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Local News
A $30,000 grant awarded to the Seneca Valley Foundation will help support the elementary and middle school’s after-school robotics clubs. The district said in a news rel...
July 09, 2025 Education
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ran through Saturday. Grain & Seed Crops Field Corn - Hybrid, Will Drake, Slippery Rock Indian Corn,...
July 09, 2025 Agriculture
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ran through Saturday. VEGETABLES Asparagus, Bryan Hoover, Punxsutawney Beans — Dry Shelled, Anita Mo...
July 09, 2025 Agriculture
CHICORA — An attorney representing a Fenelton man argued Tuesday, July 8, that his client, who is accused of rape, should see charges withdrawn because there was no testi...
July 09, 2025 Local News
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ran through Saturday. JUNIOR DAIRY Dairy Champions Supreme Champion Cow, Lydia Kennedy, Cooperstown ...
July 09, 2025 Agriculture
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced on Tuesday, July 8, that Double Road, located in Butler and Connoquenessing townships, will be closed July 14 thro...
July 09, 2025 Local News
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ran through Saturday. Champions Grand Champion Showman, Brinley George, Butler Reserve Grand Champio...
July 09, 2025 Agriculture
Cranberry Township is planning to defend decisions by its zoning hearing board denying variances for two proposed electronic billboards in the vicinity of the busy Route ...
July 09, 2025 Crime & Courts
The following are first-place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ran through Saturday. Border Leicester Ram Lamb Under 1 Year, Willem Meiser, Butler Champion Ram, Wi...
July 09, 2025 Agriculture
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ran through Saturday. Rabbit Champions Best in Show, Chase Kelley, Evans City Res. Best in Sho...
July 09, 2025 Agriculture
Other News
NAIROBI, Kenya — The death toll from Kenya’s anti-government protests on Monday has surged to 31, marking the highest single-day toll since the demonstrations began earli...
July 08, 2025 International News
SANTA FE, N.M. — Floodwaters trapped people in their homes and cars Tuesday in a mountain village that is a popular summer retreat in southern New Mexico as monsoon rains...
July 08, 2025 National News
HUNT, Texas — More than 160 people are still believed to be missing in Texas days after flash floods killed over 100 people during the July Fourth weekend, the state's go...
July 08, 2025 National News
DALLAS — Pettis Norman, a Dallas Cowboys tight end who was outspoken on issues of civil rights in the 1960s, has died. He was 86. The Cowboys said on the team’s website M...
July 08, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s “not happy” with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, saying Moscow’s ongoing war in Ukraine is “killing a ...
July 08, 2025 National News
JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudanese authorities confirmed on Tuesday that eight men deported from the United States were now in the custody of the government of the Africa...
July 08, 2025 International News
PHILADELPHIA — As trash and tempers heat up across Philadelphia on Day 8 of a strike by blue-collar city workers Tuesday, some residents and small business owners are hir...
July 08, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce despite warnings that critical government s...
July 08, 2025 National News
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian police arrested and charged four people, including active members of the Canadian military, who were allegedly involved in an extre...
July 08, 2025 International News
For the first time in almost 20 years, travelers may no longer be required to take off their shoes during security screenings at U.S. airports. The Transportation Securit...
July 08, 2025 National News
Sports
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Nick Loftin hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the seventh inning, then won it in the ninth with a one-out RBI single as the Kansas City Royals beat the P...
July 08, 2025 Sports
Gavin McKenna said he is committing to Penn State, leaving the Canadian Hockey League for the U.S. college ranks in a long-anticipated decision by one of the sport's ...
July 08, 2025 Sports
Another Mars Fightin’ Planet is on the doorstep of MLB. JJ Wetherholt, a 2021 graduate of Mars High School, was promoted Monday by the St. Louis Cardinals to their Tr...
July 08, 2025 Sports
Pittsburgh Pirates center fielder Oneil Cruz, known more for delivering hard-hit homers than producing them in quantity, was added Tuesday to next week's Home Run Derby i...
July 08, 2025 Sports
Jon McKay won’t be remembered for a storied high school basketball career, he jokingly admitted, but his dunks in a Miami gym a few weeks ago will go down as his greatest...
July 08, 2025 Sports
The Little League postseason continues this weekend with the Pennsylvania Little League section tournaments. Butler Youth Baseball’s 12U all-star team is again in the fie...
July 08, 2025 Sports
Editorial
The political realignment has come for economics. At least since the days of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes in the last century, the divide in economic thinking ...
July 09, 2025 Other Voices
July 09, 2025 Cartoons
Community
The Butler County Genealogical Society will meet at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 15, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 100 Main St. in Connoquenessing, for its annual picnic. Ch...
July 09, 2025 Community
The Connoquenessing Watershed Alliance turned its sights on Thorn Creek in 2004 after a fire at Friedman’s in Saxonburg caused the stream to become polluted with residue ...
July 09, 2025 Community
Announcements
The Cycle Warehouse on Butler’s Main Street got a new paint job in July 2013. According to the shop’s owner, Chris Gatto, the building was “in dire need of it.'' A new aw...
July 09, 2025 Time Capsules
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July 09, 2025 Daily Photo Gallery
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July 08, 2025 Special Sections
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