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Skill games are slot machines, rules Pa. Supreme Court
Decision will not take effect for 120 days
Clay Township home smashed by tree in Sunday storms
Power outages, downed trees and lines plague county
Vote for your Butler Eagle Male Athlete of the Year: Meet the 5 nominees for 2025-26
The Butler Eagle has celebrated its top male and female athletes of the school year each of the past two summers. This time, we are announcing our nominees for ...
State police issue 694 citations in first weekend of Paul Miller’s Law
State police issued almost 700 citations and more than 300 warnings related to Paul Miller’s Law in its first three days of enforcement with fines, according to...
Seniors raise flag for flag day, America’s 250th
Community hosts sale to spruce up neighborhood for holiday
Skill games are slot machines, rules Pa. Supreme Court
Skill games are slot m...
Clay Township home smashed by tree in Sunday storms
Clay Township home sma...
Vote for your Butler Eagle Male Athlete of the Year: Meet the 5 nominees for 202...
Vote for your Butler E...
State police issue 694 citations in first weekend of Paul Miller’s Law
State police issue 694...
Seniors raise flag for flag day, America’s 250th
Seniors raise flag for...
Top Headlines
State police issued almost 700 citations and more than 300 warnings related to Paul Miller’s Law in its first three days of enforcement with fines, according to a Friday,...
June 15, 2026 Local News
The Worthington Carnival will be back June 15 to 20 for live entertainment, food and rides all five days at the Worthington-West Franklin Volunteer Fire Department. Rides...
June 14, 2026
Before Tim Fennell was Butler County’s Chief Detective, he thwarted a robbery of more than $12,000 in diamond rings from a Main Street jeweler. Another time, he investiga...
June 12, 2026 Local News
More than seven months after a fire destroyed Butler’s former Bantam Jeep building, the city’s mayor said he has heard no updates from the property owner about the future...
June 12, 2026 Local News
Butler residents with a sweet tooth will soon have a new way to satiate their cravings along Main Street. Jenn and Matt McConnell, co-owners of The Sweet Gremlin bakery,...
June 12, 2026 Business
News
Karns City Area Elementary School is crediting Sonneborn, LLC with providing financial support for the school’s positive behavioral interventions program and promoting it...
June 15, 2026 Education
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture is taking no chances with New World screwworm and has issued an official quarantine order to prevent an infestation of the pest...
June 15, 2026 Local News
For some Mars Area School District families, opening their doors to American newcomers have helped build relationships that last a lifetime. Through the American Field Se...
June 15, 2026 Local News
Officials may visit area Tuesday for evidence of potential tornado
June 15, 2026 Local News
A strong thunderstorm blew through Butler County and the rest of Western Pennsylvania around 6 p.m. Sunday, June 15, leaving behind a trail of downed trees and wires. A B...
June 15, 2026 Local News
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Community
A community event focused on teaching and promoting water safety is returning to the Cranb...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
BUFFALO TWP — Kaylinh Lundell, 6, was listening to the radio in the car one day in Decembe...
June 14, 2026
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Joe Hardisky and Tammy Veloski trekked more than 14 miles through Clea...
June 14, 2026
The Middlesex Township Police Department will play the role of “ice cream man” on Saturday...
June 12, 2026
Butler Senior High School’s class of 2026 announced Rachel Arnovitz Dohme, of the Butler H...
June 12, 2026
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Sports
Valencia resident and Pine-Richland graduate Levi Wentz signed a one-year deal with the Pi...
 
The adage “getting there is half the fun,” has philosophical meaning in regards to many of...
June 14, 2026
UNIVERSITY PARK — Josh Wilburn and his dad were shouting and jumping up and down on their ...
June 13, 2026
UNIVERSITY PARK — Grant Weaver loves the spin move. He’ll offer casual ones to weave his w...
June 13, 2026
The PIAA boys and girls lacrosse tournaments continue Tuesday, and Mars’ boys are hoping t...
June 13, 2026
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Editorial
June 15, 2026 Cartoons
Saturdays in Greenwich Village require contending with the lines. Starting at 9 a.m., you see blocks-long queues of people waiting for all sorts of t...
June 15, 2026 Other Voices
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bill to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour three times. The state Senate has failed to act. Ove...
June 13, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Channeling Dr. Seuss, here is a warning for old and young alike about the dangers of the upcoming holiday. If you look up at the sky For the fireworks...
June 13, 2026 Letters to the Editor
I would like to comment on the local paving taking place north and east of the city of Butler. Route 68, from Butler toward Chicora and beyond. Shield...
June 13, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Business
Fox Corp. has agreed to buy the streaming pioneer Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $22 billion, including debt. Roku will continue to be...
June 15, 2026 Business
A first-of-its-kind law in New York could force 3D printers sold for homes and business to come equipped with technology blocking them from making gun...
June 14, 2026 Business
SAN FRANCISCO — Nara Organics recalled its organic baby formula sold nationwide in Target stores and online Saturday after a multistate outbreak of i...
June 14, 2026 Business
The days of your local landscaping company showing up to jobsites without shirts on are long gone. Local business owners and industry experts say it i...
June 13, 2026 Business
NEW YORK — The Treasury Department moved Friday to enlist the nation’s banks more deeply in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, including ...
June 13, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
As America approaches its 250th anniversary, Jennings Environmental Education Center will have a look at a part of Revolutionary history that is often overlooked — Wester...
June 10, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
RIO DE JANEIRO — Officials in Brazil on Monday were inspecting the site of a crash in which six people were killed Sunday, after two helicopters collided midair over a s...
June 15, 2026 International News
NEW YORK — Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day,” billed as his first popcorn movie in years, launched with $44 million in domestic theaters, according to studio estimates...
June 14, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Taylor Swift became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Thursday night at age 36. “It was instinctual. No one taught me how to ...
June 13, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
“Disclosure Day” invites you into its world with a kick to the face. Or maybe it’s a stomp. Whatever it is, this opening sequence, in a garish professional wrestling ...
June 13, 2026 Reviews
The knife-wielding serial killer known as Ghostface unwisely tries to stab Teyana Taylor in the opening scene of “Scary Movie” and it goes rather poorly. The dagger the p...
June 13, 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 a list o...
June 15, 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...
June 15, 2026 Special Sections
One funeral home offers new location, another offers pet cremations
June 15, 2026 Special Sections
WORTH TWP — Although the parking lots and trails at Cooper’s Lake Event Venue and Campground on Saturday, June 13, were filled with Jeeps, you did not need a Jeep to have...
June 14, 2026 Local News
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...
June 12, 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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