(File Photo of the Sheetz Logo: Caption and Credit for Photo: Sheetz logo, Courtesy of (PRNewsFoto/SHEETZ, INC.)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to an announcement yesterday from Kim Salinetro, Chief of Staff for Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Theresa Kail-Smith, a new Sheetz location will be coming to the city of Pittsburgh in the future, which will be located on Banksville Road. This will be the only Sheetz store in the City of Pittsburgh and it will be in the former Rite-Aid store location on Banksville Road. Sheetz will sell their convenience store and food items for the Western Pennsylvania public at this new store location. It has not been announced yet when the construction for the new Sheetz store in Pittsburgh will begin.

(File Photo of Police Siren Lights)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that sixty-year-old Frank Crognale of Beaver Falls was arrested for driving under the influence of a combination of alcohol and drugs in Aliquippa on Tuesday. Crognale was stopped by police during a traffic stop on the 2300 block of Sheffield Road. According to police, Crognale was arrested for driving under the influence during the stop and his charges are pending.

(File Photo of School Busses going down New Brighton)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Bridgeville, PA) Chartiers Valley School District operated on a two-hour-delay this morning because of a water main break on Thoms Run Road in Bridgeville. The same event occurred in the same location yesterday, which caused Chartiers Valley School District to have remote classes that day. This occurred just before 3:30 a.m. this morning on the 5300 block of Thoms Run Road in Bridgeville. According to Chartiers Valley School District superintendent Dan Castagna in a part of a recent message to families: “The water line ruptured again early this morning. Therefore, all Chartiers Valley schools will operate on a 2-hour delay today, Thursday, August 28th. Parkway students will report to the same bus stop and follow the same schedule as yesterday. Please remember that we will remain on a 2-hour delay schedule for the entire school day.”

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PITTSBURGH–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug 27, 2025– JKS Financial, a leading financial services and wealth management firm, announces the opening of its new office location in Sewickley, PA. This expansion reflects JKS Financial’s continued growth and its commitment to delivering personalized, high-quality financial planning and wealth management services to clients across the Pittsburgh region. The new office, located at 2591 Wexford Bayne Rd, Suite 402, will provide a convenient location for clients in communities north of the city of Pittsburgh.

“Our clients are the heart of everything we do, and we’re committed to making their experience with us as seamless and convenient as possible,” said Geoff Kasse, wealth management advisor and managing partner at JKS Financial. “By opening this new Sewickley office, we can be closer to many of the families, individuals, and companies we serve, making it easier to meet face-to-face, build stronger relationships, and continue providing the personalized guidance they’ve come to expect from us.”

JKS Financial’s Sewickley location will offer a full range of services, including comprehensive financial planning, investment management, and retirement planning. The team will continue to provide the personalized long-term financial planning, and guidance that have made JKS Financial a trusted partner to clients for decades.

“In today’s dynamic financial landscape, from equities to fixed-income investments, we craft strategies that balance growth potential and risk tolerance,” said Dan Jenkins, wealth management advisor and managing partner at JKS Financial. “With our new office, we look forward to bringing our expertise in asset allocation, wealth building, and retirement distribution strategies to an even broader community.”

The new office will officially open on September 2, with client appointments available shortly thereafter. To see what JKS Financial can do for you, visit JKS-Financial.NM.com.

About JKS Financial

JKS Financial is a Pittsburgh, PA-based financial planning practice. Geoff Kasse and Dan Jenkins have more than 55 years of combined experience and offer wealth accumulation, insurance and risk management, wealth preservation, and wealth distribution services. JKS Financial’s mission is to provide sound financial planning for all aspects of your wealth management needs. For more information, visit JKS-Financial.NM.com.

About Northwestern Mutual

Northwestern Mutual has been helping people and businesses achieve financial security for more than 165 years. Through a comprehensive planning approach, Northwestern Mutual combines the expertise of its financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and industry-leading products to help its clients plan for what’s most important. With nearly $700 billion of total assets[i] being managed across the company’s institutional portfolio as well as retail investment client portfolios, more than $38 billion in revenues, nearly $2.4 trillion worth of life insurance protection in force, Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to more than five million people with life, disability income and long-term care insurance, annuities, and brokerage and advisory services. Northwestern Mutual ranked 110 on the 2024 FORTUNE® 500 and was recognized by FORTUNE as one of the “World’s Most Admired” life insurance companies in 2025.

Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company (NM), Milwaukee, WI (life and disability insurance, annuities, and life insurance with long-term care benefits) and its subsidiaries. Subsidiaries include Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC (NMIS) (investment brokerage services), broker-dealer, registered investment adviser, member FINRA and SIPC; the Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company® (NMWMC) (investment advisory and services), federal savings bank; and Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company (NLTC) (long-term care insurance). Not all Northwestern Mutual representatives are advisors. Only those representatives with “Advisor” in their title or who otherwise disclose their status as an advisor of NMWMC are credentialed as NMWMC representatives to provide investment advisory services.

Geoffrey P Kasse and Daniel Keith Jenkins use JKS Financial as a marketing name for doing business as representatives of Northwestern Mutual. JKS Financial is not a registered investment advisor, broker-dealer, insurance agency or federal savings bank.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(West Mifflin, PA) The Phantom Fall Fest event at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin recently got nominated by USA Today as one of their top twenty theme park Halloween events in the United States of America on a 2025 USA Today 10Best list. According to USA Today on their USA Today 10Best website, the Phantom Fall Fest event at Kennywood got picked for this national recognition because it “balances family-friendly fun during the afternoon with more intense scares and haunts when day turns to night.” The other Halloween theme park events in Pennsylvania to make USA Today’s 2025 10Best list for the top twenty Halloween theme park events in the United States of America are Hallo-Fun at Knoebels at Knoebels Amusement Resort of Elysburg, Pennsylvania, Halloween Haunt at Dorney Park at Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom of Allentown, Pennsylvania and Hersheypark Halloween at Hersheypark of Hershey, Pennsylvania. There will also be a contest where you can vote for your favorite Halloween event on the 2025 USAToday 10 Best list for Halloween theme park events once each day through September 22nd, 2025 on the link below. 

