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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(New Castle, PA) Vitalant is holding some blood drives in October of 2025 in some locations in both Beaver County and New Castle and one location in New Wilmington. Vitalant is encouraging those to give blood or platelets to do so, especially as platelets and type O blood is needed the most during October of 2025, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, in which you can donate blood or platelets to help those undergoing treatments of cancer as well as other patients. According to a release from Vitalant, anyone who donates blood or platelets with Vitalant during October will be automatically entered to win a prepaid gift card they can use to upgrade their tech or spend however they wish, which is a chance to win $10,000 in their Tune Up Your Technology Giveaway. Here are the locations of these blood drives as well as more information about how to give blood or platelets can be found below, according to that same release from Vitalant:

Upcoming Blood Drives

Ambridge

Tuesday, October 28th

Ambridge Area High School

909 Duss Avenue

8 A.M. – 12 P.M.

Darlington

Monday, October 20th

Darlington Township Building

3590 Darlington Road

1 P.M. – 7 P.M.

Fombell

Friday, October 31st

Hero-Franklin Township Building

897 State Route 288

12 P.M. – 4 P.M.

New Brighton

Friday, October 10th

Rich DeFilippi Replenishment Drive

2236 3rd Avenue

12 P.M. – 6 P.M.

New Castle

Monday, October 6th

Shenango High School

2550 Ellwood Road

8 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

Friday, October 17th

Holy Spirit Parish – St Camillius, McGurk Hall

314 West Englewood Avenue.

11:30 A.M. – 4:30 P.M.

Friday, October 17th

UPMC Jameson North Campus

1211 Wilmington Road

10:30 A.M. – 3 P.M.

Monday, October 27th

Mohawk High School – Auxiliary Gym

385 Mohawk School Rd.

8:30 A.M. – 1 P.M,

New Wilmington

Wednesday, Oct. 8th

Wilmington Area High School

400 Wood Street

8 A.M. – 1 P.M.

Information about Making Appointments from Vitalant:

• Learn more and make an appointment to give by visiting vitalant.org by clicking here, download the Vitalant app by clicking here or call 877-25-VITAL (877-258-4825).

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle report today that forty-two-year-old Kevin Woodhouse of Washington, Pennsylvania got transported to UPMC Jameson Hospital in New Castle yesterday evening for a suspected overdose. Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle went to I-376 for a report about the truck of Woodhouse, which was traveling east, then exited to State Route 18 to go south. Police officers intercepted the truck of Woodhouse at the intersection of State Route 18 and State Route 208 in Wilmington Township of Lawrence County. Charges against Woodhouse for driving under the influence are pending and the investigation into this incident is ongoing.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to Pittsburgh Public Safety, an unidentified woman in her late seventies has died at a Pittsburgh area hospital on Wednesday. This woman got hit by a car on the South Side of Pittsburgh on Tuesday and was taken to a Pittsburgh area hospital in critical condition with head trauma. According to a spokesperson from Pittsburgh Public Safety, this incident happened just before 1 p.m. on Tuesday as a couple was crossing S 28th Street after leaving a restaurant in the area. The woman was hit by a vehicle turning off of Sidney Street to S 28th Street. This incident is being investigated by the Collision Investigation Unit of Pittsburgh. Authorities also confirmed that the driver cooperated fully with investigators while that driver stayed on the scene of this incident.

By Scott Tady

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) announced today that it has extended the contract of Byron Stripling as Principal Pops conductor through the 2028-2029 season.

A charismatic trumpeter, conductor and vocalist, Stripling has led the PSO’s PNC Pops series as Principal Pops conductor since 2020, bringing energy, joy and artistry to Heinz Hall concertgoers.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Passers-by walk and ride along a path on the campus of Brown University, in Providence, R.I., Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money.

Universities were asked to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” committing them to adopt the White House’s vision for America’s campuses. It asks the schools to accept the government’s priorities on admissions, women’s sports, free speech, student discipline and college affordability, among other topics.

Signing on would give universities priority access to some federal grants, but government money would not be limited solely to those schools, according to a White House official who was not authorized to publicly discuss the plan and spoke on condition of anonymity. Colleges that agree would also have priority access to White House events and discussions with officials.

The compact, obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, asks universities to accept the government’s definition of gender and apply it to campus bathrooms, locker rooms and women’s sports teams. It asks colleges to stop considering race, gender and a wide range of other student demographics in the admissions process and to require undergraduate applicants to take the SAT or ACT.

The 10-page proposed agreement was sent Wednesday to some of the most selective public and private universities: Vanderbilt, the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, the University of Southern California, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia. It was not clear how these schools were selected or why, and whether similar offers might go out to other colleges.

Leaders of the Texas system were “honored” that the Austin campus was chosen to be a part of the compact and its “potential funding advantages,” according to a statement from Kevin Eltife, chair of the Board of Regents. “Today we welcome the new opportunity presented to us and we look forward to working with the Trump Administration on it,” Eltife said.

Representatives from the other colleges did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The administration has used its control of federal funding as leverage at several other colleges, cutting off research money at schools including Harvard and Columbia as it has sought changes to the schools’ governance and policies.

Under the compact, international enrollment would have to be capped at 15% of a college’s undergraduate student body — many elite schools are now above that — and no more than 5% could come from a single country.

Schools that sign on would have to cap tuition for U.S. students for five years and the wealthiest campuses would not charge tuition at all for students pursuing “hard science programs.”

On free speech, schools would have to commit to promoting a wide range of views on campus. That includes “transforming or abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas,” according to the compact.

