Along with the millions of gift cards having been found in Christmas stockings or unwrapped from under the tree, consumer advocates are offering advice: Use the cards; u...
Cranberry and Adams townships gave themselves a long-awaited Christmas present by settling their more than 14-y
Not only can't Pennsylvania lawmakers efficiently and exp...
Some stories are timeless . . . like the letter an eight-year-old girl wrote 112 years ago to the editor of the New York Sun.
Every year, at this season, the Butler Eagl...
In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
And all...
Some of the people who use Butler's tier parking garage wonder why there isn't a change machine or machines for the quarters-only meters.
It's particularly frustrating f...
As the Senate's health care reform bill gains critical support for passage this week, it's only now becoming clear how many goodies and payoffs have been inserted into t...
Wall Street's investments in congressional campaigns and President Barack Obama appear to be paying off. One year after risky investments nearly caused a global economic...
Last summer, Gov. Ed Rendell held state workers, daycare centers and others hostage in his budget battle with state lawmakers.
Earlier this past week, Rendell was holdi...
This week's meeting in Cranberry Township over issues surrounding the extraction of natural gas from the mile-deep Marcellus Shale formation revealed the conflicting int...
Tuesday's indictments of state Rep. Bill DeWeese and two others on charges of using state employees for campaign work are the latest development in an ongoing investigat...