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A Tuesday afternoon fire destroyed a log and stone "dream" home on a private road in West Liberty Borough.
Mars graduate David Bednar returning home to putchy for Pittsburgh Pirates
The Pennsylvania Department announced Tuesday new updates to its vaccine distribution, including the addition of anyone 65 and older to Phase 1A.
Reforming elections by allowing counties to precanvas mail-in and absentee ballots, and moving the mail-in ballot application deadline to 15 before the election is the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania's top legislative priority this year.
It's a Friday morning in mid-January, and Millie Pinkerton is shuffling through the day's mail, and glances out the kitchen window through which she and her husband of 59 years would watch birds.
In what could be the longest of legal long shots, several of those arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol are holding out hope that President Donald Trump will use some of his last hours in office to grant the rioters a full pardon.
The only way some people will every make it to the top is if they get stuck in the back of the elevator.
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us - Romans 5:5
President-elect Joe Biden selected Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health.
WASHINGTON — Trying to repair his tarnished legacy, President Donald Trump trumpeted his administration’s accomplishments and wished his successor luck in a farewell video as he spent his final full day in office preparing to issue a flurry of pardons in a near-deserted White House, surrounded by an extraordinary security presence outside.
Local politicians will attend Biden's inauguration.
Some time after this article runs, someone will call to say how nonpolitically correct it is, but that’s OK. At least it won’t be because it was or wasn’t by mail.
Letter to the editor from Phil Kriley, Renfrew.
Letter to the editor from Dr. Barry D. Hootman.
Letter to the editor from Brian TRimble, Seven Fields.
The federal government has a powerful tool at its disposal in the fight against human trafficking and forced labor. It’s one that should be used more.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who headed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under President Donald Trump until 2019, was one of the first experts to call out the slow development of COVID-19 testing in the United States.
The following numbers on the coronavirus pandemic were compiled from regular news releases from the state Department of Health.
People in Phase 1A of the state’s vaccine distribution plan may start registering and scheduling for the vaccine as it becomes available.
In loving memory of Kenneth W. Lawrence
In loving memory of Donna M. Desmond
WASHINGTON — Hours from inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden paused on what might have been his triumphal entrance to Washington Tuesday evening to mark instead the national tragedy of the coronavirus pandemic with a moment of collective grief for Americans lost.
Mom charged with hindering arrest of her son
ATLANTA — Georgia’s secretary of state certified the results of the two U.S. Senate runoff elections Tuesday, paving the way for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to be sworn in and for Democrats to take control of the chamber.
These items have been collected from various police departments.
The Mars Robotics Association has a speaker coming this Friday. She's a former Mars Area student and works for NASA.
Brothers Aaron, 6, and Adam, 3, Steiner of Cranberry Township spent Monday morning sledding with their dad, Andrew Steiner, at North Boundary Park.
The American Cancer Society is planning for Daffodil Days.
The organizers of the annual March for Life pro-life rally in Washington, D.C. have announced this year's event will be virtual.
HARRISVILLE — The Harrisville American Legion Auxiliary #852 will have a soup takeout sale Feb. 18.
PINE TWP — Pine-Richland's start was horrendous.
BUTLER TWP — When it comes to multi-tasking, Jake Pomykata is a seasoned veteran.
PITTSBURGH — Ben Cherington is tearing it all down. All of it. It’s the only way the Pittsburgh Pirates general manager sees a way forward.
Nina Shaw wasn't yet born the last time the Knoch girls basketball team won a section title.
Who was the Penguins’ primary backup goaltender behind Tom Barrasso during the franchise’s first Stanley Cup run?
KARNS CITY — Saturday afternoon's loss, Karns City's first of the season, was a bitter pill for the Gremlins to swallow.
PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby scored 1:11 into overtime, lifting the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 5-4 victory over the Washington Capitals on Tuesday night.
Aslyn Pry scored 25 points and also had 10 rebounds as the Moniteau girls basketball team pulled away from Venango Catholic in the fourth quarter for a 55-26 win Tuesday night.
LOS ANGELES — Don Sutton, a Hall of Fame pitcher who was a stalwart of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ rotation spanning an era from Sandy Koufax to Fernando Valenzuela, died Tuesday. He was 75.
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Lorraine DiDomenico, a realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeService The Preferred Realy in Butler, has been installed as president of the Butler County Association of Realtors for 2021.
Temporarily closed, Salvation Army Thrift Store reopens
WASHINGTON — Janet Yellen, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice as Treasury secretary, said Tuesday that the incoming administration would focus on winning quick passage of its $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan, rejecting Republican arguments that the measure is too big given the size of U.S. budget deficits.
NEW YORK — The founder of MyPillow, a vocal and in the past few weeks very visible supporter of President Donald Trump, says a backlash against the company has begun after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol this month.
Like so much this past year, the inaugural celebration will be like no other: pared down, distanced, much of it virtual. But for actor Christopher Jackson — the original George Washington in Broadway’s “Hamilton” — performing in a virtual “ball” is a way of participating in an essential rite of American democracy.