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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Chippewa Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that a nineteen-year-old from Freedom was charged after causing a single-vehicle crash in Chippewa Township on Monday. Joshua Hohman went off the left side of the road and hit a guard wire when traveling on I-376 West. According to police, Hohman was charged for “driving on roadways that were laned for traffic.”
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Noah haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from Senator Elder Vogel, Jr.’s office, Vogel is hosting a press conference on Wednesday, June 4th, at 9:30 a.m. to celebrate June as National Dairy Month. This event will be in the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex in Harrisburg in the East Wing Rotunda. Vogel and seven other speakers will speak during the event to talk about how diary has good effects on the state of Pennsylvania.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are six cents lower in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.39 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The report states that at this time last year, the average price for a gallon of gas in Western Pennsylvania was around $3.84. The report also notes that the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is about $3.56. According to a release from AAA East Central and AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report, here is the average price of unleaded self-serve gasoline in various Pennsylvania areas:
$3.467 Altoona
$3.557 Beaver
$3.604 Bradford
$3.228 Brookville
$3.333 Butler
$3.378 Clarion
$3.235 DuBois
$3.225 Erie
$3.169 Greensburg
$3.465 Indiana
$3.237 Jeannette
$3.658 Kittanning
$2.946 Latrobe
$3.491 Meadville
$3.484 Mercer
$3.324 New Castle
$3.344 New Kensington
$3.549 Oil City
$3.452 Pittsburgh
$3.321 Sharon
$3.470 Uniontown
$3.697 Warren
$3.391 Washington
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. – A former resident of Ambridge, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a total of 132 months and one day of imprisonment, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor and violation of the terms of his supervised release, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti
announced today.
Senior United States District Judge Nora Barry Fischer imposed the sentence on Bradley J. Schrott, 43, on June 2, 2025, sentencing Schrott to 120 months in prison on the possession of material count, and to an additional 12 months and one day of imprisonment to be served consecutively for violating the terms of his supervised release from an earlier federal conviction for the same offense.
According to information presented to the Court, on February 17, 2023, Schrott possessed a video depicting the sexual exploitation of a prepubescent minor. At the time of the offense, Schrott was serving a term of supervised release imposed following an earlier federal conviction for possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, for which he had been sentenced to 30 months of imprisonment and 10 years of supervised release.
Prior to imposing sentence, Judge Fischer highlighted that Congress treats repeat sex
offenders very seriously and encouraged Schrott to take full advantage of mental health, sex offender, and drug treatment programs while serving his significant sentence of imprisonment.
Assistant United States Attorney Carolyn J. Bloch prosecuted this case on behalf of the
government.
Acting United States Attorney Rivetti commended the Department of Homeland Security for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Schrott.
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.
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(New Sewickley Twp., Beaver County Pa.) The New Sewickley Township Police Department reported early Tuesday morning that charges have been filed against two people having to do with the incident that happened last Friday in which 17-year old Isabella Phillips was reported as a missing person. New Sewickley Police stated in the release that as a result of the collaborative effort and criminal investigation conducted involving the New Sewickley Township Police Department, the Beaver County District Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Ohio Attorney General Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the Mansfield Ohio Police Department, the Bucyrus Ohio Police Department, and the Crawford County Ohio Sheriffs Office charges were filed against Johnathan Crowe, 25, of Mansfield, Ohio, who is in custody and was charged with felony Human Trafficking by the Mansfield Police Department. In addition, Ashlynn Quaintance, 19, of Bucyrus, Ohio, was also charged and is in custody. She is facing charges of various crimes by the Crawford County Ohio Prosecutors Office in conjunction with the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office.
Officers also state that Additional charges may be filed as this incident remains under investigation.
Currently, the Ohio Attorney General Bureau of Criminal Investigation is leading the ongoing investigation.
