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Local News
A Butler woman is accused of entering a woman’s home on Hickory Street and assaulting her, police said. Christina Leann Huskins, 39, was charged Wednesday, March 11, by ...
March 13, 2026 Local News
Butler police is teaming up with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service to educate seniors on scams and fraudsters targeting them, Mayor Bob Dandoy said at the Thursday, Marc...
March 13, 2026 Local News
The Harrisville Borough Police Department has closed its skate park off Wick Avenue due to safety concerns, according to a Friday, March 13, Facebook post. A recent insp...
March 13, 2026 Local News
Mars asked its residents Friday morning, March 13, to conserve water after a leak was detected in the water system, according to a Facebook post. “We apologize for this ...
March 13, 2026 Local News
No word from DCED on first application
March 13, 2026 Local News
CENTER TWP — With EMS agencies struggling with rising costs, supervisors took a “first step” toward better supporting services in the township. The township’s board of su...
March 13, 2026 Local News
When Margaret “Peg” Dumbaugh stepped down from Butler Area School District’s Golden Tornado Foundation in 2004, it was almost impossible to imagine the district without h...
March 13, 2026 Local News
Butler City Council is expected to vote to pay Wiest Paving and Asphalt Products $75,120 for work clearing out snow earlier this year. The City of Butler was pelted by 11...
March 13, 2026 Local News
With weather warming and spring around the corner, Butler City Council is set to approve even more events in the city for the upcoming months. City council discussed thre...
March 13, 2026 Local News
William Gasch shined on stage while growing up in Forward Township, training with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre before graduating from Schenley High School in Pittsburgh ...
March 13, 2026 Local News
Other News
DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — Death Valley, known as the driest place in North America, is teeming with life with a once-in-a-decade blossoming of wildflowers known as a superbl...
March 13, 2026 National News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s secretive new leader issued his first public statements Thursday, resolving to keep fighting, promising more pain for Gulf Arab state...
March 12, 2026 International News
ROTC students subdued and killed a gunman who yelled “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire Thursday in an Old Dominion University classroom, killing one and wounding two, ac...
March 12, 2026 National News
BALTIMORE — A lawyer representing the leader of the cultlike Zizians group that has been linked to six deaths told a judge Thursday that there is reason to believe his cl...
March 12, 2026 Pennsylvania News
LOS ANGELES — With spring still a week away, it was already starting to feel like summer Thursday in Southern California as temperatures topped 90 degrees — an unusual Ma...
March 12, 2026 National News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA cleared its moon rocket on Thursday for an April launch with four astronauts after completing the latest round of repairs. The 322-foot rocke...
March 12, 2026 National News
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. — An attacker armed with a rifle rammed his vehicle into one of the nation’s largest reform synagogues Thursday, driving through a hallway as secur...
March 12, 2026 National News
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine is awaiting White House approval for a major drone production agreement proposed by Kyiv last year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said T...
March 12, 2026 International News
Sports
BUTLER TWP — Butler football considered returning home to the WPIAL during the offseason. But with PIAA enrollment classifications set and no change to WPIAL’s conference...
March 13, 2026 Sports
The girls basketball programs at North Catholic and Blackhawk are no strangers to each other. Dating back to the 2018-19 season, the Trojanettes and Cougars have met six ...
March 13, 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 12, 2026 Sports
How it started for Marin Raible was definitely not how it ended. Making her first appearance at the PIAA Class 3A Girls diving championship meet on Thursday, the Mars jun...
March 12, 2026 Sports
Seneca Valley boys tennis received victories from its No. 1 and 3 singles players — Gianni Varlotta and Billy Conway — in a 4-1 victory over Knoch on Thursday. Also winni...
March 12, 2026 Sports
Nicholas DelGratta, who could become the third Butler County Community College men’s basketball player since 2015 to finish a season with the highest scoring average in ...
March 12, 2026 Sports
The WPIAL announced its football realignment for the 2026 and 2027 seasons on Thursday. Here are the changes that impact Butler County programs. Class 4A Mars is relocati...
March 12, 2026 Sports
North Catholic needed triple overtime to get past rival Knoch and now hopes to have fresh legs ahead of Friday’s PIAA Class 4A boys basketball quarterfinal matchup agains...
March 12, 2026 Sports
Editorial
March 12, 2026 Cartoons
This week, more than 100 students from four districts learned how to identify genuinely fake news — including pieces generated by endlessly deceiving and constantly evolv...
March 12, 2026 Our Opinion
The two main drivers of U.S. economic growth right now — artificial intelligence and an aging population — are combining to make health care the most appealing career opt...
March 12, 2026 Other Voices
Community
The Butler County Community Support Program will host a lunch and learn event from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, in the board room of the Mental Health Association,...
March 12, 2026 Community
Because the early years of a child’s life are the most crucial to their development, Lifesteps’ Child Check program offers free developmental and autism screenings for ch...
March 12, 2026 Community
Slippery Rock University is once again hosting a musical storytelling event in Swope Music Hall. Tuneful Tales returns from 10 to 11:45 a.m. Saturday, April 4, at Swope, ...
March 12, 2026 Community
Canines for Courage adopts out two puppies Feb. 21
March 12, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our beloved Chris Doerr whose birthday is March 13. We cannot clasp your hand, Chris dear, Your face we cannot see, But let this little token tell, Th...
March 13, 2026 Birthday Tributes
Arts & Entertainment
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March 13, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
He has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil ...
March 13, 2026 Verse of the Day
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