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An Evans City man is accused of raping a woman when she was a teenager, then continuing the behavior for at least eight years as she became an adult, according to charges...
April 07, 2026 Local News
FRANKLIN TWP — Firefighters extinguished a fire Tuesday afternoon in a camper at the Church of the Nazarene’s Mount Chestnut Nazarene Retreat Center before it could sprea...
April 07, 2026 Local News
East Butler approved a bid for future tar and chipping work on roads and alleys in the borough at their April 6 meeting. Out of three bids, Russell Standard’s bid of $96...
April 07, 2026 Local News
State high court ruled some mandatory life sentences unconstitutional
April 07, 2026 Local News
MARS — Borough council announced it has opted for the Rave Alert system from Motorola as its new municipal emergency alert notification system at a council meeting on Mon...
April 07, 2026 Government
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Business News
Delta Air Lines announced Tuesday it is raising checked baggage fees, part of a broader wave of U.S. carriers responding to higher jet fuel prices tied to the war in the ...
April 07, 2026 Business
It has a catchy name — Build America, Buy America — and the lauded goal of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States. But the law has spurred a bottleneck for...
April 07, 2026 Business
Adams Township-based manufacturer Mars Mineral has hired Elliott Woodward, son of president Clayton Woodward, as a new business manager. He is the third generation of th...
April 06, 2026 Business
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State News
PHILADELPHIA — A 17-month-old was hurt Saturday after crawling under a fence at Pennsylvania’s Hersheypark zoo and sticking his hand into a wolf enclosure. Now, the boy’s...
April 06, 2026 Pennsylvania News
HERSHEY, Pa. — A toddler was lightly injured by a wolf at a Pennsylvania theme park zoo after he crawled under a fence and stuck his hand into the animal’s enclosure, off...
April 05, 2026 Pennsylvania News
RICHMOND TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Two firefighters traveling in a utility vehicle along a Pennsylvania road during a search for a missing woman were killed in a head-on crash with...
April 05, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
BOLIVIA, N.C. — A judge on Tuesday ordered that a Marine veteran charged with three counts of first-degree murder in a mass shooting at a North Carolina waterfront bar la...
April 07, 2026 National News
HOUSTON — Still aglow from their triumphant lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts put in a call to their friends aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday as the...
April 07, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — The animal rights group PETA’s lawsuit over the health of French bulldogs and some other popular dog breeds has been dismissed, with a judge saying a New York ...
April 07, 2026 National News
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International News
ROME — Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization was “truly unacceptable” and said any attacks on civilian infra...
April 07, 2026 International News
BAGHDAD — American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped from a Baghdad streetcorner last week, has been released, two Iraqi officials with direct knowledge of t...
April 07, 2026 International News
TEHRAN, Iran — U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran fails to meet his latest deadline to strike a deal that...
April 07, 2026 International News
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