Any boost in numbers would depend on retaining units now in Iraq for a longer time and accelerating the arrival of others. Powell said this weekend that such a surge 'ca...
This week's series of front-page stories on public employee pensions, which appeared in the Butler Eagle and newspapers across the state, should be an eye-opener to ever...
If a referendum were placed on the ballot about the proposed Alameda Park Sports & Exhibition Complex, the project likely would be killed. If not, approval would be by a...
Winfield Township residents have cause to be upbeat for two reasons as 2006 prepares to give way to 2007.
Not only did the township's board of supervisors approve a budg...
It pays to be a friend of Ed — Gov. Ed Rendell, that is.
As of last week, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has a new chief executive officer. The agency that overse...
The Butler Area Sewer Authority is facing a not-so-easy choice regarding the proposed sewage project in the Winterwood Drive area of Connoquenessing Township.
Its natura...
No doubt area residents have been feeling relief and satisfaction over Ken DeFurio's commitment to openness regarding Butler Memorial Hospital.
DeFurio, the hospital's n...
Although a deadline of Oct. 13, 2007, remains in effect for completion of the new Butler County Prison, the county's proposed 2007 budget appears to be counting on that ...
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Raymond P. Shafer, who died Tuesday from complications from congestive heart failure, never was regarded as the best or most popular Keystone St...
Within a week of learning that Mellon Financial Corp. was being bought by the Bank of New York Co. and another corporate headquarters was leaving the region, the decisio...
