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Two students from Butler County districts are among the semifinalists for the 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program in Pennsylvania. Grace Nam, from Mars Area High Sch...
September 12, 2026 Local News
Independence Health System's Advanced Lung Center at Butler Memorial Hospital is hosting its annual lung cancer awareness walk Oct. 10 at Butler County Community College....
September 12, 2026 Local News
Lancaster Township will kick off its Community Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 26 at Four Springs Park, 1004 W. Lancaster Road. The event begins with a flag ceremony h...
September 12, 2026 Local News
Two people were scalded with boiling water during a Thursday night break-in in Jackson Township, according to township police. Walid Kourami, 33, of Pittsburgh, is facing...
September 11, 2026 Crime & Courts
Butler County Sheriff Mike Slupe is performing the ceremonial coin toss at tonight’s Mars Are High School Planet’s football game. The nonprofit U.S. United is partnering ...
September 11, 2026 Local News
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Business News
The Pennsylvania Association of Community Bankers says it has joined state bankers associations nationwide, urging the U.S. Senate to strengthen provisions of the Clarity...
September 12, 2026 Business
CHICAGO — Diesel prices in the U.S. hit yet another record on Friday, soaring past $6 a gallon on average as Washington’s war with Iran disrupts the world’s flow of fuel....
September 11, 2026 Business
CRANBERRY TWP — According to Maria Vianeth Cervantes, Emiliano’s Mexican Restaurant was named after her son, Emiliano, just 10 days old when their first location opened. ...
September 11, 2026 Local News
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State News
HARRISBURG — For more than two decades, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has worn it almost every day. The small, thin accessory affixed to his lapel — a compressed version...
September 11, 2026 Pennsylvania News
PHILADELPHIA — Four Pennsylvanians who were vaccinated against measles have contracted the highly contagious illness, state officials announced Friday. Called “breakthrou...
September 11, 2026 Pennsylvania News
ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — The phone calls, all asking the same question, started coming long before the lights at “The Pit” flickered on for the first time this fall. “When will t...
September 10, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn't look like the rocks she'd been studying caugh...
September 11, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The House is expected to take up a punishing Russian sanctions package next week, though prospects of passage are uncertain despite the overwhelming support ...
September 11, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump observed Friday’s 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by attending a ceremony at the Pentagon commemorating the lives lost when a...
September 11, 2026 National News
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International News
CAIRO — Saudi Arabia said Friday it shut down a major pipeline a day after it was attacked by drones, and Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels captured a strategic island...
September 11, 2026 International News
SAXONBURG — The sister cities of Saxonburg and Muhlhausen, Germany, are more than 4,000 miles apart. But Thursday, Sept. 10, two opposite sides of the world united inside...
September 11, 2026 Local News
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Canada on Thursday for talks with Prime Minister Mark Carney, his latest international trip aimed at locking in future supp...
September 11, 2026 International News
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