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Local News
Lawsuit involving Knoch prompts debate over AI usage while attorneys plan response to accusations
A case focusing on anti-discrimination protections for transgender high school students has raised new controversy: a debate over whether or not attorneys used AI to draf...
January 28, 2026 Local News
Transit Authority to offer limited service Wednesday
Butler Transit Authority will offer limited service options for Wednesday, Jan. 28, as a result of continued weather conditions and unsafe roads. For local service, only ...
January 28, 2026 Local News
Schools, health care institutions prepared to handle evolving national food guidelines
As federal nutrition guidelines shift for the first time in years, local school districts are beginning to assess what the changes will mean for students’ daily meals. At...
January 28, 2026 Local News
Inmates learn life skills in Butler County Prison’s new IGNITE Program
Dylan Hinchberger, 31, began using illicit substances at 11 years old. He said for the longest time, he wasn’t able to admit to himself he had a problem. Then, he heard ...
January 28, 2026 Local News
Police: Juvenile called 911 to report adults overdosed
CHICORA — A Saxonburg borough police officer detailed what he saw when he responded to a residence where a man and woman had reportedly overdosed with three children in t...
January 28, 2026 Local News
Zelienople event aims to raise $2 million for family’s clinical trial
ZELIENOPLE — Not even the severe winter weather deterred the small businesses of the borough’s Main Street from stepping up on Tuesday night, Jan. 27 to support a 10-year...
January 27, 2026 Local News
Kindness prevails during weekend storm in Butler County
In October, Dave and Dawn Mock experienced a major personal loss when the milk barn at their farm in Penn Township burned to the ground. Butler County’s agricultural comm...
January 27, 2026 Local News
Pinterest will lay off 15% of its workforce as the platform pivots resources to AI
NEW YORK — Pinterest plans to lay off under 15% of its workforce, as part of broader restructuring that arrives as the image-sharing platform pivots more of its money to ...
January 27, 2026 Business
Butler plans to haul snow out of business district
No immediate plans to clear neighborhoods
January 27, 2026 Local News
Wall Street sets a record while the U.S. dollar’s value slides again
NEW YORK — Wall Street ticked to a record on Tuesday, as stocks zigzagged following mixed profit reports from UnitedHealth, General Motors and other big companies. The S&...
January 27, 2026 Business
Other News
‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closer to midnight over threats from nuclear weapons, climate change and AI
Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic,” a scie...
January 27, 2026 International News
U.S. sending ICE unit to Winter Olympics for security, prompting concern and confusion in Italy
MILAN — News that a unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be part of the security detail for the U.S. delegation during the upcoming Winter Games has set...
January 27, 2026 National News
North Korea launches ballistic missiles into sea between Korean Peninsula and Japan
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea launched short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Tuesday, according to its neighbors, as the North heightens animosit...
January 27, 2026 International News
Maine’s ‘lobster lady’ Virginia Oliver, who worked decades in the lobster industry, dies at 105
Virginia Oliver, one of the oldest lobster fishers in the world who trapped crustaceans in Maine for nearly a century, has died. She was 105. Born in Rockland, Maine...
January 27, 2026 National News
John Fetterman urges Trump to fire Kristi Noem as DHS secretary: ‘Americans have died’
Sen. John Fetterman on Tuesday urged President Donald Trump “to immediately fire” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after federal agents killed two citizens in Minn...
January 27, 2026 National News
World pauses to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day
WARSAW, Poland — Holocaust survivors, politicians and regular people commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, gathering at somber events across Eu...
January 27, 2026 International News
Russian drones kill 2 and wound children in Ukraine as Zelenskyy urges speedier diplomacy
KYIV, Ukraine — A heavy Russian drone bombardment of Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa killed at least two people and wounded 23, including two children and a pregnant wom...
January 27, 2026 International News
Minnesota killing produces backlash against Trump administration from Second Amendment advocates
Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti, ...
January 27, 2026 National News
Storm leaves thousands in the South facing freezing temperatures without power. Here are the numbers
KENNESAW, Ga. — As a deadly storm that brought crippling ice to the South and deep snow to the Northeast finally began to swirl out to sea Monday, it represented light at...
January 27, 2026 National News
Sports
Butler County girls wrestling still has a lot of forfeits. But an influx of young talent is on the horizon
BUTLER TWP — Anastasia Manchester’s loss to Avella’s Abigail Dolanch at the Trinity Hiller Holiday Duals on Dec. 13 did not stand out because she ended up pinned. Dolanch...
January 27, 2026 Sports
North Catholic boys basketball tops Burrell; Seneca Valley falls at New Castle: Roundup
North Catholic boys basketball outscored host Burrell by a combined 18 points in the first and third quarters, sparking a 59-41 victory Tuesday night. Senior guard Jason...
January 27, 2026 Sports
Mike McCarthy comes home to coach the Pittsburgh Steelers: ‘It just seemed like it was meant to be’
PITTSBURGH — The tears started early for Mike McCarthy. Really early. Considering the setting, it was hard to blame him. There the kid who grew up rooting for the Pittsbu...
January 27, 2026 Professional
Butler County basketball games, other sports postponed Tuesday by winter storm: Here’s when they will be made up
Here are the latest cancellations and postponements as of 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27. This schedule will be updated throughout the day as more information is reported. ...
January 27, 2026 Sports
Editorial
Increasing violence against health care workers not to be ignored
Recent stories have highlighted a disturbing trend seen across the nation cropping up right here in Butler County. Criminal cases against those assaulting health care wor...
January 28, 2026 Our Opinion
Commentary: What I learned playing liar’s poker against AI
The most celebrated early successes of artificial intelligence were computers beating human champions in games such as chess and Go. Today we are all playing games again...
January 28, 2026 Other Voices
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January 28, 2026 Cartoons
Community
Youth bereavement baking course coming to Good Samaritan
Hope’s Road, formerly Good Samaritan Hospice’s Youth Bereavement Care, will host a free “Bake Your Heart Out” event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 14, at Flour Power Baking ...
January 28, 2026 Community
Voucher program helps woman who rescued family of cats in Cranberry Township
Butler County Humane Society helped cover the cost
January 28, 2026 Community
AARP offering free income tax service for low- to moderate-income residents
AARP Foundation Tax-Aide will again be offering its free in-person income tax preparation service for low- to moderate-income taxpayers, with special attention given to t...
January 28, 2026 Community
Announcements
Snagging a trout through the ice
Karen McCloy, of Zelienople, angled a 19-inch rainbow trout from underneath a sheet of ice covering the lake at Zelienople-Harmony Sportsmen’s Club on Sunday, Jan. 30, 20...
January 28, 2026 Time Capsules
Arts & Entertainment
Sly Dunbar, legendary reggae drummer who anchored tracks from Bob Marley to Bob Dylan, dies as 73
Two-time Grammy Award-winning reggae drummer Sly Dunbar, who fueled countless tracks from Bob Marley to Bob Dylan and was one-half of the influential reggae rhythm sectio...
January 27, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
‘One Battle After Another’ leads the pack in nominations for UK’s BAFTA film awards
LONDON — Paul Thomas Anderson’s politically charged action thriller “One Battle After Another” leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, securing 14 nominations...
January 27, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
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January 28, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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Today in History: Jan. 28, explosion of the space shuttle Challenger
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UPS to cut another 30,000 jobs in sweeping cost-savings push
01/27/2026
School delays and closings for Jan. 28, 2026
01/27/2026
Fire reported Tuesday morning at Cleveland-Cliffs
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