(File Photo: Source for Photo: Flags and flowers are placed in the inscribed names at the National September 11 Memorial in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Donald King)

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are marking 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with solemn ceremonies, volunteer work and other tributes honoring the victims.

Many loved ones of the nearly 3,000 people killed will join dignitaries and politicians at commemorations Thursday in New York, at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Others choose to mark the day at more intimate gatherings.

James Lynch, who lost his father, Robert Lynch, during the World Trade Center attack, said he and his family will attend a ceremony near their hometown in New Jersey before spending the day at the beach.

“It’s one of those things where any kind of grief, I don’t think it ever goes away,” Lynch said as he, his partner and his mother joined thousands of volunteers preparing meals for the needy at a 9/11 charity event in Manhattan the day before the anniversary. “Finding the joy in that grief, I think, has been a huge part of my growth with this,” he said.

The remembrances are being held during a time of increased political tensions. The 9/11 anniversary, often promoted as a day of national unity, comes a day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at a college in Utah.

The reading of names and moments of silence

Kirk’s killing is expected to prompt additional security measures around the 9/11 anniversary ceremony at the World Trade Center site in New York, authorities said.

At ground zero in lower Manhattan, the names of the attack victims will be read aloud by family and loved ones in a ceremony attended by Vice President JD Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance. Moments of silence will mark the exact times when hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center’s iconic twin towers, as well as when the skyscrapers fell.

At the Pentagon in Virginia, the 184 service members and civilians killed when hijackers steered a jetliner into the headquarters of the U.S. military will be honored. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will attend the service before heading to the Bronx for a baseball game between the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers Thursday evening.

And in a rural field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, a similar ceremony marked by moments of silence, the reading of names and the laying of wreaths, will honor the victims of Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed after crew members and passengers tried to storm the cockpit. That service will be attended by Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins.

Like Lynch, people across the country are also marking the 9/11 anniversary with service projects and charity works as part of a national day of service. Volunteers will be taking part in food and clothing drives, park and neighborhood cleanups, blood banks and other community events.

Reverberations from attacks persist

In all, the attacks by al-Qaida militants killed 2,977 people, including many financial workers at the World Trade Center and firefighters and police officers who had rushed to the burning buildings trying to save lives.

The attacks reverberated globally and altered the course of U.S. policy, both domestically and overseas. It led to the “ Global War on Terrorism ” and the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and related conflicts that killed hundreds of thousands of troops and civilians.

While the hijackers died in the attacks, the U.S. government has struggled to conclude its long-running legal case against the man accused of masterminding the plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The former al-Qaida leader was arrested in Pakistan in 2003 and later taken to a U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, but has never received a trial.

The anniversary ceremony in New York was taking place at the National Sept. 11 memorial and Museum, where two memorial pools ringed by waterfalls and parapets inscribed with the names of the dead mark the spots where the twin towers once stood.

The Trump administration has been contemplating ways that the federal government might take control of the memorial plaza and its underground museum, which are now run by a public charity currently chaired by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a frequent Trump critic. Trump has spoken of possibly making the site a national monument.

In the years since the attacks, the U.S. government has spent billions of dollars providing health care and compensation to tens of thousands of people who were exposed to the toxic dust that billowed over parts of Manhattan when the twin towers collapsed. More than 140,000 people are still enrolled in monitoring programs intended to identify those with health conditions that could potentially be linked to hazardous materials in the soot.

(File Photo of Road Work Ahead Sign)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that starting tomorrow, weather permitting, the implementation of a new traffic configuration from northbound I-579 to northbound I-279 (Parkway North) in the City of Pittsburgh will begin. The anticipation is that this new traffic configuration will be fully implemented by noon on Sunday, September 14th. According to a release from PennDOT District 11, details about this new traffic configuration and the detours for it can be found below:

Motorists will see the following for this configuration anticipated for Sunday:

• Northbound I-579 traffic will be crossed over into the northbound I-579 HOV lanes on the Veterans Bridge.
• Northbound traffic in the I-579 HOV lanes will continue into the I-279 HOV lanes.
• Northbound traffic can exit at McKnight Road or continue to the terminus of the HOV lanes onto mainline I-279 north of the Perrysville Road exit.
• Two 11-foot lanes will be maintained in this new configuration.

