Butler News

Republicans took nearly every contested race in Butler County in Tuesday's election.

Butler police this morning charged a second man in connection with a robbery Monday in the city.

Police are searching today for a man believed to have robbed a convenience store in the city.

Police in Butler have charged a man who they said tried to lure a 10-year-old boy into his vehicle.

A public meeting to provide local citizens and interested parties with information on the trail work being done by the Erie-Pittsburgh Trail Alliance, or EPTA, will be held later this month in Freeport.

An Allegheny man wanted by Butler City Police in connection with the shooting of another man at an apartment in the city in July has been arrested by police in Georgia, city police report.

Brian Mazzanti, chief of the South Butler Volunteer Fire Department, said the workers, all adults, had been working on the foundation of an unfinished home on Clark Avenue.

State police at Butler are looking for Shawn Aaron Hobel, 27, of Ellwood City, Lawrence County, in connection with a robbery in Butler County.

Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced the filing of criminal charges against a Butler County man accused of using his position as a doctor to sexually assault two teenage boys who were supposed to be receiving medical treatment.

A young Democrat announced his intent to run against state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe next year for the right to represent the 12th District in Harrisburg.

State and local police have been searching for an elderly Butler County man who was reported missing this afternoon after he failed to return home.

A new U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinic is expected to begin accepting patients here in mid-December. The VA Cranberry outpatient clinic will be in Freedom Square at 1183 Freedom Road.

BARRE Luzerne County District Attorney Jacqueline Musto Carroll announced Friday that her office has received a $10,000 gun buy-back grant aimed to deter crime.

By Brian C. Rittmeyer , VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Saturday, October 17, 2009 Last updated: 10:56 am Two Butler County natives with extensive backgrounds in law enforcement are vying to be the county's first new sheriff in nearly three decades.

A Cranberry woman who had taught English at Butler Area Senior High School has surrendered her teaching certificate and is on probation in connection with incidents involving inappropriate text messages to two students.

State police say two men died and two others were injured in a single-car crash in western Pennsylvania.

A host of human services agencies that struggled to stay open during a 101-day state budget stalemate breathed a bit easier yesterday, knowing state subsidies, missing for months, could start flowing in as early as next week.

Great Wall China Adoption and Children of All Nations will offer a free International Adoption Workshop in Butler.

Deserving tribute to Donald S. Carter Written by Louis 'Hop' Kendrick Thursday, 08 October 2009 11:42 The question to many of you is Who is Donald S. Carter? Carter was a deputy director at the Small Business Administration who died, but his sense of commitment still lives on.

Some of us fondly remember the dingy, homey Sufak's Round Corner, at the corner of 37th and Butler streets in Lawrenceville, as a place where the drinks were always painfully cheap and never left empty long.