Butler County News

"It's upsetting," said Dale Kerr, chairman of the township's supervisors, this morning about allegations that a former township secretary stole more than $100,000 from township coffers.

Regis Philibin and Kelly Ripa are on a nationwide search for the best grill recipe, and one Butler County chef is in the running for the top prize.

Jessica Turnbull can be reached via e-mail. Butler County will get a boost in tourism dollars, plus light shows in the sky, when it welcomes a five-day fireworks convention in 2013.

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

A pair of juvenile detention centers at the crux of a bribery scandal in Luzerne County also were charging counties like Allegheny and Butler too much for their services, according to a state audit.

The Tribune-Review can be reached online or at 412-321-6460. State Police in Butler County are seeking information about someone who threw a smoke bomb into a vehicle in Connoquenessing.

The number of unemployed in Pennsylvania went up in May to 8.2 percent, but that is still much lower than the national rate of 9.4 percent.

The challenge: Host a high school graduation party for 150 people on a budget. First step: Call the grad's favorite chain, just to see.

A woman received an injury to her head and ribs in a horseback riding accident in Allegheny Township, Butler County, near Eau Claire.

City officials Friday suspended a Pittsburgh Public Works employee who drove drunk when he left a city-organized golf outing in Butler County.

There was good news to announce this morning by the United Way of Butler County.

The Emerald ash borer beetle has been discovered in Westmoreland County. Emerald ash borer beetles, an insect that can destroy an ash tree within three years of the initial infestation, have been found in Allegheny Township, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff said today.

Federal authorities charged James von Brunn with murder as FBI agents sifted through documents taken from the car and house of the man accused of an armed assault on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Robin Acton can be reached via e-mail or at 724-830-6295. In the coming weeks, white separatist John de Nugent will send volunteers door-to-door to spread his pro-white, anti-Semitic views throughout Western Pennsylvania.

Rick Wills can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7944. A former substitute elementary schoolteacher from Butler County awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting two boys is now accused of repeatedly soliciting nude photos of five more boys and girls 12 to 16 years old.

A Butler County man, who describes himself as a 'white separatist,' told Channel 11 News he kept in contact with a man accused of opening fire in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial.

The state budget deadline is now just 3 weeks away and lawmakers are still split down party lines.

Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge Maureen Lally-Green is retiring from the bench to take a position with the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh as director of its newly created Office for Church Relations.

Anyone who has ever hit a ball with a wooden bat, dug a hole in the ground or enjoyed shade from the fine-leafed foliage of an ash tree should be alarmed by a green metallic beetle that could ruin the species.

Following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, water authorities across the country restricted access to reservoirs in an effort to secure the nation's water supply.