Local man arrested for using fake money to by Craiglist TV

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Photo Gallery for Tues. 4-23-19

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Back to Earth

Washington set to allow ‘human composting’

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington appears set to become the first state to allow a burial alternative known as “natural organic reduction” — an accelerated decomposition process that turns bodies into soil within weeks.

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Mark Bowser

It’s hard to accept not having you here,

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James D. Miller

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Kevin Schreffler

In memory of Kevin Schreffler who passed away April 23, 2017.

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Trivia

Who holds the New York Mets’ record for most games pitched with the franchise?

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Ace in the hole ... in waiting

Mars pitching standout Bednar nears anticipated season return for Planets

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Future King Of The Ring?

Knoch grad Mowry in National Gold Gloves

Brian Mowry isn't exactly following in his older brother Steve's footsteps.

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Tornado volleyball falls, 3-0

BUTLER TWP — Lew Liparulo will be the first to tell you that his Butler boys volleyball team is not lacking effort, but size.

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Polanco returns to Pirates

PITTSBURGH — Gregory Polanco couldn’t get the awkward slide into second base last September that dislocated his left shoulder out of his head. The Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder pored over the video during his lengthy rehab to the point where it simply got to be too much.

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Bruins, Sharks host Game 7’s

BOSTON — Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy doesn’t want to change too much heading into Game 7 of Boston’s first-round series against Toronto, explaining that his players “are a bit like dogs.”

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Burdi injures arm in Pirate loss

PITTSBURGH — Pirates reliever Nick Burdi left in tears with a right arm injury, a chilling low point for Pittsburgh in a 12-4 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday night.

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Carolina forces 7th game vs. Caps

RALEIGH, N.C. — Jordan Staal scored the go-ahead goal and added an assist in the third period, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Washington Capitals 5-2 on Monday night to force Game 7 in their first-round playoff series.

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Area Bowling Results

Casino League

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In Brief

BC3 golfers net win over PSU Fayette

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Fennell joins Wild Things

Butler grad reporting to club's spring training Friday

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Rockets shine at relays

Maryann Ackerman won the javelin over the weekend as Slippery Rock High School competed in the Slippery Rock Relays.

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Events

Tuesday

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Casey wants Democratic presidential debate in Pa.

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey is lobbying for a presidential primary debate to be held in his home state, which is projected as a battleground in the 2020 presidential election.

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Death Notices

PennDOT, Adams in talks over road deal

ADAMS TWP — Township, county and PennDOT officials are getting closer to a deal that would turn Three Degree Road back to the township, though supervisors said the deal may still be years from completion.

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Son faces drug charges in Allegheny Co.

Apartment searched in investigation of parents

Drug hearing set for son of couple indicted in hospital fraud scheme

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Mental report sought in case question

Lawyer questions victim's status

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Whitewater Weather

Following Saturday storms, a group of whitewater kayakers brave high water conditions on Slippery Rock Creek, above McConnells Mill, on Easter Sunday.

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2 held in Mercer County Jail in kidnapping case

Two Liberty Township residents have been charged with multiple offenses revolving around an alleged kidnapping.

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4 die in wrong-way crash on Route 65

AMBRIDGE — Four people are dead after a vehicle traveling the wrong way collided with an oncoming car in Western Pennsylvania.

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Healthy Kids Day slated Saturday at Cranberry YMCA

With the end of the school year fast approaching, a local organization is looking to equip children and their parents with the tools they need to maintain healthy habits throughout the summer months.

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State

Israel will honor Pgh. Jewish leader

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Pennsylvania’s unemployment hits record low

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate dropped in March to the lowest rate on record, as payrolls hit a new record high and the number of people unemployed shrank to its lowest level since 2000, the state Department of Labor and Industry said.

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Verse

God is our refuge and strength, an everpresent help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea.

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Chuckle

Many people are up to their ears in work only because they’re lying down on the job.

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Freedom Road traffic restricted in Cranberry

Work on the Freedom Road Turnpike Bridge project has begun in Cranberry Township.

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Medicare, Social Security facing shaky fiscal futures

WASHINGTON — The financial condition of the government’s bedrock retirement programs for middle- and working-class Americans remains shaky, with Medicare pointed toward insolvency by 2026, according to a report Monday by the government’s overseers of Medicare and Social Security.

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National

Topeka zookeeper recovering; tiger won’t be euthanized

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Assange a journalist? Since when?

As Julian Assange awaits his extradition hearing in the U.K., the debate over what to call him and his organization, WikiLeaks, is once again important.

