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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle reported via release on Saturday that seventy-seven-year-old Edward Pesci of Greensburg, Pennsylvania was charged for not yielding when he caused a two-vehicle crash in North Beaver Township of Lawrence County on Thursday evening. Pesci was driving on Galilee Road at its intersection with the I-376 East on-ramp at 6:44 p.m. and when he tried to make a left turn onto the on-ramp, he did not yield to the vehicle driven by Tabatha Patterson II of New Galilee. Medevac Ambulance transported Pesci to Allegheny Health Network Pittsburgh for further evaluation because of a suspected serious injury and Patterson refused both transportation by Medevac Ambulance and treatment even though she had a suspected minor injury. Both drivers were wearing their seatbelts at the time of this crash. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle reported via release on Saturday that an unidentified fifty-eight-year man from New Castle died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Hickory Township of Lawrence County on Wednesday. PSP New Castle patrol units found him in the back of a white sedan with the injury from the gunshot wound at 5:53 p.m. on Harlansburg Road. EMS personnel responded at the scene and tried to save his life, but he succumbed to his injuries and died. The investigation into this incident is ongoing.  

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Pittsburgh reported via release on Saturday that thirty-two-year-old Dalaysha Goines of McKees Rocks had charges withdrawn by police after causing a two-vehicle crash in Pittsburgh on the evening of November 15th, 2025. Goines and sixty-year-old Herman Mcafoose Jr. of Kittaning, Pennsylvania were both traveling on the lower deck of the Fort Duquesne Bridge on I-279 South at 7:12 p.m. Mcafoose merged in front of Goines and Goines did not respond to Mcafoose abruptly stopping for traffic ahead. There were no reported injuries as a result of this crash and the charges of tailgating that Goines received were withdrawn. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to Pennsylvania State Police, a major roadway in Pittsburgh will be closed for “an extended” period of time, as they investigate a shooting on Saturday that involved an officer. Police told KDKA-TV that Crane Avenue will be closed after a pursuit ended with shots being fired by an officer on Saturday. It happened just before 9:40 a.m. on I-376. A stolen Infinity was driving eastbound and the driver did not stop as troopers activated their lights and sirens on their cars. The driver exited the vehicle and escaped on foot at Crane Avenue at Saw Mill Run Boulevard, where the pursuit continued. One officer fired their weapon which hit the driver during the foot pursuit. The suspect was released into state police custody after being taken to the hospital and treated. No officers were injured as a result of the incident. Pennsylvania State police confirm that there is no threat to the public. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A mother and her boyfriend are now facing charges after they were accused of recently leaving four children in unlivable circumstances in a home on Charles Street in the Knoxville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Investigators confirm that the mother, India McKnight, and her boyfriend, Earl Kennedy are responsible. According to the criminal complaints, it started with a sexual abuse investigation in August of 2025 involving the boyfriend. The officers responding to this incident noted that the four children lived in the home, where the conditions were deplorable. There was allegedly no bed or even a mattress for them to sleep on, twenty cats, their feces and urine everywhere, no food, just one box of macaroni and cheese in a kitchen cabinet, and no heat or hot water since April of 2025. McKnight and Kennedy are facing multiple charges, which includes endangering the welfare of children. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle reported via release on Saturday that eighteen-year-old Jenna White was not charged after causing a single-vehicle crash in Perry Township of Lawrence County on Thursday morning. White was driving on the 1000 block of McCartney Hollow Road at 11:20 a.m. and slid off of that road before hitting a concrete culvert. White was wearing her seatbelt during this crash and she had no injuries after the incident occurred. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(North Sewickley Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Gibsonia reported via release today that thirty-four-year-old Caitlyn Bailey of Hermitage, Pennsylvania caused a single-vehicle crash in North Sewickley Township on Thursday afternoon at around 3:34 p.m. This incident happened in the area of Exit 10 on I-76 West. Bailey told PSP Gibsonia officers who were dispatched to the scene of the crash that a large piece of ice blew off the top of a tractor trailer and hit the front of her car. Bailey was not injured as a result of this crash and the lower front bumper of her van had moderate damage because of the ice. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(North Sewickley Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Gibsonia reported via release today that two unidentified drivers were involved in a hit-and-run crash in North Sewickley Township on Friday afternoon. These drivers were traveling on I-76 East on the Pennsylvania Turnpike when at 2:14 p.m., a driver hit their PGT Trucking trailer into the tractor-trailer of the other driver and did not stop after hitting it. According to police, both drivers were given the Application to Obtain Crash Form and the operator of the PGT truck was cited for Roadways Laned for Traffic. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Hanover Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported via release yesterday that a theft by deception occurred in Hanover Township of Beaver County on the morning of October 30th, 2025. It happened along 123 Mack Hollow Road at 2:11 p.m. and an unknown actor or actors tried to buy items from a hacked AT&T account. The victim of this crime was sixty-eight-year-old Paul Rosak of Georgetown, Pennsylvania. 

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Cranberry Township, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Gibsonia reported via release today that sixty-five-year-old Jeffrey Skvarla of Ellwood City caused a single-vehicle crash in Cranberry Township on the early morning of December 3rd, 2025. Skvarla was traveling in the right eastbound lane of I-76 on the Pennsylvania Turnpike at 5:02 a.m. that day and hit a deer that entered that road. Skvarla was not injured as a result of this crash.