The biggest issue facing Roman Catholicism’s new Pope Francis is not the clerical sex-abuse scandal, an ungovernable Vatican bureaucracy or internal divisions.
The 266th...
It was satisfying to learn Bullet, the new K-9 officer in the Butler County sheriff’s office, is having an impact on crime. A front-page article Tuesday detailed how Bul...
It's hard to fathom that Mars High School would experience another bomb threat just three weeks after a threat that police quickly solved.
Still, on Thursday, a note was...
What are they thinking at the Transportation Security Administration?
The announcement Tuesday that the TSA plans to allow airline passengers to bring small knives on pl...
A recent ruling by Commonwealth Court Judge Dan Pelligrini that Pennsylvania must resume funding adultBasic, the subsidized health insurance program for low-income adult...
The Butler School Board’s discussion about possible class cutbacks on Monday served as another reminder of why the district’s current sweetheart, early bird contract was...
The debate over the sequester, or across-the-board reductions in planned federal spending, continues. But despite last week’s warnings of dire consequences from Presiden...
Gov. Tom Corbett is proposing reforms to ease the burden on taxpayers posed by the two massive pension funds for state employees and public school teachers that are curr...
Last week’s conviction of Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin, along with her aide and sister, Janine Orie, for using state-paid staff and resources on c...
As a university community, Slippery Rock Borough’s parking situation could be chaotic if the town were lackadaisical in its enforcement of parking regulations.
The curre...
