Rex Energy will buy about 208,000 acres from Royal Dutch Shell, which will more than double its acreage in Butler County.
Rex announced in a news release that it will bu...
ADAMS TWP — A person was injured this morning after falling nearly 20 feet.
The person, who was not identified, fell about 9:30 a.m. at a house under construction on Cla...
PITTSBURGH — Rolf Larsen, a state Supreme Court justice who was removed from office and later impeached following a conspiracy conviction, has died. He was 79.
Larsen’s ...
HARRISBURG — A divided Penn State board voted this morning to endorse a potential legal settlement that would keep its $60 million fine over the Jerry Sandusky scandal i...
Voters in Middlesex Township will be deciding in the Nov. 4 election whether to increase the board of supervisors from three to five members.
The Butler County commissio...
BUTLER TWP — Police are searching for two armed robbers — a man with a shotgun and a woman with a knife — who held up a sandwich shop Monday night.
No one was hurt but t...
ADAMS TWP — Voters in two townships may decide in the Nov. 4 election whether to change the number of township supervisors.
However, the supervisors in one of the townsh...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has begun directly providing weapons to Kurdish forces who have started to make gains against Islamic militants in northern Iraq, s...
CRANBERRY TWP — A furnace motor malfunction this morning caused a minor amount of smoke to accumulate in The Goddard School, prompting an evacuation of the children.
Th...
MIDDLESEX TWP — Residents can share their opinions with the township supervisors on an amendment to the township zoning ordinance that would regulate shale gas drilling....
