Chain saw event possible
BUTLER TWP — The Butler County Tourism and Convention Bureau is in the process of bringing another crowd pleaser to the county.
Jack Cohen, execu...
EMLENTON, Venango County — Joshua Fye of Slippery Rock has been hired by the Farmers National Bank of Emlenton as assistant vice president, commercial loan officer.
Fye ...
Numbers go up 3 months in row
WASHINGTON — Home sales in December reached their highest pace in nearly a year. The gain coincided with other signs that the troubled housi...
The Mercer Livestock Auction provided the following report on the Jan. 17 livestock auction.
Commercial bulls, $74. to 80.50; commercial cows, 16. to 82.; commercial st...
Encouraging news for 2012
WASHINGTON — The economy is off to a fast start in 2012.
The outlook for hiring has brightened as applications for unemployment benefits near a...
Money pledged, support sought
The county commissioners have restated their support of two affordable-housing projects in the southwestern corner of the county, and they a...
WASHINGTON — The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell again this week to a record low. The eighth record low in a year is attracting few takers because most w...
Obama, GOP renew fight
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Congress are back where they were before Christmas, locked in an election-season tussle over a proposed 1,7...
Washington — Butler County's two congressmen said President Obama was wrong to reject the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.
The plan by Calgary-based TransCanada ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is leaving the struggling Internet company, as it tries to revive its revenue growth and win over disgruntled shareholders un...
