(File Photo of Congressman Chris Deluzio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) According to a release from Congressman Chris Deluzio, Congressmembers Deluzio (PA-17), Brendan Boyle (PA-02), and LaMonica McIver (NJ-10) introduced the Rail Passenger Fairness Act yesterday to help Amtrak improve on-time performance for passenger train travel across the country. This bill would help to take on the freight train interference problem, which occurs when freight trains do not follow the current law which requires them to provide preference to passenger trains that operate on their rail lines. Specifically, this bill would give empowerment to Amtrak to sue freight railroads in federal court, which would enforce the law. If the Rail Passenger Fairness Act is passed into law, it would assist in reducing delays for Amtrak, hold corporations for freight railroads accountable, and save money that is public.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(East Palestine, OH) Over 100 people who live in and around East Palestine, Ohio, presently say they were duped into joining a settlement from Norfolk Southern that is $600 million after the derailment disaster that occurred in East Palestine, Ohio on February 3rd, 2023. They believe that lawyers have tricked them, while attorneys filed a motion to get relief in federal court. That motion states these people opted in the personal injury, and they did so based on information that was false. This motion claims experts hired by class counsel concealed the results of soil tests and water conducted by their experts, which have not been disclosed yet. This motion also claims that these experts were misleading people into believing there would be no health impacts that were long-term from the derailment, despite counsel being aware of people with permanent injuries that were documented already. This motion continues by claiming that their priority was to secure a settlement instead of a judgment that was proper and it now seeks to force the release of all reports, as well as to release people from both opt-ins for personal injury and the settlement.

(File Photo of a Fire Background)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(South Beaver Township, PA) According to a Facebook post yesterday morning from the Chippewa Township Volunteer Fire Department, that fire department got requested this morning to help with a semi-truck that caught on fire. That semi-truck was branded with the well-known pizza company, Papa Johns, and it was found on the 800 block of Blackhawk Road in South Beaver Township at about 6:35 a.m. yesterday morning. The cause of this fire is unknown at this time.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: The Clairton Coke Works, a U.S. Steel coking plant, is seen Monday, Aug 11, 2025, in Clairton, Penn. (AP Photo/Gene Puskar)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Clairton, PA) An update was given yesterday in Clairton, Pennsylvania by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board into the explosion at the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works plant in Clairton on August 11th, 2025 which killed two workers. According to a release, preliminary information “indicates that the explosion occurred during maintenance activities involving a gas isolation valve in the basement of the Battery 13/14 transfer area at the facility.” Once the investigation by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board into the explosion at the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works plant in Clairton on August 11th, 2025 is complete, a final report detailing new findings, analyses, and recommendations will be released.

(File Photo of Police Siren Lights)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Brighton Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report yesterday that an unidentified driver was charged and cited by police after that driver caused a single-vehicle crash in Brighton Township on Wednesday. This driver was driving on I-376 East and that person lost control of their vehicle past the Brighton Exit because of the storm of rain and the roads that were wet. The vehicle of this driver made contact with a guide rail after going off of the left side of the road and then went off of the right side of the road after making contact with the guide rail. This driver was not injured from this crash. This driver requested that their vehicle would be towed and that vehicle was able to be driven from the scene of this crash.

(File Photo of a Gavel)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Acting United States Attorney Troy Revetti announced yesterday that a resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges
of willful failure to collect or pay over tax. Forty-nine-year-old Michael D. Funovitis pleaded guilty to this crime and will be sentenced on February 17th, 2026. Funovitis did not pay over to the payroll taxes of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) he collected on behalf of his businesses, PennRo Associates LLC and Penn Exteriors LLC between 2016 and 2023. According to Revetti, Funovitis could face a maximum total sentence of up to five years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, or both, provided by the law.

(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of AAA East Central)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Gas prices are four cents lower in Western Pennsylvania this week at about $3.38 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of gasoline dropped down to $3.13, which is two cents lower than last week. The report states that the average price for a gallon of gas in Western Pennsylvania was around $3.48. The report also notes that the average price that you can expect for a gallon of unleaded gas here in Beaver County is about $3.53. According to a release from AAA East Central and AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report, here are the average prices of unleaded self-serve gasoline this week in various areas:

$3.323      Altoona
$3.532      Beaver
$3.580      Bradford
$3.022      Brookville
$3.464      Butler
$3.058      Clarion
$3.269      DuBois
$3.317      Erie
$3.282      Greensburg
$3.4          Indiana
$3.421      Jeannette
$3.467      Kittanning
$3.272      Latrobe
$3.281      Meadville
$3.528      Mercer
$3.374      New Castle
$3.472      New Kensington
$3.459      Oil City
$3.421      Pittsburgh
$3.258      Sharon
$3.495      Uniontown
$3.599      Warren
$3.405      Washington

(File Photo: Caption for Photo: police car lights at night in city with selective focus and bokeh background blur) Credit for Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images/iStockphoto/z1b)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Hanover Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report today that sixty-one-year-old Timothy Block of Clinton, Pennsylvania was the victim of a theft in Hanover Township on August 26th, 2025. According to police, an unknown actor or actors attempted to open a fraudulent Wells Fargo account on 330 Murdocksville Road. That is all the information that we have at this time.

(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Badge)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report yesterday that their Troop D Beaver members conducted a DUI checkpoint/Roving Patrol Detail in Beaver County on Friday and Saturday. Nine citations were issued, seven warnings were made and two arrests were made during this initiative, one for driving under the influence and one for a misdemeanor of drug possession. Over this past weekend, six DUI arrests and two drug possession arrests were what the Beaver Patrol Unit affected. Police also remind Pennsylvanians that .08 percent is the blood-alcohol legal limit in Pennsylvania and it is illegal for anyone under 21 to have any amount of alcohol in their system.

(Photo Courtesy of the Allegheny County Police Department)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) Nineteen-year-old Tayron Perry Reid of Pittsburgh, who was wanted for allegedly shooting and killing his father in an East Pittsburgh home on September 16th, 2025, is now in custody. Reid has been wanted since September 18th, 2025, which is when a charge of criminal homicide was filed against him. According to police, Reid’s father, forty-five-year-old Ta’Ron Reid, was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at a house on Ridge Avenue on September 16th, 2025. Tayron Reid is now in the Allegheny County Jail after turning himself in to detectives yesterday.