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Snow came fast and furious

3 inches reported in just 3 hours

A plow does its job Wednesday on Route 19 in Cranberry Township.

Mike Mattis, PennDOT's Butler County maintenance manager, said that three inches of snow was dumped on the county in just three hours Wednesday morning.

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Butler, Clarion health systems merge

Period of due diligence to last several months

Butler Health System and Clarion Health System announced a merger Wednesday.

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City businesses keep their doors open even as snow piles up

Matt Northcott, an employee of Miller's Quality Meats on Main Street, shovels the sidewalk after Wednesday's morning snow storm.

Several inches of snow that fell hard and fast Wednesday morning didn't deter most businesses on Main Street in Butler from opening and kept private plow truck operators busy.

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Former grocery to host office

Grays buying Friedman's site

A local couple announced an "agreement of sale" to buy the former Friedman's Freshmarkets store on West Brady Street.

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Routine check results in charges

Police say heroin, crack discovered

Heroin, crack, contraband seized from Butler apartment; 3 arrested

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Senior meal deliveries canceled

Some Meals on Wheels branches close for day

A number of the county's senior citizens had to rely on storm bags because several Meals on Wheels outfits closed due to Wednesday's snow storm.

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Vets say VA needs to do more to get the word out

Agency called a top-notch secret

CRANBERRY TWP — Veterans discussed the government's “best kept secret” during a town hall event Wednesday night.

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Drug raid yields cash, pot, guns

Task force was watching house

A drug bust in Beaver County yielded over $100,000, nine pounds of marijuana and two firearms in the possession of a felon.

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Multiple gun charges filed after incident

Man accused of threatening woman

Felon accused of treatening woman with loaded pistol

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Voting official makes case for new machines

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s top elections official is warning that failing to replace voting machines by 2020 could make the state the only one without a voter-verifiable paper trail.

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Community

Volunteers see to it that Mass is heard at Sunnyview center

Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center resident George Neigh wore a smile during Wednesday's Mass.

Today's Verse

Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed.

Chuckle of the Day

Blood may be thicker than water, but every family has its drips.

Francis to open abuse prevention summit

VATICAN CITY — Survivors of clergy sex abuse on Wednesday demanded transparency, zero tolerance for abuse and accountability for religious superiors who cover up for rapists, setting a confrontational tone on the eve of Pope Francis’ high-stakes abuse prevention summit.

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Donna Steinheiser, Butler Health System auxiliary president, sorts through handmade toys that will be given as gifts to children who go to the emergency room.

Volunteers brighten hospital corridors

When Donna Steinheiser's husband died six years ago, she could not return to Butler Meals on Wheels, a place the couple had spent their time volunteering.

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Butler Health System Auxiliary

The Auxiliary is comprised of retired professionals, homemakers, and hospital employees who assist hospital staff.

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Sports

Domination

O'HARA TWP — When told that junior guard Scott Fraser put up 27 points and grabbed 15 rebounds in Wednesday's playoff win over South Park, Knoch boys basketball coach Ron McNabb had a quick response.

No tag placed on Bell

PITTSBURGH — Le’Veon Bell is free to go. Antonio Brown, maybe not so much.

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Last 2 quarters doom Freeport

MONROEVILLE — The play was run exactly the way Freeport boys basketball coach Wayne Greiser drew it up.

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Wrestlers look to extend season

'Tis the season to fight for your season.

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Nutting wants Pirates to avoid ‘imbalanced payroll’ each year

BRADENTON, Fla.

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Editorial

An old offense exposed is like a chronic ill diagnosed

There’s an uproar this week in the sleepy, all-but dead village of Linden in rural western Alabama, where the owner of the weekly newspaper published an editorial recommending that the Ku Klux...

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FBI is not a branch of government

It’s too early to take away any clear lessons from the Trump era, except one: Whatever you do, never fire the FBI director.

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One false accuser hurts all future victims

Jussie Smollett was, until a few weeks ago, best known as an actor on the TV show “Empire.” Now, he’s known as the fellow who may have lied about a hate crime.

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Plunder: An American way of life

Frederic Bastiat, a French economist and member of the French National Assembly, lived from 1801 to 1850.

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Students drop their cell phones, discover their addiction

PHILADELPHIA — They did it. A group that might as well be any of our kids.

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Business

Worker from China makes case for job

She stands outside of Westinghouse

A woman from Shanghai, China, poses with her sign in front of Westinghouse earlier this month.

A Chinese woman fired from Westinghouse in Shanghai has flown to the headquarters in Cranberry to protest to get her job back. Originally published in the City Paper.

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Cooper Station closes doors

Owner says it wasn't profitable

Cooper Station restaurant in Sarver closed this week.

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Farmers support Wolf's agriculture budget

Farm Bill sent to lawmakers

Sixth-generation farmers James and William Thiele work on their Winfield Township farm in 2017. Gov. Tom Wolf's proposed $24 million agriculture budget maintains funding for existing programs that farmers rely on and provides funding for new initiatives.

Gov. Tom Wolf's proposed $24 million agriculture budget maintains funding for existing programs that farmers rely on and provides funding for new initiatives.

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Cities still trying to woo online giant

Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos have had a complicated few weeks. The online giant announced Thursday that it was canceling plans for a New York headquarters. And extortion claims surfaced recently related to intimate photos taken by Bezos. Experts say the events are unlikely to pose much of a threat to Amazon's business, but the company will continue to face more challenges as it grows larger.

Amazon's breakup with New York was still fresh when other cities started sending their own valentines to the online giant.

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Storm will blow over; debris will remain

SAN FRANCISCO — It’s been a complicated few weeks for Amazon, what with its abrupt pullout from a massive New York City development, extortion claims related to intimate photos taken by...