radioNOVO News for New Castle/Youngstown/Butler/Hermitage 05-22-26

Good morning, We begin with your holiday weekend traffic outlook. Triple A is predicting record-breaking congestion across Western Pennsylvania for Memorial Day weekend, with over thirty-nine million Americans driving to their destinations. Travelers in New Castle should brace for heavy delays and high prices at the pump, with local gas averaging four dollars and eighty cents a gallon. Traffic analysts warn that the heaviest gridlock will hit this afternoon between three p-m and six p-m.Turning to the local courts, fifty-eight-year-old Paul Probst of Rochester has been sentenced to nine to twenty years in state prison. Probst pleaded guilty to rape of a child for repeated assaults that took place in West Pittsburg and Beaver County. Lawrence County President Judge J. Craig Cox also officially designated Probst as a sexually violent predator, meaning he will be subject to lifetime registration under Megan's Law.And finally, a local real estate developer is reportedly looking into buying the Penn State Shenango buildings in Sharon ahead of the satellite campus closing its doors in the spring of twenty-twenty-seven.For more news from across the region, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.