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Butler football’s defense leads way after Deacon Simko’s pick-6 fuels second straight shutout vs Meadville
MEADVILLE — Deacon Simko made Butler defensive coordinator Darrell Smith look like a sage Friday night. The Golden Tornado were leading host Meadville 3-0 early...
At SRU’s state of the university, President Karen Riley notes accomplishments, concerns
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — While Slippery Rock University continues to buck many trends causing strife at colleges across Pennsylvania, university president Karen Rile...
PIAA high school football Week 3: Final scores, recaps from Butler, Karns City, Slippery Rock, more
We’re entering the start of region and section play for some Butler County football teams. Karns City visits Punxsutawney in the first of those clashes in ...
Aden Shay’s second straight monster game powers Slippery Rock in blowout win of Titusville
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — It is always good to have a little luck on your side. It is even better to have Aden Shay. A game that looked like it may be a slow burn on ...
Details emerge about what Mars Area’s new teacher contract will look like
Details are now available about a third-party fact-finding report approved earlier this week by the Mars Area School District’s board and Mars Area Education As...
Butler football’s defense leads way after Deacon Simko’s pick-6 fuels second str...
Butler football’s defe...
At SRU’s state of the university, President Karen Riley notes accomplishments, c...
At SRU’s state of the ...
PIAA high school football Week 3: Final scores, recaps from Butler, Karns City, ...
PIAA high school footb...
Aden Shay’s second straight monster game powers Slippery Rock in blowout win of ...
Aden Shay’s second str...
Details emerge about what Mars Area’s new teacher contract will look like
Details emerge about w...
Top Headlines
Two people were scalded with boiling water during a Thursday night break-in in Jackson Township, according to township police. Walid Kourami, 33, of Pittsburgh, is facing...
September 11, 2026 Crime & Courts
Building will open after renovations
September 11, 2026 Local News
A man called police just before 4 a.m. Thursday to say he was shot multiple times on Oneida Valley Road in Allegheny Township. State police are investigating the shooting...
September 10, 2026 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — According to Maria Vianeth Cervantes, Emiliano’s Mexican Restaurant was named after her son, Emiliano, just 10 days old when their first location opened. ...
September 11, 2026 Local News
At first, the Butler Eagle’s front page on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, seemed like it was going to look very different than how it ended up. Among the stories that seemed de...
September 11, 2026 Special Sections
News
Two students from Butler County districts are among the semifinalists for the 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program in Pennsylvania. Grace Nam, from Mars Area High Sch...
September 12, 2026 Local News
Independence Health System's Advanced Lung Center at Butler Memorial Hospital is hosting its annual lung cancer awareness walk Oct. 10 at Butler County Community College....
September 12, 2026 Local News
Lancaster Township will kick off its Community Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 26 at Four Springs Park, 1004 W. Lancaster Road. The event begins with a flag ceremony h...
September 12, 2026 Local News
The memorial commemorating 9/11 and those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, happenings in New York City are seen below. Butler Eagle Staff Photographer Andrew Jackson took...
September 11, 2026 Local News
Butler County Sheriff Mike Slupe is performing the ceremonial coin toss at tonight’s Mars Are High School Planet’s football game. The nonprofit U.S. United is partnering ...
September 11, 2026 Local News
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Community
Slippery Rock University’s Early Childhood and Elementary Music Community Engagement Initi...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
Give the board games you’ve finished playing a new home and find something new for your fa...
September 11, 2026
When people wake up in the morning, they want to have something that gives their lives pur...
September 11, 2026
Even though we’re in the closing weeks of summer, the great, but faint, constellation Herc...
September 10, 2026
Andrew Potyka and Patricia Potyka, of Butler, will celebrate 70 years of marriage on Sept....
September 10, 2026
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Sports
The Butler Eagle’s photo team was three PIAA football games this week: Apollo-RIdge at Fre...
 
ADAMS TWP — Mars beat the clock at the end of the first half. The Planets could not catch ...
September 11, 2026
Knoch football’s turnaround continued Friday night with a 34-20 win at Ambridge. Running b...
September 11, 2026
Mars girls golf won a tri-match with Butler and Shaler at Suncrest Golf Course on Friday, ...
