The state’s lagging effort to provide physicians and pharmacists with the tools necessary to properly monitor the use of powerful prescription painkillers needs a jump-s...
Butler School District taxpayers were shown stark numbers last month reflecting the seriousness of the state pension crisis. District taxpayers were responsible for $131...
Police and firefighters, as everyone knows, put their lives on the line every day. They are there to serve and protect the public and they’ve earned broad public support...
Officials with the Butler School District say their latest data suggest an increase of only 1 percent in the number of school bus incidents during the first months of th...
It’s an unexpected snap back to reality. Pennsylvania’s governor has cancer.
Gov. Tom Wolf disclosed Wednesday that he has a treatable form of prostate cancer.
Wolf, 67,...
It makes for a nice turn-of-phrase to remind people that Pennsylvania, and in particular Western Pennsylvania, is a place that values deeds over looks.
We’ve said it bef...
In a modern world it’s hard to connect the dots when the dots keep moving. That’s why we’ll draw a line between two unrelated reports in Sunday’s Butler Eagle.
One of th...
In the Porter Ranch community north of Los Angeles there was a mix of relief and frustration last week as Southern California Gas Co. said a natural gas leak that had fo...
“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. ... I say only that this man is not a Christian if ...