The New Sewickley Township Police Department said in the release that they would like to thank all of the volunteer organizations and law enforcement agencies who participated in the search for Isabella, as well as the associated criminal investigation involved in this incident. The primary focus of the incident was to locate Isabella Phillips and return her safely to her family. That mission has been accomplished. officials now say that the primary focus is to identify all individuals involved in this criminal activity and ensure that they are held responsible for their
(File Photo: Source for Photo: President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy has ordered another power plant, this time an oil and gas plant in Pennsylvania, to keep its turbines running through the hottest summer months as a precaution against electricity shortfalls in the 13-state mid-Atlantic grid.
The department’s order to the grid operator, PJM Interconnection, regarding the Eddystone power plant just south of Philadelphia on the Delaware River, is the department’s second use of federal power under President Donald Trump to require a power plant to keep operating on the mainland United States.
Constellation Energy had planned to shut down Eddystone’s units 3 and 4 on Saturday, but Trump’s Department of Energy ordered the company to continue operating the units until at least Aug. 28. The units can produce a combined 760 megawatts.
The department, in its order, cited PJM’s growing concerns about power shortfalls amid the shutdown of aging power plants and rising electricity demand. PJM has projected significant growth in electricity use to power America’s fast-rising demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing platforms.
Demand for electricity has spiked for the first time in decades. In addition to artificial intelligence, crypto mining, the broader electrification of society and bipartisan political pressure to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. are fueling new electricity demand.
PJM last year approved Constellation’s request to shut down the units, but it welcomed the department’s order to keep them operating, saying it’s a “prudent, term-limited step” that allows PJM, the department and Constellation to study the longer-term need and viability of Eddystone’s units.
In a statement Monday, Constellation said it is “pleased” to work with the department and PJM and is taking emergency measures to meet the need for power “at this critical time when America must win the AI race.”
It also said it is trying to accelerate its restart of Three Mile Island ‘s Unit 1 to bring it online in 2027, instead of in 2028, as part of a deal to supply data centers run by tech giant Microsoft with carbon-free energy.
PJM, based in Pennsylvania, earlier this year won federal approval to fast-track the construction of new power plants that critics said would favor natural gas plants over clean energy projects that don’t emit planet-warming greenhouse gases.
PJM has said a power shortage could affect the grid as early as 2026 as demand grows for electricity at the same time that aging coal-fired plants and nuclear plants are retiring. Clean energy advocates blame PJM for creating the existing reliability problem by taking an unduly long time to study proposed wind and solar energy projects in its project queue.
Proposals awaiting PJM’s approval are more than 97% solar, wind or battery storage, according to federal figures. Less than 3% are natural gas.
The department took a similar step last week, ordering Consumers Energy to keep the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant open in Michigan past its Saturday retirement.
The grid operator there, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, said the order was unnecessary, that there was no energy emergency there and that there should be enough energy in the region through the summer.
An environmental advocacy group, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, criticized the move to keep Eddystone operating as an “environmental injustice.” Shutting down the units would reduce hazardous pollution and carbon emissions from the decades-old facility and help the region meet federal clean air standards for smog, it said.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: Law enforcement officials investigate after an attack on the Pearl Street Mall Sunday, June 1, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A man in Boulder disguised as a gardener who wounded 12 people in an attack on a group holding their weekly demonstration for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza had planned to kill them all but appeared to have second thoughts, according to authorities.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman had 18 Molotov cocktails but threw just two during Sunday’s attack in which he yelled “Free Palestine,” police said. He didn’t carry out his full plan “because he got scared and had never hurt anyone before,” police wrote in an affidavit.
The two incendiary devices he did throw into the group of about 20 people were enough to wound more than half of them, and authorities said he expressed no regrets about the attack.
The 45-year-old Soliman — whose first name also was spelled Mohammed in some court documents — planned the attack for more than a year and specifically targeted what he described as a “Zionist group,” authorities said in court papers charging him with a federal hate crime.
“When he was interviewed about the attack, he said he wanted them all to die, he had no regrets and he would go back and do it again,” Acting U.S. Attorney J. Bishop Grewell for the District of Colorado said during a news conference Monday.
