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Cranberry Township is trying to get additional money to help complete future Route 19 improvement projects that would benefit drivers and pedestrians but create brief tra...
April 02, 2026 Local News
You don’t need to know how to play every board game to have fun on the first Wednesday of each month. Just drop into the Cranberry Township Municipal Center and have fun....
April 02, 2026 Local News
OAKLAND TWP — With paving season getting underway, township officials opened and immediately approved bids for two of its road upkeep projects. Township supervisors voted...
April 02, 2026 Local News
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
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Business News
NEW YORK — Stocks shook off an early stumble to finish with slim gains on Wall Street Thursday and close out their first winning week since the start of the Iran war. Th...
April 02, 2026 Business
WASHINGTON — U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week as layoffs remain sparse despite a softening labor market and rising energy costs due to the Iran ...
April 02, 2026 National 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
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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 Thursday that Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general, ending the contentious tenure of a loyalist who upended the Justice Depar...
April 02, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday he will soon sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees who have gone without paychecks during t...
April 02, 2026 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
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International News
PARIS — A complaint filed Thursday in France seeks a war crimes investigation into an Israeli strike on a Beirut apartment building in November 2024 said to have killed s...
April 02, 2026 International News
LONDON — Britain accused Iran on Thursday of holding the world's economy hostage as diplomats from more than 40 countries held talks on ways to reopen the Strait of Hormu...
April 02, 2026 International News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran fired more missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states Thursday, demonstrating Tehran’s continued ability to strike its neighbors even as U...
April 02, 2026 International News
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