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A Cabot man accused of sexually assaulting a girl when she was 11 and 12 years old had his charges withdrawn at a preliminary hearing Thursday, Dec. 18, before District J...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
The Salvation Army’s Western Pennsylvania Division needs a major boost to get its annual Red Kettle campaign across the finish line this year. According to a news release...
December 19, 2025 Local News
Pennsylvania American Water announced the beginning of a multimillion-dollar infrastructure improvement project in Alameda Park aiming to strengthen wastewater service an...
December 19, 2025 Local News
Allegheny Health Network’s Women’s Institute is giving away free garment bags for OB-GYN patients as part of a campaign aimed at encouraging women to schedule annual exam...
December 19, 2025 Local News
If Christmas feels like it’s getting earlier every year, so is the getaway as Americans are unwrapping their holiday travel plans ahead of schedule and in record fashion ...
December 19, 2025 Business
Evans City was awarded $300,000 in Local Share Account funding to make improvements to the culvert beneath West Main Street, according to state officials. The funding wil...
December 19, 2025 Local News
SAN FRANCISCO — TikTok has signed agreements with three major investors — Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX — to form a new TikTok U.S. joint venture, ensuring the popular soci...
December 19, 2025 Business
Other 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
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, a law en...
December 19, 2025 National News
LOS ANGELES — Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice pa...
December 19, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that would reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research,...
December 18, 2025 National News
STATESVILLE, N.C. — Authorities say a business jet crashed while landing at a regional airport in Statesville, North Carolina, erupting in a large fire. The Federal Aviat...
December 18, 2025 National News
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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