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Local News
Each year, millions of dollars from SNAP recipients are drained through skimming fraud across the country. After relying on magnetic strip cards for years, officials in ...
July 31, 2026 Local News
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: Adams Twp July 17 — Matthew George Born, 44, of Valencia, was charged with one mis...
July 31, 2026 Local News
Multiple development plans also to be considered
July 31, 2026 Local News
Worth Township has filed a civil complaint seeking a $12,000 judgment against a resident alleging he accumulated junk and debris on his property that washed into Slippery...
July 31, 2026 Crime & Courts
With a few new amenities, Butler County Family YMCA is hoping to make Armco Park a destination. The YMCA plans to build three rental cabins to give people another reason ...
July 31, 2026 Local News
A man whose body was found in a trash can in a Butler apartment in June died from combined drug poisoning, according to the Butler County Coroner’s Office. Philip Schiede...
July 30, 2026 Local News
Penn State Extension’s Butler County office hosted a field day event for corn and soybean farmers at The Vettori’s farm supply store in Saxonburg on Thursday morning, Jul...
July 30, 2026 Local News
Warren Wiebe, the 70-year-old man who set out on a 24-hour journey on his bike through about 165 miles of the Great Allegheny Passage to raise funds for research of a rar...
July 30, 2026 Local News
A Zelienople woman is accused of assaulting three employees, including spitting on one employee’s face, at Butler Memorial Hospital. Michele Lynn Cannon, 61, was charged ...
July 30, 2026 Local News
The Seneca Valley area athletic community is reacting this week following the deaths of two youth coaches, Cody L. Huffman and T.V. Garrett Griffin, who were killed in a ...
July 30, 2026 Local News
Other News
CAIRO — Hamas said Friday that it will begin disarming as part of a deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump that also requires Israel to end its strikes and withdra...
July 31, 2026 International News
KUMAMOTO, Japan — Residents in southwestern Japan camped in classrooms and vehicles Thursday, stocked up on water and tried to get back to normal, two days after a powerf...
July 30, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that a deal has been reached for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza, but many hurdles, conditio...
July 30, 2026 International News
NEW YORK — A Senate committee on Thursday advanced Dr. Erica Schwartz’s nomination to be director of the nation’s top public health agency, setting aside concerns that sh...
July 30, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week but layoffs remain in the historically healthy range of the past few years. U.S. fi...
July 30, 2026 National News
CAIRO — The United States and Iran each fired barrages of missiles Thursday, as the pattern of back-and-forth strikes took hold again and hope dimmed for a quick end to t...
July 30, 2026 International News
KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian ballistic missile and drone barrage across Ukraine overnight killed at least 10 civilians, including children, and injured more than 50 others, ...
July 30, 2026 International News
LEGE-CAP-FERRET, France — France gave the go-ahead Thursday for 84,000 evacuees forced out by a monster wildfire to return home, the strongest sign yet that firefighters ...
July 30, 2026 International News
Sports
CANTON, Ohio — An hour before the start of the Women’s Football Alliance Pro National Championship game Saturday afternoon, two patrons were wearing black-and-gold No. 35...
July 31, 2026 Sports
CHICAGO — The Big Ten appears to be in no hurry to change its status as the only major conference that doesn’t require its schools to schedule at least one nonconference ...
July 30, 2026 College
College sports marketing company Learfield saw a 123% increase in female athlete participation in name, image and likeness compensation activities over the 2025-26 fiscal...
July 30, 2026 College
LATROBE — At the time, Broderick Jones thought it was no big deal. Walking off the field in Chicago last November after taking an awkward hit from Bears defensive end Dom...
July 30, 2026 Professional
The high school wrestling postseason calendar just became a bit more crowded. The WPIAL recently announced a district girls team championship tournament will be held begi...
July 30, 2026 Sports
Sometimes the run is only part of the fun. Two races this weekend reward finishers with post-race festivities. At 9 a.m. Saturday, The St. Barnabas Free Care 5K runs its ...
July 30, 2026 Sports
Editorial
July 31, 2026 Cartoons
Across Pennsylvania, employers are asking a familiar question: Where are the workers? It is the wrong question, or at least an incomplete one. Yes, many employers are str...
July 31, 2026 Other Voices
Community
Laura J. Doerr Memorial Park in Jefferson Township hosted the first Hard Hats and Home Runs wiffle ball tournament on Wednesday, July 29, featuring teams representing But...
July 31, 2026 Community
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week. Lunch is ...
July 30, 2026 Senior
Unionville Grange donated $500 to the Disabled American Veterans. Virginia Mangel from Unionville Grange attended the DAV annual picnic Wednesday, July 22, to present the...
July 30, 2026 Community
The following area residents were named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities. Furman University Mars: Derek Thomas Petcash ...
July 30, 2026 Community
It’s certainly rare to have a total solar eclipse and one of the best meteor showers in the same month, but that’s what's happening this August on nearly the same date! ...
July 30, 2026 Community
Butler County experts say idea could reduce collisions
July 30, 2026 Community
The Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps, a statewide youth employment and job development program, dispatched two crews to Moraine State Park last week to assist in a pair of main...
July 30, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our beloved Andrew (A.J.) Smith, whose birthday is July 31. Thinking of you on your birthday, A.J. But that is nothing new. For no day dawns and no da...
July 31, 2026 Birthday Tributes
In loving memory of my mom, Rose Migliorini, who passed away July 31, 1998. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of you. How lucky I was to have you as my mom. Rememberi...
July 31, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
Are the ears playing tricks on us? Or does Tom Holland’s Peter Parker sound, at the beginning of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” like more of a native New Yorker than before...
July 31, 2026 Reviews
As a movie about getting older and still having to cater to younger demographics, the Kevin Hart comedy “72 Hours” has a meta synergy to it. Hart plays a successful New ...
July 31, 2026 Reviews
An upcoming re-issue of The Beatles’ “Rubber Soul” album features an unreleased song demo from John Lennon. Pre-orders for the newly mixed rendition of the 1965 record ar...
July 30, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
PRAGUE — With Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated “The Odyssey” recording impressive sales around the globe, thousands of Europeans have used it as a new and unexpecte...
July 30, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Butler County Community College is hosting the fourth annual Pioneer Pursuit on Saturday, Sept. 12, at the college’s main campus in Butler Township. Pioneer Pursuit is a ...
July 30, 2026 Local News
NEW YORK — Michael J. Fox will receive the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award during this year’s 78th Emmy Awards for his work in advancing research into Parkinson’s disease, wi...
July 30, 2026 People
Both Moraine State Park and McConnells Mill State Park have a full schedule of events lined up. That’s a paddlin’ Moraine State Park is offering the following paddle even...
July 30, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Other
July 31, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
"You are the light of the world. Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven." — Matthew 5:14-16 ...
July 31, 2026 Verse of the Day
July 30, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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