September 11, 2026
ATLANTA — Cooper Rush will be the Atlanta Falcons' starting quarterback Sunday at Pittsbur...
September 11, 2026
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Editorial
It’s almost unimaginable that 25 years have passed since that day. To be honest, in the early hours of that day, it was a little uncertain that there...
September 12, 2026 Our Opinion
September 11, 2026 Cartoons
September 09, 2026 Cartoons
The national conversation about how much public surveillance is too much has come to the forefront in Butler County as municipalities weigh the pros a...
September 09, 2026 Editorial
I’ve long been intrigued by the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower and believe they each offer important and illuminating ...
September 09, 2026 Other Voices
Business
CHICAGO — Diesel prices in the U.S. hit yet another record on Friday, soaring past $6 a gallon on average as Washington’s war with Iran disrupts the w...
September 11, 2026 Business
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — For those recognized at this year’s Butler County Chamber of Commerce Celebrate Business Dinner, the evening is less about a troph...
September 10, 2026 Business
Butler Memorial Hospital has again received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain — MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award ...
September 09, 2026 Business
Armstrong Comfort Solutions, the subsidiary home services provider of Armstrong Group, is launching a new program created to help a deserving Butler C...
September 09, 2026 Business
Company actively seeking 100 full-time, part-time roles
September 09, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
A new organization in the Karns City area is planning a family event for Sunday, Sept. 13. Karns City Communities that Care is organizing KC Strong Community Day, to take...
September 09, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Fall movie season also means Oscar season. It might be only just September, but the jockeying for next March’s Academy Awards is well underway. Movies first s...
September 12, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
When remembering “Practical Magic,” Griffin Dunne’s 1998 silly-spooky witchy sister movie, the image immediately conjured has to be “midnight margaritas.” The scene of Ni...
September 11, 2026 Reviews
“The Uprising” starts as a true story of medieval England in the grip of economic revolution. That's good stuff. Then it gets inexplicably hijacked by an origin story...
September 11, 2026 Reviews
NEW YORK — Michael J. Fox’s battle with Parkinson’s disease has “gotten harder,” but he remains optimistic that a cure is coming. The 65-year-old television star was 29 y...
September 10, 2026 People
The creators of the long-running and enthusiastically insolent TV show “South Park” aren’t known to be huge fans of President Donald Trump. However, they’ve decided to ad...
September 09, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
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Special Sections
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 mark a moment in American history that typically draws the question, “Where were you?” The Butler Eagle asked that very question on social me...
September 11, 2026 Special Sections
Parkers Appliance sees customers looking for option that best suits need
September 10, 2026 Special Sections
As temperatures begin to slowly drop, Eli Nickerson, HVAC service and installation manager with Armstrong Comfort Solutions, likes to take a cooler, late summer day to wa...
September 09, 2026 Special Sections
The following are first-place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15. ALPACAS Showmanship Youth Through 18, Roselyn Knight, Evans City Age 19 & ...
September 05, 2026 Local News
The following are first-place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15. Ducks Muscovy / Bk / Old Duck, Cristi Daugherty, Butler Buff / Old Drake, ...
September 05, 2026 Local News
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Seeking Refuge
Every morning Irena Tkachenko starts her day the same way: by telephoning her relatives and friends in Ukraine to see if they are still OK. Tkachenko,...
February 24, 2023 Local News
Three young Ukrainian families who escaped their war-torn hometown of Kharkov think the American holiday of Thanksgiving is a good time to say they ca...
November 23, 2022 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Huge, steaming pots of homemade food and endless carafes of coffee and tea sustain 11 adults and children seeking refuge at the crowde...
July 16, 2022 Local News
When it comes to helping those in need, Butler County residents have proven their generosity again and again by donating amounts large and small strai...
June 20, 2022 Local News
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
June 18, 2022 Local News
Digital Divide
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
August 30, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants and loans to build ...
August 22, 2023 National News
STATE COLLEGE — Before Pennsylvania can spend an almost $1.2 billion windfall of federal funding for high-speed internet, it must figure out how to us...
July 18, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
February 27, 2023 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Pennsylvania is set to get a piece of $42.5 billion in federal money to help expand broadband internet access to underserved areas. On...
February 17, 2023 Business

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