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Student teachers across Pennsylvania can now apply for a $10,000 stipend in the 2026-27 school year through the PA Student Teacher Support Program. The program provides ...
April 17, 2026 Local News
A GoFundMe campaign for a family who lost a mother and two children Thursday, April 16, in a Mercer County fire raised more than $13,000 in its first day. Malinda Abrams...
April 17, 2026 Local News
Three women are charged with assault after being accused of assaulting a woman, one of them using a metal-pronged dog collar, outside her Butler residence. Priscilla Lyn...
April 17, 2026 Local News
BUTLER TWP — Butler County Community College is set to entirely replace the HVAC system in the Science and Technology Building and attached Succop Theater. The college’s ...
April 17, 2026 Local News
Funds allow for purchase of robotic milking machine
April 17, 2026 Local News
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Business News
According to the Pennsylvania Homecare Association, Tammy Young, of Saxonburg, has been elected to the association’s board of directors. According to the association, it ...
April 17, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — A looming jet fuel shortage in Europe and Asia sparked by the Iran war and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz could further upend world travel withi...
April 17, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — Walmart is redesigning the packaging of its Great Value products to help customers instantly spot whether a bag of spicy chips is gluten-free or how much prote...
April 17, 2026 Business
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State News
PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro blamed high gas prices on President Donald Trump onstage with Republican governors in Philadelphia on Thursday — and they di...
April 17, 2026 Pennsylvania News
MEDIA, Pa. — Judy Prichard McCleary believes her ancestors have gone to the afterlife, and that only their bodies are buried at the family mausoleum in a sprawling Philad...
April 17, 2026 Pennsylvania News
NEW YORK — Barely two weeks before it was due to shut down, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said Tuesday it had found a last-minute buyer — a successful nonprofit journalism ...
April 14, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Travelers on an East Tennessee interstate were forced to brake for workers — and drones, perhaps even a queen — when a truck carrying about 1 million b...
April 17, 2026 National News
Ford is recalling almost 1.4 million of its F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. because of a gearshift issue that may lead to the loss of control of vehicles and increasing t...
April 17, 2026 National News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the first time, scientists have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole. The jet power from this rela...
April 17, 2026 National News
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International News
BEIRUT — Iran said Friday it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels, but U.S. President Donald Trump said the American blockade on Iranian ships and po...
April 17, 2026 International News
BERLIN — Rescuers in Germany began an elaborate operation Thursday to save a sick humpback whale that has been repeatedly stranded off the Baltic Sea coast and has stirre...
April 16, 2026 International News
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A 10-day truce began in Lebanon on Friday that could pause fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group and boost attempts to extend the cea...
April 16, 2026 International News
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