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Local News
ZELIENOPLE — Borough council unanimously approved four special event permit applications at its Monday, Sept. 28, meeting, including three by the Zelienople Area Business...
September 29, 2026 Local News
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Township officials are preparing to review options regarding a small concrete bridge after a discussion with the county found it to be the township’s ...
September 29, 2026 Local News
Assaults began when both were minors
September 29, 2026 Local News
Slippery Rock resident Dennis Snyder started to plug the drains in his basement after two substantial floods in two years lifted sewage into his home. Yet, when Slippery ...
September 29, 2026 Local News
ADAMS TWP — Supervisors gave final land development approval for the retail portion of the Quincy Heights combined residential/retail planned development during its meeti...
September 29, 2026 Local News
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: Butler Sept. 7 — Robert S. Sennett Jr., 43, of Butler, was charged with felony pos...
September 29, 2026 Local News
A Butler man accused in April of threatening a woman and her children had his felony aggravated assault charge withdrawn at a Monday, Sept. 28, preliminary hearing. Dana...
September 28, 2026 Local News
State police are investigating a hit-and-run involving three vehicles that caused a head-on crash Sept. 20 in Jefferson Township, according to a news release Friday, Sept...
September 28, 2026 Local News
A motorcycle passenger was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital following a two-vehicle crash Wednesday, Sept. 23, in Franklin Township, according to a Friday news release. Th...
September 28, 2026 Local News
The VA Butler Healthcare System has been recognized at VA’s 2026 National Customer Experience Symposium with the Veterans Health Administration Customer Experience Award ...
September 28, 2026 Business
Other News
WASHINGTON — U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 bil...
September 29, 2026 International News
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia fired ballistic missiles and dozens of jet-powered drones at Kyiv, Ukraine’s air force said Tuesday, as Moscow seeks to make Ukraine buckle under t...
September 29, 2026 International News
BOSTON — A maritime expert planned to visit a Nantucket beach Monday to inspect weathered wooden beams exposed by the weekend’s powerful nor’easter, possibly the remnants...
September 28, 2026 National News
HARRISBURG — A federal judge on Monday blocked the authority of President Donald Trump’s administration to withhold some federal counterterrorism funding from states that...
September 28, 2026 National News
DETROIT — The Trump administration on Monday released new fuel economy standards that relax regulatory requirements for automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powe...
September 28, 2026 National News
A Utah judge on Monday ordered a 71-year-old man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing to be released on bail, despite objections from the victim's family, af...
September 28, 2026 National News
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Christa Pike was 18 when she killed a classmate in a jealous rage and became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row. Now 50, she is schedule...
September 28, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Andrew Bailey, one of the FBI's two deputy directors, announced Monday that he was leaving the position after just over a year on the job and would be return...
September 28, 2026 National News
BANGKOK — Two giant pandas arrived in Atlanta on Sunday morning as part of an agreement between the Chinese and American governments. Ping Ping and Fu Shuang departed Ch...
September 28, 2026 International News
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia’s round-the-clock bombardment of targets in Ukraine killed at least seven people and wounded more than 50 others, officials said Monday. Moscow’s ...
September 28, 2026 International News
Sports
BUTLER TWP — Entering this season, Lucia Leyland heard the words every soccer player loves to hear, though there were still some nerves attached with them. “Last year, he...
September 29, 2026 Sports
Steve Lodovico spent the last few months like he had for so many years, directing summer workouts for a varsity basketball team. Those previous instances, however, came a...
September 29, 2026 Sports
Levi McClellan’s impressive season continued Monday at Hannastown Golf Club. The Butler senior shot a 4-over 74 in the first round of the WPIAL Individual Golf Championsh...
September 28, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — Mike McCarthy and Aaron Rodgers have been around each other a long time. So much so that when the Pittsburgh Steelers coach told Rodgers and the rest of the ...
September 28, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — Aaron Rodgers urged patience, not panic, after the new-look Pittsburgh Steelers seemed an awful lot like the old-look Pittsburgh Steelers through two weeks. ...
September 28, 2026 Professional
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. Monday, Sept. 28 Boys Golf 9 a.m. — WPIAL Class 3A Individual Championships First Round Girls...
September 28, 2026 Sports
Editorial
Community
A drive through Zelienople’s Main Street can take a while. There are only three traffic lights on the stretch of road that breaks up Route 19 into a few blocks of a busin...
September 28, 2026 Special Sections
What makes the Rocket Fuel Cafe an example other schools want to follow
September 28, 2026 Community
Oktoberfest in Seven Fields provided a chance to enjoy the season for both children and adults this weekend at the borough’s Town Park. Adults got a chance to enjoy live ...
September 28, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of my beloved wife, Laurie Patsy, who passed away five years ago, September 30. The moment that you left me, My heart split in two. One side filled with ...
September 29, 2026 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
Sylvester Stallone achieved peak fitness during his “Rocky” years and beyond, but at a price paid in steroid use and an eating disorder, he revealed in a new interview. ...
September 29, 2026 People
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Calypso music lost one of its most emblematic voices Sunday with the death of Slinger Francisco, who was known on stage as the Mighty Sparrow an...
September 28, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
The limited series adaptation of “East of Eden” and an album from Quavo are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the...
September 28, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Seven years after becoming the second-highest grossing film ever, “Avengers: Endgame” returned to the No. 1 spot at the box office in a victory lap for Marvel ...
September 28, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Other
September 29, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are s...
September 29, 2026 Verse of the Day
ZELIENOPLE — Painters have a brush and canvas. Writers have a pen and paper. Skaters have a skateboard and a skate park. Locals consistently choose to perfect their craft...
September 28, 2026 Special Sections
A cohort of businesses in Harmony is planning two fall events to spur more foot traffic in the farthest ends of the borough. There will be two evening Moonlight Makers an...
September 28, 2026 Special Sections
September 28, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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