Some people have no shame over things for which shame should be abundant. Former state House Democratic whip Mike Veon of Beaver County apparently is one of those people...
Butler County must not be left out of a new state grant program for water and sewer projects. But municipalities here will determine how successful the county will be in...
As the world greets the new year, the customary sense of hope for the future is at an elevated level. Because 2008 was such a tumultuous year in so many ways, most peopl...
History might indeed judge George W. Bush as one of the nation's worst presidents, as some people now are quick to predict. However, people shouldn't wager too much on t...
With broad support for a federal stimulus package partially aimed at the nation's transportation infrastructure, it's appropriate to raise the federal gasoline tax that ...
A year or so ago, when a woman disappeared after leaving the Mountaineer Casino near Weirton, W.Va., officials checking surveillance tapes at the gambling facility repor...
Pennsylvania Wildlife Conservation Officer Clint Deniker doesn't see himself as worthy of the Carnegie Hero Award he has received for saving a life.
"I think it was just...
Barack Obama will face a serious test soon after taking office.
It will be a test of his ability to keep campaign promises, and it will be a test of his ability as a man...
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 stories are timeless . . . like the letter an eight-year-old girl wrote 111 years ago to the editor of the New York Sun.
Every year, at this season, the Butler Eagl...
