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Local News
A man is facing charges after the floor of the hotel where he was staying was evacuated early Tuesday morning because of a strong odor from a gas can he had in his room. ...
November 03, 2026 Local News
Regular voting in the Tuesday, Nov. 3, midterm election has resumed in Adams Township Precinct 3 after a ballot scanner had a jam, a situation the Butler County Bureau of...
November 03, 2026 Local News
One man was killed in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday, Nov. 3, at the intersection of Brownsdale and Powell roads in Penn Township. Emergency responders were called to the s...
November 03, 2026 Local News
MARS — Mars Area Public Library was a hotbed of activity Tuesday morning, Nov. 3, when the space became a voting precinct for the midterm elections. The library itself wo...
November 03, 2026 Local News
BUTLER TWP — Pancakes and elections have been a key part of Butler County for the last 67 years. Today was no different as the community came out for a full day of food. ...
November 03, 2026 Local News
Get the latest from candidates and the election bureau, plus live updates as voters head to the polls
November 03, 2026 Local News
CALLERY — Borough council has adopted a 1.75-mill fire tax, which will take effect at the start of the 2027 fiscal year, to provide much-needed funding to the Callery Vol...
November 03, 2026 Local News
JACKSON TWP — Seneca Valley School District’s director of student services was selected to be a fellow with the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning ...
November 03, 2026 Local News
JACKSON TWP — Ironworkers placed the final beam in the works of Seneca Valley Intermediate High School’s coming academic wing, closing the structural chapter of its const...
November 03, 2026 Local News
A Grove City woman is accused of administering substances that killed a 34-year-old woman in April and removing items from her home after her death, police said. Amanda ...
November 02, 2026 Local News
Other News
BERLIN — Several flights across Europe received alleged bomb threats on Tuesday that ultimately turned out to be hoaxes but prompted searches, diversions and, in one case...
November 03, 2026 International News
The United States launched strikes on Iranian targets, a U.S. official said, in what appeared to be a limited operation on the eve of Tuesday’s crucial midterm elections....
November 03, 2026 International News
KYIV, Ukraine — Rescuers in southern Ukraine continued an intense search Tuesday for survivors at a bombed-out aid facility and shelter where at least 31 people were kill...
November 03, 2026 International News
HULL, England — Karl Bushby completed his 28-year odyssey to walk around the world Monday by returning to his mother’s home in northern England. Bushby embraced his emoti...
November 02, 2026 International News
KYIV, Ukraine — Authorities in Ukraine and Russia said their emergency alert mobile apps had been targeted by cyberattacks, with users in Ukraine receiving false warnings...
November 02, 2026 International News
Sports
PITTSBURGH — Freshman Chase Foster scored 23 points, transfer Jonathan Powell added 18 points on six 3-pointers and Pittsburgh began its season with a 95-57 victory over ...
November 03, 2026 College
This is what it’s all led up to. The 2026 WPIAL Boys Soccer Championships kick off Thursday, Oct. 22, and Districts 9 and 10 will open their playoffs in short order. The ...
November 03, 2026 Sports
The postseason has arrived. The 2026 WPIAL Girls Soccer Championships kick off Saturday, Oct. 24, with the finals set to be held in two weeks. Districts 9 and 10 will be ...
November 03, 2026 Sports
Trevor Rumbaugh described his high school sports career as “a heck of a journey.” You could say that. The senior serves a placekicker for the football team that will ...
November 03, 2026 Sports
MEADVILLE — The sense of urgency was there, but the goals needed to pull even with Cathedral Prep did not follow. Trailing the No. 2 Ramblers 2-0 at the start of the seco...
November 02, 2026 Sports
Freeport dominated third seed Avonworth 6-1 Monday in the WPIAL Class 2A girls soccer semifinals at Fox Chapel High School. The Yellowjackets are back in the district cha...
November 02, 2026 Sports
MEADVILLE — Overcoming Cathedral Prep girls soccer was going to take a near-flawless effort, something that simply wasn’t in the cards for Slippery Rock in Monday’s Distr...
November 02, 2026 Sports
NEW YORK — New York Yankees closer David Bednar, Chicago Cubs outfielder Seiya Suzuki and Seattle outfielder Randy Arozarena were among eight players who received $23.15 ...
November 02, 2026 Professional
Some of the PIAA’s best girls volleyball teams reside in Butler County. Now it’s time for them and the rest to prove themselves in the playoffs. The 2026 WPIAL girls voll...
November 02, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — The safe play would have been to kick the field goal. Maybe the smart play, too. Only, Aaron Rodgers didn’t see it that way. Perhaps most importantly to the...
November 02, 2026 Professional
Editorial
American politics has become a test of allegiance. Candidates are expected to defend their party’s nominee, voters are urged to treat every election as an existential bat...
November 03, 2026 Other Voices
November 03, 2026 Cartoons
It’s been just over a year since the One Big Beautiful Bill (formally H. R. 1) became law. Its passing changed federal eligibility guidelines for the Supplemental Nutriti...
November 03, 2026 Our Opinion
About 80% of students in Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education schools return for their second year. The remaining 20% are now the much-needed focus of a grant-fu...
November 03, 2026 Our Opinion
November 02, 2026 Cartoons
It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to deduce the political divide that’s enveloped this country for nearly a decade. Turn on the television, scroll through social media or s...
November 02, 2026 Our Opinion
Community
The Butler County Manufacturing Consortium brought its annual Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Expo to the Clearview Mall Nov. 5, 2010, which featured about 12 v...
November 03, 2026 Community
YWCA Butler will have its Purses for a Purpose from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, at Butler Country Club. The event presents an afternoon of purses, prizes, lunch and ...
November 03, 2026 Community
The Butler YMCA’s Thanksgiving celebration will be Thursday, Nov. 12, and is free and open exclusively to Butler YMCA members and YMCA childcare families. The event will ...
November 03, 2026 Community
At 10 tons, getting Preston’s Pearl out of Lake Arthur is a task
November 03, 2026 Community
Victory Men, the men’s ministry of Victory Family Church, will host Holy Roar, a free men’s worship night, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, at the church’s Cranbe...
November 02, 2026 Community
There will be a rededication ceremony for Veterans Memorial Park in Zelienople at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14. In addition, a time capsule, which was discovered inside the b...
November 02, 2026 Community
Family Bowlaway has the oldest special needs league in the U.S.
November 02, 2026 Community
Announcements
Arts & Entertainment
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — When fall arrives and leaves start changing color, Mike Valladao, a systems engineer at a cybersecurity company, slips into his alter ego, “Farmer...
November 02, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Actor Margaret Qualley and Grammy winner Jack Antonoff have filed for divorce after three years of marriage, according to court records. The case was filed Fr...
November 02, 2026 People
Other
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. — 1 Peter 2:10 ...
November 03, 2026 Verse of the Day
November 02, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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