(Sandy Giordano/Beaver County Radio)

Aliquippa Fire Chief Dave Foringer reported that a one-brick, two-story building on Main Avenue was damaged by an early morning last Saturday at 4 a.m., and a triplex and two-story frame home were damaged on Erie Avenue. Aliquippa was assisted by 10 other departments and remained on scene until 9 a.m.

The state fire marshal is also investigating another fire that occurred in that area on Saturday, May  27, 2023.

(Sandy Giordano/Beaver County Radio)

Ana Cecelia de Mireles, 45, was captured at the US-Mexico border by US Marshals on homicide and arson charges in connection with  a fire and  homicide at a Big Beaver rental home on March 14, 2021. She fled to Mexico following the fatal fire. de Mireles was charged by Beaver Falls Police and Beaver County Detectives last week and placed. in the Beaver County Jail.

Mireles faces 2 charges of criminal homicide, 2 counts of arson, 1 count of criminal conspiracy, 1 count of abuse of a corpse, 1 count of tampering with/fabricating physical evidence, and 1 count of flight to avoid apprehension, trial or punishment.

She faces a preliminary hearing in Beaver County Central Court on  Tuesday, June 13 at 8:45 a.m.  

Listings will remain on the website and will be read on air for 1 month.  Call or email yankeetrader@beavercountyradio.com  to let us know if something has sold.

NO NAME GIVEN ON MAIL IN LISTING    724-252-6284

Manual push lawn mower in good condition.  Shovels and garden tools. PRICE: Make an offer.

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Wilma 724-846-9952 Leave a message

1.  Pampered Chef Executive non-stick Grill Pan with grill grids.  11″ square.  Also an 8 1/2″ square Press for making Paninis.  Yummmm  PRICE: $60 for both,
2. Star Wars Episode 1 Phantom Menace FRAMED poster. 28″ X 41″  PRICE: $25.00
3. Empire Strikes Back Special Edition FRAMED poster, 28″ X 41″  PRICE: $25.00
4. Star Wars “Concept” poster that features the art of Ralph McQuarrie.  It’s a picture of Luke with Darth Vader.  3′ X 2′ 28″ X 41″  PRICE: $75.00

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Frank     724-846-0331  Leave a message

3 BRAND NEW TIRES-ALL ON RIMS

1. 205-75-15″ Remington PRICE: $40.00
2. 205-70-15″ Invicta  PRICE: $40.00
3. 195-75-15″   Goodyear  on heavy aluminum rim.  PRICE: $40.00
4. Christmas Lawn Ornaments.  2 reindeer, 1 sleigh, 1 angel with moving halo.  All have lights.  PRICE: $50.00 for all

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Tony   724-770-0762

Very powerful electric Leaf Blower.  2 years old.  Not heavy.  Paid $79     PRICE: $30.00

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Val 724-513-9390

1. Wooden Chest (or Toy Box)     Approx 31″ wide.  PRICE: $50.00
2. 1700 Sports Trading Cards-primarily Baseball & Football.  They are in albums.  Purchase by the album or individual cards.  Prices negotiable.
3. Child’s Plastic Free Standing Basketball Hoop  PRICE: $35.00
4. Panasonic Land Line Cordless phone with 5 handsets.  2 Base dial pads.  Caller ID, Answering Machine.  PRICE: $109.00

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Betsy 724-843-0774  (Church items)

1. Hand Carved Oak Church Pews.  Approx. 8-10′ long.  Make a donation.
2. Small Organ with 1 row of keys.  Make a donation.

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Howie 724-774-6397   50 Scale Auto Magazines from 1986-2004.  Make an offer.

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Carl 724-480-5704   Saris Bones 2 BIKE RACK.  Can mount on trunk or hatchback.  Holds 2 bikes.  Nes $169.           PRICE: $120.00

PITTSBURGH – A former resident of Baden, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to a total term of 124 months’ imprisonment followed by lifetime supervised release on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor and for violating the terms of federal supervised release, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today.
Andrew Kincaid, age 35, formerly of Baden, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to one count before Chief United States District Judge Mark R. Hornak.
According to information presented to the court, on March 16, 2021, Kincaid knowingly possessed an electronic device containing child sexual abuse material, in violation of federal law and the conditions of Kincaid’s supervised release related to his 2010 federal conviction, also for possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor.
Assistant United States Attorney Heidi M. Grogan is prosecuting this case on behalf of the government. Homeland Security Investigations-Pittsburgh conducted the investigation that led to the prosecution of Kincaid.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals, who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

In this week’s episode of “Heroes”, Jim Roddey talks with Allegheny Health Network psychologist P.V. Nickell about the connections between psychology and neurology.  Then, Mr. Roddey talks with Mary Ellen Austin, who is the Vice President of Development for Friends of the Pittsburgh Fisher House.

