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 ...
The food stamp program needs to go on a healthy diet. The government currently provides massive subsidies to companies that produce unhealthy foods, and then provides in...
Microsoft is making its own tablet. Good.
The company announced last week that it will make a tablet called Surface, going head to head with Apple’s iPad.
The company ha...
About three weeks after retired Penn State defensive coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested and accused of making sexual advances or assaults on eight boys between 1994 and 2...
