Hour Delay with a Modified Kindergarten Friday Morning

South Side Area School District: 2 Hour Delay Friday Morning

Snow watch is sponsored by Munroe Auto Body, the Lisa Lathom Team at EXP Realty, the Cornerstone of Beaver County, and Beaver County Radio.