A tornado passing through Butler and Lawrence counties Tuesday may have looked dangerous, but it didn’t amount to much damage or calls for emergency services, a...
BUTLER TWP — Give recognition to Butler football players, coaches, volunteers and supporters who have made an impact on their teammates, school and the Butler c...
A tornado touched down in the Portersville area at about 7:53 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, as confirmed by the National Weather Service’s Pittsburgh office.
The torna...
PENN TWP — A woman has died after a tree fell on her Tuesday evening, July 21.
Kimberly Altmire, 64, was outside weeding when a large tree branch fell on her, a...
Numerous inmates in Butler County Prison were taken to the hospital, and some were, admitted over the July 4 weekend due to severe withdrawal from a drug offici...
2 tornadoes touch down Tuesday in Butler County
2 tornadoes touch down...
Rick Zitalone to be 2026 Butler Football Hometown Heroes honoree after spending ...
Every day, hospitals around the country use over 40,000 units of blood products, all of which come from donors, according to the American Red Cross.
Although blood donor...
Two Butler men were charged in a fight involving five people and a knife in the men’s bathroom at Sheetz on Center Avenue, according to charges filed Monday, July 20.
But...
SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock Borough Council was joined by representatives from Slippery Rock Municipal Authority and Gateway Engineers during its meeting Tuesday, July ...
SAXONBURG — After years of fundraising efforts, the borough is finally on track to restore one of the county’s historic landmarks, the original wire rope workshop of boro...
JACKSON TWP — As two new housing developments are under consideration in Jackson Township, current residents expressed concern over potential impact to their properties a...
On July 29, Warren Wiebe, a 70-year-old resident of Ontario, Canada, will set out on a 24-hour journey through more than 165 miles of the Great Allegheny Passage on a bic...
A 3-year-old boy was found dead in late June in a Mercer County home, according to state police.
The boy was unresponsive and not breathing when emergency services arriv...
A trial has been scheduled for October for a West Sunbury man charged with sexually assaulting an 11-year-old runaway boy in 2011.
Joseph Andrew Betz II, 73, is facing nu...
A trial has been scheduled for December for the alleged leader of a cross-state drug ring who was among 26 suspects indicted by the 51st Statewide Investigating Grand Jur...
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Butler
July 8 — Robyn Renee Kellington, 42, of Butler, was charged with misdemeano...
The former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Tip O’Neill, is credited with the phrase, “all politics is local.”
That’s been evident last w...
We live in an era when people will invest hard-earned dollars in a stock simply because an anonymous Redditor with a handle like “looksmaxxingtrader” ...
The median house price in Nantucket, Mass., is nearly $4 million. It was just $500,000 in 1995. This sounds like a stunning increase in one of the hot...
Lightning Hair Lounge & Lifestyle Company of Saxonburg was recently honored by the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry and other industry gr...
South College Pittsburgh in Cranberry Township is launching a new program that will allow registered nurses with a bachelor’s in nursing degree a new ...
Armco Credit Union is almost ready to move back into its Butler headquarters.
Its headquarters and Butler branch at 101 Hollywood Drive in Pullman Squ...
NEW YORK — How many women hold executive-level positions at top U.S. companies? What is the racial and ethnic breakdown of those roles? What is the ge...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his White House have enthusiastically promoted the Freedom Fuel Network, a chain of star-spangled convenience ...
A community came together after the death of Corey Comperatore in July 2024 to create Corey’s Cruise. The event returns Saturday, July 25, for its second year.
This year’...
LOS ANGELES — A lightsaber with Luke Skywalker's severed hand from “The Empire Strikes Back” has sold for $3.75 million at auction.
Heritage Auctions announced the resul...
Madonna, Justin Bieber, BTS and Shakira each brought a bit of one of their hits to the World Cup's first halftime show in a whirlwind performance Sunday that also squ...
NEW YORK — A federal judge on Monday ordered Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to halt their $81 billion merger for at least two weeks, allowing states that are challe...
NEW YORK — Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” launched with an estimated $124.5 million in domestic ticket sales and another $139.6 million from overseas, notching an even...
LONDON — Brenda Fricker, who won an Academy Award for her role as Bridget Fagan Brown in the 1989 film “My Left Foot,’’ has died. She was 81.
The Irish character actor di...
NEW YORK — Do your hands hurt when you use your phone? All that texting and scrolling might be stressing out your fingers.
The term texting thumb can describe a wide ran...
Most people may never have heard of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome, or CKM, which makes sense, considering the condition was only identified and named in 2023. ...
As yet another heat dome settles over part of the U.S., a depressingly predictable news cycle is unfolding. This week, the headlines will warn of dangerously high tempera...
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026.
Below are the even...
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...
