Butler News

A preliminary hearing has been set for Tuesday, July 7, in Slippery Rock, for a former municipal secretary charged with stealing more than $100,000 from government coffers.

Jason Cato can be reached via e-mail or at 412-325-4301. A mild-mannered computer geek people once believed could do no wrong admitted Monday to stealing nearly 2 million credit card numbers, which he and others used to rack up more than $86 million in fraudulent charges.

Police said a man tried to lure a 5-year-old girl away from her Carbon Street home in Butler, Butler County.

Adams Township police are looking into pressing criminal charges after a woman was found beaten up on the side of a Butler County road.

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"Antebellum" is a word associated more with the pre-Civil War South than Butler County.

One of the most prolific computer hackers in U.S. history pleaded guilty today in federal court in Pittsburgh to stealing 1.8 million credit card numbers in a fraud case that prosecutors said cost banks $86.4 million.

Jason Cato can be reached via e-mail or at 412-325-4301. A San Francisco man pleaded guilty today in Pittsburgh this afternoon to federal charges of hacking into computer systems of financial institutions and other hackers to steal nearly 2 million credit card numbers, which were used to rack up more than $86 million in fraudulent charges.

The Pittsburgh police chief says he may need four-times the number of officers he currently has if the city is to provide adequate security during the G-20 summit this fall.

Please contact Drenda Gostkowski at 724-816-4913 or drenda225@consolidated.net In the late 1800s, Dilks Siding in Jefferson Township between Jones Road and the Great Belt section of Butler bustled with rail cars brimming with oil.

The Days Inn in Butler is being deluged with media inquiries today, and it's not because of the Monster Bash 2009 conference and film festival.

By the mid-nineteenth century, the city of Butler had become a booming hot spot for a plethora of industries.

Life on the other side of the bars appears to have taken a toll on a prison psychologist jailed on charges of aiding the escape of a murderer.

Brian C. Rittmeyer can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4701. The fix for the nation's economic crisis is taking aim at Western Pennsylvania's infrastructure crisis.

Even before the national economy tanked last fall, 30 percent of Pennsylvania's acute care hospitals were losing money, according to a new financial analysis by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.

Craig Smith can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-5646. Gladys Kramer couldn't believe the price of a carton of cigarettes advertised by an Indian reservation in New York.

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A farce requires five basics: * Lots of slamming doors. * Energetic actors willing to make fools of themselves and take off their clothes.

Jeremy Boren can be reached via e-mail or at 412-765-2312. City officials Friday suspended a Pittsburgh Public Works employee who drove drunk when he left a city-organized golf outing in Butler County.

VA Butler Healthcare and the Butler BlueSox will host a Veterans Appreciation Night and Welcome Home Celebration on Tuesday at Pullman Park.