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For the third consecutive Butler County commissioners meeting, residents spoke out about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s ongoing effort to apprehend undocument...
February 26, 2026 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Butler County’s 226-year history is full of inspiring moments and influential figures that have left an indelible mark on the nation. For those eager to e...
February 26, 2026 Local News
MIDDLESEX TWP — The township planning commission has given the green light to plans for Holy Sepulcher School on Old Route 8 to build an addition to its school building d...
February 26, 2026 Local News
Pennsylvania State Police are offering a $5,000 reward for information related to the Cherrie Mahan case. Cherrie Mahan was 8 years old when she disappeared. She was las...
February 26, 2026 Local News
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — With artificial intelligence becoming more prevalent, Slippery Rock Area School District educators and officials want to establish guardrails for stud...
February 26, 2026 Local News
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Business News
Butler Memorial Hospital, part of Independence Health System, has opened its newly renovated imaging suite featuring advanced digital PET/CT technology from Canon Medical...
February 26, 2026 Business
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sought in his first State of the Union address to sell Americans on the idea of a booming economy, falling prices, and soaring jobs, ...
February 25, 2026 Business
Venezuelan oil will soon start flowing to Cuba again. Just not to the Cuban government. The Trump administration is authorizing American companies to resell Venezuelan oi...
February 25, 2026 Business
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State News
PHILADELPHIA — Thousands of teenagers from more than a dozen countries, many standing on their chairs in a cavernous convention hall, screamed and cheered as Josh Shapiro...
February 25, 2026 Pennsylvania News
A former Pennsylvania police officer charged with sexually assaulting two young girls more than two decades ago was killed early Wednesday during a gunfire exchange with ...
February 25, 2026 Pennsylvania News
PHILADELPHIA — Some residents in the Philadelphia suburb of Quakertown are calling for the police chief to resign after he and other officers scuffled with high school st...
February 24, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
NEW YORK — As he watched the Boston Celtics play from the stands of TD Garden, one noise kept catching Adel Djellouli's ear. “This squeaking sound when players are slidi...
February 25, 2026 National News
The Department of Homeland Security would be barred from using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP under a new bill introduced in the House on Wednesday. The “Fu...
February 25, 2026 National News
NASA’s Mike Fincke identified himself Wednesday as the astronaut whose medical condition prompted the space agency’s first medical evacuation. In a written statement, th...
February 25, 2026 National News
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International News
HAVANA — Cuban soldiers killed four people and wounded six others aboard a Florida-registered speed boat that had entered Cuban waters and opened fire first on soldiers, ...
February 25, 2026 International News
TEHRAN, Iran — Every day, Iranians go to stores and find prices rising. Some post photos on social media of the shrinking contents of their shopping carts as they strugg...
February 25, 2026 International News
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia freed and deported an American man Tuesday after he spent 11 years in prison for the premeditated murder of his then-girlfriend’s mother o...
February 25, 2026 International News
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