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Pennsylvania state police is accepting applications from men and women for cadet training to become state troopers. Applications should be submitted via the state’s emplo...
April 04, 2026 Local News
MARS — After Jesus, the star of the show at St. John Lutheran Church of Mars on Good Friday, April 3, was Pete the donkey. Pete served as a calm, welcoming, roughly 500 ...
April 04, 2026 Local News
EMS agencies can’t count on being paid
April 04, 2026 Local News
The current emergency medical services crisis facing Butler County isn’t the first. While the county commissioners are funding ongoing training programs for emergency med...
April 04, 2026 Local News
EVANS CITY — Four local churches came together Friday to walk Main Street, carry a cross and mark Good Friday with prayer and song in remembrance of Jesus’ crucifixion an...
April 03, 2026 Local News
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Business News
General Motors Co. on Wednesday reported it sold nearly 10% fewer vehicles in the past three months compared to the same time last year, when sales boomed ahead of antic...
April 05, 2026 Business
LOS ANGELES — The screenwriters union and Hollywood studios reached a surprise four-year tentative agreement after roughly three weeks of negotiation. The Writers Guild ...
April 05, 2026 Business
Workers at one of the nation's largest meatpacking plants have agreed to return to work and halt a three-week strike after plant owner JBS USA agreed to resume negotiatio...
April 05, 2026 Business
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State 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
HARRISBURG — A judge cleared the way Thursday for the potential release of an Indian citizen who was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody last year afte...
April 03, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
TEHRAN, Iran — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday made expletive-filled threats against Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by his Tues...
April 05, 2026 National News
President Donald Trump on Sunday made expletive-filled threats against Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday deadline. A defi...
April 05, 2026 National News
McALLEN, Texas — For five months, the young father waited for his 3-year-old daughter’s release from federal custody after she crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her m...
April 05, 2026 National News
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International News
LONDON — Reports on April Fools’ Day of the death of the world’s oldest living land animal — a 193-year-old tortoise called Jonathan — were greatly exaggerated. Jonathan...
April 03, 2026 International News
ROME — Pope Leo XIV washed the feet of 12 priests in the traditional Holy Thursday ritual, restoring a tradition his predecessor had broken by including laypeople and non...
April 03, 2026 International News
ROME — Pope Leo XIV will personally carry the wooden cross through all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum on his first Good Friday as pontiff, marking t...
April 03, 2026 International News
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