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Local News
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in and around Cranberry Township continue to result in individuals being detained, and occasionally, such incidents ar...
March 18, 2026 Local News
A Butler man is accused of sending a photo of his genitalia to a teenage girl. Dakota Lee Anthony, 25, was charged Tuesday, March 17, by Butler police with one felony co...
March 18, 2026 Local News
A Butler man has been charged with a felony count of endangering the welfare of children after a woman reported finding multiple abrasions on her 1-year-old daughter’s ne...
March 18, 2026 Crime & Courts
A Cranberry Township man is accused of assaulting correctional officers in Butler County Prison after his arrest for the alleged assault of a couple, police said. Derek ...
March 18, 2026 Local News
The Butler County Prison Board on Tuesday voted to request proposals for inmate phone, video and other communication services due to a federal rule going into effect in a...
March 18, 2026 Local News
Mars Borough is asking that all customers of its municipal water system conserve as much water as possible until a leak in the system is repaired. According to Mayor Gre...
March 18, 2026 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — A documentary director and a former Holocaust denier are traveling America to teach the public about the horrors of the event and how to cure hate in thei...
March 18, 2026 Local News
SAXONBURG — With the borough on the verge of beginning a structural restoration project on the historic wire rope workshop at Roebling Park, there still remains the matte...
March 18, 2026 Local News
Allegheny-Clarion Valley School District is looking for a new school board member after a resignation Monday, March 16. Board member Diane Page resigned from her seat at ...
March 18, 2026 Local News
GREELEY, Colo. — Thousands of workers for the world’s largest meatpacking company began a two-week strike Monday in Colorado, threatening to make already costly beef eve...
March 17, 2026 Business
Other News
TOKYO — Shigeaki Mori, a Japanese atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima and a historian but best known for a big hug he was given by then U.S. President Barack Obama during h...
March 17, 2026 International News
ATLANTA — Travel disruptions continued Tuesday in the U.S. as airlines worked to recover from a powerful storm system that had already snarled flight schedules a day earl...
March 17, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi was subpoenaed Tuesday to answer questions from Congress about the Justice Department’s sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey E...
March 17, 2026 National News
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jurors in Akron began deliberating Tuesday in the corruption trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives charged for their alleged roles in a sweepin...
March 17, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is delaying a diplomatic trip to China that had been planned for months but began to unravel as he pressured Beijing and other world p...
March 17, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, citing his concerns about the justification for militar...
March 17, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Republicans launched an unprecedented effort on Tuesday to hold the Senate floor and talk for days about a bill that they know won't pass — an attempt to cap...
March 17, 2026 National News
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A suspected meteor that fell over the Cleveland area on Tuesday shook homes and startled residents who heard a boom that some compared to an explosion. ...
March 17, 2026 National News
LONDON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in London on Tuesday for talks with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the British government said, as European co...
March 17, 2026 International News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israel killed two senior Iranian security officials in a major blow to the Islamic Republic's leadership as it faces its greatest test in de...
March 17, 2026 International News
Sports
Terry Bradshaw has still not sent a wig to Terry Hanratty. Bradshaw, the Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, used to wear wigs when he started losing his hair 4...
March 18, 2026 Sports
For the second year in a row, it’s North Catholic’s boys and girls teams left standing from Butler County in the PIAA basketball tournaments. The Trojans and Trojanettes ...
March 17, 2026 Sports
Butler boys volleyball is off to a 2-0 start after sweeping Mars 3-0 Tuesday at Mars. The Golden Tornado won each set 25-10, 25-18, 25-11. Andrew Slaugenhaup had 11 kills...
March 17, 2026 Sports
CRANBERRY TWP — Tough to argue with the numbers. Early on, Peters Township didn’t present much of a quarrel. For a good portion of Tuesday night’s PIHL Class 3A Penguins ...
March 17, 2026 Sports
Highlights and updates from the past few weeks: Butler grad Rock named All-Region indoor track athlete Butler graduate and Westminster College freshman Aubrey Rock was li...
March 17, 2026 Sports
The 2026 Penguins Cup playoffs begin Feb. 23, starting with Class A. Butler takes on North Catholic in a battle of Butler County teams in a play-in game Tuesday, Feb. 24....
March 17, 2026 Sports
The PIAA’s newest sport has officially kicked off — well, there aren’t kickoffs in it but the point stands. With the inaugural girls flag football season upon us, here ar...
March 17, 2026 Sports
Pennsylvania high school girls flag football is taking another step forward this spring. The season officially began Friday. This is the first year the sport is officiall...
March 17, 2026 Sports
Editorial
March 17, 2026 Cartoons
The Butler County Board of Commissioners should be applauded for making it possible for the Butler County Hazardous Response Team 100 to respond to large-scale hazardous ...
March 17, 2026 Our Opinion
The CIA calls it the “strategic commodity” of the Middle East. But it’s not referring to oil or natural gas. What the American spy agency has in mind is far more prosaic:...
March 17, 2026 Other Voices
Community
In March, 2008, Michael Cichra, 13, of Butler Township, became the first Elite Athletic Center gymnast to win a state championship. The Knoch Middle School seventh-grader...
March 17, 2026 Community
Elliott Acres Therapy Riding is having volunteer orientation on Saturday, March 28, from 10 a.m. until noon at 168 Headland Road in Summit Township. The organization will...
March 17, 2026 Community
Portersville Christian School will host a “Let Your Light Shine” Legacy Gala on Saturday, March 21, at the Butler Country Club. The event honors alumni who have let their...
March 17, 2026 Community
Four-part harmony barbershop style chorus still singing
March 17, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our beloved Paige Nicole Organ who passed away 13 years ago today. Time ends all, but love and memories last forever. Missed by, Grand Pap, Mom, Dad a...
March 18, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
LONDON — Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died. He was 97. Deighton’s literary agent, Tim ...
March 17, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Books on homelessness, the U.S. Census and ancient India are among this year’s winners of prizes handed out by the J. Anthony Lukas Project, named for the lat...
March 17, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Other
March 18, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
Helping local children develop early literacy skills
March 17, 2026 Special Sections
Verah Vucelich, 3, kicked away from the side of the pool, a small foam backpack strapped to her chest, as her instructor encouraged her from a few feet away. In adjacent ...
March 17, 2026 Special Sections
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