JEFFERSON TWP — The South Butler School Board Wednesday night approved a Marcellus Shale gas lease with Phillips Exploration.
Phillips Exploration, a part of XTO Energy ...
OSLO, Norway — An “intense” fire in a cruise ship’s engine room killed two crewmen today, injured nine others and forced more than 200 passengers to evacuate a popular c...
PITTSBURGH — The U.S. District Courthouse in Pittsburgh has reopened after briefly being closed by federal marshals due to a suspicious package.
A Pittsburgh police bomb...
PARIS — An official with Libya’s governing body says that the president of France and Britain’s prime minister are traveling to Libya on Thursday, the first heads of sta...
SEVEN FIELDS — Reacting to an upswing in vandalism this summer, council on Tuesday decided to consider beefing up its overnight security with a private guard.
The boroug...
NEW SEWICKLEY TWP, Beaver County — A Butler County man was killed late Monday night when the motorcycle he was riding crashed into a traffic warning sign on Glen Eden Ro...
HARRISBURG — A ruling by a federal judge in Pennsylvania says the requirement in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul that individuals must buy health insurance...
WASHINGTON — A Senate panel today approved a freeze in military spending at $513 billion for the next military budget, including a $1.6 billion cut in funds that the Pen...
NEW YORK — The plot of land known for a decade as “the pile,” “the pit” and “Ground Zero” opened to the public today for the first time since that terrible morning in 20...
NEW YORK — Food prices could rise next year because an unseasonably hot summer is expected to damage much of this year’s corn crop.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture es...