Each school would have to commission an annual poll of students and faculty to evaluate the campuses’ adherence to the pact. The terms would be enforced by the Justice Department, with violators losing access to the compact’s benefits for no less than a year. Following violations bump the penalty to two years.

“Institutions of higher education are free to develop models and values other than those below,” the compact said, “if the institution elects to forego federal benefits.”

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ambridge, PA) Twenty-five-year-old Jordan M. Taylor of Ambridge is now in police custody and an unidentified thirty-three-year-old man got injured because of a shooting that occurred in Ambridge on Wednesday morning. According to the Ambridge Police Department, officers were called to the 600 block of Glenwood Avenue for reports of shots fired at 8:45 a.m. on Wednesday. The shooter and the victim were missing when police officers arrived. According to police, this shooting was the result of an argument that escalated. The male victim, who had a gunshot wound in his leg, later arrived at Heritage Valley Sewickley Hospital in Sewickley. Police identified Taylor and Taylor is the suspect of this incident. Taylor got arrested on the 700 block of 23rd Street in a house in Ambridge and Taylor is expected to get charged.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Aliquippa, PA) Twenty-six-year-old Javen Jajuan Alford of Aliquippa recently got charged with two counts of aggravated assault after according to police, he stabbed another man in the face in Aliquippa. This incident occurred early Wednesday morning at around the 12 a.m. hour at the 300 block of Superior Avenue. Reports early that morning were about a fight in an apartment building that occurred and someone possibly getting stabbed. A man whose face was bleeding spoke with police when they arrived. That man stated that Alford and another person had been fighting in the hallway of the Aliquippa apartment where they were and that man said to Alford to quit yelling because his kids were sleeping, before he started arguing with Alford and punching Alford in the face. That man claimed Alford then leaved and then returned and started yelling again. According to records, when the man opened his door, he saw Alford holding a steak knife and saying, “I am going to kill you.” That man also stated that he got stabbed in the face by Alford before Alford left. Police confirm that the man had a stab wound under his bottom lip that was one inch long. According to records, police found Alford at his apartment and arrested him.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(New Sewickley Township, PA) A crash that occurred in New Sewickley Township on Wednesday that involved two vehicles, one being a motorcycle, killed the motorcyclist, forty-three-year-old Jared Schmidt of Seven Fields that afternoon. The 300 block of Crows Run Road in New Sewickley Township is where this crash occurred and the time of this crash was at about 3:59 p.m. on Wednesday. Schmidt was hit by another vehicle driven by sixty-four-year-old Carol Cary of Monaca. Cary did not get injured, but Schmidt got pronounced dead at the scene. According to police in a release, their preliminary investigation shows that Schmidt was driving eastbound while the other driver was driving westbound. The eastbound lane is where the motorcycle of Schmidt and the vehicle of Cary collided. This crash also caused an about five hour closure of Crows Run Road between State Route 65 and Freedom Crider Road in New Sewickley Township. It is not known at this time if charges will be filed against Cary. This crash also caused the Beaver County Coroner, David J. Gabauer, to make an appearance and the crash is continuing to be investigated by both the New Sewickley Police Department and the Pennsylvania State Police Collision, Analysis and Reconstruction Unit.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(New Sewickley Township, PA) Yesterday, Beaver County Coroner David J. Gabauer was called to a crash in New Sewickley Township. According to emergency dispatchers, two vehicles, one being a motorcycle, got involved in a crash on Crows Run Road. 4:40 p.m. yesterday was when this crash was reported. Police also confirmed that Crows Run Road between Route 65 and Freedom Crider Road closed temporarily. No other details about this crash have been released and an investigation into this incident continued last night.

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – A statement is made after the Bryan Kohberger sentencing July 23, 2025, outside of the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho. (AP Photo/Drew Nash, File)

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge is blocking the release of some graphic photos taken by investigators after Bryan Kohberger killed four University of Idaho students in 2022.

Second District Judge Megan Marshall made the ruling Wednesday, saying the dissemination of “incredibly disturbing” photos across the internet — where the victims’ families might inadvertently see them — is an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

She ordered the city of Moscow to black out portions of the images that show any portion of the victims’ bodies or the blood immediately surrounding them.

But the judge said the public also has an interest in seeing investigation records, and so other photos, videos and documents connected to the case can be released, including videos showing distraught friends of the victims on the morning their bodies were found.

Kohberger was sentenced to life without parole in July for the stabbing murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Ethan Chapin at an off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho.

Family members of two of the victims, Mogen and Chapin, had asked the judge to keep parts of the crime scene photos and videos hidden from public view, saying the images are invasive and traumatizing.

The criminal case drew worldwide attention, and the Moscow Police Department received hundreds of requests to release investigatory records. Idaho law generally allows for the sealing of investigation records to be lifted once a criminal investigation is complete.

After Kohberger’s sentencing, the city of Moscow responded to one such request for public records by releasing some of the photos and videos taken by law enforcement at the crime scene, blurring out the bodies of the killed students as well as the faces of other victims and witnesses who talked to police outside the home.

“There is little to be gained by the public in seeing the decedents’ bodies, the blood soaked sheets, blood spatter or other death-scene depictions,” Marshall wrote, and she noted that those images have already caused the families “extreme emotional distress.”

“The fact remains: the murder investigation and the criminal case are closed,” Marshall wrote. “Releasing these records will have minor effect upon those who continue to be perplexed by the facts or fixated on unfounded conspiracies whereas it has and will continue to have profound effect upon the decedents’ loved ones.”