Congress rewrote patent law last year to reduce the number of unwarranted patents and curb abusive lawsuits by “patent trolls,” but the federal courts have done signific...
Thursday’s anxiously awaited ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the 2010 health care reform law, known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, briefly focused the nati...
Whether it wins or not, Slippery Rock competing in the America in Bloom competition has been good for the community. The product of the effort not only is community prid...
Butler County will have a major role in the professional sports world, if a joint plan of the Pittsburgh Penguins and UPMC — to build a first-of-its-kind hockey-only tra...
Here’s an issue that hasn’t been debated much in the presidential campaign but ought to be: How much should we spend on defense?
President Obama has proposed keeping the...
Twice in recent weeks, JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon has appeared before a congressional committee. He was summoned to talk about massive losses his bank su...
Butler County Court shouldn’t be lenient with the five county prison inmates accused of obtaining heroin and hypodermic needles May 11 while on a work detail at the Butl...
The United States has been at war with a shadowy, elusive enemy for more than a decade. It is a war without borders and front lines, fought by an enemy that hides behind...
WASHINGTON — As the Supreme Court rules this week on a variety of volatile issues, the question has come up: Is Barack Obama really running against the high court?
It mi...
With the U.S. economy still struggling, and a decade of higher-than-inflation tuition hikes at most four-year colleges and universities, the nation’s community colleges ...
