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A Butler man and his Clarion girlfriend were held for court Monday, Oct. 21, on charges alleging they planned his brief escape while a state police trooper walked him fro...
October 22, 2024 Crime & Courts
A Mars man was charged cutting a coworker on the back on his neck with a box cutter Saturday, Oct. 19 at the Aldi Distribution Center in Clinton Township. Russell E. Smit...
October 22, 2024 Crime & Courts
When her Venango Township storage locker was broken into earlier this month, Brittney Welsh was determined to find an answer, and while she’s yet to identify the culprits...
October 22, 2024 Crime & Courts
The following items were collected from various police departments: Butler Sept. 17 — Traci R. Bush, 48, and John Kuhn, 65, both homeless, were charged with felony tresp...
October 22, 2024 Police Reports
The following items were collected from the state police, Butler: State Police, Butler Sept. 16 — James A. Westerman Jr., 48, of Cabot, was charged with misdemeanor count...
October 21, 2024 Police Reports
A Saxonburg man has been charged with terroristic threats and other charges for allegedly threatening a Summit Township resident in text messages sent to a third party on...
October 19, 2024 Crime & Courts
A Center Township man and his wife have filed a lawsuit claiming a yearslong delay in diagnosing his kidney disease led to him developing irreversible end state renal dis...
October 19, 2024 Crime & Courts
An Avalon man is facing felony and misdemeanor drug charges filed by Butler city police in connection with a May 15 traffic stop. Four felony counts of possession with in...
October 18, 2024 Crime & Courts
A federal jury convicted a man who led a pipeline of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine between Philadelphia and Butler from January 2017 to June 2020. Qureem Overton, 43, was ...
October 17, 2024 Local News
State Police, Butler Sept. 23 — Garrett S. Straffon, 33, of Harrisville, was charged with misdemeanor DUI related to an Aug. 4 dispatch for a driver slumped behind the wh...
October 17, 2024 Police Reports
Three Connoquenessing Township employees are suing the township and a township supervisor for harassment and violating policies. William Chuba, road superintendent; Timot...
October 17, 2024 Crime & Courts
Butler County law enforcement has a new weapon at its disposal to detect drugs and poisons: the MX908, a handheld mass spectrometer chemical detection device. According t...
October 17, 2024 Crime & Courts
An Allegheny County man who was sentenced to serve a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole for the June 2022 death of an Ohio man in Muddy Creek Township ha...
October 16, 2024 Crime & Courts
The following items were collected from various police departments: Adams Twp Sept. 19 — Megan Weissert, 35, of Mars, was charged misdemeanor counts of evidence tampering...
October 16, 2024 Police Reports
A trial is scheduled to begin in January for a man charged with fatally shooting a New Castle man in the head while traveling in a car on Portersville Road in Muddy Creek...
October 16, 2024 Crime & Courts
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