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Local News
Supervisors aiming to garner input before next meeting
July 15, 2026 Local News
Community members and Butler PM Rotarians alike got their grout on at the Penn Theater lot on North Main Street, Tuesday, July 14. Grouting is one of the final steps in c...
July 15, 2026 Local News
SLIPPERY ROCK — Nearly every seat for the Slippery Rock Borough Council meeting was full Tuesday evening, July 14, as council prepared to discuss recent flooding of resid...
July 15, 2026 Local News
Public transit riders in Butler will eventually see updated bus routes in the city. The Butler Transit Authority’s board of directors approved moving forward with restru...
July 15, 2026 Local News
Moniteau school board approved $168,622 Monday for the next phase of a project designed to improve drinking water capacity at Dassa McKinney Elementary School. The fundin...
July 15, 2026 Local News
SAXONBURG — Visitors to the Saxonburg Area Business Association’s website may have noticed something very different this week. During its monthly board meeting on Tuesday...
July 15, 2026 Technology
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday has joined a coalition of 42 states announcing a $18 million bankruptcy claim settlement with genetic testing company 23andMe. T...
July 15, 2026 Business
Lutheran SeniorLife has named a new executive director of its Visiting Nurses Association, Western Pennsylvania. Suzanne Grove will take over the role. She brings nearly ...
July 15, 2026 Business
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: State police, Butler June 29 — Daniel David Bargielski, 49, of Erie, was charged w...
July 15, 2026 Local News
As contract negotiations with Mars Area School District drag on, the teachers’ union is publicly airing its grievances and planning a rally before the next school board m...
July 15, 2026 Local News
Other News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. reimposed a naval blockade on Iran and intensified its airstrike campaign Wednesday in retaliation for Tehran’s attacks on ships tr...
July 15, 2026 International News
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes have killed at least a dozen people in Gaza over the past two days, local health officials said Wednesday, as strikes conti...
July 15, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a $95 billion package focused on boosting defense, aiding farmers and enacting stricter voter registration rules, a s...
July 15, 2026 National News
BIDDEFORD, Maine — Trump administration officials told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings within a week...
July 14, 2026 National News
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s already been a deadly year for firefighters, and authorities have been putting resources where they can more quickly pounce on wildfires before t...
July 14, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told lawmakers Tuesday that a sharp increase in threats targeting her and other justices is increasingly encroaching ...
July 14, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — U.S. inflation cooled last month as the cost of gas, clothes, and used cars fell, providing some relief to consumers, while underlying price pressures also c...
July 14, 2026 National News
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine's air force said Tuesday it intercepted five ballistic missiles launched by Russia in a raft of overnight attacks, although other missiles and dro...
July 14, 2026 International News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military early Wednesday reimposed a blockade on Iranian ports over Tehran's attacks on ships trying to pass through the Strait of ...
July 14, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is welcoming Iraq's new prime minister to the White House on Tuesday after strongly backing the political neophyte in his bid for offi...
July 14, 2026 International News
Sports
Never before has Butler’s baseball scene burned so bright. On Sunday, three Golden Tornado graduates — David Leslie, Kyle Casteel and Madden Clement — heard their names c...
July 15, 2026 Sports
The Butler Eagle County Amateur annually attracts a healthy number of golfers, and this year is expected to be no different. The challenges presented by the course at Lak...
July 15, 2026 Sports
Hunter Swidzinski already had a long list of golf accomplishments before the summer began. After his PIAA championship in 2023, the Butler graduate earned several awards,...
July 14, 2026 Sports
Even on vacation at a Florida beach, Gavin Gorajewski finds a volleyball. So it’s no surprise the rising Seneca Valley junior, a boys volleyball outside hitter and All-WP...
July 14, 2026 Sports
Editorial
July 14, 2026 Cartoons
Community
Gary McKinney, of Tarentum, lost his high school ring in the mid-1970s while he was hunting near the Heath Pump Station along the Clarion River. On June 19, 2009, Richard...
July 14, 2026 Community
Greater Pittsburgh Civil War Roundtable will host its next presentation at 6 p.m. Monday, July 20. Matt Borders will present “Major General Lew Wallace,” at the Monday me...
July 14, 2026 Community
The shared legacy of a Saxonburg church, built on land given by the man whose cables still hold up a great city, will be a highlight of the borough’s Thursday, July 16, M...
July 14, 2026 Community
The Watt family reunion, which normally takes place the first Sunday in August, has been canceled this year. ...
July 14, 2026 Community
Springdale Lutheran Church is celebrating its 150th anniversary from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 25, at 1061 Mahood Road, Concord Township. The anniversary celebration ...
July 14, 2026 Community
JACKSON TWP — When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world, Autumn Zacherl was in sixth grade. And she used it to her advantage. “It definitely forced a change of pace in ...
July 14, 2026 Community
Former Butler County resident Mark Pelusi has spent years trying to obtain official documents to solve a century-old family mystery, but bureaucratic red tape is preventi...
July 14, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Announcements
In loving memory of Gladdie Paczek on her birthday, today July 15. I thought of you with love today But that is nothing new. I thought about you yesterday And days befor...
July 15, 2026 Birthday Tributes
Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — A wide array of performers, from actor Tom Cruise to streamer IShowSpeed, will help close out the World Cup, FIFA announced Tuesday. Soccer's governing body re...
July 15, 2026 People
Before the petting zoo opens, the annual dog show begins and competitors gobble up dozens of hot dogs during the final day of Horse Trading Days in Zelienople, an 11-year...
July 15, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
PHOENIX — Pat Oliphant, an influential political cartoonist known for creating caricatures of U.S. and world leaders, died Monday. He was 90. Oliphant died at his home in...
July 14, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Twelve states sued to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, arguing that the $81 billion merger would “extinguish competition” in Hol...
July 14, 2026 Business
Other
"If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love." — John 15:10 ...
July 15, 2026 Verse of the Day
July 15, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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