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.
CLAIRTON — For Don Furko, Aug. 11, 2025, was a normal shift. Until it became the shift he would never forget.
At 10:47 a.m., U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works outside Pitt...
The following marriage licenses were issued in Butler County courts:
Randall Bennis and Lindsay Cehily, both of West Leechburg, Westmoreland County
Liam Soley, of Renfrew...
At McQuiston Elementary School, classmates showed their appreciation for one another during their annual Valentine’s Day party Friday, Feb. 13.
Smiles and cheer spread t...
WINFIELD TWP — With Bernie’s Mobile Home Park in Winfield Township experiencing yet another run of water issues, Cabot Church on Winfield Road is lending a hand to those ...
Federal offices will be closed for Presidents Day on Monday, Feb. 16. Some services will be effected locally.
The U.S. Postal Service will be closed and will not deliver ...
A jackpot-winning Pennsylvania Lottery Cash 5 with Quick Cash ticket worth $889,273 was sold in Zelienople during the Thursday, Feb. 12 drawing.
The ticket matched all fi...
Law enforcement detained eight people Thursday, Feb. 12, while executing a search warrant on a Federal Street residence in Butler, state police announced on Friday.
Six ...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested 36 undocumented immigrants in collaboration with the Butler County sheriff’s office since November, according to ICE...
A Butler man is accused of attaching a tracker to a woman’s vehicle in Summit Township.
Randy Lee Shuler, 40, was charged Tuesday, Feb. 10 by state police with misdemeano...
JEFFERSON TWP — As the Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School aimed to keep costs low, school boards like Knoch School District’s have shown less opposition to it...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon pleaded not guilty to federal civil rights charges Friday, following a protest at a Minnesota ch...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said Friday that it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the Caribbean Sea.
U.S. Southern Com...
Gov. Josh Shapiro implored Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this week to reconsider converting warehouses in Berks and Schuylkill counties into mass immigration de...
MINNEAPOLIS — The Trump administration’s drawdown of its immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities area has been met with relief, but state and city officials say ...
PORT ORANGE, Fla. — A dispute over a rule led to a brawl during a pickleball game at a central Florida country club, authorities said, with one player hitting his opponen...
DENVER — Four people are dead after a small plane crashed Friday on a mountain near the Colorado ski resort community of Steamboat Springs, authorities said.
An Epic E100...
UNITED NATIONS — The Trump administration is urging other nations to press a tiny Pacific island country to withdraw a United Nations draft resolution supporting strong a...
President Donald Trump’s administration cannot force states to hand over detailed information on people who have applied for or received aid from the Supplemental Nutriti...
NORWICH, Conn. — The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service t...
ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Two men are dead and another was wounded after a shooting in a room at a South Carolina State University residential complex, the university said, prom...
JEFFERSON TWP — Joe Lafko remembers facing Knoch boys basketball as late as the 2023-24 season.
Then the head coach at Hampton, he was impressed with the Knights.
“I like...
CLARION — Two quarters into Friday night’s Keystone Shortway Athletic Conference semifinal clash with Clarion, Brendin Sankey wished he was somewhere other than PennWest ...
Alexis Cashdollar scored 15 points in her final high school game, and No. 14 Mars girls basketball fell 63-36 to third-seed Indiana in Friday’s first round of the WPIAL C...
The WPIAL girls basketball playoff pairing were announced Monday, with four Butler County teams getting set for postseason play.
WPIAL Section 1-6A co-champions Seneca Va...
A Knoch-North Catholic Part 3 will have to wait a few rounds.
But if it happens, it’ll set the stage for the WPIAL Class 4A boys basketball championship game.
The WPIAL a...
Brady Mayo’s 3-pointer with 4.7 to go pushed Slippery Rock University’s men’s basketball team past Clarion 80-78 at home Wednesday.
The win pushed The Rock to 15-8 on the...
BRADENTON, Fla. — José Urquidy and the Pittsburgh Pirates finalized their $1.5 million, one-year contract Wednesday.
The sides agreed to terms last week, subject to a suc...
PITTSBURGH — Elroy Face, an All-Star reliever for the Pittsburgh Pirates who saved three games in the 1960 World Series to help them upset the New York Yankees, has died....
Hanna Dailey scored 14 points, including nine in the first quarter, in Karns City girls basketball’s 44-27 victory over Cranberry in the KSAC semifinals at Clarion Univer...
When a friend mentioned that she serves chili over noodles, I was intrigued. We always serve our chili straight up with cornbread or tortilla chips on the side, but I had...
A Cranberry Township couple probably never would have gotten married — let alone met one another — if not for Hinge, an online dating application they each used in 2020.
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Soft tortillas filled with crisp, colorful vegetables and drizzled with a tangy peanut sauce make this an easy, no-cook, pick-up-and-go dinner. Everything comes together ...
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week.
Lunch is ...
The following area residents have been named to the president’s list at their respective colleges and universities.
Plymouth State University
Butler: Connor Strobel
Sain...
The following area residents have been named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities.
College of William & Mary
Mars: David deVyver, Meredith End...
It’s Valentine’s weekend in Butler, and while — in my opinion — this is one of those holidays driven by greeting card companies, restaurants, flower shops and more, it’s ...
Nancy Swidzinski, of Butler Township, celebrated her 90th birthday Feb. 15, at a family dinner at Shakespeare’s Restaurant & Pub.
The former Nancy Fitzpatrick was born o...
It’s hardly a surprise that filmmaker Emerald Fennell, who possesses a particular interest in shocking and riling her audience, was drawn to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Hei...
You’d expect an animated basketball movie with four-time NBA champion Stephen Curry in the producer’s chair to be an easy layup. So why is “GOAT” such a brick?
Despite a...
