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EVANS CITY — A Connoquenessing Township woman detailed how a Chicora man allegedly assaulted her and then attempted to intimidate her into not testifying against him in a...
February 19, 2026 Local News
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: Buffalo Twp Feb. 2 — Angella Smith, 34, of Freeport, was charged with filing false...
February 19, 2026 Local News
Cherrie Mahan was 8 years old when she was abducted Feb. 22, 1985. She went missing less than 100 yards from her Winfield Township home after getting off the school bus. ...
February 19, 2026 Local News
Mark Gartner was just elected to Seneca Valley’s school board on a campaign emphasizing his ties to the community, one he thinks could help him become a state representat...
February 18, 2026 Local News
Scott Timko, a retired Air Force pilot and former local business owner from Cranberry Township, is seeking the Republican nomination to run to represent the 12th District...
February 18, 2026 Local News
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Business News
LOS ANGELES — Mark Zuckerberg and opposing lawyers dueled in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, where the Meta CEO answered questions about young people’s use of Insta...
February 18, 2026 National News
Armstrong announced it is acquiring a northeast-Ohio-based cable company, expanding its footprint in Ohio and West Virginia. The Butler-based telecommunications company a...
February 18, 2026 Local News
S.R. Snodgrass, a full-service accounting and consulting firm in Cranberry Township, has promoted Lenore Seifer to chief operating officer and Jeremy S. Burris to chief t...
February 18, 2026 Business
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State News
PHILADELPHIA — A judge has set a Friday deadline for the Trump administration to restore an exhibit on the nine people enslaved by George Washington at his former home on...
February 18, 2026 National News
Pittsburgh-based Alcoa will pay the Australian government a settlement the company put at $36 million for “unlawfully” clearing tracts of endangered forest without approv...
February 18, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Conservation and historical organizations sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and ...
February 17, 2026 National News
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National News
Another ransom note demanding $6 million in cryptocurrency in exchange for the safe return of Nancy Guthrie was sent to TMZ on Wednesday. This note, the latest in a seri...
February 18, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — A coalition of health and environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, challenging the rescinding of a scientific finding that...
February 18, 2026 National News
DENVER — Doug Moe, an ABA original who gained fame over a rumpled, irreverent and sometimes R-rated decade as coach of the Denver Nuggets in the 1980s, died Tuesday. He w...
February 18, 2026 National News
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International News
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to travel to Israel next week to update Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks, two Tr...
February 18, 2026 International News
GENEVA — The latest U.S.-brokered talks between envoys from Moscow and Kyiv over Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine ended Wednesday with no sign of a breakthrough and w...
February 18, 2026 International News
UNITED NATIONS — Members of the United Nations Security Council called Wednesday for the Gaza ceasefire deal to become permanent and blasted Israeli efforts to expand con...
February 18, 2026 International News
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