Over the past couple of dec-ades, Butler County has been enhancing its reputation as a destination for tourists and business people.
A snapshot of how far the county has...
Some lists, like Dave Letterman’s Top 10 list, are just for fun. Others, like the increasingly popular best-or-worst places lists — to retire, for singles or to start a ...
Syria has become the world’s ugliest reality show. Anyone with access to YouTube can watch grisly videos of Syrian government aircraft deliberately bombing civilians — i...
Lance Armstrong’s confession, after years of aggressive denial that he took banned substances, reveals the magnitude of the challenge drug testers face. Armstrong was te...
Privatization of the Pennsylvania Lottery wouldn’t be such a contentious issue if Gov. Tom Corbett hadn’t paved with secrecy, the road to the state’s contract with Brita...
WASHINGTON — The “legacy thing” may be harder than Barack Obama imagines. Beginning his second term, Obama has a focused, though unstated, agenda: to achieve presidentia...
President Barack Obama and the National Rifle Association do agree on something: No amount of legislation can prevent every evil act. In his remarks on gun violence Wedn...
If every single day one U.S. soldier after another were being shot dead while deployed overseas, surely the American people wouldn’t stand for it.
The situation is worse...
This is a challenging time for Pennsylvania school boards as they ramp up their annual budget-preparation exercises.
Butler County school districts already are deep into...
WASHINGTON — Senate hearings on the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary will be a distinctive Washington entertainment, a donnybrook without drama. He shou...
