When talking about his $1 million donation to Butler County Community College at a ceremony Tuesday, Robert Heaton offered a few thoughts worth remembering, about hard w...
Buying an airline ticket just got a little bit more expensive. It’s not that airlines raised their prices or jet fuel became more expensive last week. The reason for the...
Last fall, the nation was fixated on the botched launch of the federal health insurance website, HealthCare.gov. When introduced, the software was plagued with frequent ...
In the interest of preserving and appreciating our Pennsylvania heritage, a couple of footnotes might be added to Sunday’s front-page story about the weekend re-enactmen...
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey wants it both ways.
Casey contends he’s a pro-life Democrat, just like his late father, the anti-abortion champion former Gov. Robert Casey. But Case...
Cheers and speedy get-well wishes to Blade, the Butler police K-9 dog that sustained an injury Wednesday night while taking down a suspected burglar.
The K-9 was treated...
This week, the portraits of three former state lawmakers received new identifying text below the paintings. The text on the new metal plates hanging from the pictures no...
Some observers of Butler County government might detect an eerie sense of déjà vu lately. They’ll note how Monday’s page-one story, discussing the possibility of privati...
Mostly below the radar of public attention, some large U.S. corporations have shifted their corporate headquarters out of the United States to cut their tax bill to Uncl...
News last week that tuition will be going up at State System of Higher Education universities, including Slippery Rock University, was not really surprising. The tuition...
