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The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: Butler Dec. 3 — James Erwin Fleeger, 42, of Butler, was charged with misdemeanor d...
December 12, 2025 Local News
CENTER TWP — With costs on the rise and Christmas around the corner, the Toys for Tots Butler chapter is stepping in to help families make sure their children have happy ...
December 12, 2025 Local News
Around 2.7 million pieces of state agency mail from the last month never got delivered after a state-contracted vendor failed to send them. Between Nov. 3 and Dec. 3, cor...
December 12, 2025 Local News
Fourth man previously posted bail
December 12, 2025 Local News
The City of Butler announced on Thursday, Dec. 11, that all metered parking in the city will be free from Dec. 20 to Jan. 1. ...
December 12, 2025 Local News
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Business News
Pittsburgh-based health care insurer Highmark is adding more than 1 million members to its base, through a proposed affiliation with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas ...
December 12, 2025 Business
Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and will bring characters such as Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and Luke Skywalker to the AI company’s Sora video generation tool, in ...
December 11, 2025 Business
WASHINGTON — Oil companies offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned for the region under Republican ef...
December 10, 2025 Business
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State News
A New Jersey law that permits terminally ill people to seek life-ending drugs applies only to residents of the state and not those from beyond its borders, a federal appe...
December 10, 2025 National News
Butler County resident Cindy Schaltenbrand won people’s choice “Best in Show” in the Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation’s “On the Trail” Photo Contest, with a phot...
December 09, 2025 Community
NEW YORK — Moments after Luigi Mangione was handcuffed at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair...
December 09, 2025 National News
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National News
Getting trapped in quicksand is a corny peril of old movies and TV shows, but it really did happen to one unfortunate hiker in Utah’s Arches National Park. The park famo...
December 12, 2025 National News
More than 18,000 Amtrak workers will receive a $900 bonus before the end of the year, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced on Thursday evening. Funding for th...
December 11, 2025 National News
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Tens of thousands of Washington residents were under evacuation orders Thursday after a barrage of torrential rain that has overflowed rivers, sent ...
December 11, 2025 National News
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International News
TORONTO — A Canadian man who died in 2019 has been identified as the perpetrator of three cold case homicides in Toronto, and investigators believe there could be more vi...
December 11, 2025 International News
SAO PAULO — More than 1.4 million Sao Paulo residents had no electricity on Thursday after strong winds caused several trees to collapse onto the Brazilian metropolis' gr...
December 11, 2025 International News
WASHINGTON — The U.S. imposed sanctions on three nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, among others, on Thursday as President Donald Trump looks to inflict furt...
December 11, 2025 International News
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