Read the latest news from today along with all of the articles published yesterday to the website in preparation for the current print edition of the Butler Eagle.
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry filed suit against a former Mars delivery business for allegedly not paying 25 employees for their last week of employme...
PENN TWP — Butler Transit Authority continued to upgrade its technology at its final meeting of the year.
The authority’s board voted Tuesday, Dec. 9, to spend $14,060 on...
Jackson Township officials proposed a 2026 budget that holds the general real-estate tax rate steady for the coming year while adding a dedicated half-mill tax to support...
PENN TWP — The township is entering a new era next month, without board of supervisors chairman Samuel Ward, who was a member of the board for nearly four decades.
Tuesda...
The Mars Police Department helped make Christmas magic possible on Tuesday, Dec. 9.
On Tuesday, the police department gathered the toys it had collected through Monday f...
Butler police filed misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges against four people in connection with a fight in the 200 block of Mercer Street — including two people taken t...
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts:
Adams Twp
Dec. 2 — Connor Alan McCauley, 27, of Mars, was charged with two misdeme...
It’s said that God puts people on Earth for a reason, and Leslie “Les” Martin would say that God put him on Earth to help people through their drug and alcohol problems.
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Camp Bow Wow in Cranberry Township has joined the U-Haul neighborhood dealer network and will offer truck rentals and moving supplies at its location at 41 Progress Ave.,...
Buffalo Township’s municipal tax rate will have nearly tripled in the span of four years if the proposed 2026 township budget is approved.
The spending plan calls for an ...
MIAMI — Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor’s race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump to end her party’s nearly three-decade lo...
MOUNT POCONO, Pa. — On the road in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, President Donald Trump emphasized his focus on combating inflation, before pivoting to talk about immigration ...
FRANKFORT, Ky. — At least one student was killed and another was critically wounded in a shooting at a residence hall at Kentucky State University on Tuesday, and a suspe...
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that her country intends to send more water to the United States, but not immediately, even as U.S. Preside...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A passerby could hear the cacophony from miles away in the Argentine capital, the unmistakable sound of 2,397 dogs barking — and breaking the un...
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told congressional leaders Tuesday that he was still weighing whether to release the full video of an attack on an alleged dru...
McALLEN, Texas — Hundreds of immigrant children lingered in federal detention beyond a court-mandated limit, including some who were held more than five months, according...
SANTA FE, N.M. — A new conservation agreement will preserve land with breathtaking desert vistas that inspired the work of 20th century painter Georgia O’Keeffe and ensur...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — One by one, the soldiers squeezed through a narrow entrance to a tunnel in southern Gaza. Inside a dark hallway, some bowed their heads to avoid hitti...
TOKYO — Japan issued a megaquake advisory Tuesday after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Japan's main isl...
BUTLER TWP — Star power guarantees nothing in sports, but it comes in handy for a team when it finds itself in a tight game.
Shaler’s Reese Smetanka certainly fits the bi...
PITTSBURGH — Beckett Sennecke scored a short-handed goal with 1 second remaining to force overtime, Leo Carlsson scored in the shootout and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Pit...
Adrian Lavorini placed first in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:03.49) and 500 freestyle (5:03.92) as Knoch’s boys swimming team downed Slippery Rock 105-39 Tuesday night.
T...
PITTSBURGH — A brief hospital visit won’t keep Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf from playing next week against Miami.
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said Metcalf...
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins placed center Evgeni Malkin on injured reserve Tuesday with an upper-body injury.
The move comes after the 39-year-old Malkin sat out...
While their teammates on offense were busy providing blocks, gaining yards and scoring touchdowns, high school football defensive players were halting opposing drives wit...
Emergency Medical Service providers across Pennsylvania have been struggling for years to fill the funding gap between what it costs every time an ambulance leaves the st...
For the first time in the group’s 17-year history, the G20 summit in Johannesburg last month was marked by a complete absence of the United States at the negotiating tabl...
Pinewood Memorial Gardens in Cranberry Township is one of 19 cemeteries across Butler County hosting a Wreaths Across America ceremony Saturday, Dec. 13, which has been d...
Joyce Rauschenberger has advised many young members of the William C. Graham Order of Squires, but she never aided an 11-year-old who used a flowchart to plan a fundraisi...
Flowering holiday plants and bulbs are decorating the shelves at local nurseries, floral shops and garden centers. Traditional holiday plants include poinsettias (Euphorb...
After driving trucks for 3 Rivers Ice Cream for more than 30 years, Nelson Clark, of Butler, started hauling a different kind of cargo in his retirement: people with canc...
NEW YORK — Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, has died. He was 60.
Malo died Monday night, his wife, Betty...
Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery places CNN and its sister cable networks squarely back into what is likely to be an extended period of...
