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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) Veterans Day in 2025 is on Tuesday, November 11th, when Beaver County and the United States of America will thank military veterans for their service. According to the Beaver County Times, here are a few of the events around Beaver County for Veterans Day:

• The Beaver County Veterans Day parade begins at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 11 at the Beaver County Courthouse along Third Street in Beaver. The parade is organized by the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 862.
• The third annual Veteran Appreciation Day is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 8 at the B.F. Jones Memorial Library, 663 Franklin Avenue, Aliquippa. Free event for veterans features food, coffee, live music, free activities for kids, storytime, resources for veterans and giveaways.
• Our Lady of the Valley Parish confirmation class will host a Veterans Day breakfast for veterans and a guest from 10-11:30 a.m. Nov. 9 at the Holy Family Catholic Church social hall, 521 7th St. in New Brighton. Reservations are due by Nov. 5; email jconnelly@olotv.org or call 724-775-4111 Ext. 222.
• Findlay Township is hosting a light lunch and entertainment for local veterans and their families at 11 a.m. Nov. 10 at the Findlay Township activity center, 310 Main St., Imperial. Reservations are required by calling 724-695-0500 Ext. 241.

Veterans Day is also a federal holiday, so both the Beaver County Courthouse and other government offices will be closed. There will also be no mail delivery in the United States on Veterans Day and many banks locally will also be closed.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – The YouTube app is displayed on an iPad in Baltimore on March 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

(AP) YouTube TV viewers can no longer see Disney channels including ABC and ESPN after the two sides failed to agree on a new content distribution deal.

Other channels that vanished from Google’s pay TV platform include the Disney Channel, FX and Nat Geo.

Google’s pay TV platform said in a blog post late Thursday that Disney had followed through on a threat to suspend its content amid the negotiations.

The breakdown could impact coverage of some college football games on Saturday, as well as NBA, NFL and NHL games.

YouTube is the largest internet TV provider in the U.S. with more than 9 million subscribers. Hulu, owned by Disney, is next, with about half that many subscribers.

Viewers have become aware of the dispute in recent weeks because of warnings being scrolled across their screens.

YouTube said Disney used the threat of a blackout as a negotiating tactic that would have resulted in higher prices for its subscribers. Disney’s move to take down its content also benefits its own streaming products Hulu + Live TV and Fubo, YouTube said.

“We know this is a frustrating and disappointing outcome for our subscribers and we continue to urge Disney to work with us constructively to reach a fair agreement that restores their networks to YouTube TV,” it said.

YouTube said it would give subscribers a $20 credit if Disney content unavailable “for an extended period of time.” YouTube TV’s base subscription plan costs $82.99 per month.

Disney said that YouTube TV is refusing to pay fair rates for its channels and has chosen to “deny their subscribers the content they value most,” pointing out the number of Top 25 teams playing this weekend.

“With a $3 trillion market cap, Google is using its market dominance to eliminate competition and undercut the industry-standard terms we’ve successfully negotiated with every other distributor,” Disney said. The company said that it was committed to reaching a resolution as quickly as possible.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: A soldier patrols in courtyard of the Louvre museum, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)

PARIS (AP) — The dragnet tightened around the Louvre thieves on Thursday. Five more people were seized in the crown-jewels heist — including a suspect tied by DNA — the Paris prosecutor said, widening the sweep across the capital and its suburbs.

Authorities said three of the four alleged members of the “commando” team, as French media have dubbed the robbers, are now in custody.

The late-night operations in Paris and nearby Seine-Saint-Denis lift the total arrested to seven. Prosecutor Laure Beccuau told RTL that one detainee is suspected of belonging to the brazen quartet that burst into the Apollo Gallery in broad daylight on Oct. 19; others held “may be able to inform us about how the events unfolded.”

Beccuau called the response an “exceptional mobilization” — about 100 investigators, seven days a week, with roughly 150 forensic samples analyzed and 189 items sealed as evidence.

Even so, she said the latest arrests did not uncover the loot — a trove valued around $102 million that includes a diamond-and-emerald necklace Napoleon gave to Empress Marie-Louise as a wedding gift, jewels tied to 19th-century Queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense, and Empress Eugénie’s pearl-and-diamond tiara.

Only one relic has surfaced so far — Eugénie’s crown, damaged but salvageable, dropped in the escape.

Beccuau renewed her appeal: “These jewels are now, of course, unsellable… There’s still time to give them back.”

