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Fourth and fifth grade students at Buffalo Elementary School in Buffalo Township recently got a firsthand experience at running a business by working alongside local vend...
August 13, 2026 Local News
CENTER TWP — A grant to help fund wages for a full-time paramedic/firefighter position at Unionville Volunteer Fire Company will be ready for submission after a vote is t...
August 13, 2026 Local News
Working the overnight shift in EMS, paramedics and EMTs face the extremes of the job. “We get some weird stuff,” said Michael Artman, a paramedic who works the weekend ov...
August 13, 2026 Local News
By the end of 2026, Saxonburg’s 250,000-gallon water storage tower on West Main Street will have a whole new look for the first time in nearly three decades. Earlier this...
August 13, 2026 Local News
Corn and soybean crops at Randy Smith’s beef cattle farm in Washington Township are expected to produce the best harvest he has seen in several years. Recent light rains ...
August 13, 2026 Local News
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Business News
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump was sued in federal court Wednesday to stop him from making money off a new, paid service at his Truth Social company offering early, ex...
August 12, 2026 Business
CHICAGO — It started as a limited promotion for a specialty theme night. Then the Chicago White Sox heard from their fans. Everyone wanted a pope-themed hat. “When things...
August 12, 2026 Business
Butler Memorial Hospital has added a new doctor to its medical staff, according to Independence Health system. Dr. David Klodowski joins the staff as a board-certified ne...
August 12, 2026 Business
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State News
(The Center Square) — By the time Andy Bater held up a big map of the Gregg Township, Union County, region during testimony to a state board on Wednesday, Pennsylvania's ...
August 13, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday filed a lawsuit against social media giant TikTok over alleged failures to shield children from age-inappropriate material and o...
August 11, 2026 Business
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of a deadly explosion at U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works, federal investigators released a long and sharply worded report, accusing ...
August 11, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
TOPEKA, Kan. — A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper's of...
August 12, 2026 National News
An Army Apache helicopter crashed in a central Texas field on Wednesday, killing both people on board and sparking a wildfire that forced several homes to be evacuated, a...
August 12, 2026 National News
HONOLULU — Tropical Storm Cristobal well west of the Azores was expected to dissipate while a Pacific storm system could threaten Hawaii this weekend, forecasters said. ...
August 12, 2026 National News
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International News
MEDINACELI, Spain — Millions of people crowded cloudless cities and towns in Spain on Wednesday in search of the best views of a total solar eclipse, when the alignment o...
August 13, 2026 International News
A rare solar eclipse crosses Iceland, Britain and parts of the European continent, drawing crowds to watch the event. Totality is visible in parts of Iceland, Portugal an...
August 13, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. had “total control over the Hormuz Strait,” as Washington and Tehran hardened their positions in deadlocked negotiati...
August 12, 2026 International News
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