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A Butler man accused of igniting a lighter next to the gas tank of a state police vehicle was given a state prison sentence Thursday after pleading guilty to reckless end...
January 23, 2026 Crime & Courts
A Butler woman was given a state prison sentence Thursday, Jan. 22, in Butler County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty to charges in connection with the assault of...
January 23, 2026 Crime & Courts
A Schuylkill County man apologized Thursday, Jan. 22, in Butler County Common Pleas Court for disrupting a Penn Township business before he was sentenced to probation fo...
January 23, 2026 Crime & Courts
A Kittanning man is facing charges after a fight involving three men and a woman broke out in the parking lot of a bar Jan. 9 in Clearfield Township. Wyatt Allen Birch, ...
January 23, 2026 Local News
Weather forecasts are not set in stone for this weekend, but local municipalities are preparing for the possibility they’ll see large accumulations of snow. Around Butle...
January 22, 2026 Local News
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Business News
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed inclined to keep Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook in her job, casting doubt on President Donald Trump’s bid to wrest...
January 23, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump sued banking giant JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion on Thursday over allegations that JPMorgan stopped providing ba...
January 23, 2026 Business
The Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania — a wildlife conservation nonprofit in Fox Chapel, Allegheny County, which operates four nature preserves across the region — ...
January 23, 2026 Business
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State News
PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro questioned whether he was being unfairly scrutinized as the only Jewish person being considered as a finalist to be Vice Pre...
January 19, 2026 Pennsylvania News
On the fifth day of the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg on Wednesday, Jan. 14, state Sen. Elder Vogel, R-47th, presided over a joint public information hearing to sh...
January 17, 2026 Agriculture
PHILADELPHIA — An investigation into a sprawling betting scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games has ensnared 26 people, including more than a dozen c...
January 15, 2026 National News
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National News
MINNEAPOLIS — A prominent civil rights attorney and at least two other people involved in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota ...
January 23, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — A House committee advanced resolutions Wednesday to hold former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress ...
January 23, 2026 National News
MINNEAPOLIS — A 5-year-old boy arriving home from preschool in Minnesota was taken by federal agents along with his father to a detention facility in Texas, school offic...
January 23, 2026 National News
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International News
BOGOTA, Colombia — Chile is reeling from one of its most serious wildfire emergencies in years. Deadly flames sweeping across central and southern parts of the South Amer...
January 22, 2026 International News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran offered its first government-issued death toll Wednesday following a crackdown on nationwide protests, giving a far lower figure than a...
January 21, 2026 International News
DAVOS, Switzerland — President Donald Trump on Wednesday scrapped the tariffs that he threatened to impose on eight European nations to press for U.S. control over Greenl...
January 21, 2026 International News
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