Additional traffic restrictions include:

• Northbound I-579/I-279 HOV traffic will not have access to the Hazlett Street (Exit 3), Evergreen Road (Exit 4) and Perrysville Avenue (Exit 5) off-ramps.
• The northbound I-579 ramp to northbound Route 28 will be closed to traffic.
• Access to the I-279 HOV lanes in the southbound direction will be prohibited.
• Southbound I-279 and southbound I-579 will remain in their current configuration.

Posted Detours

Northbound I-279 HOV lanes to Hazlett Street

• From the northbound I-279 HOV lanes, merge onto mainline I-279
• Take the Bellevue/West View (Exit 7) off-ramp
• Turn left onto Union Avenue
• Turn left onto the ramp to southbound I-279 toward Pittsburgh
• Take the East Street (Exit 4) off-ramp
• Turn left onto East Street
• End detour

Northbound I-279 HOV lanes to Evergreen Road

• From the northbound I-279 HOV lanes, merge onto mainline I-279
• Take the Bellevue/West View (Exit 7) off-ramp
• Turn left onto Union Avenue
• Turn left onto the ramp to southbound I-279 toward Pittsburgh
• Take the East Street (Exit 4) off-ramp
• Turn right onto Evergreen Road
• End detour

Northbound I-279 HOV lanes to Perrysville Avenue

• From the northbound I-279 HOV lanes, merge onto mainline I-279
• Take the Bellevue/West View (Exit 7) off-ramp
• Turn left onto Union Avenue

• Turn left onto the ramp to southbound I-279 toward Pittsburgh
• Take the 19/Perrysville Avenue (Exit 5) off-ramp
• End detour

Northbound I-579 to northbound Route 28

• From the northbound I-279 HOV lanes, merge onto mainline I-279
• Take the Bellevue/West View (Exit 7) off-ramp
• Turn left onto Union Avenue

• Turn left onto the ramp to southbound I-279 toward Pittsburgh
• Take the To 28 North/East Ohio Street (Exit 2B) off-ramp
• Continue straight onto East Street
• Turn left onto East Ohio Street
• Continue straight onto the 28 North/Etna ramp
• End detour

Bedford Avenue HOV Lanes

• The Bedford Avenue HOV gate will open to traffic approximately one hour before the end of any regular season Penguin’s game at PPG Paints Arena.
• To accommodate post-event traffic, the left-hand lane of the I-579 crossover will be restricted with one lane remaining open for mainline I-579 traffic.
• A single-lane of traffic will be maintained on the I-579 HOV lane from Bedford Avenue to the merge point with mainline I-579.
• The Bedford Avenue gate will be closed when post-event traffic has cleared.

Mazersoki Way and Anderson Street HOV Lanes

• The Mazeroski Way and Anderson Street/9^th Street HOV gates will open to traffic approximately one hour before the end of major sporting event at Acrisure Stadium or PNC Park.
• To accommodate traffic, the left-hand lane of the northbound I-279 HOV lanes will be restricted with one lane remaining open for mainline northbound traffic.
• A single-lane of traffic will be maintained on the North Shore HOV lanes prior to the merge point with the I-279 HOV lanes.
• The Mazeroski Way and Anderson Street HOV gates will be closed when post-event traffic has cleared.

More Details on this Work:

• In preparation for the new traffic configuration work will occur in the currently closed HOV lanes.  Crews will conduct sign updates, line eradication and painting, and resetting barrier.
• Crews from Swank Construction will conduct repair work to bridges on I-579. The long-term repair work follows previous inspection activities where the department found significant deterioration on several piers on I-579 and the I-579 HOV lanes. Out of an abundance of caution, traffic was shifted on mainline I-579 and completely removed from the I-579 HOV lanes while analysis was conducted.  The department performed hands-on inspections of 35 piers in this location. The project team has been in constant communication to safely and efficiently develop and implement repairs while minimizing the impacts to motorists. The repair plan makes necessary long-term repairs while maintaining as much traffic flow as possible.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Grove City, PA) The GoFundMe page for Grove City College head women’s volleyball coach Leo Sayles, who is battling stage one multiple myeloma has reached a total of over $5,000, surpassing its $5,000 goal. According to a release from Grove City College, a women’s college volleyball game between Grove City College and Carnegie Mellon University was held at Grove City College in Grove City on Tuesday not just for that game, but to raise money for those battling cancer and to raise awareness to fight against cancer. The goal of this GoFundMe from Sayles to raise money to support both Sayles and his effort to donate to the Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute at Grove City Hospital and to raise awareness about blood cancer is now $7,000. You can donate on that GoFundMe page at the link below:

