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East Butler Baseball Association returns home after agreement with borough council ends 2-year dispute

SUMMIT TWP – The ill feelings are gone. The padlocks are off. Baseball is on. The agreement signed between the East Butler Baseball Association and East Butler Borough Co...

March 08, 2025 Local News

Mexican cartel leader’s son is sentenced to life in prison for role in major drug trafficking plot

WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of a Mexican drug cartel boss was sentenced Friday to life in prison for helping his father run one of the country’s largest and most violent na...

March 08, 2025 National News

Fed Chair Powell says interest rates on hold with economic uncertainty widespread

NEW YORK — The Federal Reserve is likely to keep its key interest rate unchanged in the coming months as it waits for widespread “uncertainty” stemming from President Don...

March 08, 2025 National News

Farewell to Saxonburg icon

Nearly 200 years after it opened its doors, a Saxonburg institution closed its doors for what might be the final time this week. Hotel Saxonburg, which first opened in 18...

March 08, 2025 Our Opinion

Health insurance costs challenge Butler County’s local governments

Butler County’s municipal governments face increasing pressure on their annual budgets due to rising health care costs for personnel. Health care spending by local govern...

March 08, 2025 Local News

Police reports

The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: State police, Butler Feb. 10 — Police responded to Twin Lakes Lane in Jefferson To...

March 08, 2025 Local News

Butler Memorial Hospital makes advances in heart science

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, pulmonary embolisms are seen more frequently, according to the director of the Independence Health System’s Butler Memorial Hospital, where t...

March 08, 2025 Health

Insco fourth Common Pleas Court judge candidate

Jim Insco, an attorney for a national law firm in Pittsburgh who lives in Mars, has announced his candidacy for Butler County Common Pleas Court judge. Insco, an attorney...

March 08, 2025 Crime & Courts

U.S. should be more supportive of Ukraine

What has happened to doing what is right? When we were young, we were taught to defend our smaller brothers or sisters from bullies. Most of us generalized this to interv...

March 08, 2025 Letters to the Editor

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March 08, 2025 Cartoons

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