It was 47 years before Butler County was founded that “the shot” narrowly missed George Washington, one of several close calls our first president survived during his li...
Here’s a sobering thought to contemplate on this New Year’s Day: Will we be able to recognize the next Pearl Harbor-style attack against America before it’s too late to ...
Remember the Saudi execution? No, not Jamal Khashoggi in October at the consulate in Turkey. We’re talking about the 47 New Years executions three years ago in the Saudi...
It’s our habit and inclination to look for a thread of logic in the day’s circumstance. That’s easier to do some days than others. Today it’s impossible to make any sens...
This holiday season, let us celebrate the gift of safer roads.
Just two days before Christmas, a new law took effect in Pennsylvania that increases penalties for individ...
You have to wonder sometimes how our ancestors managed to survive without a strong federal government to regulate away all their problems — and tax them for the privileg...
It doesn’t seem like much to celebrate. But the achievement is worth noting, and it should give us a glimmer of hope.
For the past few weeks, the sum total of drug over...
Butler County Prison officials are looking to create a crisis intervention center in a part of the jail known as “the pit” as a means of keeping an eye on prisoners who ...
Hear the snow crunch,
see the kids bunch,
This is Santa’s big scene.
— from “Silver Bells” composed in 1950 by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
The Christmas season has a ma...
Wrap your head around this impossible but amusing scenario: college students Tom Wolf and Barry Soetoro sitting on a secluded dormitory couch, sharing a fat marijuana ci...
