“Say — I’m going in a-swimming, I am. Don’t you wish you could? But of course you’d druther work — wouldn’t you? Course you would!”
Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and s...
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The generosity and kind-heartedness of people is a constant inspiration — as long as you pay attention to the good works going on around you...
The first world war started here in Butler County, Pennsylvania. At least one prominent historian makes the case that it did.
It’s an idea that county tourism officials ...
Three hundred and thirty-six days — 11 months exactly. That’s how long Butler County Court of Common Pleas Judge Marilyn Horan has been waiting to take a seat on the fed...
Former President Ronald Reagan famously said “Trust, but verify.” Reagan’s often-repeated phrase originally referred to his attitude toward agreements with the Soviet Un...
Why can’t we be friends?
That’s the central lyric from a 40-year-old reggae pop song that’s playing in our head today, as fresh as ever, while we read The Associated Pre...
Just when it seems that news on opioid use, prescription and abuse in this country can't get any worse, we're treated to a new revelation.
This time it comes in the form...
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In “Oh God, where are you?” his biographical account of the Battle of Bataan, Abie Abraham — a Lyndora native — described the hopeless fight he and other American...
By the time the shooting stopped in Wilkinsburg on March 9, five adults and an unborn child were dead. Forty-nine shots had been fired; one of the victims had 50 holes i...
It somehow seems par for the course.
Philadelphia, which is getting ready to host the Democratic National Convention July 25-28, saw its most prominent Democratic politi...