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A snow squall warning was issued for Butler and four other counties Friday afternoon, Dec. 19, impacting traffic and other activities in the region. According to National...
December 19, 2025 Local News
Buffalo Township residents may spot Santa parading around their neighborhoods on Sunday, Dec. 21. Santa will be escorted through the township the Buffalo Township Volunt...
December 19, 2025 Local News
A Butler man is accused of coercing a 15-year-old girl into sexual activity by threatening to tell her mother she was sneaking out of the house to see a friend, according...
December 19, 2025 Local News
The holidays are a time for returning to stories that feel as comfortable as a favorite sweater. Hobnob Theatre Company’s latest production, “The Nutcracker: New Game — A...
December 19, 2025 Local News
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said all driver license and photo centers will be closed Thursday, Dec. 25 in observance of Christmas. Customers may still ...
December 19, 2025 Local News
Santa Claus is coming to Connoquenessing. Santa is expected to parade around the borough and township on Saturday, Dec. 20. The “loaner sleigh” — provided by Wallace To...
December 19, 2025 Local News
A Cabot man accused of sexually assaulting a girl when she was 11 and 12 years old had his charges withdrawn at a preliminary hearing Thursday, Dec. 18, before District J...
December 19, 2025 Local News
Col. Christopher L. Paris will retire as state police commissioner effective Jan. 2, 2026, after accepting a position with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A release ...
December 19, 2025 Local News
Students at McQuistion Elementary School got into the holiday spirit Thursday, Dec. 18. More than 80 first-grade students participated in making “gingerbread” houses out ...
December 19, 2025 Local News
A Butler man was charged by the Pennsylvania Game Commission after he reportedly tampered with traps lawfully set in Moraine State Park. Matthew Todd Maxwell, 43, was ch...
December 19, 2025 Local News
Other News
A nearly 100-year-old bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin was imploded Friday, an unusual spectacle that clears the way for a modern replacement....
December 19, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio weighed in on Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas peace efforts and defended the Trump administration’s increasing military pressu...
December 19, 2025 International News
TORONTO — Canada and the U.S. will launch formal discussions to review their free trade agreement in mid-January, the office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said. ...
December 19, 2025 International News
A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead i...
December 19, 2025 National News
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin emphasized Friday that Moscow’s troops were advancing across the battlefield in Ukraine and voiced confidence the Kremlin would achieve ...
December 19, 2025 International News
NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione’s pretrial hearing wrapped up Thursday with a judge saying he plans to rule in May on what evidence prosecutors will be able to use in his New Y...
December 19, 2025 National News
BEIRUT — Israel carried out a series of airstrikes on southern and northeastern Lebanon on Thursday as a deadline looms to disarm the militant Hezbollah group along the c...
December 19, 2025 International News
Rapper Wiz Khalifa was sentenced on Thursday to nine months in a Romanian prison following his arrest last year for possession of marijuana. Khalifa was arrested and bri...
December 19, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range mi...
December 19, 2025 International News
A Kremlin envoy will travel to Florida to discuss a U.S.-proposed plan to end the war in Ukraine, a U.S. official said Thursday, part of the ongoing back-and-forth diplom...
December 19, 2025 International News
Sports
PITTSBURGH — The offense-starved Pittsburgh Pirates finally made an aggressive offseason move, agreeing to acquire two-time All-Star second baseman Brandon Lowe from Tamp...
December 19, 2025 Professional
Stainton Forbes wasn’t feeling like himself. A painful hip injury refused to let up, and the optimism he had about healing had given way to discouragement and a whole lot...
December 19, 2025 Sports
Three A-C Valley players scored in double figures and the Falcons outscored host Union 16-4 in the second period of a 51-45 boys basketball victory on Thursday. Ryan Ithe...
December 18, 2025 Sports
Braden Morin devotes much of his time to hockey, and the Seneca Valley junior is reaping some very impressive results. He was recently named the PIHL Class 3A Player ...
December 18, 2025 Sports
Running through holiday lights is a seasonal delight in a season quickly closing. Fleet Feet and Dancing Gnome Running Club host a 2-6 mile run through Pittsburgh’s downt...
December 18, 2025 Sports
Editorial
Bipartisan agreement on anything is rare these days, but there is a topic that even the deeply divided U.S. Congress can agree on: Milk. The U.S. House of Representatives...
December 19, 2025 Our Opinion
December 19, 2025 Cartoons
A relatively mundane middle-aged rite of passage — shingles vaccination — might offer an added benefit: protection against, or even the slowing of the progression of, dem...
December 19, 2025 Other Voices
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December 19, 2025 Verse of the Day
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