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A new grant benefiting Butler Area School District, among others, is meant to help reduce gun violence and increase after-school initiatives for at-risk youth across the ...
April 23, 2026 Local News
Community Meals Ministries will have its annual gala and art show this weekend, April 25 and 26. The gala will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday, at St. Michael the Archangel...
April 23, 2026 Local News
The Associated Artists of Butler County’s annual High School Art Exhibit is having its opening night reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 24, at Butler Art Center, 34...
April 23, 2026 Local News
JACKSON TWP — A sea of football jerseys flooded the Route 528 Park and Ride on Thursday morning, April 23, as fans boarded Butler Transit Authority buses to the NFL draft...
April 23, 2026 Local News
The 2026 NFL Draft is underway. The Butler County community is waiting for the Steelers’ turn to arrive. Some fans have traveled to Pittsburgh. Others are celebrating ri...
April 23, 2026 Local News
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Business News
If you've missed rooting around in a cereal box for a toy, you're in luck. WK Kellogg Co. said Thursday it's including toys with some of its breakfast cereals for the fir...
April 23, 2026 Business
Independence Health System will welcome 16 new residents to its family medicine residency programs in Butler, Clarion and Latrobe on July 1. Those joining Butler Memorial...
April 23, 2026 Business
LAS VEGA — The German company that owns Lufthansa Airlines and other European carriers said Tuesday that it would cut 20,000 short-haul flights through October as the Ir...
April 23, 2026 Business
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State News
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s treasurer refused Thursday to approve payments for more than $1 million in security systems and other upgrades to the private home of Gov. Jos...
April 23, 2026 Pennsylvania News
A Pennsylvania court on Monday said that the state's constitution guarantees a right to abortion while striking down a decades-long law banning the use of state Medicaid ...
April 20, 2026 Pennsylvania News
MILL HALL, Pa. — A mother and six children ranging in age from 3 to 11 were killed in an explosion and fire at a central Pennsylvania home, authorities said. Firefighters...
April 20, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
BATON ROUGE, La. — An exchange of gunfire at a food court inside a Louisiana mall on Thursday killed one person and wounded five others and sent workers and shoppers scra...
April 23, 2026 National News
After a school bus rolled on a West Virginia highway two years ago, forcing one boy to have his leg amputated and seriously injuring two other children aboard, police qui...
April 23, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major...
April 23, 2026 National News
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International News
Washington — President Donald Trump said Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group by three weeks after talks a...
April 23, 2026 International News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” small Iranian boats that deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz, anno...
April 23, 2026 International News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them on Wednesday, intensifying its assault on shipping in the key water...
April 22, 2026 International News
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