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Local News
Annual event offers safety checks and biking challenge for youths
August 01, 2026 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Cindy Austin was 26 years old and looking for a job when she found Nicklas Supply in the newspaper. Thirty-four years later, she is one of the many owners...
August 01, 2026 Local News
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II is poised to reshape the freight and logistics industry, exposing transportation brokers to gre...
August 01, 2026 Business
On Wednesday morning, 70-year-old Warren Wiebe set out on a 24-hour journey on his bike through the Great Allegheny Passage to raise funds for research of a rare disease ...
August 01, 2026 Local News
Saturday, Aug. 1, is World Lung Cancer Day. In America, lung cancer kills more people each year than breast, prostate and colorectal cancers combined. According to the Am...
August 01, 2026 Local News
With local nonprofit Community Partnership Inc.’s status in flux, its parent organization has said it will support the organization in its next steps forward, though few ...
August 01, 2026 Local News
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: Butler July 16 — Gilmore A. Hilliard Jr., 62, of Butler, was charged with misdemea...
August 01, 2026 Local News
As data centers take center stage in business-development conversations across the country, the Butler Eagle is taking a deep dive into the issues and questions surro...
August 01, 2026 Local News
PennDOT announced restrictions on Interstate 79 in Marshall Township and Franklin Park will continue Tuesday through Friday, Aug. 4-7, weather permitting. Southbound on I...
July 31, 2026 Local News
For the second consecutive year, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has been named a recipient of the PA Chamber Foundation’s Greatest Places to Intern in Pennsylvania awar...
July 31, 2026 Business
Other News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that his $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is “dead” while also continuing to defend it, further complicating his admin...
July 31, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department moved Friday to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, sa...
July 31, 2026 National News
The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as “years of escalating harms” from using their...
July 31, 2026 National News
CAIRO — Hamas said Friday that it will begin disarming as part of a deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump that also requires Israel to end its strikes and withdra...
July 31, 2026 International News
Each year, millions of dollars from SNAP recipients are drained through skimming fraud across the country. After relying on magnetic strip cards for years, officials in ...
July 31, 2026 Local News
Sports
GOLF Lady Duffers League July 27 at Stoughton Acres Standings: Pars 108.5, Putters 103, Drivers 99.5, Birdies 92.5, Aces 91, Eagles 90 Flight 1: Sh...
August 01, 2026 Sports
CANTON, Ohio — An hour before the start of the Women’s Football Alliance Pro National Championship game Saturday afternoon, two patrons were wearing black-and-gold No. 35...
July 31, 2026 Sports
Editorial
Blue for the Reflecting Pool? How nice! President Donald Trump will do anything to get his name, logo or mark on anything. Who is he kidding? Blue is for the states that ...
August 01, 2026 Letters to the Editor
President Donald Trump’s primetime address earlier this month was an embarrassment — not only to Americans who expect seriousness from the Oval Office, but to anyone who ...
August 01, 2026 Letters to the Editor
The revitalization of Butler’s Main Street may come from a joint effort from the Butler County Chamber of Commerce and Butler Downtown to pursue Main Street Matters desig...
July 31, 2026 Our Opinion
July 31, 2026 Cartoons
Across Pennsylvania, employers are asking a familiar question: Where are the workers? It is the wrong question, or at least an incomplete one. Yes, many employers are str...
July 31, 2026 Other Voices
Community
Have you visited the Penn State Extension office in Butler County recently? If so, did you notice that the landscape is going through renovations? The Penn State Master...
August 01, 2026 Community
As part of the Steeples and Stacks Heritage Weekend, the Maridon Museum will present a special exhibit of items from its founder, Mary Hulton Phillips and the Phillips’ f...
July 31, 2026 Community
There will be a workshop demonstrating to teens and adults how to make greeting cards Wednesday, Aug. 5, at the South Butler Community Library. The sessions take place at...
July 31, 2026 Community
BUTLER TWP — Preston Park is a gift that keeps on giving, but it needs some things in return. In order for the park continually providing activity for people in and aroun...
July 31, 2026 Community
Laura J. Doerr Memorial Park in Jefferson Township hosted the first Hard Hats and Home Runs wiffle ball tournament on Wednesday, July 29, featuring teams representing But...
July 31, 2026 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of our beloved Sandy Snyder who passed away 3 years ago, August 2. I dream of you dear loved one, And see your smiling face, And know that you are happy ...
August 01, 2026 In Memoriams
In loving memory of our beloved mother Brunie Kale whose birthday is August 2. We never need a special day, To bring you to our mind, For days without a thought of you, A...
August 01, 2026 Birthday Tributes
Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Arlene Smith, one of the first “girl group” stars who as a teenager and a founder of the Chantels co-wrote and sang lead on the 1950s doo-wop classic “Maybe,” ...
July 31, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Are the ears playing tricks on us? Or does Tom Holland’s Peter Parker sound, at the beginning of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” like more of a native New Yorker than before...
July 31, 2026 Reviews
As a movie about getting older and still having to cater to younger demographics, the Kevin Hart comedy “72 Hours” has a meta synergy to it. Hart plays a successful New ...
July 31, 2026 Reviews
Other
August 01, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
To all who received him, to those who believe in his name, he gave the right to become children of God — children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a ...
August 01, 2026 Verse of the Day
July 31, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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