Experts warn the gold could be melted and the stones re-cut to erase their past.

From Louvres to the Louvre: Planning a 4-minute crime

Key planning details have snapped into focus. Nine days before the raid, a mover who owns a truck-mounted lift — the kind movers use to hoist furniture through Parisian windows — was mysteriously booked for a “moving job” on the French classifieds site Leboncoin, a site similar to Craigslist, Beccuau said Wednesday.

When he arrived in the town of Louvres, north of Paris, around 10 a.m. on Oct. 10, two men ambushed him and stole the lift truck.

On the day of the heist itself, that same vehicle idled beneath the Paris museum’s riverside façade.

Online observers have noted a remarkable coincidence: How a plot that began in Louvres ended at the Louvre.

At 9:30 a.m. the basket lift rose to the Apollo Gallery window; at 9:34 the glass gave way; by 9:38 the crew was gone — a four-minute strike. Only the “near-simultaneous” arrival of police and museum security stopped the thieves from torching the lift and preserved crucial traces, the prosecutor said.

Security footage shows at least four men forcing a window, cutting into two display cases with power tools and fleeing on two scooters toward eastern Paris. Investigators say there is no sign of insider help for now, though they are not ruling out a wider network beyond the four on camera.

The reckoning over security

French police have acknowledged major gaps in the Louvre’s defenses, turning an audacious theft — carried out as visitors walked the corridors — into a national reckoning over how France protects its treasures.

Paris police chief Patrice Faure told senators the first alert to police came not from the Louvre’s security systems but from a cyclist outside who dialed the emergency line after seeing helmeted men with a basket lift. He acknowledged that aging, partly analog cameras and slow fixes left seams; $93 million of CCTV cabling work won’t finish before 2029–30, and the Louvre’s camera authorization even lapsed in July. Officers arrived fast, he said, but the delay came earlier in the chain.

Speaking to AP, former bank robber David Desclos characterized the heist as textbook and said he had warned the Louvre of glaring vulnerabilities in the layout of the Apollo Gallery. The Louvre has not responded to the claim.

Who’s charged already

Two earlier suspects, men aged 34 and 39 from Aubervilliers, north of Paris, were charged Wednesday with theft by an organized gang and criminal conspiracy after nearly 96 hours in custody. Beccuau said both gave “minimalist” statements and “partially admitted” their involvement.

One was stopped at Charles-de-Gaulle Airport with a one-way ticket to Algeria; his DNA matched a scooter used in the getaway.

French law normally keeps active investigations under a shroud of secrecy to protect police work and victims’ privacy. Only the prosecutor may speak publicly, though in high-profile cases police unions have occasionally shared partial details.

The brazen smash-and-grab inside the world’s most-visited museum stunned the heritage world. Four men, a lift truck and a stopwatch turned the Apollo Gallery’s blaze of gold and light into a crime scene — and a test of how France guards what it holds most dear.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that on Monday, November 3rd through Friday, November 7th, weather permitting, overnight closures of the southbound Route 65 ramp to the southbound Fort Duquesne Bridge (I-279) in the City of Pittsburgh will occur. From 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. each of those nights, bridge deck and barrier repair work requiring the ramp that carries southbound Route 65 approach to the southbound Fort Duquesne Bridge will close to traffic nightly. During those overnights, the Allegheny Avenue/Ridge Avenue/Reedsdale Street ramps to the Fort Duquesne Bridge will close. Traffic will be detoured, and according to a release from PennDOT District 11, here are the detour routes for this work and more information about it:

Posted Detours

Southbound Route 65 to the Fort Duquesne Bridge

·       From southbound Route 65, take the ramp to South 19/51 toward the West End Bridge

·       Cross the West End Bridge

·       Continue straight onto southbound Route 19/51 (Saw Mill Run Boulevard)

·       Take the ramp to West 376/South 19 toward Carnegie/Pittsburgh International Airport

·       Bear left toward South Truck 19/51 Uniontown

·       Stay left to East 376/South 51

·       Merge onto eastbound (inbound) I-376 (Parkway West)

·       Continue through the Fort Pitt Tunnel

·       End detour

Allegheny Avenue/Ridge Avenue to the Fort Duquesne Bridge

·       Take Ridge Avenue westbound

·       Ridge Avenue becomes Fulton Street

·       Turn left onto Western Avenue

·       Bear left toward South 19/51/North 65 West End Bridge/Ohio River Boulevard

