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County officials urge McCormick to help secure Route 228 funding
Butler County officials made the claim economic activity along the Route 228 corridor has reached roughly $30 billion in yearly gross domestic product fueled by...
Secret Service missed 102 radio calls ahead of Trump assassination attempt in Butler County, report shows
An intense search was underway for a suspicious person at the campaign rally for now-President Donald Trump on July 13, 2024. Local law enforcement sent 102 rad...
Slippery Rock community recovers from flash flood
SLIPPERY ROCK — Municipal crews and business owners were busy Monday afternoon, July 6, cleaning up from flash flooding that caused the borough to be placed und...
Butler Eagle Female AOTY: North Catholic’s Simone Sharpless has always had a leg up on her peers
Once a Division III football player, DJ Sharpless has some running back highlights stored away somewhere on boxy VHS tapes. The North Catholic girls soccer coac...
Mars officially approves merger agreement with Adams Township
Mars officially approv...
County officials urge McCormick to help secure Route 228 funding
County officials urge ...
Secret Service missed 102 radio calls ahead of Trump assassination attempt in Bu...
Secret Service missed ...
Slippery Rock community recovers from flash flood
Slippery Rock communit...
Butler Eagle Female AOTY: North Catholic’s Simone Sharpless has always had a leg...
Butler Eagle Female AO...
Top Headlines
A Butler man is accused of sexually abusing three girls between the ages of 3 and 9. Derek Justin Hare, 38, was charged Thursday, July 2, by Butler County detectives with...
July 06, 2026 Local News
BUTLER TWP — The Butler Township Board of Commissioners unanimously approved two plans at their Monday, July 6, meeting that will increase the number of parking spaces at...
July 07, 2026 Local News
A Butler woman accused of stealing several road barricades and around 50 “no parking” bags put on parking meters the night before Butler’s Cruise-A-Palooza waived her pre...
July 06, 2026 Local News
A Harmony man is being charged with child endangerment after police said he allowed a 14-year-old boy to drive a vehicle, which struck a house. Zelienople police said th...
July 06, 2026 Local News
A 59-year-old man died in a motorcycle crash on Saturday, July 4, in Mercer County, according to state police in Mercer. Scott A. Arnold, of Wheatland, was pronounced de...
July 06, 2026 Local News
News
A Zelienople police lieutenant became the second member in the department’s history to graduate from the FBI National Academy on June 18, the Zelienople Police Department...
July 06, 2026 Local News
PennDOT announced a bridge repair on Route 8 in a Monday, July 6, news release that will affect drivers in Clay Township. Butler County maintenance crews will repair a b...
July 06, 2026 Local News
In a news release, PennDOT announced ongoing preservation work at the Zelienople Bridge on Route 19 has entered phase two. • To detour, drivers will follow Little Creek R...
July 06, 2026 Local News
A new report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General indicates the Secret Service missed opportunities to prevent and disrupt the July 13, ...
July 06, 2026 Local News
While celebrating Independence Day this weekend, many residents across Butler County found themselves without the freedom to turn on their lights. Over a thousand Butler...
July 05, 2026 Local News
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Community
The North Country Trail Butler County Chapter will have a meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, ...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
MARS — Not even a fierce thunderstorm over Butler County could prevent the borough from ce...
July 05, 2026
ZELIENOPLE — Zelienople's decades-long Fourth of July parade tradition took on new meaning...
July 04, 2026
Slippery Rock University’s marketing and communications office uses an “evidence-based res...
July 03, 2026
One of the great ironies of the year is the fact that in the heat of the summer in the nor...
July 02, 2026
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Sports
SEATTLE — The United States’ hopes for a deep World Cup run at home ended when Charles De ...
 
The Butler Eagle began naming male and female athletes of the year after the 2023-24 schoo...
July 06, 2026
Swimming is a decades-long tradition at Penn Valley Athletic Club. Its youth swimmers are ...
July 06, 2026
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County. Wednesday, July 8 ...
July 06, 2026
Golf Lady Duffers League June 29 at Stoughton Acres Standings: 1st-Pars...
July 04, 2026
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Editorial
July 06, 2026 Cartoons
The fireworks may have been set off and the food may just be a faint, charcoal-tinged memory, but one thing we should strive to maintain beyond the ce...
July 06, 2026 Our Opinion
Social Security is now just six years away from insolvency, according to the latest annual assessment. Many in Congress might like to keep on ignorin...
July 06, 2026 Other Voices
I would like to thank Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., and Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., for making sure Pennsylvania was represented in the Great American S...
July 04, 2026 Letters to the Editor
As we celebrate the 250th birthday of our nation, those of us who were born and bred in Butler County have seen many changes, and depending on your pe...
July 04, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Business
REDMOND, Wash. Microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs, about 2.1% of its global workforce, including a large number of workers at its Xbox video game busines...
July 07, 2026 Business
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday rang the opening bells for the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq from the golden confines of the Ov...
July 07, 2026 Business
Thousands of visitors flocked to Cesar Mora's farm in central California last week to gather free nectarines. He's giving his harvest away rather than...
July 05, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — Small business owners in U.S. tourist destinations say they’re seeing more Americans sticking closer to home this summer, trading overseas...
July 05, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — A handful of countries in the OPEC+ oil-producing alliance plan to increase their outputs modestly next month, which would bring more oil...
July 05, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
Veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fincke will be a featured speaker at the 2026 Moon2Mars Foundation Summer Speaker Series on Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19, at Point Park...
July 01, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
The latest Rolling Stones album and the streaming debut of the hit movie “Backrooms” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. A...
July 06, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — The Minions have taken down “Toy Story 5" at the July Fourth weekend box office, but not by much. “Minions & Monsters,” the seventh film in the “Despic...
July 06, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce married Friday night at Madison Square Garden, where actor Adam Sandler was the surprising officiant at a ceremony and Stevie Nic...
July 05, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Every once in a while, Hollywood gets high on its own supply and makes a love letter to moviemaking. It happened recently with Steven Spielberg's “The Fabelmans” and Geor...
July 04, 2026 Reviews
The “Enola Holmes” movies have done nothing so much as chart Millie Bobby Brown’s evolution from child actor to movie star. She was 16 when the first “Enola Holmes” debut...
July 04, 2026 Reviews
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Special Sections
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Below are the even...
July 04, 2026 Special Sections
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Below are a number...
July 03, 2026 Special Sections
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Butler Area Pu...
July 03, 2026 Special Sections
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Butler Transit Aut...
July 03, 2026 Special Sections
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...
July 01, 2026 Special Sections
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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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