Federal and state prosecutors filed separate criminal cases against Soliman, charging him with a hate crime and attempted murder, respectively. He faces additional state charges related to the incendiary devices, and more charges are possible in federal court, where the Justice Department will seek a grand jury indictment.
Soliman is being held on a $10 million, cash-only bond, prosecutors said. His next court hearing is set for Thursday.
An FBI affidavit says Soliman told the police he was driven by a desire “to kill all Zionist people,” a reference to the movement to establish and protect a Jewish state in Israel.
Soliman’s attorney, public defender Kathryn Herold, declined to comment after the hearing.
Soliman was living in the U.S. illegally after entering the country in August 2022 on a B2 visa that expired in February 2023, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a post on the social platform X.
The burst of violence at the popular Pearl Street pedestrian mall in downtown Boulder unfolded against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war, which continues to inflame global tensions and has contributed to a spike in antisemitic violence in the United States. The attack happened on the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot and barely a week after a man who also yelled “Free Palestine” was charged with fatally shooting two Israeli Embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum in Washington.
The victims who were wounded range in age from 52 to 88, and the injuries spanned from serious to minor, officials said.
Six of the injured were taken to hospitals, and four have since been released, said Miri Kornfeld, a Denver-based organizer connected to the group. She said the clothing of one of those who remains hospitalized caught on fire.
Members of the volunteer group called Run For Their Lives were holding their weekly demonstration when the attack happened. Video from the scene captured by witness Alex Osante of San Diego shows people pouring water on a woman lying on the ground who Osante said had caught fire during the attack.
Osante said that after the suspect threw the two incendiary devices, apparently catching himself on fire as he threw the second, he took off his shirt and what appeared to be a bulletproof vest before police arrived. The man dropped to the ground and was arrested without any apparent resistance in the video Osante filmed.
The Molotov cocktails were made up of glass wine carafe bottles or jars with clear liquid and red rags hanging out of the them, the FBI said.
“He stated that he had been planning the attack for a year and was waiting until after his daughter graduated to conduct the attack,” the affidavit says.
He had gas in a backpack sprayer but told investigators he didn’t spray it on anyone but himself “because he had planned on dying.”
Soliman also told investigators he took a concealed carry class and tried to buy a gun but was denied because he is not a legal U.S. citizen.
Authorities said they believe Soliman acted alone. He was also injured and taken to a hospital. Authorities did not elaborate on the nature of his injuries, but a booking photo showed him with a large bandage over one ear.
Soliman, who was born in Egypt, moved three years ago to Colorado Springs, where he lived with his wife and five kids, according to state court documents. He previously spent 17 years living in Kuwait.
McLaughlin said Soliman filed for asylum in September 2022 and was granted a work authorization in March 2023 that had expired. DHS did not respond to requests for additional information.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Ambridge Borough, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that on Tuesday, June 3rd, weather permitting, lane restrictions on Route 65 in Ambridge Borough will occur. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, single-lane restrictions will be in each direction on Route 65 on Ohio River Boulevard. This will occur for inspection of the Laughlin Memorial Bridge between Bank Street and 4th Street. Routine inspection activities will be conducted by Mackin Engineering and the Sofis company crews.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(McKees Rocks, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that flagging operations are underway on Route 3104 on the McKees Rocks Bridge in McKees Rocks Borough and the City of Pittsburgh. From 7 a.m. until 5 p.m. from Monday through Friday as needed, short-term intermittent traffic stoppages of 15 minutes or fewer and flagging operations will occur on that bridge. Inlet clearing, line painting and other miscellaneous operations will be conducted by crews.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, the company reminded consumers about changes in electric generation prices called the Price to Compare. These began on Sunday, June 1st, and there is a 5 to 16% range of increases around utilities that are major for Price to Compare. According to that same release from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, here are some steps to avoid energy marketing that is misleading.