HARMONY — In German cities like Berlin and Munich, the calendar turned to 2026 at 6 p.m. our time. Here, crowds gathered to join the celebration when the clock struck six...
State police investigated 10,007 vehicle crashes including six involving fatalities during the five-day Christmas weekend from Dec. 24-28. Impaired driving was a factor i...
Slippery Rock University’s performing arts center was recently given a recognition from the American Institute of Architects.
The performing arts center was awarded a ce...
Cranberry Township and Seven Fields are in line to receive a combined $295,670 from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s Green Light Go grant program.
Green Li...
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Butler
Dec. 22 — Aaron J. Martin, 26, of Butler, was charged with misdemeanor acci...
CENTER TWP — A vacant building at the intersection of Route 8 and Clyde Lane was destroyed in a fire Tuesday, Dec. 30.
According to Mike Pflugh, chief of Unionville Volun...
Leadership Butler County, the leadership development program run through the Butler County Chamber of Commerce, is doing away with its staple fundraising event.
For 2026,...
CONCORD, N.H. — Imagine the buffet.
Forty-thousand oysters, lobster worth $400,000 and a cache of crabmeat all were stolen in separate incidents within weeks of each othe...
An Idaho-based company is recalling nearly 3,000 pounds of raw ground beef that may have been contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
The recall involves 16-ounce vacuum-seal...
WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania's plan to stabilize its struggling rural health care systems will get a $193 million infusion as President Donald Trump's administration impleme...
First, Danielle Delange saw the news alert: Bristol Health & Rehab, the nursing home where her mother lived, was on fire.
Within minutes, Delange got a phone call from an...
John Montell “Monty” Mitchell was reeling last year. He heads into next year, though, freshly certified as a paramedic, committed to fatherhood and nurturing a dream that...
NEW YORK — The U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission wants to turn America's 250th birthday celebration into the country's single biggest year for volunteering.
But America...
Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, one of three grandchildren of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 35.
Schlossberg, daughter of Kennedy’s d...
WASHINGTON — The standard mileage rate for the business use of a car, truck, van or other vehicle will increase by 2.5 cents in 2026.
The IRS announced Monday that begin...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian drones blasted apartment buildings and the power grid in the southern Ukraine city of Odesa in an overnight attack that injured six people, includ...
HONG KONG — Fireworks are typically a celebratory centerpiece of Hong Kong's New Year celebrations. Not this year.
The territory rang in 2026 without spectacular and col...
GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany — Thieves stole tens of millions of euros worth of property from safety deposit boxes inside a German bank vault that they drilled into Monday duri...
