High court poised to act

Retirement rumors swirl

WASHINGTON — Before taking their long summer break, the Supreme Court justices are poised to act on the Trump administration’s travel ban and a separation of church and state dispute involving a Missouri church playground.

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World

Uncollected trash poses health risk

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Beerfest hits new heights

Stacey Yost, her husband, Josh Yost,
and his brother, Eric Yost, enjoy the
Downtown Butler Beerfest Saturday on
the top fl oor of the Centre City Parking
Garage.

More than 400 ticket-holders attended the 2017 Downtown Butler Beerfest Saturday at the Centre City Parking Garage. The event included 23 breweries, wineries and distilleries.

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GIFT OF LIFE

New heart saves boy

Videos promote organ donation

Luke, left, and Nate Ball share a moment with their father, John, after soccer camp in Wexford. Luke, 13, had a heart transplant and is one of nine Pennsylvanians featured in a video series about organ donations.

A Cranberry Township kid is part of a statewide marketing campaign to raise awareness for organ donaton. Luke Ball, 13, had a heart transplant when he was 6-years-old.

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Rodfathers' cruise

Above, Larry and Janet Falter look over a 1954 Ford loaded with chrome, custom paint and trim — including a glass insert in the hood — at the 2017 edition of the Rodfathers' Cruise-A-Palooza Saturday at the Butler Farm Show grounds.

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Pittsburgh

Bishop undergoing back disc surgery

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Redrawn state map helps GOP

HARRISBURG — A map of congressional districts drawn by Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature helped the GOP win nearly three more of the state’s U.S. House seats than the party otherwise would have won in last year’s election, an Associated Press analysis found.

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State

Suspect locked in porta-potty

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Casey: GOP health bill benefits the rich

He calls Medicaid cuts ‘destructive’

LANCASTER — Pennsylvania’s Democratic Sen. Bob Casey told a town hall crowd that the Republican health care proposal in the U.S. Senate would mean “destructive” cuts to Medicaid and “obscene” tax cuts for the rich.

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Police Reports

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Death may be overdose

26-year-old found at halfway house

A 26-year-old Butler County man died Saturday of a suspected drug overdose at a Butler halfway house, authorities said.

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Pennsylvania lawmakers have 5 days to pass budget

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania lawmakers are returning to the Capitol with five days to pass an on-time budget and no firm agreement on how to address state government’s biggest cash shortfall since the recession.

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UberEATS, McDonald’s deliver food

PITTSBURGH — UberEATS and McDonald’s are beginning food delivery from 44 of the fast-food chain’s Pittsburgh-area restaurants.

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Pro-gun agenda hits roadblock

Reciprocity is a major hurdle

ATLANTA — Gun rights advocates entered the Trump era with high hopes. After years of frustration they thought a gun-friendly president and Congress would advance their agenda.

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MAKING WAY

10-story sequoia moves across street

Workers build a burlap, plywood and steel-pipe structure to contain the rootball so they can move this roughly 100-foot sequoia tree in Boise, Idaho. The sequoia was planted in 1912. It was moved Sunday for a hospital expansion project.

BOISE, Idaho — A large sequoia tree with a history rooted in conservation was standing in the way of progress, so on Sunday, it was moved.

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Castile lawsuit settled

MINNEAPOLIS — The mother of Philando Castile, a black motorist killed by a Minnesota police officer last year, has reached a nearly $3 million settlement in his death, according to an announcement today by her attorneys and the Minneapolis suburb that employed the officer.

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Some skeptical of GOP health bill

CBO score awaited

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans skeptical about a GOP health overhaul bill are expressing some doubt about holding a vote this week as they await a key analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

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Court News

District Judge Lewis Stoughton

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Feds to give update on Calif. water tunnels

Brown pushes $16B proposal

The federal regulators evaluating Gov.

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Nation

Air base honored for saving bees

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Pair saves teen falling from ride

Man hollers ‘I’ll catch you’

A girl falls from an amusement park ride a in Queensbury, N.Y. The teen was taken to a hospital in stable condition with no serious injuries.

NEW YORK — Matthew Howard Sr. was just leaving a New York amusement park Saturday evening with his family when he heard someone screaming for help.

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Trump eager to see Putin

Some advisers wary of meeting

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is eager to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin with full diplomatic bells and whistles when the two are in Germany for a multinational summit next month.

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Pakistan raises death toll to 157 from fuel truck crash

The scene where an overturned tanker burst into flames in Pakistan on Sunday. Many people had rushed to the scene to collect the gas when the blast occurred.

MULTAN, Pakistan — Pakistan’s prime minister cut short a trip abroad to rush to the side of victims of a massive fuel tanker fire as authorities on Monday raised the death toll from the blaze to 157.

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Another DUI case filed

Police: Woman found asleep at wheel

A Clay Township woman tested at more than four times the legal blood-alcohol limit after she was found asleep at the wheel with her foot on the brake on a Butler road.