Click here for the link to vote for your favorite Halloween theme park event. What is the Best Theme Park Halloween Event for 2025?

October 1st, 2025 will be when the winning theme park of this contest by USA Today to find the best Halloween theme park event in the United States of America in 2025 is announced. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Freedom, PA) According to Beth and Anthony Gaus, their five-year-old granddaughter got dropped off at the wrong bus stop in Freedom on Monday afternoon on a bus from ABC Transit, which happened to be her first day of school. The destination of 4th Avenue and 6th Street was where the grandaughter of Beth and Anthony Gaus was supposed to be dropped off at, but at the time of the drop-off, she was not on the bus when it stopped there. The parents of this five-year-old girl also saw her on 3rd Avenue. According to Anthony Gaus: “The bus driver was very nonchalant about it. She didn’t even care that she was missing kids. I asked several times, and she was more worried about moving on than finding our kids, which was bothersome to both of us.” After speaking with one of the parents of that five-year-old girl, the Freedom Area School District superintendent told Channel 11 the drop-off location was a mistake and said a plan is now in place to prevent it from happening again.

(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver, PA) Several topics were discussed at the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session this morning in Beaver. Among them were that the Beaver County Commissioners praised the response that came from the incident in which a bus that crashed in Economy Borough on Saturday. That bus carried the Aliquippa Junior High School football team. Meetings are going to be held within the next month to see how this incident could have been handled better. Twenty-two people were taken to the hospital as a result of this incident, but no lives were lost. In other business, Beaver County Recration and Tourism Director Tony Caltury also mentioned that this Saturday and Sunday, August 30th and August 31st of 2025, Project Mayhem Racing will be hosted at Brady’s Run Park in Beaver County. This event is an obstacle course through the trails at Brady’s Run Park. Beaver County Commissioner Jack Manning also encouraged Beaver County residents to go to the 2025 Big Knob Fair going on in Rochester this week. Manning also encouraged State Representative Roman Kozak, who he saw at the Big Knob Fair to pass the state budget for Pennsylvania, because that budget went past the deadline on June 30th, 2025 to pass it. Manning also talked about an event that happened on Saturday at the Ready Yourself Youth Ranch in North Sewickley which is part of a ten-week course from them and Children’s Youth Services there where juveniles are teamed up with a horse while they went through other educational processes and the changes of behavior were seen as a different prospect on their lives.

(File Photo of Handcuffs)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(New Sewickley Township, PA) A fifty-three-year-old male suspect who the Raccoon Township Police Department accused of physically assaulting and seriously injuring an elderly female on August 21st, 2025 in Beaver County got taken into custody yesterday. According to a release from the Raccoon Township Police Department, at about 6:30 p.m., yesterday, wanted suspect Steven F. Bombiani was located hiding out at a trailer in New Sewickley Township and Raccoon Police began to receive detailed and reliable tips from viewers and listeners of those media outlets who helped. New Sewickley Township Police, the Beaver County Sheriff’s Office, and Detectives from the Beaver County District Attorney’s Office Task Force were able to validate and verify Bombiani’s location quickly along with police from the Raccoon Township Police Department. K-9s and drones also assisted in the capturing of Bombiani, who is still in the Beaver County Jail at this time. According to a release, Raccoon Township Police responded to an incident on August 21st, 2025. They were summoned by a neighbor who heard the victim yelling for help. Bombiani is alleged to have stolen $119 from the victim. When confronted, Bombiani allegedly pushed and punched the victim, who fell to the ground and was not able to get back up. The female victim can now focus on her recovery at this time.

(File Photo of Senator Elder Vogel, Jr.)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from Senator Elder Vogel, Jr.’s office, Vogel will be holding a food drive throughout September in honor of Hunger Action Month in Pennsylvania and across the nation. From September 1st through September 30th, the district offices for Vogel in Cranberry Township and Rochester will be accepting non-perishable, unexpired food items, which will be donated to a local food bank at the end of the month to help those in need. These two district offices mentioned are located at 8001 Rowan Road, Suite 205 in Cranberry Township and 488 Adams Street in Rochester. The legislative Hunger Caucus, which seeks to increase awareness of hunger across Pennsylvania and is the main sponsor of a measure from the Senate designating September of 2025 as Hunger Action Month in Pennsylvania, and Vogel is the co-chair of the legislative Hunger Caucus.

(Photo Courtesy of Commonwealth Media Services)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Philiadelphia, PA) Governor Josh Shapiro spoke about items including celebrating the legacy of fleets and an international partner of trade to help boost the economy of Pennsylvania yesterday at the Hanwa Philly Shipyard in Philadelphia for the christening of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Security Multi-Mission Vessel, State of Maine. According to Shapiro and his remarks yesterday in regards to the city of Philadelphia, “It was right here that our nation began its journey, and it’s been here in this city, in our naval shipyard, that we’ve built the American fleets that have protected our freedoms at home and abroad around the world since 1776.” Shapiro also showed his pride in his remarks for the facts of the international partner of South Korea employing thousands of people from Pennsylvania at companies including Hanwa and Pennsylvania being home to more than 52,000 Korean Americans. Shapiro also noted in his remarks that the economy needs to grow in Pennsylvania and wants the attraction there of greater investment from Korea across industries, from shipbuilding to manufacturing to life sciences.