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FORWARD TWP — Six emergency services stations responded Monday afternoon, April 20, to a structure fire, according to Butler County Emergency Services dispatch.
The call...
A barn fire last month placed Rich Stuchal’s collection of antique tractors at risk, but “everything fell in place” to save all but one of them.
The fire was reported jus...
A Grove City man sustained suspected minor injuries following a motorcycle crash Friday, April 17, in Mercer Township, according to state police in Butler.
Joshua R. Elv...
A Sarver man was transported to a hospital after his motorcycle went off the road and struck a ditch Friday, April 17, in Jefferson Township.
According to a report from P...
Just over a month after sustaining near-fatal injuries from being struck by a vehicle during a routine response, volunteer firefighter Mike King of the Oneida Valley Volu...
A Butler County man will appear on Wheel of Fortune this Thursday, April 23.
Drew Rummel, of Sarver, applied to appear on the show after seeing a Facebook ad for “Harley ...
North America’s
largest coke plant hugs the west bank of Pennsylvania’s Monongahela River, churning out emissions from turning superheated coal into a carbon-rich ...
These real estate transactions were recorded in Butler County from Jan. 27 to 28:
Adams Township
Molly and Evan Gombos to Andrew and Janell Lovig at 321 Crest Lane f...
MILL HALL, Pa. — A mother and six children ranging in age from 3 to 11 were killed in an explosion and fire at a central Pennsylvania home, authorities said.
Firefighters...
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan moved ahead Monday with preparations for a new round of talks between the United States and Iran two days before a tenuous ceasefire is set to expire...
WASHINGTON — Burning time for North American wildfires is going into overtime. Flames are lasting later into the night and starting earlier in the morning because human-c...
SHREVEPORT, La. — A gunman in Louisiana killed eight children, including seven of his own, and shot two other people Sunday in an early morning attack of domestic violenc...
WASHINGTON — The United States said it forcibly seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get around a naval blockade near the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, the fi...
MUXIMA, Angola — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday recalled the “sorrow and great suffering” Angolans endured for centuries, as the American pope prayed at a Catholic shrine located...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian strikes killed at least two people in Ukraine, officials said Sunday, as the Ukrainian military struck a drone factory in southwestern Russia.
A ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a video address released Sunday that Canada’s strong economic ties to the United States were onc...
Mike Seybert was not going to play a varsity sport in high school.
A broken arm changed his destiny.
“I played Legion and prep league baseball," Seybert recalled. “I suff...
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County.
Monday, April 20
Baseball
3:15 — Mars at Taylor Allderdice
4 — Freeport at Burrell
4 — Karns City...
Fernando Mendoza will get a chance to learn from Kirk Cousins before the Las Vegas Raiders give him an opportunity to start.
The only question surrounding the Heisma...
Toby Webb scored a game-high six goals and added two assists as Knoch boys lacrosse plastered West Allegheny 18-1 Saturday afternoon.
The Knights led 12-1 by halftime, a...
PITTSBURGH — Bryan Reynolds drove in three runs, Mitch Keller pitched seven strong innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 6-3 Sunday.
Reynolds’ tw...
Butler County has an unusually high number of golf courses.
That’s a good thing, said Experience Butler County president Amy Pack. There is something for all kinds of gol...
PITTSBURGH — Cedric Mullins led off the 13th inning with a two-run home run and the Tampa Bay Rays outlasted the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-7 on a rainy Saturday night.
Mullins...
PITTSBURGH — Travis Sanheim scored the go-ahead goal midway through the third period, and the Philadelphia Flyers announced their return to the playoffs with a 3-2 win ov...
The thick, branchless beam of the tree extended perpendicularly from the lake’s shoreline, from its exposed end to where it disappeared into the depths.
I cast a short-ar...
Teachers at all levels of education are noticing the changing career landscape that awaits their students following their graduation from school. Trade schools in particu...
“If the great brain of NASA were attached to any particular sense, it was the eye,” wrote Norman Mailer in his psychedelic history of the Apollo program. Whatever else on...
Happy Birthday to my mom who would have been 108 on April 18.
May God Bless you every day.
You are sadly missed every day - You always had the time for anyone and cared ...
“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” and “Project Hail Mary” dominated the North American box office again this weekend, leaving “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” in third place for...
If you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believ...
