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A crane lifted the Brooklyn Bridge replica from Saxonburg’s Roebling Park on Friday, April 17, leaving a vacant space next to the Roebling Workshop, where foundation repa...
April 17, 2026 Local News
A Seneca Valley School gifted support teacher has been selected as a Pennsylvania STEM Pioneer through a competitive, multistate initiative led by Penn State University. ...
April 17, 2026 Local News
A Cranberry Township woman is accused of breaking into a man’s apartment in Adams Township and climbing into bed with him. Stacey Marie Dougherty, 42, was charged Thursd...
April 17, 2026 Local News
Days after Harrisville Councilwoman Mary Ann Hughes was removed from a borough meeting in handcuffs, the borough solicitor has issued a statement indicating the council “...
April 17, 2026 Local News
Residents of Jefferson and Jackson Townships who are looking to complete critical home repairs may be able to take advantage of Homeowner-Occupied Rehabilitation Programs...
April 17, 2026 Local News
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Business News
PLAINVIEW, N.Y. — Before Stu Goldberg begins his night shift driving for Uber, he pulls out a notebook to read a handwritten list of reminders. “No tickets. Full stops,” ...
April 18, 2026 Business
According to the Pennsylvania Homecare Association, Tammy Young, of Saxonburg, has been elected to the association’s board of directors. According to the association, it ...
April 17, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — A looming jet fuel shortage in Europe and Asia sparked by the Iran war and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz could further upend world travel withi...
April 17, 2026 Business
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State News
PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro blamed high gas prices on President Donald Trump onstage with Republican governors in Philadelphia on Thursday — and they di...
April 17, 2026 Pennsylvania News
MEDIA, Pa. — Judy Prichard McCleary believes her ancestors have gone to the afterlife, and that only their bodies are buried at the family mausoleum in a sprawling Philad...
April 17, 2026 Pennsylvania News
NEW YORK — Barely two weeks before it was due to shut down, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said Tuesday it had found a last-minute buyer — a successful nonprofit journalism ...
April 14, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
LONDON — A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found evidence that it’s not an octopus at all. ...
April 18, 2026 National News
PROVO, Utah — Defense witnesses in the prosecution of the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk said Friday that conjecture in the media over his guilt and depictions of hi...
April 17, 2026 National News
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Travelers on an East Tennessee interstate were forced to brake for workers — and drones, perhaps even a queen — when a truck carrying about 1 million b...
April 17, 2026 National News
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International News
BEIRUT — Iran said Friday it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels, but U.S. President Donald Trump said the American blockade on Iranian ships and po...
April 17, 2026 International News
BERLIN — Rescuers in Germany began an elaborate operation Thursday to save a sick humpback whale that has been repeatedly stranded off the Baltic Sea coast and has stirre...
April 16, 2026 International News
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A 10-day truce began in Lebanon on Friday that could pause fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group and boost attempts to extend the cea...
April 16, 2026 International News
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