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Assistant Chief Kevin Smith of the South Butler Volunteer Fire Department was doing something nearly every volunteer firefighter has done — enter a burning buildi...
President Barack Obama all but declared a war on coal. Companies could build all the coal mines they wanted to, he said, but he would make sure it bankrupted them. Hilla...
We Americans have developed some odd beliefs and priorities when it comes to raising children, according to one best-selling author and social commentator. But do we put...
The obituary for 23-year-old Brittany Kock was gut-punchingly raw. Her parents shared the cause of their only child’s death without sugar-coating or blame, and their own...
He gave repeal a try, Obama-Care is still standing and now President Donald Trump is flat on his back, or so goes the narrative. He’s not. He is taking on sluggard, inef...
Only five months ago and 10 miles west of Butler County, Gov. Tom Wolf toured the site where Royal Dutch Shell will build most significant industrial plant in recent Pen...
The U.S. white working class is in big trouble. The data is piling up.
Economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton have a new paper out, exploring mortality trends in the U.S....
There’s stumbling out of the gate, and then there’s what Republicans just did on health care.
They came up with a substantively indefensible bill, put it on an absurd f...
President Donald Trump took some shots at Democrats for not supporting the Republican “replacement” for the Affordable Care Act, and he had a little chagrin for the Free...
After a week that began with the FBI disclosing that it’s investigating President Donald Trump’s campaign team for possibly colluding with Russia to tilt the 2016 electi...