·       Continue straight onto the West End Bridge

·       Cross the West End Bridge

·       Continue straight onto southbound Route 19/51 (Saw Mill Run Boulevard)

·       Take the ramp to West 376/South 19 toward Carnegie/Pittsburgh International Airport

·       Bear left toward South Truck 19/51 Uniontown

·       Stay left to East 376/South 51

·       Merge onto eastbound (inbound) I-376 (Parkway West)

·       Continue through the Fort Pitt Tunnel

·       End detour

Reedsdale Street to the Fort Duquesne Bridge

·       Follow Reedsdale Street to Allegheny Avenue

·       Turn right onto Allegheny Avenue

·       Turn left onto Ridge Avenue

·       Ridge Avenue becomes Fulton Street

·       Turn left onto Western Avenue

·       Bear left toward South 19/51/North 65 West End Bridge/Ohio River Boulevard

·       Continue straight onto the West End Bridge

·       Cross the West End Bridge

·       Continue straight onto southbound Route 19/51 (Saw Mill Run Boulevard)

·       Take the ramp to West 376/South 19 toward Carnegie/Pittsburgh International Airport

·       Bear left toward South Truck 19/51 Uniontown

·       Stay left to East 376/South 51

·       Merge onto eastbound (inbound) I-376 (Parkway West)

·       Continue through the Fort Pitt Tunnel

·       End detour

From 7 A.M. to 3 P.M. through late December, single-lane restrictions will also occur each day, as needed, on the following City of Pittsburgh roadways:

·       West General Robinson Street between Chuck Noll Way and Mazeroski Way

·       Reedsdale Street between Art Rooney Avenue and Tony Dorsett Drive

·       Tony Dorsett Drive between Reedsdale Street and North Shore Drive

·       North Shore Drive between Chuck Noll Way and Mazeroski Way

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release from The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, they are taking applications for its 20th annual $5,000 Bob Fryer Memorial Scholarship as well as the $2,500 Press Club of Western Pennsylvania Scholarship awarded to aspiring journalists. Candidates need to be current sophomores or juniors enrolled in an accredited university or college and they must be able to demonstrate why they should receive the award. Their primary residence also must be in one of Western Pennsylvania’s 29 counties. The aforementioned counties are as follows: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Cambria , Cameron,
Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Fayette, Forest, Greene, Huntingdon,
Indiana, Jefferson, Lawrence, McKean, Mercer, Potter, Somerset, Venango, Warren,
Washington and Westmoreland. You can get an application by either contacting 412-281-7778 or pressclubwpa@gmail.com or by downloading one from www.westernpapressclub.org. You can also receive further information, you can contact scholarship committee chairman Rick Monti at
rick.monti@gmail.com or by calling him at 412-600-0606.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Morgan Wallen appears at the 56th annual CMA Awards, Nov. 9, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Country singer Morgan Wallen will bring his Still The Problem Tour 2026 to Pittsburgh on Friday, June 5th and Saturday, June 6th, 2026. Wallen will have special guests Brooks & Dunn on June 5th and Ella Langley on June 6th, with all of them performing at Acrisure Stadium. Tickets go on sale on Friday, November 7th at 10 a.m. Eastern Time and the website to buy tickets is stilltheproblem.com., which can also be used for pre-sale registration open now through Thursday, November 6th at 10 p.m. at your local time zone. There will also be performers Gavin Adcock and Zach John King at both of Wallen’s 2026 Pittsburgh shows.

 

(File Photo: Source for Photo: An FBI agent enters a home in a Dearborn, Mich., neighborhood on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Multiple people who had been allegedly plotting a violent attack over the Halloween weekend were arrested Friday in Michigan, FBI Director Kash Patel said in a social media post.

The law enforcement effort was focused on suburban Detroit. Patel said more information would be released later.

FBI and state police vehicles were in a neighborhood near Fordson High School in Dearborn. People wearing shirts marked FBI walked in and out of a house, including one person who collected paper bags and other items from an evidence truck.

Jordan Hall, an FBI spokesperson in Detroit, said investigators were also in Inkster, another suburb.

“There is no current threat to public safety,” said Hall, who declined further comment.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said on X that she was briefed by Patel. She said she was grateful for “swift action” but disclosed no details.

