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The Breakneck Creek Regional Authority is proposing $13.7 million worth of upgrades to keep up with growth in the area.
NEW YORK — Lawyers and advocates for victims of clergy sex-abuse are assailing as inadequate some new steps announced by U.S. Catholic bishops to curtail the abuse scandals that have deeply shaken the church this year.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — If you want a straw with your drink or a soda with a kids’ meal at a California restaurant, you’ll need to ask for them starting next year.
ABERDEEN, Md. — A woman working a temporary job at a drugstore warehouse in Maryland got into an argument at work Thursday morning and began shooting colleagues, killing three before fatally turning the gun on herself, authorities and witnesses said.
The Community Health Clinic of Butler County celebrated its 10th birthday on Thursday and changed its name.
In 2011, molten metal escaping the shell of a furnace caused an explosion in AK Steel’s Butler Plant. Seven years later, a jury will soon be selected to determine who is responsible.
State troopers across Pennsylvania are making efforts to check in on schools more often.
After being sentenced Thursday for involuntary manslaughter, Tedilee Sweeney, 40, of Arnold, tearfully apologized to the family of a Saxonburg man who overdosed from drugs Sweeney provided him with.
Butler County Community College enrollment figures for the new fall semenster show 110 fewer students than last fall, but not all students have been counted yet.
Slippery Rock University ended the last academic year with a surplus and thus begins this year with a positive cash balance.
HARRISBURG — Private equity costs paid by Pennsylvania’s two large public pension systems are getting more scrutiny.
The county commissiners have approved an agreement with a new volunteer group that would provide trained volunteers in a disaster.
The World Anti-Doping Agency declared Russia’s scandal-ridden drug-fighting operation back in business Thursday, a decision designed to bring a close to one of sports’ most notorious doping scandals but one bitterly disputed by hundreds of athletes and described as...
Walter Lewis, a 56-year-old Army Ranger veteran originally from Stone Mountain, Ga., was ultimately sentenced to a total of 36 months parole — but not before he quoted Franklin Roosevelt; his lawyer quoted T.S. Eliot and the judge quoted Mark Twain and referenced the movie “Patton.
A young girl seriously injured after a 2015 high-speed chase with police ended in a head-on collision is suing the city of Pittsburgh and the Port Authority Transit of Allegheny County, alleging the chase never should have happened.
A 13-year-old boy is accused of making a bomb threat Tuesday at the Butler Intermediate High School.
EVANS CITY — District Judge Wayne Seibel heard the following cases:
A fourth person is accused of felony drug possession stemming from an August warrant search of a Butler apartment where county narcotics officers say they found crack cocaine, hundreds of dollars and eight cell phones.
These items have been collected from various police departments.
AMES, Iowa — It was decades ago, but Sara Schwendinger remembers perfectly the panic she felt when she realized a car was following her as she ran along a country road at dusk, just outside her small Wisconsin hometown.
NORTH BETHESDA, Md. — To the uninitiated, Georgetown Preparatory School feels less like a high school than a well-heeled liberal arts college.
WASHINGTON — Christine Blasey Ford may personally testify against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after all, her attorney said Thursday, breathing new life into the prospect of a dramatic Senate showdown next week over Ford’s accusation that he assaulted her when both were in high...
WILMINGTON, N.C. — As rivers swollen to record levels started to recede Thursday in North Carolina, officials tried to head off potential environmental disasters and prepared for more record flooding downstream in South Carolina.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Clapping and raising their hands to the sky, hundreds of people clad in white gathered at an 18th-century fort in the Puerto Rican capital on Thursday to remember the thousands who died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria as the U.S.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday bluntly questioned the allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a fellow high school student over 30 years ago, and Republicans warned the accuser the window was closing to tell her story before a confirmation...
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