“Heroes” is presented by Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield and the Allegheny Health Network, airing Saturdays at 10:00 AM and Sundays at 12:30 PM on Beaver County Radio. Archived editions of “Heroes” can be heard at the Beaver County Radio Podcast Library.

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Fifteen months ago, Dev Shah spent a miserable five hours spelling outdoors in chilly, windy, damp conditions at a supersize regional competition in Orlando, Florida, only to fall short of his dream of returning to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

“Despondent is the right word,” Dev said. “I just didn’t know if I wanted to keep continuing.”

Look at him now.

Soft-spoken but brimming with confidence, Dev asked precise questions about obscure Greek roots, rushed through his second-to-last word and rolled to the National Spelling Bee title Thursday night.

Dev, a 14-year-old from Largo, Florida, in the Tampa Bay area, first competed at the national bee in 2019, then had his spelling career interrupted. The 2020 bee was canceled because of COVID-19, and in the mostly virtual 2021 bee, he didn’t make it to the in-person finals, held in his home state on ESPN’s campus at Walt Disney World.

Then came the disaster of last year, when he was forced to compete in the Orlando region because his previous regional sponsor didn’t come back after the pandemic.

“It took me four months to get him back on track because he was quite a bit disturbed and he didn’t want to do it,” said Dev’s mother, Nilam Shah.

When he decided to try again, he added an exercise routine to help sharpen his focus and lost about 15 pounds, she said.

Dev got through his region. He flexed his knowledge in Wednesday’s early rounds by asking questions that proved he knew every relevant detail the bee’s pronouncers and judges had on their computer screens. And when it was all over, he held the trophy over his head as confetti fell.

“He appreciated that this is a journey, which sounds very trite but is really quite true,” said Dev’s coach, Scott Remer, a former speller and study guide author. “I think the thing that distinguishes the very best spellers from the ones that end up not really leaving their mark is actually just grit.”

Dev’s winning word was “psammophile,” a layup for a speller of his caliber.

“Psammo meaning sand, Greek?” he asked. “Phile, meaning love, Greek?”

Dev soaked up the moment by asking for the word to be used in a sentence, something he described a day earlier as a stalling tactic. Then he put his hands over his face as he was declared the winner.

“I would say I was confident on the outside but inside I was nervous, especially for my winning word — well, like, before. Not during,” he said.

Runner-up Charlotte Walsh gave Dev a congratulatory hug.

“I’m so happy for him,” said Charlotte, a 14-year-old from Arlington, Virginia. “I’ve known Dev for many years and I know how much work he’s put into this and I’m so, so glad he won.”

The winner’s haul is more than $50,000 in cash and prizes. When Charlotte returned to the stage later to congratulate Dev again, he reminded her that the runner-up gets $25,000.

“Twenty-five thousand! What? I didn’t know that,” Charlotte said.

Earlier, when the bee was down to Dev and Charlotte, Scripps brought out the buzzer used for its “spell-off” tiebreaker, and Dev was momentarily confused when he stepped to the microphone.

“This is not the spell-off, right?” Dev asked. Told it was not, he spelled “bathypitotmeter” so quickly that it might as well have been.

“I practiced for the spell-off every day, I guess. I knew it might happen and I prepared for everything, so I kind of went into spell-off mode,” he said. “But I also was scared for the spell-off.”

Dev is the 22nd champion in the past 24 years with South Asian heritage. His father, Deval, a software engineer, immigrated to the United States from India 29 years ago to get his master’s degree in electrical engineering. Dev’s older brother, Neil, is a rising junior at Yale.

Deval said his son showed an incredible recall with words starting at age 3, and Dev spent many years in participating in academic competitions staged by the North South Foundation, a nonprofit that provides scholarships to children in India.

The bee began in 1925 and is open to students through the eighth grade. There were 229 kids onstage as it began — and each was a champion many times over, considering that 11 million participated at the school level.

The finalists demonstrated an impressive depth of knowledge as they worked their way through a sometimes diabolical word list chosen by Scripps’ 21-person word panel, which includes five past champions.

This year’s bee proved that the competition can remain entertaining while delving more deeply into the dictionary — especially early in the finals, when Scripps peppered contestants with short but tough words like “traik” (to fall ill, used in Scotland), “carey” (a small to medium-size sea turtle) and “katuka” (a venomous snake of southeastern Asia).

“There are a lot of hard words in the dictionary,” Dev said. “There are realms of the dictionary that the word panelists need to dive into and I think they did a great job of that today.”

With the field down to four, Shradha Rachamreddy was eliminated on “orle,” a heraldry term that means a number of small charges arranged to form a border within the edge of a field (she went with “orel”). And “kelep” — a Central American stinging ant — ousted Surya Kapu (he said “quelep”).

