On the local, statewide and national fronts, education has made the headlines repeatedly in 2025.
In Butler County, nine school districts have seen a mix of changes in c...
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Butler
Dec. 24 — Zackary James Delaney, 27, of Butler, was charged with misdemeano...
Butler County residents began 2026 by digging out their shovels, snow blowers and ice scrapers.
According to data from the National Weather Service, Wednesday night broug...
HARMONY — In German cities like Berlin and Munich, the calendar turned to 2026 at 6 p.m. our time. Here, crowds gathered to join the celebration when the clock struck six...
State police investigated 10,007 vehicle crashes, including six involving fatalities, during the five-day Christmas weekend from Dec. 24 through 28.
Police said the six f...
With fresh snow and wintry winds predicted this evening and into tomorrow, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is reminding motorists to slow down, pay attentio...
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks eked out small gains on Wall Street Friday in a wobbly day of trading to kick off the new year.
Markets were mostly quiet on the first trading day ...
NEW YORK — Enhanced tax credits that have helped reduce the cost of health insurance for the vast majority of Affordable Care Act enrollees expired overnight Wednesday, c...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a New Year's Eve proclamation delaying increased tariffs on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets and vanities for a year, ci...
WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania's plan to stabilize its struggling rural health care systems will get a $193 million infusion as President Donald Trump's administration impleme...
First, Danielle Delange saw the news alert: Bristol Health & Rehab, the nursing home where her mother lived, was on fire.
Within minutes, Delange got a phone call from an...
John Montell “Monty” Mitchell was reeling last year. He heads into next year, though, freshly certified as a paramedic, committed to fatherhood and nurturing a dream that...
A solo hiker who authorities believe was killed by a mountain lion on a remote Colorado trail on New Year's Day was not the first person to encounter one of the predators...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it's still searching for people in the eastern Pacific Ocean who had jumped off alleged drug-smuggling boats when the U.S. m...
WESTERLY, R.I. — A yellow Labrador out for a walk with his owner in Rhode Island had to be rescued by firefighters on New Year’s Day after he wandered onto a thin layer o...
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — Investigators said Friday that they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited a fatal fire at a Swiss ski resort when they cam...
KYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday appointed the head of Ukraine's military intelligence as his new chief of staff, a move that comes as the U.S. lea...
MEXICO CITY — A strong earthquake rattled southern and central Mexico on Friday, interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first press briefing of the new year as seismi...
