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As the end of summer vacation looms for many students, Verizon Wireless will be giving out backpacks at three locations in and around Butler County. Beginning at 1 p.m. S...
July 18, 2025 Local News
ZELIENOPLE — The three-day Horse Trading Days in Zelienople kicked off on Thursday night, July 17, with the main event of opening night, the Round-up Horse Parade, travel...
July 18, 2025 Local News
An Evans City man was charged with bringing controlled substances into Butler County Prison. Andrew C. Cypher, 36, was charged Tuesday, July 15, with felony possession o...
July 18, 2025 Local News
First Wegmans in Butler County OK’d
July 18, 2025 Local News
The Zelienople Historical Society is marking its 50th anniversary by revamping its 215-year-old crown jewel, the Passavant House. The 19th century house is undergoing nec...
July 18, 2025 Local News
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Business News
NEW YORK — Wall Street closed its third winning week in the last four with a quiet finish on Friday. The S&P 500 edged down by a whisper, less than 0.1%, after setting i...
July 18, 2025 Business
Jason A. Troup, of Butler, will retire from the U.S. Air Force as a staff sergeant at the end of July, and has accepted a government contractor position with the Joint Wa...
July 18, 2025 Business
Independence Health System has appointed Mary Elizabeth Kovacik Eicher as its new associate chief medical officer. Kovacik Eicher joined then Excela Health in 2019, provi...
July 18, 2025 Business
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State News
PHILADELPHIA — A former Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed a motorist during a traffic stop was sentenced and granted parole Thursday by a judge, eliciting c...
July 18, 2025 Pennsylvania News
GETTYSBURG — An American extradited from France to face charges that he sexually assaulted a fellow Pennsylvania college student in 2013 — and later sent her a Facebook m...
July 17, 2025 Pennsylvania News
Twenty Democratic-led states, including Pennsylvania, filed suit Wednesday against the Federal Emergency Management Agency, challenging the elimination of a long-running ...
July 16, 2025 National News
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National News
WASHINGTON — The Education Department will release $1.3 billion in previously withheld grant money for after-school programs, days after 10 Republican senators sent a let...
July 18, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid early Friday as Repub...
July 18, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law new regulations for a type of cryptocurrency, a major milestone for an industry that has spent heavily to st...
July 18, 2025 National News
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International News
LONDON — The U.K. on Friday sanctioned Russian military intelligence units and officers it said were behind preparations for a 2022 bomb attack on a theater in southern U...
July 18, 2025 International News
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing three people and wounding 10 oth...
July 17, 2025 International News
KYIV, Ukraine — A new Ukrainian government approved Thursday will race to expand domestic arms production to meet half the country’s weapons needs within six months as it...
July 17, 2025 International News
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