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Butler County Sheriff Mike Slupe was recognized with a Law Enforcement Officer of the Year award for the state of Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 18, by the American Legio...
July 18, 2026 Local News
While air quality remained at Code Red in Butler on Saturday, July 18, the wet weather and change in wind pushed some particles out of region, lowering Sunday to Code Ora...
July 18, 2026 Local News
SAXONBURG — Putting together a jigsaw puzzle is usually a serene, relaxing hobby. However, for the six teams in the South Butler Community Library puzzle contest on Satur...
July 18, 2026 Local News
Entertainment at Horse Trading Days Saturday night, July 18, has been canceled due to expected severe thunderstorms and high winds, according to a Facebook post. An annou...
July 18, 2026 Local News
Cranberry Township Police Sgt. Mike Marshall was recognized by Stock Stick for his deployment of the company’s tire deflation device to end a 14-minute pursuit in Februar...
July 18, 2026 Local News
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Business News
Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to the multistate cyclospora outbreak...
July 19, 2026 Business
The following are first-place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday, July 11. Junior 4-H & FFA Exhibitors Ages 16-21, Morgan Teets, Slippery Rock Ages 14...
July 18, 2026 Agriculture
Water utility company Pennsylvania American Water said in a media release the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has approved a decision on the company’s rate adjustm...
July 17, 2026 Business
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State News
1K inmates with life sentences left in limbo
July 19, 2026 Pennsylvania News
(The Center Square) — The “balance” in Pennsylvania's new state budget for 2026-27 is a bipartisan illusion created by moving numbers around on spreadsheets and ignoring ...
July 19, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Families whose children receive free or reduced-price school meals in Pennsylvania public schools could see changes in their eligibility for the upcoming school year. The...
July 18, 2026 Education
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National News
WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, on Sunday announced the birth of their fourth child, the first born to a sitting vice president...
July 19, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has filed a first-ever petition to a secretive and dormant court created 30 years ago to consider government requests to deport so-c...
July 19, 2026 National News
MIAMI — A famous Cuban dissident artist and musician, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison sentence on t...
July 19, 2026 National News
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International News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States conducted a new round of airstrikes against Iran on Monday after announcing the death of another American service member, ...
July 20, 2026 International News
LONDON — Prime Minister Andy Burnham acknowledged his precarious perch Monday as the seventh British leader in just over a decade as he set out an ambitious but vague vis...
July 20, 2026 International News
Ukraine fired more than 400 drones toward Moscow in its latest major attack on the Russian capital, the city’s mayor said Monday. The blitz came hours after Russia bombar...
July 20, 2026 International News
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