As a registered nurse from Williamsport, Charles Kiessling has seen his share of tragedy from heroin abuse. Recently a friend asked Kiessling to talk to her son about ge...
Just a few years ago, Major League baseball teams began employing the “overshift” defense — disproportionately loading fielders onto the one side of the field where a pu...
Voters might have to wait until November’s general election to decide whether or not Pennsylvania’s mandatory retirement age for judges should be raised from 70 to 75. T...
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Remember back when Jeb Bush had the 2016 Republican presidential nomination locked up? That was long before Donald Trump clinched the nomin...
Pennsylvanians will wake up this week with a new state budget. Granted, it’s 267 days past the “hard” deadline — the fiscal year began last July 1, making the budget sta...
Taxpayers in the Butler School District and the city of Butler have to be wondering if Butler’s school board knows what it’s doing. The board on Monday night rejected tw...
What are you afraid of?
Answers to that question aren’t hard to come by: spiders, heights, the dark; perhaps a shrinking bank account balance?
Our fears can, like a rive...
Last week, at a hearing of the Center Township board of supervisors, Chairman Ed Latuska made a stunningly noteworthy comment. He asked for more public scrutiny.
The he...
In U.S. civics class, students are taught that elections are held for voters to choose the politicians to represent them. It’s a fundamental lesson, voters choose the po...
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It is still early in the process, but Friday’s Sheriff’s Sale at the Butler County Government Center came with good news. Deshon Woods, the parcel of land despoil...
