radioNOVO News for New Castle/Youngstown/Butler/Hermitage 06-08-26

Good morning,A major multi-state drug ring has been dismantled right here in New Castle. A joint investigation by the FBI and local task forces ended Friday with the arrest of a repeat local drug kingpin and four others. Tactical teams seized seven guns, cash, and enough fentanyl and cocaine to kill hundreds of people.Meanwhile, community tension is boiling over in Beaver County. Dozens of local residents packed a heated public hearing to protest a proposal to build a massive, three-hundred-and-eighty-two-acre artificial intelligence data campus at the site of the former Pittsburgh International Race Complex.And Neshannock High School students are celebrating a major milestone. Members of the student council traveled to Pittsburgh to hand-deliver a check for over twenty-eight thousand dollars to the Make-A-Wish foundation—fully funding five wishes for critically ill children.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.