Click here to donate, Fundraiser by Leo Sayles : Help Leo Sayles and AHN Grove City Cancer Institute

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) AAA is currently letting college students and their parents know that they need to review both their coverage for insurance and policies for insurance before they move to their respective college campuses. According to a release from AAA East Central, some tips that AAA provides regarding both homeowners and renters insurance for college students and their families and things to keep in mind for college students as they go to their respective campuses can be found below:

Homeowners’ and Renters’ Insurance Tips

• If living in a dorm, some personal possessions may be covered under parents’ insurance policies. Expensive items such as computers and other electronics may be subject to coverage limits under a standard homeowner’s policy, and some states require a special student endorsement.
• If living off-campus, purchase renters’ insurance. Renters’ insurance is necessary to protect belongings and can offer protection from liability in the event that someone is accidently injured on the property.
• Leave valuables at home. While some valuable items, such as laptops, may be needed on campus, items such as expensive jewelry may be best left at home.
• Create a “dorm inventory.” Keep a detailed inventory of all items moved to the dorm and include photos and receipts. If it’s necessary to file a claim, an up-to-date inventory will help make the process easier.
• Safeguard items from theft. Always lock dorm-room doors and never leave belongings unattended on campus. According to the Insurance Information Institute, the library, dining hall and other public places are common areas where property theft occurs on campus.

More to Consider Before the Move to Campus

• Every two seconds, someone is a victim of identity theft. While away from home, students often live in dorms or other shared spaces, and they may be connecting to unsecured Wi-Fi networks. This can make it easier for their identity to be stolen. Parents should encourage their students to secure personal documents, use strong passwords for all electronics and keep social media profiles private. AAA members can help protect family members’ identities by enrolling in ProtectMyID. More information can be found at AAA.com/IDTheft.

• Plan ahead for moving essentials like boxes, pads and transportation. In some cases, moving to campus may be as simple as packing up the family car and heading to campus. But if moving many boxes or items like furniture, it may be necessary to rent a truck. AAA members can take advantage of discounts on truck rentals and moving supplies through exclusive truck-rental partner Penske. For more information, go to AAA.com/Penske

 

Harrisburg, PA – Today, in accordance with the United States Flag Code and the President’s proclamation, Governor Josh Shapiro ordered United States and Commonwealth flags on all Commonwealth facilities, public buildings, and grounds across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to fly at half-staff as a mark of respect for the memory of Charlie Kirk. The flags shall remain lowered until sunset on Sunday, September 14, 2025. All Pennsylvanians are invited to participate in this tribute.

FILE – Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk speaks at a Turning Point event prior to Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaking, Sept. 4, 2024, in Mesa, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

OREM, Utah (AP) — Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, has died after being shot Wednesday at a college event, President Donald Trump says. Videos posted to social media from Utah Valley University show Kirk speaking into a handheld microphone while sitting under a white tent. A single shot rings out and Kirk can be seen reaching up with his right hand as a large volume of blood gushes from the left side of his neck. A person who was taken into custody was not the shooting suspect, according to a person familiar with the investigation who was not authorized to speak publicly.

The Latest: Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been shot at an event in Utah

Charlie Kirk, a conservative youth activist and CEO of Turning Point USA, has been shot during an event at a college in Utah. Videos posted to social media show Kirk speaking into a handheld microphone while sitting under a white tent emblazoned with the slogans, “The American Comeback” and “Prove Me Wrong.” A single shot rings out and Kirk reaches for his neck. A large volume of blood gushes from the left side of his neck. Stunned spectators gasp and scream. Some run away.

Turning Point founder has been a key figure in building support for Republicans among young people

Charlie Kirk is a prominent conservative activist who embodies the pugnacious and populist approach to politics under Donald Trump’s Republican party. He was shot at an appearance at a Utah college Wednesday. In 2012, Kirk launched Turning Point USA to reach out to young conservatives. That organization and its affiliates are now near the center of the conservative universe. They helped turn out voters to get Trump elected in 2024, trying to focus on those who felt shut out of politics and rarely cast a ballot. Kirk regularly uses apocalyptic rhetoric to paint Democrats as evil and the country on the verge of disaster. He has also continued to visit college campuses like Utah Valley University where he was shot Wednesday.