While sometimes Scripps’ use of trademarks and geographical names can anger spelling traditionalists who want to see kids demonstrate their mastery of roots and language patterns — and even the exceptions to those patterns — Scripps has made clear that with the exception of words designated as archaic or obsolete, any entry in Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged dictionary is fair game.

Dev is happy to be closing that book for now.

“My main priority is sleep. I need to sleep. There have been a lot of sleepless nights these last six months,” he said. “I need to sleep well tonight, too. There’s a lot more sleep debt.”

On this week’s edition of “Living Well”, hosts Jeff Bost and Dr. Joseph Maroon discuss the recent trend of health information on social media, and why not everything that is seen online can be considered a credible source.

Dr. Joseph Maroon is a world renown neurosurgeon with extensive experience in neurosurgery. He specializes in minimally invasive surgery to speed recovery for his patients. He is a sports medicine expert and innovator in concussion management, personal fitness and nutrition. Dr. Maroon is also the Pittsburgh Steelers team doctor.

Jeff Bost is a consultant to the St. Barnabas Health System. Bost is also a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Neurosurgery at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a consultant to the WWE, and Clinical Assistant Professor at Chatham University. He has a special interest in minimally invasive spine and brain surgery and have collaborated on scores of scientific medical papers and books in these areas. Over the last 15 years he has researched, lectured and written on the use of alternative treatment for pain control.

Bost, along with Dr. Joseph Maroon have authored two books on the use of omega-3 fish oil, including: Fish Oil: The Natural Anti-Inflammatory, currently in its forth printing with over 75,000 copies sold and recently, Why You Need Fish Oil. He has given over 100 invited lectures, 24 national posters and oral presentations, 29 coordinated research projects, five workshops presentations, 35 scientific articles and 10 book chapters.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Eugene DePasquale, Pennsylvania’s former two-term auditor general, said Thursday that he will run for state attorney general, an office that played a critical role in rebuffing Republican attempts to overturn President Joe Biden’s win over Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

DePasquale is the first candidate to announce in the 2024 race for the state’s top law enforcement office and he is unlikely to be the only Democrat to seek the party’s nomination in the presidential battleground state.

DePasquale, 51, won two statewide elections for auditor general and served as Pennsylvania’s independently elected fiscal watchdog from 2013 through 2020.

As auditor general, DePasquale called for the Legislature to ban gifts to public officials and said the state could reap a half-billion dollars in revenues if it legalized and taxed adult-use marijuana.

He accused the state Department of Environmental Protection of lacking a clear policy on its inspections of thousands of natural gas wells, said the state Department of Health wasn’t effectively enforcing nursing home staffing levels and found that one-fifth of calls had gone unanswered at the state’s ChildLine child abuse reporting hotline.

A task force he helped run on school safety in 2018 recommended, in part, that schools expand mental health counseling programs and find better ways to inform parents and students about the availability of the services.

At times, he got under the skin of Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration, for instance when he criticized the fellow Democrat’s program under which businesses could seek permission to operate during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.

DePasquale, who got his law degree from Widener University, has never worked as a prosecutor, defense lawyer or trial lawyer. But, in an interview, he pointed to his experience as auditor general as “the kind of leadership that Pennsylvania needs as its next attorney general.”

Every elected attorney general in Pennsylvania had had at least some experience in a county, state or federal prosecutor’s office until Democrat Josh Shapiro was elected to the office in 2016.

The attorney general’s office has a budget of about $120 million annually and plays a critical role in arresting drug traffickers, fighting gun trafficking, defending state laws in court and protecting consumers from predatory practices.

Under Shapiro, the office issued a groundbreaking grand jury report in 2018 on the cover-up of child sexual abuse in six of Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses and helped lead state attorneys general in settlement talks with pharmaceutical distributors and manufacturers over the opioid crisis.

The office also played a central role in defending the integrity of Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election against repeated attempts to overturn it in state and federal courts by Trump’s campaign and Republican allies.

After DePasquale left the auditor general’s office, he made an unsuccessful run for Congress in 2020 in a Republican-leaning district that included Harrisburg and DePasquale’s then-hometown of York.

DePasquale, a Pittsburgh native, has moved back to Pittsburgh where he teaches courses at the University of Pittsburgh and works in private legal practice.

DePasquale is the grandson of the late former president of Pittsburgh’s city council, Eugene “Jeep” DePasquale, and got involved in politics early as chairman of the York County Democratic Party.

He worked in an economic development role in York city government before taking a top post in former Gov. Ed Rendell’s Department of Environmental Protection and serving three terms in the state House of Representatives from 2007 to 2012.

Shapiro, who ran for governor last year and won, appointed Michelle Henry to finish the last two years of his term as attorney general after he was sworn in as governor in January.

Henry, a former Bucks County prosecutor, was Shapiro’s top deputy for all six years of his term as attorney general. Henry has said she does not plan to run for the office in 2024.