Adelphoi expanding programs at new location

First Street site to open in fall

Adelphoi Village is adding career training for students in its education program that is being relocated to Specialty Outreach Services at the former Institute Hill School on First Street in Butler when it opens in the fall.

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1 person hurt in crash in front of fire station

ADAMS TWP — One person involved in a two-vehicle crash on Route 228 was transported to a Pittsburgh hospital Saturday morning.

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Secret brand deodorant donates $529,000 to U.S. women's soccer

NEW YORK — Procter & Gamble, a sponsor of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, is now supporting its members' fight for equal pay.

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Barry weakens, spares Big Easy

NEW ORLEANS — Barry continued to soak Louisiana and Mississippi as it weakened to a tropical depression Sunday over Northwestern Louisiana.

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Rising Above the Floodwaters

Music, dancing benefit storm victims

Dennis McCurdy, a local lawyer, plays with his band Lonesome No More on Sunday at Jergel's Rhythm Grille during a fundraiser for flood victims.

WARRENDALE, Allegheny County — Residents of Harmony and Zelienople shook off the muddy floodwaters of the past two months and danced Sunday to the music of local artists during a fundraiser to help flood victims.

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At play on Early American Day

Old-fashioned ways shown

Abby Smith tosses an axe at a log target during Early American Day on Saturday at the Old Stone House in Brady Township. Visitors were invited to view history brought to life by volunteers.

BRADY TWP — Wood smoke rose into a bright blue sky and Irish folk music drifted across the grounds as the Old Stone House was transported to the Colonial era Saturday.

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Cranberry Twp. celebrates sense of community

Visitors check out the carnival attractions Saturday night at Cranberry Community Days. The event is the kickoff for fundraising efforts for the township's Community Chest, which takes on a different project every year.

When Haley Clancy showed up last year with her typewriter to write and sell poetry at Cranberry's Community Days, the township's annual summer fair, she said the event's staff kicked her out since she didn't have a permit to solicit money.

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Oil well demonstration

DCNR volunteer John Chos operates a late 19th or early 20th century Bessemer gas engine at the Muddy Creek Oil Well Living History program Saturday at Moraine State Park. The oil operation was active from the late 1800s to the 1960s.

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POLICE REPORTS

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8:50 a.m. July 11 — Mitchel Clevenger, 25, of Slippery Rock is charged with hitting a 38-year-old woman in the face with a blunt weapon. The victim suffered swelling and cuts.

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SENTENCINGS

Judge Timothy McCune handed down the following sentences on Thursday:

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Funeral held for wife of TV bounty hunter

AURORA, Colo. — Friends and family of the late “Dog the Bounty Hunter” reality TV show co-star Beth Chapman gathered in Colorado on Saturday where they remembered her as tough and irreverent, yet full of love even for some of the fugitives she helped apprehend.

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Remains found believed to be missing actor

SELMA, Ore. — Remains found in a remote area of Oregon are believed to be of missing actor Charles Levin, who played numerous roles on television comedies such as “Seinfeld” and “Night Court.”

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Butler Color Press gets your message across

Press operators oversee a printing run at Butler Color Press.

The team at Butler Color Press daily transforms gigantic rolls of paper into sales fliers and inserts that will find their way into newspapers, mailboxes — and, ultimately, customers' hands — across the country.

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Mission trip takes SR graduate to new heights

SHARING HER SNAPSHOTS is Brook Schaefers, 19, of Butler, who climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro last month when she was in Tanzania during a mission trip for the charity GIVE.

Brook Schaefers, 17, of Butler certainly reached her peak earlier this summer. Schaefers scaled Mount Kilimanjaro during her mission trip to the East African nation of Tanzania June 4 through June 27.

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Trial date set in Butler man’s child porn case

A November trial date has been scheduled for a child pornography case involving a Butler County man.

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Fresh Air Fact Box

Since its inception in 1877, the Fresh Air Fund has given 1.8 million children a summer getaway from New York City. The fund’s successes go beyond the number of children whom it has helped:

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NYC kids get Fresh Air from local families

Through the Fresh Air Fund, 13 Western Pa. families host New York City kids to expose them to summer experiences such as bike riding, swimming, and marshmallow roasting.

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Evans City council denies posted claims

A former councilwoman alleges lack of cooperation

Former Evans City Councilwoman Shelley Natali has made it her mission to expose what she claims are problems plaguing the Evans City/Seven Fields Police Department and leaving the borough open to legal liability.

The Evans City Borough Council president, Lee Dyer, has vehemently denied all allegations Shelley Natali, a former councilwoman, made in a public Facebook post dated July 2.

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Acosta exits; Cabinet turnover keeps growing

WASHINGTON — Adding to the lengthy list of departures from President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said Friday he’s stepping down amid the tumult over his handling of a 2008 secret plea deal with wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of...

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Communities unite to tackle flooding woes

Report's results not positive

A joint effort last year by several communities aimed to find solutions for persistent, worsening flooding in southwest Butler County.

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Connoquenessing Creek study suggests changes

Last year, Harmony and Zelienople boroughs, Jackson Township, the Western Butler County Authority and Butler County came together to study the Connoquenessing Creek and determine what could be done to address flooding issues.

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Police: Woman falsified service

A Butler woman is accused of falsifying her community service records to show hours of work at a church that she did not perform.

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Pair sentenced for selling drugs

Heroin, crack found in raid

A Philadelphia man and his co-defendant were sentenced Thursday to more than a year in jail for selling heroin and crack cocaine.

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POLICE REPORTS

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Woman found with gun at airport

A Butler County woman was found with a loaded handgun in a carry-on bag at Pittsburgh International Airport Wednesday, according to the Transportation Security Administration.