Ready for Santa's first stop

Jadelynn Broerman, 7, and Malayna Smith, 9, test the ice slide at the Cranberry Township Municipal Center.

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Realtor group donation helps women veterans

Robin's Home receives $6,000

Robin's Home receives $6,000

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2 arrested in city in drug bust

Heroin, crack allegedly found

2 arrested in drug raid;145 bags of suspected heroin, other evidence seized

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Butler, Clarion health system merger OK'd moves merger one step closer

Integration set to begin Dec. 1

Regulatory entities approved the merger between Butler Health System and Clarion Healthcare System this week, paving the way for a Dec. 1 integration.

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Assessment drop alarms city council

Budget on hold to check figures

Butler City Council tabled voting to introduce the 2020 budget on Thursday so officials can look into a decrease in the assessmnt of Ward 3 by about $6 million.

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Cranberry awards contract for $12M thruway project

Connector will cut congestion

Supervisors awarded the construction contract for the thruway.

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Creekside Manor still topic of Jackson debate

JACKSON TWP — Speakers at Thursday's board of supervisors meeting made their voices heard during the public comment period with discussions and questions about a development.

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Butler man in jail on charge of assault with a baseball bat

Man jailed in baseball bat attack

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Eagle will print children’s letters to Santa

It’s the holiday season again, with Thanksgiving is quickly approaching and the countdown to Christmas already started.

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EPA prosecutions of polluters near quarter-century lows

WASHINGTON — Criminal prosecution and convictions of polluters have fallen to quarter-century lows under the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, deepening three years of overall enforcement declines, according to Justice Department statistics.

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Ceremony will bless new rescue truck

Adams Area Fire District is having a ceremony Sunday.

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Girl Scouts to hold blood drive Nov. 30

Brief on a Vitalant blood drive by Girl Scouts.

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Annual police officer raffle planned

Active duty police officers will have the opportuniy to win firearms and other prizes in the fourth annual "Backing the Blue" police officer raffle.

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Wolf vetoes bill outlawing abortion for Down syndrome

HARRISBURG — A bill that would have prohibited abortions because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome was vetoed Thursday by Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor.

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TOWN CRIER

Middlesex supervisors approved a few things Wednesday night.

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Calling for assistance

A man calls for assistance following a one-car crash on South Main Street in Butler shortly before noon on Wednesday.

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Medicare drug plan finder can steer seniors to higher costs

WASHINGTON — Medicare’s revamped prescription plan finder can steer unwitting seniors to coverage that costs much more than they need to pay, according to people who help with sign-ups as well as program experts.

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Teen used ‘ghost gun’ in California school shooting

LOS ANGELES — The 16-year-old boy who fatally shot two fellow students and wounded three others last week at a Southern California high school used an unregistered, untraceable “ghost gun,” Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Thursday.

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Prince Andrew faces pressure to talk to US

He may have information about Epstein

LONDON — Britain’s disgraced Prince Andrew is facing mounting calls to provide information to U.S. law enforcement agencies and to lawyers who are investigating crimes committed by American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.

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Israel’s Netanyahu indicted on corruption charges

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted Thursday in a series of corruption cases, throwing Israel’s paralyzed political system into further disarray and threatening his 10-year grip on power.

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Iraqi officials: 8 protesters dead

BAGHDAD — Eight people died and at least 90 were wounded on Thursday in renewed clashes in central Baghdad, in the most violent clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in recent days, Iraqi officials said.

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POLICE REPORTS

These items have been collected from various police departments.

Monday — Harry T. Deer III, 28, was arrested on charges he assaulted his live-in girlfriend's toddler son at the couple's home on the 800 block of East Jefferson Street, leaving the 2-and-a-half-year-old boy with bruises and welts on his buttocks last month.

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Butler woman jailed on drug charges

Court date slated Dec. 2

Police: seized evidence showed swoman was selling drugs

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Bill gives more time on sex abuse charges, lawsuits

Measure sent to Wolf to sign

HARRISBURG — The state where a grand jury’s groundbreaking report set off a new wave of reckoning over sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church passed legislation Thursday giving victims more time to sue and police more time to file charges.

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Clash over race pushes issue to forefront

Buttigieg, Harris seek black votes

ATLANTA — Democratic presidential candidates put race at the forefront of their primary scramble Thursday, punctuated by a tense exchange between Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris after the white mayor connected his experiences as a gay man to black Americans’ long struggle against...

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