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An unidentified man is in U.S. Marshals custody and receiving medical care after unsuccessfully attempting to flee arrest in Sharon on Saturday night, Sept. 12, on suspic...
September 15, 2026 Crime & Courts
Two county historical societies will receive shares of in $4 million in grants awarded to support operations from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The B...
September 15, 2026 Local News
With the building once located at 123 S. Main St. in Butler demolished, crews began work Monday, Sept. 14, to clean up the property. The building was demolished Thursday ...
September 15, 2026 Local News
HARRISVILLE — The borough is about to embark on a wastewater improvement project, and to help finance it, borough council has approved taking out a short-term bridge loan...
September 15, 2026 Government
The trial for a Butler man charged with striking and killing 15-year-old Aiden Lutz when he was riding a bicycle in October 2023 has been canceled for now. Jury selection...
September 15, 2026 Crime & Courts
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Business News
NEW YORK — The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Witho...
September 13, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON— Canada might seem an unlikely target for a U.S. trade war. No country on Earth buys as much from the United States as its northern neighbor. For American far...
September 13, 2026 Business
The Pennsylvania Association of Community Bankers says it has joined state bankers associations nationwide, urging the U.S. Senate to strengthen provisions of the Clarity...
September 12, 2026 Business
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State News
DALLAS — Just steps away from a Republican midterm convention that she slammed as a “farce,” U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., of Montgomery County, said Thursday she was ...
September 14, 2026 Pennsylvania News
HARRISBURG — Around this time two years ago, Sen. John Fetterman was in high demand on the campaign trail, going county-to-county in Pennsylvania to help Democrats up and...
September 14, 2026 Pennsylvania News
A Pennsylvania woman has died from complications associated with measles, the third death in the state this year involving the virus. The 40-year-old woman died Saturday,...
September 13, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's bid to restrict mail ballots for the midterm elections, capping a flurry of last-minute legal a...
September 14, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky returned to the Senate to vote on Monday for the first time in three months, looking noticeably more frail after ...
September 14, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that he would be a sufficient guardrail against rogue artificial intelligence, claiming that any efforts to limit the tech...
September 14, 2026 National News
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International News
CAIRO — A crucial Saudi oil pipeline that was struck in an attack will be mostly out of service for weeks as the damage is repaired, two regional officials said Monday, a...
September 14, 2026 International News
WARSAW, Poland — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Monday, Sept. 14, that Russian drone strikes near the Ukraine-Poland border — one of which hit a train shortly aft...
September 14, 2026 International News
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have seized the strategic islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish in the southern Red Sea, bolstering the Iran-backed rebels' ability to control a key ...
September 14, 2026 International News
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