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Local News
Assisted living facility Newhaven Court at Clearview in Butler announced it has earned IntegraCare’s Silver Level Award for its ability to handle residents’ call bell req...
May 29, 2025 Business
Cranberry Township native and Indiana University of Pennsylvania graduate Dennis Popovec is continuing his decades worth of contributions to his alma mater with the creat...
May 29, 2025 Business
Butler Memorial Hospital has added a new weapon to its medical arsenal. The hospital announced Tuesday that it has begun using the MONARCH bronchoscopy system from Johnso...
May 29, 2025 Health
The public is invited to attend an informational presentation on Parkinson’s disease at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 14, at the Zelienople Area Public Library, 227 S. High St. L...
May 29, 2025 Local News
A Slippery Rock man has been charged with more than 200 counts of child pornography Wednesday, May 28. Aaron Michael Joyce, 50, was charged with 200 counts of child porn...
May 29, 2025 Local News
The Saxonburg Police Department is waving goodbye to its K-9 Bolt, and his handler less than a year after they were welcomed onto the force. At a special meeting held Apr...
May 29, 2025 Government
State police reported a decrease in crashes, but an increase in impaired driving arrests over Memorial Day weekend. Police reported 756 crashes and 519 driving under the ...
May 29, 2025 Crime & Courts
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: Butler May 12 — Danielle K. Welch, 40, of Butler, was charged with one misdemeanor...
May 29, 2025 Local News
As a legislative package moving through Congress is set to change the operation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid, the organization that runs ...
May 29, 2025 Local News
The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts said residents should be aware of a recently reported text message scam involving the state court system. The scam invo...
May 29, 2025 Crime & Courts
Other News
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday the U.S. will begin revoking the visas of some Chinese students, including those studying in “critical fields.”...
May 28, 2025 National News
Congress has made significant moves toward passing a legislative package that would serve as a major step forward on President Donald Trump’s agenda, but not everyone is ...
May 28, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, two of the world's top weat...
May 28, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law. The ruling from a...
May 28, 2025 National News
ANKARA, Turkey — Passengers on flights to Turkey who unbuckle their seat belts, enter an aisle or open overhead compartments before their plane has stopped taxiing upon a...
May 28, 2025 International News
GENEVA — A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an...
May 28, 2025 International News
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’s mayor honored actor and producer Quinta Brunson with a key to the city Wednesday in a ceremony dedicating a separate mural at Brunson’s alma...
May 28, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
PHILADELPHIA — In the span of a few hours last year, Andre Gordon killed three of his loved ones in Lower Bucks County, leaving a trail of bloodshed across two states. An...
May 28, 2025 Pennsylvania News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — pe...
May 28, 2025 National News
The headline-grabbing tale of an Italian man who said he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks inside an upscale Manhattan townhouse by captors seeking his bitcoin highlig...
May 28, 2025 National News
Sports
Editorial
Big business lobbyists are winning an obscure — but hugely consequential — battle over the future of the judicial system. If these lobbyists get their way, small business...
May 29, 2025 Other Voices
The wise minds at Moody’s Investors Service finally acknowledged last week what the other two main credit rating agencies did years ago: America has a debt problem. Now i...
May 29, 2025 Other Voices
May 29, 2025 Cartoons
When Daniel Christiana’s life changed at age 17, he worked hard to not only survive, but to later thrive. On the front page of the Wednesday, May 28, edition of the Butl...
May 29, 2025 Our Opinion
Community
Jim Wolf, chairman of the board of Concordia Lutheran Ministries, is going the extra mile — 25 of them — to raise funds for seniors in need in his organization. Wolf has ...
May 29, 2025 Community
Announcements
The VA Butler Healthcare System is hosting a Veteran Appreciation Day at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 31, at the Abie Abraham VA Health Care Center on North Duffy Road. All loca...
May 29, 2025 Military News
Arts & Entertainment
Butler WingFest is back at the Beacon Hotel, 231 Beacon Road in Forward Township, Sunday, June 1. Participants will get to vote on who has the best wings in town in thre...
May 29, 2025 Weekend Entertainment
Hugh Jackman’s estranged wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, filed for divorce in New York, nearly two years after the pair announced they were ending their 27-year marriage. Furn...
May 29, 2025 People
The Butler Machine Knitters are celebrating Knit in Public Day on Saturday, June 14, at Alameda Park. The day is an international celebration of knitting and crocheting. ...
May 29, 2025 Weekend Entertainment
The General Richard Butler Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will have a ceremony Sunday, June 1, to rededicate the marker honoring the Marquis de Lafayette ...
May 29, 2025 Weekend Entertainment
Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center will present “Sister Act” to close out its 2024-25 series. This feel-good comedy will have six performances from June 20 to 29 at its...
May 29, 2025 Weekend Entertainment
Two years after bands rocked Butler Memorial Park to raise funds and bring awareness to a rare genetic disorder, the couple that organized it are looking to bring it back...
May 29, 2025 Weekend Entertainment
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened” is the famous quote by Dr. Seuss often used by theater people to explain away postshow depression. Having just fi...
May 29, 2025 Weekend Entertainment
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