A visiting judge recused himself from the trial of a Butler man charged in the October 2023 death of a 15-year-old boy who was struck while he was riding his bi...
A Penn Township woman who taught at Beaver Falls High School is accused of sending sexually explicit messages to a 16-year-old student.
Sarah Jo Massa, 24, is ...
Residents of the 12th state House District have been without representation for four months. Tuesday, all of that changes with a special election to fill the va...
Two people suffered injuries and were transported to area hospitals from a head-on, two-vehicle crash Saturday afternoon, Aug. 15, on Whitestown Road in Butler ...
Connoquenessing Township submits revised Act 537 sewer plan to DEP
Connoquenessing Townsh...
Judge recuses himself from Rivera trial
Judge recuses himself ...
Penn Township woman, Big Beaver Falls teacher accused of sending sexually explic...
Penn Township woman, B...
12th District face-off: What voters need to know
12th District face-off...
2 taken to hospital Saturday crash on Whitestown Road
CRANBERRY — To honor late Cpt. Jimmy Ellis’s passion for firefighting training, the local firefighting community formed the Jimmy Ellis Firefighter Foundation in 2023.
Wh...
Cranberry and Jackson township officials have been working for months to determine a more defined boundary between the two municipalities.
The two townships will meet joi...
The Butler Farm Show blended family fun and Butler County’s agricultural identity once again this year between Monday, Aug. 10, and Saturday, Aug. 15.
While offering plen...
In an effort to expand resources to more people in need, the Homeless Bag Project changed its name to better reflect the organization’s mission.
The organization is rebra...
(The Center Square) — With a mid-October time frame in mind, law enforcement leaders in Pennsylvania are pondering the fate of an estimated 70,000 “skill games” that the ...
For a second time this year, drivers will spot hundreds of radar and yard signs across Cranberry Township reminding them to follow the posted speed limit.
The biannual ca...
Local school districts will receive new funding meant to help strengthen physical security, address safety concerns and provide behavioral health support for students and...
The southbound lane of South Duffy Road near its intersection with Route 68 will close for a few days beginning Monday, Aug. 24.
Dave Meeder, director of public works for...
Parking will be restricted on eight streets in Butler between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, for street cleaning.
The streets affected are Orchard Avenue and St. Pau...
CLINTON TWP — The pictures adorning Cherrie Mahan’s 50th birthday party should’ve shown a middle-aged woman with wide brown eyes and brown hair. Perhaps she would be stan...
Eyes across Pennsylvania, and political strategists nationwide, are watching southwestern Butler County.
As voters in the state House’s 12th District ...
Parents are all too familiar with the ongoing battle to get their kids to eat a vegetable or two.
This summer, they’ve been fighting it themselves.
Ju...
Supposedly, with age comes wisdom. At my age, 70s, confusion is replacing it. As were so many Americans, I was raised in a loving family that worked h...
Most people think voting, petitions or rallies are the only way to make an impact as a regular citizen, but there are several other ways to make your ...
Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in Calif...
Chrysler parent Stellantis NV said it's recalling about 848,000 Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicles in the United States due to radio software that...
Amazon just made it harder for customers to take it to court.
On Friday, the Seattle-based e-commerce giant sent its customers an email informing them...
A jury awarded $29 million to the family of an Irish United Nations worker who died when a Boeing 737 Max fatally crashed in Ethiopia in 2019.
Michael...
Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella asked U.S. President Donald Trump to temporarily suspend tariffs on Colombian goods as the country grappl...
There will be more than 100 raffle baskets up for grabs Sunday, Aug. 16, at the Sts. Francis and Clare Parish picnic at St. Wendelin, but the winners of the grand prizes ...
The final season of “Outer Banks” and a new album from Anthony Hopkins (yes, Sir Anthony Hopkins) are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a devic...
At the end of Hayden Panettiere’s memoir, which she published in May, she wrote about learning the principle of “radical acceptance” in her years of treatment programs fo...
Two very different dinosaur movies devoured a modest chunk of the North American box office this weekend, although neither came close to unseating “Spider-Man” from its p...
LOS ANGELES — Mark Rydell, the Oscar-nominated director of the sentimental blockbuster “On Golden Pond” who worked with such Hollywood heavyweights as Henry Fonda, Kathar...
MILAN— Thieves stole four works attributed to Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina worth millions of euros from the regional museum in the city of Messina in Sicily w...
A Cranberry Township grandfather was browsing through Walmart late last fall when he spotted a bin filled with 24-count boxes of Crayola crayons priced at 25 cents each.
...
Across Pennsylvania, momentum is gaining to restrict K-12 students’ cellphone use during the instructional day. Each side of the General Assembly recently passed legislat...
Backpacks can be fashionable and functional, but they can also be too heavy — weighed down by digital devices, musical instruments, sports equipment and more. Some kids c...
For teenagers and middle school-aged students, cellphones can be a key tool for parents to stay connected to their children. Yet, cellphones do not come without drawbacks...
Every morning Irena Tkachenko starts her day the same way: by telephoning her relatives and friends in Ukraine to see if they are still OK.
Tkachenko,...
Three young Ukrainian families who escaped their war-torn hometown of Kharkov think the American holiday of Thanksgiving is a good time to say they ca...
CRANBERRY TWP — Huge, steaming pots of homemade food and endless carafes of coffee and tea sustain 11 adults and children seeking refuge at the crowde...
When it comes to helping those in need, Butler County residents have proven their generosity again and again by donating amounts large and small strai...
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants and loans to build ...
STATE COLLEGE — Before Pennsylvania can spend an almost $1.2 billion windfall of federal funding for high-speed internet, it must figure out how to us...
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
CRANBERRY TWP — Pennsylvania is set to get a piece of $42.5 billion in federal money to help expand broadband internet access to underserved areas.
On...
