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Local News
Multiple crews were dispatched to a reported tractor-trailer rollover crash just after noon Monday, May 4, along Route 19 in Lancaster Township, according to Butler Count...
May 04, 2026 Local News
Emergency crews quickly extinguished an oven fire Sunday, May 3, in Butler. Crews were dispatched at 6:36 p.m. to an oven fire in the 300 block of Liberty Street and arr...
May 04, 2026 Local News
Update: Emergency crews left the scene around 9:10 a.m. Emergency crews are responding Monday morning, May 4, to 330 Chicora Road in Oakland Township for a reported hous...
May 04, 2026 Local News
Before attending Moniteau’s prom Saturday evening, students stopped by The Legacy Barn in Donegal Township for pictures and refreshments. For the third year, the venue is...
May 04, 2026 Local News
Real Estate Transactions These real estate transactions were recorded in Butler County from Feb. 4 to 13: Adams Township Chad Dewey to Jared and Samantha Dziak at 11...
May 04, 2026 Real Estate Transactions
The following items have been collected from various police departments and district courts: Butler April 23 — A 2007 Honda VTX1800 motorcycle, operated by Jared M. Metca...
May 04, 2026 Crime & Courts
CRANBERRY TWP — The Butler County Symphony Orchestra held its Chamber Music Series over the weekend of May 2 and 3, with a Saturday concert at Trinity Lutheran Church in ...
May 04, 2026 Local News
This week, voters across America will determine whether Mars Area High School’s beloved mascot, the Fightin’ Planet, is the best in the nation. Mars is competing in the f...
May 03, 2026 Local News
Pennsylvania residents who haven’t yet registered to vote have until today — Monday, May 4 — to do so to vote in this year’s primary election, which takes place Tuesday, ...
May 03, 2026 Local News
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Spirit Airlines, an impish upstart that shook the industry with its irreverent ads and deep discount fares, announced Saturday that it has gone o...
May 03, 2026 Business
Other News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military said Monday that two American-flagged merchant ships had successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz and that Navy guided-...
May 04, 2026 International News
Two makers of the widely used abortion pill mifepristone asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to block an appellate court ruling that cut off mail-order access to the dru...
May 03, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Authorities have determined that buckshot from the gun of the man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in an atte...
May 03, 2026 National News
Efforts continued to broker an end to the Iran war, now into its third month, as U.S. President Donald Trump suggested the Islamic Republic’s latest peace proposal might ...
May 03, 2026 National News
CAIRO — A boat carrying 33 Sudanese migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea near the eastern Libyan town of Tobruk, leaving at least 17 people dead and nine others mis...
May 03, 2026 International News
Hoax calls involving alleged bomb threats and even claims of active shooters have prompted evacuations and closures at several zoos around the U.S. in recent days, disrup...
May 03, 2026 National News
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is set to dissolve and be replaced with a new company operating in the public interest under the settlement of thousands of lawsuits that g...
May 03, 2026 Business
NEWARK, N.J. — OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is set to be dissolved and replaced by a company focused on the public good by the week's end, as a massive legal settlement ...
May 03, 2026 Business
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says the Pentagon is preparing to release some “very interesting” UFO files uncovered by his administration, generating a mix of buzz...
May 03, 2026 National News
McCOYSVILLE, Pa. — Conrad Fisher's musical journey has taken him from an Amish country upbringing in Pennsylvania to Nashville and back. These days the singer-songwriter ...
May 03, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Sports
BUTLER TWP — Michelle Jacobson just missed qualifying for the WPIAL Track and Field Championships last year in the shot put with a season high of 32 feet, 8 ½ inches. A r...
May 04, 2026 Sports
They say too much of anything is bad. Flexibility on a sports team is certainly an exception, and Karns City has a heavy dose of it in Addison Burrows and Abigail Dunlap....
May 04, 2026 Sports
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. Monday, May 4 Baseball 4 — Freeport at Southmoreland 4 — Mars at Shaler 4 — Sharon at Slippery Ro...
May 04, 2026 Sports
Butler’s Julianna Lockwood placed third in the discus (110-0) and Slippery Rock’s Samantha Montgomery had a third-place finish in the triple jump (36-3) at Friday’s Pine-...
May 03, 2026 Sports
The brisk southwest wind roiled the near shore shallows of Keystone Lake. Holding the boat a cast’s distance from the bank, I pitched a Ned Rig up into about a foot or tw...
May 03, 2026 Sports
An 18-hole round of golf works up an appetite. Some of Butler County’s golf courses are known for more than just the quality of their greens, too, and offer different foo...
May 03, 2026 Sports
Editorial
High school students can recognize graffiti when they see it. They can also surmise that it is an art form that its makers spend a lot of time honing and working on, no ...
May 04, 2026 Our Opinion
No amount of advertising money can sell a bad product — or at least, a product that consumers have determined they don’t want (see: New Coke). This time-tested business p...
May 04, 2026 Other Voices
Community
Announcements
Arts & Entertainment
Twenty years after the original, the sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada” made a splash in its first weekend in theaters. Driven largely by women, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” ...
May 03, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Other
May 04, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
Keller Williams Realty is asking everyone, parent or not, to “run like a mother” this Mother’s Day, May 10, for their annual 5K and one-mile walk at Moraine State Park. B...
May 04, 2026 Special Sections
Stephen Harding, an instructor at the Butler Art Center and Gallery, has plenty of ideas for unique, affordable crafts for all ages. From bookmarks to painted terracotta ...
May 04, 2026 Special Sections
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us — whatever we ask — we know...
May 04, 2026 Verse of the Day
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