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FBI, Defense Department speakers set for college’s free public event
April 03, 2026 Local News
WINFIELD TWP — Work is expected to commence on a long-awaited renovation to the Winfield Township Community Park later this year, according to Marla Klabnik, who serves o...
April 03, 2026 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — The board of supervisors approved additional road maintenance projects at its Thursday, April 2, meeting, including a line painting program for its busier...
April 03, 2026 Local News
The Slippery Rock University Percussion Ensemble Presented an evening of music ranging across musical genres, including selections from jazz to classical to electronic, a...
April 03, 2026 Local News
The Butler County Early Care & Education Council, a community collaboration supporting school readiness, is celebrating national “Week of the Young Child” with a free spe...
April 03, 2026 Local News
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Business News
WASHINGTON — American employers added a surprisingly strong 178,000 new jobs last month, rebounding from a dismal February. And the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3%. The ...
April 03, 2026 Business
Artificial intelligence chatbots are so prone to flattering and validating their human users that they are giving bad advice that can damage relationships and reinforce h...
April 03, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — Stocks shook off an early stumble to finish with slim gains on Wall Street Thursday and close out their first winning week since the start of the Iran war. Th...
April 02, 2026 Business
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State News
HARRISBURG — A judge cleared the way Thursday for the potential release of an Indian citizen who was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody last year afte...
April 03, 2026 Pennsylvania News
The start of a scheduled preservation project for the Shearer Bridge in Butler and Summit townships, which carries Route 422 over Connoquenessing Creek, has been pushed b...
April 02, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Allegheny Health Network has announced its plans for providing health resources for the hundreds of thousands of visitors who are expected to enter the Pittsburgh area fo...
April 02, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon . NASA released the crew’s first d...
April 03, 2026 National News
ORLANDO, Fla. — Governors in Florida and Mississippi signed into law measures that require officials to verify the citizenship of voters, just as similar legislation bein...
April 03, 2026 National News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Artemis II astronauts fired their engines and blazed toward the moon Thursday night, breaking free of the chains that have trapped humanity ...
April 02, 2026 National News
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International News
ROME — Pope Leo XIV washed the feet of 12 priests in the traditional Holy Thursday ritual, restoring a tradition his predecessor had broken by including laypeople and non...
April 03, 2026 International News
ROME — Pope Leo XIV will personally carry the wooden cross through all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum on his first Good Friday as pontiff, marking t...
April 03, 2026 International News
Iran targeted more sites in Arab Gulf states overnight and into Friday, hours after President Donald Trump issued fresh threats against Iranian infrastructure to pressure...
April 03, 2026 International News
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