At a time when even former Texas oilman President George Bush points out that oil companies don't need additional financial incentives to drill for oil, the federal gove...
Hurricane Katrina proved that the nation's disaster-response system was in need of a major overhaul, and that seems to be in the offing. Homeland Security Secretary Mich...
The Butler County Commissioners, like county officials across the country, are being pushed into making a potentially costly mistake by purchasing touch screen voting ma...
The collapse of the Lakeview Drive Bridge in Washington County on Dec. 27 has proven to be a blessing for Butler County. The Washington County collapse was the basis for...
Ben Cypher is part of a special cadre of Butler County volunteer firefighters who everyone can look up to.
Cypher has dedicated 50 years of his life to service with the ...
Local and state police were "guilty" of excellent police work in how they captured a bank robbery suspect earlier this month near the Sky Bank branch office on Route 19 ...
Ninety days of home confinement might be an appropriate sentence for some criminal offenses.
But many people might be puzzled — quite appropriately — about Erie County C...
Across the nation, hospital emergency rooms in recent years have been facing a multifaceted crisis.
The most obvious burden on hospital ERs is caused by too many people ...
The announcement in November that General Motors Corp. would be eliminating 30,000 jobs and closing 12 of its facilities by 2008 erased many doubts about the extent of t...
The idea that legislative leaders in Harrisburg would use increased funding for the state judiciary as a way to ensure favorable rulings from the state Supreme Court wou...
