DMVA Mobile Outreach Team to Provide Free Assistance for Commonwealth Veterans Applying for Benefits

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Annville, PA) According to a release today in Annville, Pennsylvania from the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA), they announced that its mobile veterans outreach team is available for free throughout the state to assist veterans by obtaining information and initiating benefit claim paperwork through the assistance of accredited veterans service officers. The DMVA brings services that are essential directly to veterans and can also be booked online for community events like county fairs, festivals and more. Their team offers on-site assistance that is no cost with veterans’ benefits that are supported by the DMVA’s accredited veterans service officers. Links with more information can be found below:

Click here to schedule the Mobile Veterans’ Outreach Team for an Event | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania natural gas production jumps 5.1%, largest increase since 2021

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE—In this file photo from March 12, 2020, work continues at a shale gas well drilling site in St. Mary’s, Pa. Pennsylvania attorney general Josh Shapiro is scheduled to release results on Thursday June 25, 2020 of a grand jury investigation into natural gas hydraulic fracturing. The fracking process has raised environmental concerns while turning the state into a major energy producer. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) The production of natural gas in Pennsylvania went up by 5.1%, which is the biggest increase in the state since 2021. The annual natural gas production report from the Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) in Harrisburg released on Wednesday found that 7.76 billion cubic feet of production and 446 new wells begun in 2025. The volume for natural gas production increased all year and the number of wells were a higher amount beginning in the second quarter, even as the average price in Pennsylvania was the highest in the first quarter at a total of $3.69 per thousand British Thermal Units. $2.83 per thousand British Thermal Units was the average price in 2025, which was up 70% from a year ago. According to the IFO, the number of new wells that began in Pennsylvania was the first increase in annual totals since 2022.

Tanker truck overturns on the I-79 on-ramp near Steubenville Pike

(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of WPXI-TV Pittsburgh, Posted on Facebook on February 27th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Robinson Township, PA) A tanker truck overturned on the I-79 on-ramp near Steubenville Pike in Robinson Township today. The truck was on its side at the bottom of the ramp. There were no reported injuries.

Two-vehicle crash occurs in Lawrence County

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Gibsonia reported via release today that a two-vehicle crash occurred in Lawrence County on the evening of February 17th, 2026. At 11 p.m., an unidentified driver was traveling on I-76 East in North Beaver Township and tried to pass the vehicle of twenty-two-year-old Cameron Hores of Valencia, Pennsylvania after the driver was behind the vehicle of Hores. The driver ended up hitting the vehicle of Hores and did not stop and give information to police. There were no injuries. 

Pirates announcer discusses Andrew McCutchen future and new MLB rule

Pittsburgh Pirates broadcaster Greg Brown spoke on the Beaver County Radio Morning Show on Friday.

Chatting with WBVP-WMBA morning host Scott Tady, Brown shared his thoughts on Andrew McCutchen’s potential future with the Pirates. Brown also discussed a new Major League baseball rule change regarding players challenging called balls and strikes.

Listen to Brown’s interview here:

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Greg Brown, Pittsburgh Pirates broadcaster. (photo courtesy Greg Brown)

 

Woman taken into custody for stabbing a man after knocking on his door in the Arlington Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A woman was taken into custody after knocking on a door in the Arlington Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh and stabbing the person who answered. The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police was called to the 3000 block of Arlington Avenue this morning for a reported stabbing. According to officers, they found a man who had been stabbed in the shoulder and the wrist when they arrived. The man told police a woman knocked on his door, started to verbally fight with him and then took out a knife and stabbed him. Authorities say the woman fled on foot but was later found at the intersection of Josephine Street and Salisbury Street. This happened after the woman stabbed the man and her identity has not been released at this time. 

UPDATE: Missing Haitian woman who does not speak English and has dementia found after announced as missing in Pittsburgh

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Sixty-seven-year-old Marie Alphonse of Haiti has now been found after she recently went missing in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Police were looking for her and she has dementia and does not speak English. Officers considered her to be endangered. Investigators state that she would respond to her name even though she does not know English. According to police, she was last seen on Lawndale Street in the Homewood North neighborhood of Pittsburgh near the Penn Hills border before she went missing.

 

Route 51 Clairton Boulevard Lane Restrictions Resume Monday in Allegheny County

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced lane restrictions on Route 51 (Clairton Boulevard) in Pleasant Hills Borough of Allegheny County will begin on Monday, March 2nd, weather permitting. This will happen on weekdays from 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. through late March and single-lane restrictions will occur on Route 51 in both directions between East Bruceton Road and Mall Drive as crews from Lindy Paving will conduct concrete median removal work there. During this phase of work, at least one lane will remain open in each direction.

Source: Steelers place last out of the 32 NFL teams in this year’s NFL Players Association survey

(Source for Photo: Pittsburgh Steelers’ DK Metcalf wipes his face on the bench during the second half of an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in Detroit. Credit for Photo: (AP Photo/Rey Del Rio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The Pittsburgh Steelers ranked in last place out of the thirty-two NFL teams in a recent NFL Players Association annual report card and the team received low grades in several categories, according to survey results obtained by ESPN. This is the first time in the four-year history of that survey that the Steelers were placed in last and that team finished in 28th in this survey in 2025. This reporgrades the thirty-two NFL franchises from A-plus to F-minus on everything from ownership to treatment of families and the survey results obtained by ESPN confirm that this year’s report cards are based on responses from 1,759 players. All of the NFL football players who were on a 2025 roster at the time of the survey were eligible to participate, and it was conducted from November 2nd through December 11th, 2025. 

Downtown Pittsburgh building ramps up leasing under new ownership

(Caption for Photo: The 11 Stanwix building, at 11 Stanwix Street Downtown. The Allegheny Conference on Community Development signed a 16 1/2-year lease extension to keep its offices there., (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The leasing team and ownership of 11 Stanwix have ushered in a growing collection of new professional services firms, adding more than 135,000 square feet of new lease commitments since late 2024. That is according to a recent announcement by JLL, which represents the property of a 23-story office tower that is overlooking the Monongahela River that totals 476,000 square feet. The newcomers include Strada Architecture, who moved into a 14,503-square-foot space last month, the law firm Raines Feldman, who are soon to move into 21,933 square feet, as well as other new leases by Jackson Lewis that are taking a 16,022-square-foot sublease, are making the building an increasingly popular downtown address for law firms.