South Korean plane in Atlanta for workers detained in immigration raid; departure timeline uncertain

FOLKSTON, Ga. (AP) — A South Korean charter plane arrived in Atlanta to take home Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in Georgia last week. But even after a high-level meeting between U.S. and South Korean officials Wednesday morning, there was no immediate word on when the workers would be able to leave and the flight planned for Wednesday was canceled. A total of 475 workers, more than 300 of them South Koreans, were rounded up in the Sept. 4 raid at the battery factory under construction at Hyundai’s sprawling auto plant west of Savannah. South Korea’s government later said it reached an agreement with the U.S. for the release of the workers.

3 fired FBI officials sue Patel, saying he bowed to Trump administration’s ‘campaign of retribution’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three fired FBI officials have sued to get their jobs back, calling their terminations part of a “campaign of retribution” carried out by a director who caved to political pressure from the Trump administration. The complaint asserts Director Kash Patel indicated to one of the ousted agents he knew the firings were “likely illegal” but he was powerless to stop them because the White House and the Justice Department were determined to remove all agents who worked on investigations into President Donald Trump. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Washington. Spokespeople for the FBI have declined to comment.

Over 40% of arrests in Trump’s DC law enforcement surge relate to immigration, AP analysis finds

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has portrayed his federal law enforcement surge in Washington as a crime-fighting effort. However, data analyzed by The Associated Press shows that over 40% of the arrests during the operation were immigration-related. This highlights the administration’s continued focus on its hardline immigration agenda. The operation led to more than 2,300 arrests, including homicide suspects and gang members. More than 940 were immigration-related. The prominence of immigration arrests has fueled criticism that the true purpose was to expand deportations. Critics argue the effort appears more like a model for federal intervention in cities led by Democratic mayors. The administration argues deportations are inseparable from crime reduction.

NATO scrambles jets to shoot down Russian drones in Poland, raising fears of war spillover

WOHYN, Poland (AP) — Multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland in what European officials described as a deliberate provocation, causing NATO to send fighter jets to shoot them down. A NATO spokesman said it was the first time the alliance confronted a potential threat in its airspace. The incursion happened late Tuesday and into the early hours of Wednesday during a wave of strikes by the Kremlin on Ukraine. The NATO response swiftly raised fears that the war could spill over — a fear that has been growing in Europe as Russia steps up its attacks and peace efforts go nowhere.

Israeli airstrikes on Yemen kill at least 35, Houthi officials say

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels say Israeli airstrikes targeting the rebels in Yeman have killed at least 35 people and wounded over 130 others. Most of those killed in the strikes Wednesday were in Sanaa, the capital, where a military headquarters and a fuel station were among the sites hit, the health ministry said. Israel’s military carried out the strikes just days after Houthi rebels launched a drone attack that struck an Israeli airport. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, meanwhile, plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over the war in the Gaza Strip. The move adds to Israel’s already unprecedented global isolation as it grapples with the fallout from its strike targeting Hamas leaders in U.S.-allied Qatar on Tuesday.

Previous charges, delayed mental health evaluation were missed opportunities in Charlotte stabbing

After Decarlos Brown Jr. was arrested for the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee aboard a North Carolina commuter train, he was quickly sent to a state mental hospital for an evaluation. That’s a sharp contrast from a January arrest, where it took more than six months for a court to order a mental evaluation after Brown told officers that he had been given a human-made substance that controlled him. The January arrest was just one of the missed opportunities in Brown’s criminal history, according to experts. He had cycled through the criminal justice system for more than a decade. He now faces federal and state charges in the Aug. 22 killing of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska,

Trump administration appeals ruling blocking him from firing Federal Reserve Gov. Cook

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is appealing a ruling blocking him from immediately firing Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook as he seeks more control over the traditionally independent board. The notice of appeal was filed Wednesday, hours after U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb handed down the ruling. The White House insists the Republican president had the right to fire Cook over mortgage fraud allegations involving properties in Michigan and Georgia from before she joined the Fed. Cook’s lawsuit denies the allegations and says the firing was unlawful. The case could soon reach the Supreme Court, which has allowed Trump to fire members of other independent agencies but suggested that power has limitations at the Fed.

