(Photo Courtesy of Keystone Safari of Grove City)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Grove City, PA) The Keystone Safari in Grove City announced on Facebook on Sunday that a nineteen-year-old lion named Cash died of age-related causes that were natural. Cash was a male Barbary lion who was raised at Living Treasures since he was a cub. Those at the Keystone Safari also believe that Cash has become a figure in his local community and has put the safari on the Pennsylvania map.
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(File Photo of a Sign for the United States Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Indianapolis, IN) According to the Food and Drug Administration, a company based in Indiana is recalling some vine tomatoes over concerns about salmonella contaminations. Gordon Food Service stores in Pennsylvania and ten other states received recalled tomatoes from Ray & Mascari, Inc., which is based in Indianapolis. The FDA confirmed that there were no reported illnesses, and the customers should not eat the tomatoes and throw them away instead.
(File Photo of Transportation Security Administration Logo)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) According to TSA, starting today, people at the Pittsburgh International Airport without TSA PreCheck will use its alternative checkpoint. That checkpoint is on the third floor and signs will indicate the change. Those with TSA PreCheck will still use the checkpoint for main security on the second floor. This week also begins the period when from 10:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., checkpoints for passenger screening at the airport will also close.
(File Photo of Gavel)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) Acting U.S. Attorney Troy Revetti announced Friday that a man from Butler was indicted for threatening to murder President Donald Trump, some U.S. officials and ICE agents. Thirty-two-year-old Shawn Monper made threats to these people as the user “Mr. Satan” on YouTube before he was arrested on April 9th, 2025. According to Revetti, Monper was detained and could get a maximum of up to ten years in jail, an up to a $250,000 fine, or both, provided by the law.
(File Photo of the Duquesne Light Company Logo)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) Duquesne Light Company has been working hard to restore power outages from the western Pennsylvania storms that occurred on Tuesday. According to Duquesne Light Company, as of Sunday morning, 93% of customers got their power back in their houses. A news release from Duquesne Light Company confirms that at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6th or sooner, those that are still without power should have it back.
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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Beaver County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver report that a two-vehicle crash occurred on I-376 West on Saturday. An unidentified driver was tailgating behind another unidentified driver on the Chippewa Township road to cause the crash at 9:38 a.m. The driver that caused the crash was not charged and there were no reported injuries. That is all the information that we have at this time.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: A fan is carted off the field at PNC Park after falling out of the stands during the seventh inning of a baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) The Pittsburgh Pirates fan who fell from the stands onto PNC Park on Wednesday during the Pirates’ game against the Chicago Cubs is making progress in his recovery. According to the family of the man, he is able to speak and is both awake and alert. He also fractured his skull after the fall. A Pirates spokesperson confirms he was part of a group of four people at the game and one of them bought alcohol. A belief from the Pirates is that he drank two beers at the game.
Allegheny County announced the 2025 Summer Concert Series lineup, featuring more than two dozen free performances across South Park and Hartwood Acres amphitheaters. With chart-topping headliners, homegrown talent, and returning cultural staples, this season promises music for every taste.
“This summer, we’re bringing world-class music to our county parks for everyone to enjoy – for free,” said County Executive Sara Innamorato. “Whether you’re dancing to funk legends, discovering your new favorite singer-songwriter, or enjoying a glass of local wine under the stars, these concerts celebrate the joy of coming together as a community.”
Returning cultural mainstays include the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (South Park on 7/5 and Hartwood on 7/6), Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (8/24 at Hartwood), and the Pittsburgh Opera (South Park on 5/30.)
Concertgoers can enjoy offerings from local food trucks, Hop Farm Brewing Company, and Black Dog Wine Company at every performance.
