It would seem common sense not to place people with mental illness or intellectual disabilities in solitary confinement, but the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections h...
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Congratulations and best wishes to the bride- and groom-to-be, Adam Fleeger of Butler and Crystal Schroth of Fenelton, who are both blind.
Fleeger popped the ques...
It should come as no surprise that, during his campaign rally Wednesday night in Pittsburgh, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump drew big crowds. Trump also p...
There was a widely held assumption among the residents of the Butler School District that the consolidation approved a year ago would improve the district’s financial ci...
We heard a televised interview recently with Republican presidential candidate John Kasich, governor next door in Ohio.
Acknowledging his candidacy’s long-shot status, K...
Butler Fire Chief Nick Ban’s retirement, effective at midnight on Friday, was a surprise in a five-day span full of them.
Mayor Tom Donaldson’s decision last week to de...
Between the approaching federal income tax deadline and the recent release of documents dubbed the Panama Papers revealing secret offshore accounts used to hide fortunes...
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After fits and a few false starts, the VA Butler Healthcare construction is progressing smoothly. The final steel structural beam was insta...
It deserves mention that the state’s instant background check system for gun purchases worked as intended recently when four would-be illicit buyers were arrested Butler...
The latest numbers on the diabetes epidemic are alarming, but hardly surprising.
The World Health Organization reported Wednesday that type 2 diabetes cases have mushroo...