FILE – Charlie Kirk speaks during a town hall meeting on March 17, 2025, in Oconomowoc, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps, File)

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The conservative youth organization Turning Point USA says its CEO and co-founder, Charlie Kirk, has been shot during an event at a college in Utah. Videos posted to social media show Kirk speaking into a handheld microphone while sitting under a white tent emblazoned with the slogan, “The American Comeback” and “Prove Me Wrong.” A single shot rings out and Kirk can be seen reaching for his neck with his right hand as stunned spectators gasp and scream, and some run away. The university says a suspect is in custody.

Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, was shot Wednesday at an event at a Utah college, Turning Point said.

Videos posted to social media show Kirk speaking into a handheld microphone at Utah Valley University, at Sorensen Center courtyard, sitting under a white tent emblazoned with the slogan, “The American Comeback” and “Prove Me Wrong.”

A single shot rings out and Kirk can be seen reaching up with his right hand as a large volume of blood gushes from the left side of his neck. Stunned spectators gasp and scream, and some run away. The university said a suspect is in custody.

Kirk is the host of the Charlie Kirk Show week nights on Beaver County Radio at 9PM via the Salem Radio Network.

(File Photo of the Allegheny Health Network Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release yesterday from Allegheny Health Network, The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has recognized nine Allegheny Health Network hospitals for the high quality of their heart failure, atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, and stroke care programs. The annual American Heart Association’s (AHA) Get With The Guidelines® – Heart Failure Achievement Award for a Gold Plus designation, which is their the highest level of achievement was awarded to these hospitals: AHN Allegheny General Hospital (AGH), AHN Allegheny Valley (AVH), AHN Canonsburg, AHN Forbes, AHN Grove City, AHN West Penn, AHN Wexford and AHN Saint Vincent in Erie. In coronary artery disease outcomes with varying levels of severity, Allegheny General Hospital and AHN West Penn Hospital got Gold designations, AHN Forbes Hospital got a Silver designation and AHN Jefferson Hospital got a Bronze designation from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Hospitals that have an 85 percent chance or higher compliance to core levels of care that are standard as outlined by the American Heart Association for a period of twenty-four months in a row and have a seventy-five percent or higher chance of compliance to a group that is self-selected of quality measures from them are given the AHA/ASA Gold Plus Achievement Awards. The AHA/ASA also gave recognition to seven AHN hospitals for their stroke programs and the high quality that they have as Allegheny General Hospital, AHN Canonsburg, AHN Jefferson and AHN Saint Vincent in Erie got awarded their Gold Plus designation and Allegheny Valley Hospital, AHN Grove City and AHN Wexford got awarded their Bronze Achievement designations. In the first year of the AHA/ASA’s Commitment to Quality Award, this award was given to Allegheny General Hospital, which only 158 hospitals in the United States earned in 2025. The AHA/ASA’s Commitmnet to Quality Award goes to hospitals that acheive excellence in three or more Get With The Guidelines modules from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.

(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver, PA) A question was brought up during the audience participation section of the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session in Beaver this morning regarding the ICE “raid” in Ambridge that occurred on July 31st, 2025. The Beaver County Commissioners addressed if the people from ICE are really bringing in illegal criminals. According to Beaver County Commissioner Chairman Dan Camp, in regards to ICE, the Beaver County Sherriff’s “side of it is that they will not be doing any raids, they will not be doing anything along those lines. They want to be able to have access to the database so that if there is there is a warrant out for an individual in Beaver County, that they have access to see if that person is an illegal immigrant or a legal immigrant.” In other business, Beaver County Commissioner Jack Manning let the audience of this work session know about two upcoming events that will occur in Beaver County. The first upcoming event that Manning mentioned was an event tomorrow, September 11th, 2025 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Community College of Beaver County in Monaca for re-entry in which people that have either lost their driver’s license or have been incarcerated to help them get them back to their roles with their lives back in society. The second upcoming event in Beaver County that Manning mentioned was the Drive and Fly event at the Air Heritage Museum in Beaver Falls on Saturday, September 13th, 2025 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. which will have airplanes, food trucks, live music, a chance auction and a car show.

(File Photo of a South Beaver Township Police Patch)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(South Beaver Township, PA) A car crashed into a tree last night in South Beaver Township which ended up killing at least one person. The crash occurred on Route 168 close to the Rainbow Veterinary Hospital in South Beaver Township. The vehicle that was involved in this crash hit a tree, which was confirmed to WPXI by emergency disptachers. According to Beaver County Chief Deputy Coroner William Pasquale, this crash is under investigation.