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The Butler County Prison Board on Tuesday renewed an inmate addiction treatment contract with the Ellen O’Brien Gaiser Center and is planning to negotiate an extension of...
August 19, 2026 Local News
SAXONBURG — Borough council is looking into the possibility of putting together a noise ordinance, something the municipality does not currently have. According to Steven...
August 19, 2026 Local News
The following are first place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15. Youth Vegetables Green Snap Beans, Wyatt Carson, Chicora Yellow Snap Beans...
August 19, 2026 Special Sections
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August 19, 2026 Local News
A Jefferson County man is accused of attempting to assault a man with a chain saw Monday, Aug. 17, in Butler. Butler police charged Alan Richard Berkey, 37, Tuesday, Aug....
August 18, 2026 Local News
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Business News
Millions more people may be able to get smaller, lightweight Amazon packages delivered by drones by the end of the year under a plan the company announced Wednesday to ex...
August 19, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — Target reported a second straight quarter of comparable sales gains on Wednesday, saying that a merchandising overhaul under the retailer’s new CEO attracted m...
August 19, 2026 Business
WASHINGTON — Canada has dodged President Donald Trump's threat of 50% tariffs — at least for now. Trump went on social media late Tuesday to say he was pausing for three ...
August 19, 2026 National News
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State News
STATE COLLEGE — Penn State fraternity pledges were made to cut and package cocaine for a drug ring that was run out of two off-campus frat houses, authorities said. The i...
August 18, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Pennsylvania will not change its immunization guidelines in response to President Donald Trump’s recent executive order calling for states to reduce the number of recomme...
August 17, 2026 Pennsylvania News
(The Center Square) — With a mid-October time frame in mind, law enforcement leaders in Pennsylvania are pondering the fate of an estimated 70,000 “skill games” that the ...
August 16, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
WASHINGTON — The national debt surpassed a record $40 trillion on Wednesday, a staggering milestone as defense costs, social programs like Social Security and Medicare an...
August 19, 2026 National News
As people in Hawaii work to remove massive amounts of debris and fix damaged infrastructure in the wake of Lala, forecasters on Wednesday warned of the likelihood for ano...
August 19, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice is defending its prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, saying “there is no serious dispute” that a social media post of ...
August 19, 2026 National News
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International News
NAIROBI, Kenya — A safari helicopter crashed Wednesday morning in a remote part of northern Kenya, killing seven people, including five Americans, according to local poli...
August 19, 2026 International News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates suspended all trade with Iran on Wednesday after the UAE said it had come under renewed fire from the country — a m...
August 19, 2026 International News
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Deadly airstrikes in Gaza on Wednesday cast more doubt on whether new U.S. efforts can advance a tenuous ceasefire in the Palestinian territor...
August 19, 2026 International News
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