The featured image above shows police outside the Monaca Walmart after the November shooting.
Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio News Director. Published January 4, 2023 10:51 A.M.

(Beaver County, PA) (WBVP-WMBA) Attorney Joel Sansone spoke with Mike Romigh Wednesday morning during “Live Mic with Mike Romigh” on Beaver County Radio.  Sansone represents the family of Ken Vinyard, who died while helping a shooting victim at the Monaca Walmart in November.  The attorney states that Vinyard was trying to be a good Samaritan when an off duty police officer forcibly used a leg sweep on him, causing Vinyard to hit his head off the ground. Vinyard died shortly after. Sansone said the name of the officer is “a gentleman named John Hawk, as I understand it”.  The attorney also stated that the family of the shooting victim is appreciative of the actions of Vinyard.  The investigation is ongoing.

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Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published January 4, 2023 7:47 A.M.

(Hopewell Township, PA) (WBVP) Hopewell School District Superintendent Dr. Jeff Beltz sent a letter to parents on Monday detailing the testing of the water by the Creswell Heights Water Authority, CMA Environmental Laboratory, and PSI Intertek Intertek samples were analyzed by U.S. Micro-Solutions. No  sewage related bacteria were found in the samples.  Creswell confirmed, according to  the report , acceptable chlorine levels are present and the  results returned on December 31, 2022 revealed the water is acceptable for consumption. The district is awaiting a PSI resampling  report from December 29, 2022.

Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students, is escorted to an extradition hearing at the Monroe County Courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool)

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A criminology graduate student accused of the November slayings of four University of Idaho students agreed Tuesday to be extradited from Pennsylvania, where he was arrested last week, to face charges in Idaho. Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old doctoral student at Washington State University — a short drive from the murder scene in the neighboring state — will be transported to Idaho within 10 days. Wearing a red jumpsuit with his hands shackled in front of him, Kohberger showed little emotion during Tuesday’s brief hearing in a Pennsylvania courtroom in which he acknowledged facing four counts of first-degree murder and a burglary charge. He waived his right to fight extradition. His attorney says Kohberger is eager to be exonerated and should be presumed innocent.

YORK, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man has been acquitted in the death of a friend’s toddler son more than four years ago. Jurors in York County Court deliberated for about two hours Friday before acquitting 43-year-old Tyree Bowie of first- and third-degree murder as well as child endangerment in the September 2018 death of 2-year-old Dante Mullinix. Bowie had been caring for Mullinix while the boy’s mother was in the hospital. Authorities said he brought the unresponsive boy to the same hospital that day and then fled, telling authorities the next day that he had fed the boy some animal crackers and later noticed he wasn’t breathing, Mullinix died eight days later.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Kim Ward, Pennsylvania’s ranking state senator, has ascended to the job of state lieutenant governor. That happened Tuesday, when Democrat John Fetterman resigned minutes before he was sworn in to office as the state’s newest U.S. senator. Ward, a Republican from Westmoreland County and the incoming president pro tempore of the state Senate, will hold the office under Pennsylvania’s constitution, but only for two weeks. Lt. Gov.-elect Austin Davis, a Democrat who was elected Nov. 8, will be inaugurated on Jan. 17 with Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro. Under the constitution, the president pro tempore handles all the duties of the office of lieutenant governor.

Story by Beaver County Radio News Staff. Published January 4, 2023 7:02 A.M.

(Darlington Township, PA) (WBVP) State Police in Beaver are reporting an accident that occurred in Darlington Township on Route 51. 43 year old Jacob Andrews of East Palestine lost control of his vehicle in the southbound lane and travelled into the northbound lane causing him to strike the concrete barrier before coming to a rest. No injuries were reported and Andrews was cited accordingly. The Darlington Twp vol fire department assisted at the scene.

Photo of gas prices in August by Frank Sparks
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The state fuel tax increased with the new year. Gasoline increased 3.5 cents a gallon making it now 61.1 cents. Diesel rose 4.4 cents a gallon to 78.5 cents. The increase is due to state law.

BRACKENRIDGE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say five guns were recovered from a man shot and killed by police after a chase and gunfire that killed a western Pennsylvania police chief and wounded two other officers. The police chief and another officer were shot blocks apart Monday in Brackenridge and the suspect was later shot and killed in Pittsburgh. State Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the governor-elect, said slain Brackenridge Police Chief Justin McIntire “ran towards danger to keep Pennsylvanians safe — and he made the ultimate sacrifice.” The second officer was in stable condition with a leg wound and a third officer was hit by suspected shrapnel.

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Attorney Joel Sansone will join Mike Romigh on “Live Mic with Mike Romigh” Wednesday morning following the news at 8 am.  Sansone is representing the family of Ken Vinyard, who died while trying to help a man who was shot at the Monaca Walmart in November.  Sansone says Vinyard died as a result of being forcibly pushed by an off duty officer causing him to hit his head on the ground.  Sansone and Romigh will discuss the status of the case and investigation.