For members of the United Methodist Church across the world, both priests and laity, this week has been circled on the calendar for the past four years.
Tuesday, April 23...
HARRISBURG — Rebecca LaFleur gave former President Donald Trump’s campaign $50 last year — not an insignificant amount for the retired addiction counselor from Schwenksvi...
WASHINGTON — A special counsel report released Thursday found evidence that President Joe Biden willfully retained and shared highly classified information when he was a ...
PHILADELPHIA — Young adults in Pennsylvania cannot be arrested for openly carrying guns in public during a declared state of emergency, at least while a court fight over ...
PITTSBURGH — Demolition got underway Wednesday at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, the site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, as part of the e...
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on top line spending levels for the current fiscal year that could help avoid a partial government shutdown l...
Fifteen members of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation are urging federal officials to include international teacher and Butler native Marc Fogel in any potential pri...
Comcast Xfinity customers are being prompted to change their account passwords in light of an October data breach.
The Philadelphia-based cable and Internet giant announc...
After an 11-year absence, whole milk could return to American school cafeterias, much to the delight of Butler County farmers.
The “Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act,” offi...
WASHINGTON — Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation's highest court, d...
The late crush of holiday travelers picked up steam Wednesday, with about 2.7 million people expected to board flights and millions more planning to drive or take the tra...
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — A vehicle exploded at a checkpoint on the American side of a U.S.-Canada bridge in Niagara Falls Wednesday, leaving two people dead and prompting th...
President Joe Biden signed a stopgap bill to extend government funding into early 2024, averting a government shutdown for now but kicking a politically-divisive debate o...
ETNA, Ohio — A National Transportation Safety Board team was planning to start work Wednesday at the scene of a deadly highway crash in Ohio involving a charter bus fille...
WASHINGTON — Weeks before the election that would make him one of the most prominent Jewish Americans ever in U.S. politics, Doug Emhoff stepped off his wife's vice presi...
A sexual harassment scandal had once again consumed Harrisburg.
Allegations against a Democratic lawmaker , Rep. Mike Zabel, from both a lobbyist and a fellow House m...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Refusing to drop out, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan told GOP colleagues Thursday he will back a temporary U.S. House speaker as he works to shore up suppo...
WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Jim Jordan failed again Wednesday, Oct. 18, on a crucial second ballot to become House speaker, the hard-fighting ally of Donald Trump losing...
Rite Aid has filed for bankruptcy protection and plans to sell part of its business as it attempts to restructure while dealing with losses and opioid-related lawsuits.
T...
WASHINGTON — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown — a first in U.S. history, forced by a contingent of hard-right conserva...
Most U.S. mobile phone users will get a notification on their electronic devices Wednesday afternoon as part of a nationwide test of emergency alert systems, federal offi...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat and champion of liberal causes who was elected to the Senate in 1992 and broke gender barriers ...
DETROIT — Nearly one in 10 of America’s unionized auto workers went on strike Friday to pressure Detroit's three automakers into raising wages in an era of big profits an...
LOS ANGELES — Steve Harwell, the longtime frontman of the Grammy-nominated pop rock band Smash Mouth has died. He was 56.
The band’s manager, Robert Hayes, said Harwell “...
MILWAUKEE — The Republican presidential candidates vying to be the leading alternative to front-runner Donald Trump fought — sometimes bitterly — over abortion rights, U...
DENVER — As a wealthy dentist convicted of killing his wife at the end of an African safari listened in court, her brother vowed on Monday to move her remains to a place ...
Plum borough manager Michael Thomas, who served in the same capacity in Saxonburg, was one of five people killed as a result of an explosion that destroyed three homes in...
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was indicted on felony charges Tuesday for working to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the violent riot by his support...
A Mercer County woman who used a bullhorn to direct rioters attacking the U.S. Capitol was convicted Tuesday of charges that she joined the mob in an attempt to keep Pres...