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The Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement will travel through the county to verify that all dogs are properly licensed for 2026, Butler County officials announced. The canvassing...
May 07, 2026 Local News
The New Beginnings Church, 416 Center Ave., Butler, is having a free clothing giveaway from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May 9. Visitors are asked to use the entrance in t...
May 07, 2026 Local News
Multiple students earn GEDs
May 07, 2026 Local News
The owner of a Center Township daycare center should be removed as a defendant in a suit filed by the parents of a 7-month-old boy reportedly injured there in September 2...
May 07, 2026 Crime & Courts
The Mars Area High School Fightin’ Planets have earned the title of Best High School Mascot in America as the winner of the 2026 National High School Mascot Brackets comp...
May 06, 2026 Local News
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Business News
It has always been Nadine Shingleton’s dream to one day pass her business Playthings Etc. down to her family. Shingleton did just that this past January, turning over the...
May 07, 2026 Business
FRANKLIN TWP — Long before students and professors make their way to campus at Butler County Community College, Brian Opitz has already been up and at it, fixing whatever...
May 05, 2026 Business
Spirit Airlines, which abruptly canceled all its future flights over the weekend, secured court approval Tuesday to begin dismantling the once-busy budget carrier and to ...
May 05, 2026 Business
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State News
(The Center Square) — A House committee on Tuesday, May 5, endorsed the concept that a medical patient has the right to know when artificial intelligence is being used in...
May 07, 2026 Pennsylvania News
In recent months, AHN Grove City has begun offering robotic-assisted knee and hip surgeries, including joint replacements, with the addition of the Mako SmartRobotics sur...
May 05, 2026 Business
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania has sued an artificial intelligence chatbot maker, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and are deceiving the system's u...
May 05, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
NEW YORK — A note Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate claimed he found after the millionaire sex offender’s first suspected jail suicide attempt was made public Wednesday, ...
May 06, 2026 National News
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The FBI searched the Virginia state Senate leader’s hometown office on Wednesday as part of a corruption investigation, a person familiar with the matte...
May 06, 2026 National News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday evening that he is pausing the U.S. effort to guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz...
May 05, 2026 National News
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International News
NEW YORK — With hundreds of vessels still stuck in the Persian Gulf and costs piling up, shipping companies are being whipsawed by uncertainty over how and when the Strai...
May 06, 2026 International News
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia fired dozens of drones at Ukraine in nighttime attacks, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday, disregarding a unilateral ceasefire announced by Kyiv t...
May 06, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military fired on an Iranian oil tanker Wednesday as President Donald Trump sought to pressure Tehran into reaching a deal to end the war. The Islam...
May 06, 2026 International News
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