Dairy promotion team spoons out free ice cream

Among the team promoting dairy farms in the county are, from left, Butler County Miss U.S. Agriculture Maggie Rasp, county Lil' Dairy Miss Kirra Cress, county Dairy Miss Morgan Teets and National Ayrshire Queen Robin Peters. At right is Butler County Commissioner Kim Geyer, one of those attending a free ice cream sundae event Friday at the county government center.

A free ice cream event was held on Friday by the county Dairy Promotion Board.

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Development proposed for State Road

Plan includes 92 retirement units

Middlesex Township supervisors held a public hearing Wednesday for a planned residential development on State Road near Valley Drive.

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#1 Cochran buys Bob Massie Toyota

#1 Cochran, which has several stores in Butler County, announced it has purchased Bob Massie Toyota in North Huntingdon.

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Facebook in tough spot trying to monitor content

Guidelines have many gray areas

NEW YORK — Denying the Holocaust happened is probably OK on Facebook. Calling for a mob to kill Jews is not.

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Trump escalates his criticism of Federal Reserve

WASHINGTON — Before this week, it had been more than a quarter-century since a sitting U.S. president publicly pressured the independent Federal Reserve on interest rates.

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Trump threatens additional tariffs on goods from China

Experts debate eventual outcome

Donald Trump said he is willing to place tariffs on all goods imported from China. The president has already imposed tariffs on $34 billion in Chinese goods, and Beijing has retaliated with tariffs on an equal amount of American exports.

WASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump intensifying his rift with U.S. trading partners, economists are growing more doubtful that any deal that might benefit American workers and companies is in sight.

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Bus-van link paves way to Cranberry

ANR to provide vans for trip to Cranberry

The county commissioners on Wednesday approved the TransLoc pilot program, which would ferry Butler residents to their jobs in Cranberry Township.

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Growing trade war concerns farmers

MINNEAPOLIS — Many anxious American farmers are delaying purchases and investment while hoping for a truce in a U.S.-China trade war that has left their crops at a competitive disadvantage overseas.

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Comcast drops Fox bid; could offer boost for Disney

NEW YORK — Comcast is dropping its bid for Fox’s entertainment businesses, paving the way for Disney to boost its upcoming streaming service by buying the studios behind “The Simpsons.”