South Park highlights include:
Hartwood Acres highlights include:
FULL LINEUPS:
SOUTH PARK
| May 30 | Pittsburgh Opera |
| June 6 | Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers |
| June 13 | BPM: Brian Bromberg, Paul Brown, Michael Paulo |
| June 20 | The Vindys |
| June 27 | Red Baraat |
| July 5 | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (Saturday, starts at 8:15 pm) |
| July 11 | American Authors |
| July 18 | Chuck Prophet & His Cumbia Shoes |
| July 25 | Ashley Cooke |
| August 1 | Herman’s Hermits Starring Peter Noone |
| August 8 | Over the Rhine |
| August 15 | Robert Jon & The Wreck |
| August 22 | Pittsburgh Honky-Tonk hosted by Jon Bindley |
| August 29 | Tamburitzans |
HARTWOOD
| June 1 | River City Brass |
| June 8 | The Skyliners |
| June 15 | No concert due to U.S. Open |
| June 22 | Easy Star All-Stars: performing a full Dub Side of the Moon along with songs from Radiodread, Ziggy Stardub and more! |
| June 29 | 25th Annual Allegheny County Music Festival Randall Baumann’s Ramble: A Celebration of Levon Helm’s Midnight Rambles $20.00 per vehicle suggested donation Benefits the Allegheny County Music Festival Fund |
| July 6 | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (starts at 8:15 pm) |
| July 13 | Mo Lowda & the Humble |
| July 20 | The Family Stone |
| July 27 | Mat Kearney |
| August 3 | Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets |
| August 10 | KT Tunstall |
| August 17 | Smash Mouth |
| August 24 | Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre |
| August 31 | Monty Alexander |
(File Photo: Source for Photo: A bird flies above Alcatraz Island on Sunday, May 4, 2025, in the San Francisco Bay, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years.
In a post on his Truth Social site Sunday evening, Trump wrote that, “For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering. When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.”
“That is why, today,” he said, “I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.”
Trump’s directive to rebuild and reopen the long-shuttered penitentiary was the latest salvo in his effort to overhaul how and where federal prisoners and immigration detainees are locked up. But such a move would likely be an expensive and challenging proposition. The prison was closed in 1963 due to crumbling infrastructure and the high costs of repairing and supplying the island facility, because everything from fuel to food had to be brought by boat.
Bringing the facility up to modern-day standards would require massive investments at a time when the Bureau of Prisons has been shuttering prisons for similar infrastructure issues.
The prison — infamously inescapable due to the strong ocean currents and cold Pacific waters that surround it — was known as the “The Rock” and housed some of the nation’s most notorious criminals, including gangster Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly.
It has long been part of the cultural imagination and has been the subject of numerous movies, including “The Rock” starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage.
Still in the 29 years it was open, 36 men attempted 14 separate escapes, according to the FBI. Nearly all were caught or didn’t survive the attempt.
The fate of three particular inmates — John Anglin, his brother Clarence and Frank Morris — is of some debate and was dramatized in the 1979 film “Escape from Alcatraz” starring Clint Eastwood.
Alcatraz Island is now a major tourist site that is operate by the National Park Service and is a designated National Historic Landmark.
Trump, returning to the White House on Sunday night after a weekend in Florida, said he’d come up with the idea because of frustrations with “radicalized judges” who have insisted those being deported receive due process. Alcatraz, he said, has long been a “symbol of law and order. You know, it’s got quite a history.”
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement that the agency “will comply with all Presidential Orders.” The spokesperson did not immediately answer questions from The Associated Press regarding the practicality and feasibility of reopening Alcatraz or the agency’s role in the future of the former prison given the National Park Service’s control of the island.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat whose district includes the island, questioned the feasibility of reopening the prison after so many years. “It is now a very popular national park and major tourist attraction. The President’s proposal is not a serious one,” she wrote on X.
The island serves as a veritable time machine to a bygone era of corrections. The Bureau of Prisons currently has 16 penitentiaries performing the same high-security functions as Alcatraz, including its maximum security facility in Florence, Colorado, and the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, which is home to the federal death chamber.
The order comes as Trump has been clashing with the courts as he tries to send accused gang members to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, without due process. Trump has also floated the legally dubious idea of sending some federal U.S. prisoners to the Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT.
Trump has also directed the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold up to 30,000 of what he has labeled the “worst criminal aliens.”
The Bureau of Prisons has faced myriad crises in recent years and has been subjected to increased scrutiny after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide at a federal jail in New York City in 2019. An AP investigation uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons. AP reporting has disclosed widespread criminal activity by employees, dozens of escapes, chronic violence, deaths and severe staffing shortages that have hampered responses to emergencies, including assaults and suicides.
The AP’s investigation also exposed rampant sexual abuse at a federal women’s prison in Dublin, California. Last year, President Joe Biden signed a law strengthening oversight of the agency after AP reporting spotlighted its many flaws.
At the same time, the Bureau of Prisons is operating in a state of flux — with a recently installed new director and a redefined mission that includes taking in thousands of immigration detainees at some of its prisons and jails under an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security. The agency last year closed several facilities, in part to cut costs, but is also in the process of building a new prison in Kentucky.
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