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Local News
A GoFundMe has been set up for a 96-year-old woman and her adult son who lost their home in a fire Tuesday morning, May 5, in Summit Township. Crews battled a trailer fir...
May 05, 2026 Local News
A Callery man is accused of having multiple controlled substances and more than $100,000 in his home. Robert Girling Ryberg Jr., 76, was charged Saturday, May 2, by Butle...
May 05, 2026 Local News
The state Department of Transportation will apply high friction surface treatment to three roads in Butler County this month. The roads are Route 108 between Interstate ...
May 05, 2026 Local News
Spirit Airlines, which abruptly canceled all its future flights over the weekend, secured court approval Tuesday to begin dismantling the once-busy budget carrier and to ...
May 05, 2026 Business
In recent months, AHN Grove City has begun offering robotic-assisted knee and hip surgeries, including joint replacements, with the addition of the Mako SmartRobotics sur...
May 05, 2026 Business
A representative of Verizon said prior service disruptions that affected customers should be fixed. “The fiber cuts that impacted wireless service for some customers in W...
May 05, 2026 Local News
96 year old, adult son displaced by blaze
May 05, 2026 Local News
PORTERSVILLE — Borough Councilman Dave Marcyjanik said Portersville has just begun the process of seeking interested candidates for the borough’s next mayor, who will suc...
May 05, 2026 Government
BUTLER TWP — Township residents will have their trash services covered by their current vendor from 2027 through 2030. Butler Township commissioners voted unanimously Mon...
May 05, 2026 Local News
BUTLER TWP — Just four months after creating and advertising for the position, township officials have sworn in their new deputy chief of police. John Herold took the oat...
May 05, 2026 Local News
Other News
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania has sued an artificial intelligence chatbot maker, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and are deceiving the system's u...
May 05, 2026 Pennsylvania News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday evening that he is pausing the U.S. effort to guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz...
May 05, 2026 National News
The fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire held Tuesday morning after a day of clashes involving shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and missile attacks against the United Arab Emirate...
May 05, 2026 International News
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian drone and missile strikes targeting Ukraine’s power grid during the night killed at least five people and wounded 39 others, Ukrainian authorities...
May 05, 2026 International News
Sports
Quaker Valley beat reigning champion North Catholic to claim the WPIAL Class 2A Boys Tennis Team Championship title Tuesday at Washington & Jefferson College. The No. 5 Q...
May 05, 2026 Sports
BUTLER TWP — A 4-0 halftime lead suits most coaches just fine. Not Canon-McMillan boys lacrosse coach Scott Gebhart. “That wasn’t us in the first half,” Gebhart said. “We...
May 05, 2026 Sports
WEST MIFFLIN — Winning a WPIAL team track championship is not easy. It certainly didn’t figure to be for Butler’s boys Tuesday, but the Golden Tornado combined eight over...
May 05, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — Bob Skinner, who earned three World Series rings and was named to the All-Star team three times during a baseball career that spanned more than four decades ...
May 05, 2026 Professional
NEW YORK — Pittsburgh Pirates reliever Chris Devenski has been suspended three games and fined for intentionally throwing at Cincinnati Reds rookie Sal Stewart, Major Lea...
May 05, 2026 Professional
New opponent and a new venue, but the result was the same for boxer Michael Miles. The Butler resident and 2011 Seneca Valley graduate won the Pa. Golden Gloves heavyweig...
May 05, 2026 Sports
SEATTLE — Steven Thompson began playing hockey in 2017, but it wasn’t until he met Joey Gale that he truly felt seen in his new sport. Thompson said he had a few teammate...
May 05, 2026 Sports
Editorial
May 05, 2026 Cartoons
Although it sometimes seems like the news is all politics all the time, residents of Butler County should not ignore the upcoming May 19 primary election. The upcoming vo...
May 05, 2026 Our Opinion
Few dispute that America’s public debt is growing unsustainably and that, sooner or later, the task of reining it in will be unavoidable. Oddly, this presumption of inevi...
May 05, 2026 Other Voices
Community
Ed Wahl, a young medic with the Army Air Corps’ 305th Bombardment Group stationed in Chelveston, England, during World War II, was returning to base from a nearby town wh...
May 05, 2026 Community
Bruno Zuccala scholarship awarded to students of similar character
May 05, 2026 Community
Announcements
CELEBRATING A BIRTHDAY Wednesday, May 6, is Parker James Clauser, of Oakland Township, who is turning 21. ...
May 05, 2026 Town & County
Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Doris Fisher, who co-founded the iconic clothing chain The Gap Inc. in 1969 with her late husband Don, has died. She was 94. Fisher died on Saturday surrounded...
May 05, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
VENTURA, Calif. — Britney Spears pleaded guilty through her lawyer Monday to a lesser charge that will allow her to avoid jail time after California prosecutors accused h...
May 05, 2026 People
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May 05, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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