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The former co-defendant in the Daniel C. Lloyd homicide trial is testifying Wednesday, prosecutors said Tuesday, the second day of the trial. Lloyd, 21, of Pitcairn, is o...
May 07, 2024 Crime & Courts
A Pittsburgh man had an additional five months tacked onto his sentence for smuggling a cellphone into the Butler County Prison, according to the state attorney general. ...
May 07, 2024 Crime & Courts
Following a preliminary hearing Monday, May 6, charges were held against a Butler man who was accused of dealing drugs after a large amount of crack cocaine and fentanyl ...
May 07, 2024 Crime & Courts
Charges against a man accused of pointing a handgun at a woman twice at her Butler apartment were dismissed during a preliminary hearing Monday, May 6. Donald W. Reese, ...
May 07, 2024 Crime & Courts
The jury trial for a June 2022 homicide in Muddy Creek Township that a prosecutor described as a “surprise attack assassination” got underway Monday, May 6, in Common Ple...
May 06, 2024 Crime & Courts
A Middlesex Township man was charged Monday, May 6, in relation to a March incident during which he allegedly barricaded himself in his home and threatened to kill office...
May 06, 2024 Crime & Courts
State police responded to an altercation where one man was hit by a car and another brandished an axe in Parker, Armstrong County, according to a recent news release. Po...
May 06, 2024 Crime & Courts
State police are seeking information regarding a vehicle that crashed into a car wash last month in Fairview Township, according to a news release. Police said around 3 ...
May 06, 2024 Crime & Courts
Butler police responded on Sunday morning, May 5, to reports of a man pointing a rifle out of a seventh-floor window at the Terrace Apartments on South Cliff Street in Bu...
May 05, 2024 Crime & Courts
The estate of a West Sunbury man who died, along with his passenger, in June 2023 when the motorcycle he was driving hit a pickup truck on Route 38 in Eau Claire is suing...
May 05, 2024 Crime & Courts
A Cranberry Township man was accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in a van last year, according to charges filed by township police Thursday, May 2. Dakota B. D...
May 04, 2024 Crime & Courts
Decorated war veterans, bakers, retired steel workers, artists, loving grandparents and the keepers of family history were among the victims of former nurse Heather Press...
May 04, 2024 Local News
A Chicora man was accused of throwing an orange and a knife at a woman last week in Fairview Township, according to state police. Ronald E. Harnish II, 52, of Chicora, w...
May 04, 2024 Crime & Courts
A man and woman are facing multiple drug charges after police served a search warrant at their Heim Avenue residence. Lamar Palmero, 40, and Aquaya Nyzera De Geiger, 22, ...
May 04, 2024 Crime & Courts
The county has filed a lawsuit in Common Pleas Court seeking to vacate an April arbitration award that gave a union employee a job the county claims he is not qualified f...
May 04, 2024 Crime & Courts
Tears and applause filled the Butler County courthouse Thursday morning, May 2, as victims’ families watched a former nurse plead guilty to their loved ones’ deaths. Late...
May 03, 2024 Crime & Courts
A year and a day after Heather Pressdee killed a 43-year-old man at a Butler Township nursing home, the former nurse was sentenced to life in prison without the possibili...
May 02, 2024 Crime & Courts
This story has been updated. Click here for more details A former Natrona Heights nurse pleaded guilty Thursday, May 2 to three counts of first-degree murder and 19 count...
May 02, 2024 Local News
The following items have been collected from various police departments and district courts: Butler April 14 — John R. Murphy, 49, of Gibsonia, was charged with misdemea...
May 02, 2024 Crime & Courts
A status conference in the case of Heather Pressdee, a nurse linked to the deaths of patients across multiple facilities in Butler, Allegheny, Armstrong and Westmoreland ...
May 01, 2024 Crime & Courts
The jury in the trial of an Allegheny County man charged in the June 2022 death of an Ohio man will see the vehicle that police say was used in the Muddy Creek Township s...
May 01, 2024 Crime & Courts
The Buffalo Township police department’s phone number was recently used in a scam, and officials are cautioning people to report similar incidents to them. Chief Terry D...
May 01, 2024 Crime & Courts
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Wednesday for an Allegheny County man charged with homicide in the June 2022 shooting death of an Ohio man whose body was found on th...
April 30, 2024 Crime & Courts
State police are investigating a report of check theft and fraud in Worth Township. According to documents, a 66-year-old man sent a check in the mail in March to pay fo...
April 30, 2024 Crime & Courts
A Butler man who was asked to extinguish a recreational fire early Monday, April 29, was later arrested by city police and flooded a holding cell, according to charging d...
April 30, 2024 Crime & Courts
Seven property owners suing Butler County over its property assessment appeals system are seeking class action certification for the suit. Butler attorney William Rodgers...
April 29, 2024 Crime & Courts
The following defendants were sentenced Friday, April 26, by Common Pleas Judge Joseph E. Kubit. Brandi R. Wilson, 31, of Butler, was sentenced to 12 months probation as ...
April 29, 2024 Crime & Courts
CRANBERRY TWP — Charges filed against the mayor of Seven Fields and his wife in connection to a domestic incident were dismissed or reduced following their appearance in ...
April 27, 2024 Crime & Courts
The following defendants were sentenced Thursday, April 25, by Common Pleas Court Judge Timothy McCune. Mikeal L. Thomas, 45, of McKees Rocks, was sentenced to serve nine...
April 27, 2024 Crime & Courts
The following items have been collected from various police departments and district courts: State police, Butler April 8 — Joel D. Balot, 49, of Oil City, was charged wi...
April 27, 2024 Local News
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