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A Chicora man is accused of being under the influence of controlled substances while at district court. Ryan Nathan Banner, 39, was charged March 17 by state police in B...
April 02, 2026 Local News
A woman called police from Alabama to report an assault over the weekend in Middlesex Township, police said. Andrew Martin Graf, 41, of Valencia, was charged Saturday, M...
April 02, 2026 Local News
A second bald eaglet hatched Tuesday, March 31, from the eagle nest at the U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works-Irvin Plant in West Mifflin. The first egg hatched Sunday. The a...
April 02, 2026 Local News
Adams Township and Mars Borough, which have publicly announced a proposal for merging into one township, are far from the only pair of municipalities in Pennsylvania that...
April 02, 2026 Local News
A Valencia man was charged with stalking after police said he stuck five sticky notes and miscellaneous keys to a woman’s front door in the early hours of the morning. A...
April 02, 2026 Local News
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Business News
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has opened a new and expanded pediatric cardiology clinic at Children’s Pine Center, 11279 Perry Highway in Wexford, Allegheny Coun...
April 02, 2026 Business
Hershey said Wednesday it will use classic recipes for all Reese’s products starting next year, a change that comes after the grandson of Reese’s founder criticized the c...
April 01, 2026 Business
Four years after opening its doors to the public in June 2022, Totalus Cafe — a locally-owned boba tea cafe on East Jefferson Street — announced through Facebook on Satur...
April 01, 2026 Business
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State News
The start of a scheduled preservation project for the Shearer Bridge in Butler and Summit townships, which carries Route 422 over Connoquenessing Creek, has been pushed b...
April 02, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Allegheny Health Network has announced its plans for providing health resources for the hundreds of thousands of visitors who are expected to enter the Pittsburgh area fo...
April 02, 2026 Pennsylvania News
FBI Director Kash Patel joined U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, R.-Pa., at a roundtable event in Allentown on Wednesday to tout state and federal efforts to combat Pennsylvania’...
April 01, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said U.S. forces will “finish the job” in Iran soon as “core strategic objectives are nearing completion,” offering a full-throated de...
April 01, 2026 National News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Four astronauts embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon Wednesday, humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century and the thril...
April 01, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced Wednesday what they are calling a path forward to fully funding the Department of ...
April 01, 2026 National News
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International News
Russia’s armed forces have taken control of the entire Luhansk region of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed Wednesday, but a Kyiv military official denied the ...
April 01, 2026 International News
MOSCOW — A Russian military plane crashed in annexed Crimea, killing 29 people on board, officials said Wednesday. The An-26 military transport plane went missing Tuesda...
April 01, 2026 International News
Vladimir Putin made a big deal of Russia’s success in seizing control of Kupyansk in eastern Ukraine late last year, even as Volodymyr Zelenskyy immediately challenged th...
April 01, 2026 International News
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