It's ironic that Cranberry Township, having lost $20 million that had been targeted for Route 228 improvements, because of Gov. Ed Rendell's desire to shore up the finan...
If there was one key message from Monday’s Slippery Rock School Board meeting, it was that the board is facing major decisions regarding improving district schools.
An u...
CNN’s decision to focus on the February 1985 disappearance of 8-year-old Cherrie Mahan of Winfield Township resurrects the question of why the case has remained unsolved...
The epicenter of the U.S. mortgage mess might be Florida, with Southern California and Nevada following close behind.
Even without much of a real estate bubble here, mor...
For the past five years, Pennsylvania residents haven’t had to worry about state lawmakers approving a middle-of-the-night pay raise for themselves. And, it will be a lo...
As a freshman member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Kelly of Butler won’t be in a position to have an overwhelming impact on the direction and accomplishment...
Some Butler Eagle readers might justifiably be wondering where this new year is headed, considering the Jan. 4 headlines.
The headline over the lead front-page story tha...
Facing a projected $4 billion budget deficit, Gov.-elect Tom Corbett has both challenges and opportunities. He arrives in Harrisburg riding a nationwide wave of taxpayer...
While Pennsylvania taxpayers won’t be footing the bill for events surrounding the inauguration of Tom Corbett as the next governor, they have grounds for questioning the...
The effort to remove blighted structures begun last year by the city of Butler makes sense both from the standpoint of safety and neighborhood appearance. And, it has ha...
