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Local News
A Seneca Valley School gifted support teacher has been selected as a Pennsylvania STEM Pioneer through a competitive, multistate initiative led by Penn State University. ...
April 17, 2026 Local News
A Cranberry Township woman is accused of breaking into a man’s apartment in Adams Township and climbing into bed with him. Stacey Marie Dougherty, 42, was charged Thursd...
April 17, 2026 Local News
A crane lifted the Brooklyn Bridge replica from Saxonburg’s Roebling Park on Friday, April 17, leaving a vacant space next to the Roebling Workshop, where foundation repa...
April 17, 2026 Local News
Days after Harrisville Councilwoman Mary Ann Hughes was removed from a borough meeting in handcuffs, the borough solicitor has issued a statement indicating the council “...
April 17, 2026 Local News
Student teachers across Pennsylvania can now apply for a $10,000 stipend in the 2026-27 school year through the PA Student Teacher Support Program. The program provides ...
April 17, 2026 Local News
According to the Pennsylvania Homecare Association, Tammy Young, of Saxonburg, has been elected to the association’s board of directors. According to the association, it ...
April 17, 2026 Business
A GoFundMe campaign for a family who lost a mother and two children Thursday, April 16, in a Mercer County fire raised more than $13,000 in its first day. Malinda Abrams...
April 17, 2026 Local News
NEW YORK — A looming jet fuel shortage in Europe and Asia sparked by the Iran war and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz could further upend world travel withi...
April 17, 2026 Business
Three women are charged with assault after being accused of assaulting a woman, one of them using a metal-pronged dog collar, outside her Butler residence. Priscilla Lyn...
April 17, 2026 Local News
BUTLER TWP — Butler County Community College is set to entirely replace the HVAC system in the Science and Technology Building and attached Succop Theater. The college’s ...
April 17, 2026 Local News
Other News
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Travelers on an East Tennessee interstate were forced to brake for workers — and drones, perhaps even a queen — when a truck carrying about 1 million b...
April 17, 2026 National News
PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro blamed high gas prices on President Donald Trump onstage with Republican governors in Philadelphia on Thursday — and they di...
April 17, 2026 Pennsylvania News
MEDIA, Pa. — Judy Prichard McCleary believes her ancestors have gone to the afterlife, and that only their bodies are buried at the family mausoleum in a sprawling Philad...
April 17, 2026 Pennsylvania News
Ford is recalling almost 1.4 million of its F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. because of a gearshift issue that may lead to the loss of control of vehicles and increasing t...
April 17, 2026 National News
BEIRUT — Iran said Friday it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels, but U.S. President Donald Trump said the American blockade on Iranian ships and po...
April 17, 2026 International News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the first time, scientists have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole. The jet power from this rela...
April 17, 2026 National News
Sports
Rick Fleeger was demanding of his players. He also had a knack for getting them to loosen up or make a late-season practice fun. It’s a difficult line for any youth o...
April 17, 2026 Sports
It looked like this would be the spring of the past two No. 1 draft picks, Matthew Schaefer and Macklin Celebrini, making the NHL playoffs at 18 and 19 years old. Then Sc...
April 17, 2026 Professional
PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby would not take the bait, even though the smile on his face and the gleam in his eye hinted maybe the Pittsburgh Penguins captain kind of wanted...
April 17, 2026 Professional
For the past few seasons, Freeport’s baseball team has ditched a game ball. Instead, standout players get to pull on a dog mask after an impact effort, an idea that assis...
April 17, 2026 Sports
The Butler Eagle will be running a list all golf season of local golfers who make holes-in-one throughout Butler County. The first was reported April 11 at Slippery Rock...
April 17, 2026 Sports
Editorial
April 17, 2026 Cartoons
At a time when newspapers of all sizes continue to struggle, Western Pennsylvania got some good news Tuesday: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced a buyer for the storie...
April 17, 2026 Our Opinion
Americans’ fatigue is rising as costs climb, crises multiply and leaders focus on spectacle instead of solutions. This exhaustion is not personal — it is political, weake...
April 17, 2026 Other Voices
Community
Several of the 14 living leaders attend annual event
April 17, 2026 Community
The first presenter in the Spring 2026 Speaker Series at the Grove City Area Historical Society is Jim Carnes, who will share the story behind his great-great grandfather...
April 17, 2026 Community
Announcements
Arts & Entertainment
Over the years, we’ve seen countless characters wander into corrupt small towns and become entrapped by the locals. Usually, the mean face of these movies is the town she...
April 17, 2026 Reviews
The tagline for “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” is “Some things are meant to stay buried.” That also applies to the misguided “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy,” which should definitely s...
April 17, 2026 Reviews
NEW YORK — Don Schlitz, the storied country music songwriter known for such hits as “The Gambler,” “On the Other Hand” and “Forever and Ever, Amen,” died Thursday at a Na...
April 17, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
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