Separately, in May, the FBI said it arrested a man who had spent months planning an attack against a U.S. Army site in suburban Detroit on behalf of the Islamic State group. The man, Ammar Said, didn’t know that his supposed allies in the alleged plot were undercover FBI employees.

Said remains in custody, charged with attempting to provide support to a terrorist organization. The criminal complaint was replaced in September with a criminal “information” document, signaling that a guilty plea is likely.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT recently outlined its regional plans for winter maintenance in Beaver, Allegheny and Lawrence counties and encouraged the public to be prepared ahead of the first snowfall that will accumulate those local areas. According to a release from PennDOT District 11, here are some things they want you to keep in mind for winter and some more information about these preparations:

• Motorists should prepare their vehicles for the winter by checking fluid levels, lights, defrosters, and windshield wiper blades. Tires should also be checked often for the correct level of air pressure and adequate tire-tread depth to safely perform on ice and snow.
• Once vehicles are travel-ready, drivers should be prepared for winter or vehicle emergencies. PennDOT urges the traveling public to carry an emergency kit, which should include items such as non-perishable food, water, first-aid supplies, warm clothes, a blanket, cell phone charger and a small snow shovel. The kits should be tailored to the specific needs of the individuals in the vehicle, with items such as baby supplies, extra medication, pet supplies or even children’s games.
• If motorists encounter snow or ice-covered roads, they should slow down, increase their following distance and avoid distractions. Last winter in Pennsylvania, preliminary data shows that there were 8,329 crashes, 29 fatalities, and 2,959 injuries on snowy, slushy or ice-covered roadways where aggressive-driving behaviors such as speeding or making careless lane changes were factors.
• When winter weather hits, the department’s goal is to keep roads passable, not completely free of snow and ice. PennDOT’s primary focus is on interstates and expressways. The more traffic volume a roadway has, the more attention it will receive from plows. There may be more accumulations on less traveled streets and driving routes should be adjusted accordingly.
• To help the public prepare for the season and share information about winter services, PennDOT offers operational information and traveler resources on its winter web page. The site also has a complete winter guide with detailed information about winter services in each of PennDOT’s 11 engineering districts.
• The public can access travel information on nearly 40,000 state-maintained roadway miles year-round at www.511PA.com, and during the winter they can find plow-truck locations and details of when state-maintained roadways were last plowed. The information is made possible by PennDOT’s Automated Vehicle Location technology, which uses units in the over 2,600 department-owned and rented plow trucks to send a cellular signal showing a truck’s location.
• Locally, when winter roadway emergencies occur on state roads, PennDOT District 11 will use its social-media platforms to help keep the public informed. Follow PennDOT on X and join the Greater Pittsburgh Area PennDOT Facebook group.
• PennDOT is actively seeking temporary equipment operators statewide for the winter season to supplement the department’s full-time staff. Details on minimum requirements – such as possession of a CDL – as well as application information​, are available at
• www.employment.pa.gov/penndot. Through the same website and www.employment.pa.gov, job seekers can apply for other non-operator winter positions such as diesel and construction equipment mechanics, welders, clerks and more.
• For more information, visit www.PennDOT.pa.gov/safety.
• PennDOT’s media center offers social-media-sized graphics highlighting topics such as seat belts, impaired driving, and distracted driving for organizations, community groups, or others who share safety information with their stakeholders.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Model homes and for sale signs line the streets as construction continues at a housing plan in Zelienople, Pa., Wednesday, March 18, 2020. Sales of new homes fell by 3.5% in September to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 959,000 million units. The Commerce Department said Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, that despite the modest decrease, sales of new homes are up 32.1% from a year earlier, as the housing market remains strong despite the pandemic. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) According to an analysis of data from Realtor.com, the median home in Beaver County listed for $229,250 in September, down 2.5% from the previous month’s $235,000. In comparison to September of 2024, the median home list price in Beaver County increased 22.3% from $188,200.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE -This photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, shows a Dick’s Sporting Goods sign at a store in Miami. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(McKees Rocks, PA) The former Boys and Girls Club in McKees Rocks will now become a new youth sports center in the future thanks to the Josh Gipson Foundation and the DICK’s Sporting Goods Foundation. According to these two foundations, the facility will have a gym, community spaces, and a Miracle League Baseball field, which allows disabled adults and kids to play baseball. The building will also have a learning lab when computers are completed there. The date when this project will be finished is unknown at this time.