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Can Macron use the Notre Dame fire to unify France?

The horrific image of flames consuming the roof of Notre Dame cathedral has already become a powerful symbol for those who endorse French and European unity — and for those who proclaim Europe’s decline.

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Distracted driving: Risky, rude, hazardous and illegal

While drunk drivers are still the most dangerous category of people on the road — in 2017, a total of 293 people died during incidents that involved drinking and driving — people focusing on their mobile devices while behind the wheel are nearly as reckless.

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Pushing a carbon tax

Kudos to the author of the April 19 AP article (“U.S. energy use surges despite climate threat,” Page 7)for reminding us that we’re running out of time to stave off the harshest effects of climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

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Butler Twp. motorist accused of repeat DUI

Woman faces multiple charges

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Convicted shoplifter arrested on video game theft charges

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Court Hearings

CRANBERRY TWP — District Judge David Kovach recently heard the following cases.

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Police Reports

These items have been collected from various police departments.

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Preventive Maintenance

Tommy Stoughton of Butler Public Works seals a crack in the road on Pittsburgh Pike Monday morning. This preventive maintenance process keeps water from infiltrating the subsurface, while protecting the integrity and extending the life of the asphalt.

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Prison locked down for safety reasons

Butler County Prison enters its second week of being on lockdown with promises to open up on Tuesday.

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A win for people who park too long: Tire marks tossed

DETROIT — Marking tires to enforce parking rules is like entering property without a search warrant, a federal court said Monday as it declared the practice unconstitutional in Michigan and three other states.

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Moulton becomes 20th Democrat to run for president

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Samsung delays debut of $2K folding phone

SAN FRANCISCO — Samsung is pushing back this week’s planned public launch of its highly anticipated, $2,000 folding phone after reports that reviewers’ phones were breaking.

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Warren plan would cancel student debt for millions

Plan includes free tuition

WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is unveiling a proposal to wipe out student debt for millions of borrowers, making her the only major 2020 presidential candidate to advance such a plan to relieve the growing burden of higher-education loans on Americans and the economy.

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Bulletin Board

Tuesday

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Cranberry 55-plus Club hits 48-year anniversary

Township seniors get together for meals, events, socializing

The Cranberry Township municipal building bustled earlier this month with members of the Cranberry 55+ club filing in for their annual luncheon celebrating 48 years of operation in the township.

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McElhinny 50th anniversary

John and Carole McElhinny of Evans City will mark 50 years of marriage.

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Senior Calendar

Butler

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Senior Menu

Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry, Evans City, Mars, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and the Southeast Center will serve these menus for the week beginning Wednesday.

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Self-driving cars not coming soon

Assessment from 10 years to decades

PITTSBURGH — In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh, Phoenix and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles when we might actually see them carrying passengers in every city, and you’ll get an almost universal answer: Not anytime soon.

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Tesla revs up self-driving cars amid skepticism

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Democrats subpoena former W.H. lawyer

Mueller interviewed McGahn for 30 hours

WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler on Monday subpoenaed former White House Counsel Don McGahn for testimony following the special counsel's report that said McGahn refused President Donald Trump's request to curb or cut off the Russia investigation.

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Kraft Heinz CEO stepping down, successor named

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Supreme Court to take up LGBT job cases

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is taking on a major test of LGBT rights in cases that look at whether federal civil rights law bans job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Trump Fed choice steps aside, and another faces fresh criticism

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Trump, business organization sue House chairman

Committee wants financial records

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his business organization sued the Democratic chairman of the House oversight committee on Monday to block a subpoena that seeks years of the president’s financial records.

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Cranberry's Meeder wins award for garden efforts

A Cranberry Township employee was recently honored for his work to create community gardens.

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English dogwood produces blooms by the hundreds

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People

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‘Madam Secretary’ postmortem

EP Barbra Hall breaks down Season 5 finale

Elizabeth McCord is running for president.

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Homeless activists protest at Notre Dame

PARIS — Dozens of public housing advocates protested outside the gutted Notre Dame in Paris Monday to demand that France’s poorest be remembered after donors pledged $1 billion to rebuild the cathedral and its destroyed roof.

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Sri Lanka military given extra powers after explosions

Easter bombings killed nearly 300

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s president gave the military sweeping police powers starting Tuesday in the wake of the Easter bombings that killed nearly 300 people, while officials disclosed that intelligence agencies had warned weeks ago of the possibility of an attack by the radical Muslim group blamed for the bloodshed.

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