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Story by Beaver County Radio News Staff. Published January 10, 2023 7:28 A.M. Updated 4:30 P.M. 

(Aliquippa, PA) (WBVP-WMBA) According to the criminal complaint filed by police, Justin Lee Carr, 28, reported his vehicle had been stolen last Monday in Aliquippa. Later that afternoon he phoned police using obscenities to inform them that he found his car behind the police station. He hung up, according to the criminal complaint, the officer called him back, and he used loud obscenities again. Police went to his address 419 Allegheny Avenue , and ran the vehicle’s registration, and it was reported stolen. Two other individuals, Monica McCutchen and Theaughn Lewis arrived on scene, confronting officers, loudly yelling, screaming and threatening them and refusing to comply with police commands. Lewis threw a punch at Officer Paul Woods as police were attempting to restrain him ,according to Officer Bruce Tooch’s statement. McCutchen shoved Officer Woods, jumped on his back and continued throwing more punches. Officer Tooch grabbed McCutchen and released her hold on Officer Woods. Lewis continued pushing and punching Officer Woods and Sgt. Nicholas D’arrigo. The 2 were able to maneuver around him, placing him on the ground eventually restraining him. Sgt. D’arrigo restrained McCutchen and placed her under arrest. Officer Woods was treated at the scene by firefighters for multiple lacerations..
Carr was charged with disorderly conduct and is in the Beaver County Jail following arraignment. His bond is set at $5,000. McCutchen is charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest/other law enforcement, obstruction of administrative law/other government functions. Lewis is charged with the same offenses. Bond for McCutchen and Lewis is set at $150,000 each.
A video of the incident was caught on camera and has since surfaced on social media with the public voicing their concerns with the actions seen of the officers and questioning the cause of the arrest. Certain details stated in the police report are not seen in the witness video such as McCutchen attacking Woods and Lewis throwing a punch at police.

(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

At their last meeting of 2022, the New Brighton School Board planned out their entire 2023 schedule. At their first meeting of 2023, there was a slight change of plans.

Preceding the scheduled committee meeting was a special voting meeting in which the board unanimously approved two hirings: Kara Stormfels as a Business Office Secretary for the school district, and Nick Long as the Director of Student Services. Stormfels’ hiring comes at the heels of the resignation of Karen Mooney on December 31, 2022; that resignation is set to be formally approved by the board at the voting meeting later this month. Both hirings are to take effect immediately (January 10), pending required forms and clearances.

Several items were submitted for approval at the regular committee meeting, including the finalized approval for the 2023-24 High School Curriculum Handbook, the purchase of a new PA system in the New Brighton Middle School (cost of $30,600), and the hirings of two staff members and fifteen coaches for varsity and middle school track, varsity baseball, varsity softball, and varsity and middle school volleyball.

The items brought forth at the committee meeting will be voted on at the next meeting for the New Brighton School Board, scheduled for January 23 at 7:30 PM at the High School’s “Little Theatre”.

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(Beaver Falls, Pa.) Eddy Crow the normal host of Teleforum is on vacation this week and Beaver County radio is having an all-star line-up of hosts to fill in throughout the week.

Tuesday, January 9, 2023 Tom Young from 1st Consultants in Beaver will be in the captains seat from 9Am to Noon. Tom will be discussing the Financial Mastery Blue Print, What is prosperity?, Politics and the Federal Reserve, COVID ad vaccines, Twitter and the truth that is coming out,  and how politicians have buried the country in financial debt.

You can tune in on 95.7 and 99.3 FM along with 1230 WBVP, 1460 WMBA, and beavercountyradio.com. The show will also be streamed live on the Beaver County Radio Facebook Page and YouTube Channel. Click the Facebook icon below to be directed to our Facebook at the time of the show.

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(Racoon Twp., Beaver County, Pa.) Pa State Police in Beaver are reporting that they were called to Frankfort Road in Raccoon Twp. for reports of an ongoing neighbor dispute.
Troopers are reporting that as they investigated it was learned that 33-year-old James-lea Glenn of Aliquippa removed a Ryobi power tool from the property of 54-year-old Eric Moore and that 52-year-old Mark Johnston of Aliquippa was in possession of the tool.
Troopers have charged both Glenn and Johnston with theft as they are continuing to investigate the incidents that occurred on January 5, 2023. The tool is valued at $179.00.

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(Pittsburgh, Pa.) A man from New Castle is now the proud owner of the official truck of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
40-year-old Travis McConnell was announced the winner of the “Toughest Truck, Toughest Team Sweepstakes” at halftime of Sunday’s game.
He said this was the first time he had entered the contest and that he entered online.
There have been 10 winners of the sweepstakes so far. The prize is a black-and-gold Ford F-150.
The 10 finalists in this year’s competition were each allowed to select a numbered gift box. One of the gift boxes contained the keys to the truck. McConnell’s happened to be the lucky box. The other finalists were awarded gift cards.

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(Chippewa Twp., Beaver County, Pa.) Chippewa Township Firefighters had to put out flames inside a home in the Highland Meadows neighborhood on Friday night after an air fryer caught on fire and began to spread.
When the owner of the house returned around 8:30 PM they noticed the house was full of smoke. They rescued a family pet and then called 911.
Officials said the fire started with an air fryer that was plugged in but not in use. The fire remained mostly contained to the kitchen. They believe the fire’s spread was limited because the door was closed and it limited the amount of oxygen able to keep the flames alive.
The Chippewa Volunteer Fire Department reminds everyone to close their bedroom doors when they go to bed and to make sure they unplug air fryers that are not in use.

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(Cranberry Twp., Butler County, Pa. ) No one was injured after fire crews responded to a fully involved house fire around 11:30 p.m. in the 9500 block of Goehring Road late Saturday night in Cranberry Township.
Officials said no one was home at the time of the fire and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

An election worker continues the process in counting ballots for the Pennsylvania primary election, Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at the Mercer County Elections Board in Mercer, Pa. Vote counting continues as Republican candidates Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick are locked in a too-early-to-call race for Pennsylvania’s hotly contested Republican nomination for an open U.S. Senate seat. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — New state data shows that an election eve Pennsylvania court decision that said mail-in ballots without accurate handwritten dates on their exterior envelopes can’t count resulted in otherwise valid votes being canceled in the high-stakes November election. The Department of State says more than 16,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified by county officials because they lacked secrecy envelopes or proper signatures or dates. Democratic voters, who are much more likely to vote by mail, make up more than two-thirds of the total canceled ballots. Many counties worked with voters to “cure” undated ballots.

Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Mark Rozzi is photographed at the speaker’s podium, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Smith)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s newly minted state House speaker is moving to make his major policy goal regarding victims of child sexual abuse to be the chamber’s urgent priority. Speaker Mark Rozzi on Friday backed Gov. Tom Wolf’s announcement of an immediate special session to consider a constitutional amendment that would give victims of child sexual abuse a two-year window in which to file otherwise time-barred lawsuits. Rozzi says no other legislation will be considered until the proposal passes. House Republican Leader Bryan Cutler of Lancaster County says a special session devoted to that single topic isn’t warranted. Cutler says consideration of the amendment can be done as regular legislative business.