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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.
Local News
NEW YORK — It’s shoppers like Quinn Kelsey who keep department store executives up at night. The 38-year-old Denver resident gets makeup ideas from TikTok videos and oth...
December 27, 2025 Business
To consolidate millions of dollars worth of emergency services vehicles and equipment at one location, Butler County commissioners are planning to build a garage for arou...
December 27, 2025 Local News
Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building a wall of tariffs around what used to be a wi...
December 27, 2025 National News
For more than four decades across courtrooms, classrooms and fairways, Richard “Dick” Goldinger carried himself in the same humble manner that made him a towering presenc...
December 27, 2025 Local News
A Connoquenessing Township bicyclist was found guilty of a summary charge Tuesday, Dec. 23, after he appealed his case to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Brendan Linton,...
December 27, 2025 Local News
A trio of Penn Township natives are seeking help from the community as they attempt to revive and renovate the former McCormick’s Market general store on Brownsdale Road....
December 26, 2025 Local News
Butler County is home to businesses of all sizes, across many industries which help shape the communities they are in. In 2025, Butler County saw businesses come and go, ...
December 26, 2025 Business
The National Weather Service said Butler will avoid the worst of freezing rain forecasts heading into the evening, though residents traveling elsewhere should be cautious...
December 26, 2025 Local News
As 2025 winds to a close, we’re taking a moment to look back at an eventful year in Butler County and what some of the biggest and most important stories of the year to i...
December 26, 2025 Local News
While the adage goes “no news is good news,” the Butler Eagle did report plenty of stories that could widely be considered good news in 2025. Over the span of 2025, the ...
December 26, 2025 Local News
Other News
The oldest baby boomers — once the vanguard of an American youth that revolutionized U.S. culture and politics — turn 80 in 2026. The generation that twirled the first pl...
December 27, 2025 National News
The holiday season will soon come to a close, but the busiest time of the year for product returns is just beginning. The National Retail Federation estimates 17% of holi...
December 27, 2025 National News
Taylor Swift has donated $1 million to the American Heart Association following her father’s successful quintuple bypass earlier this year. The organization announced T...
December 27, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
MONTPELLIER, France — French coach Jean-Louis Gasset, who was fired mid-tournament by Ivory Coast before it went on to win the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, has died aged 7...
December 27, 2025 International News
ABUJA, Nigeria — The United States airstrikes that targeted Islamic State group militants in northwestern Nigeria on Thursday marked a major escalation in an offensive th...
December 26, 2025 International News
KYIV, Ukraine — Several key issues remain unresolved in ongoing negotiations between Ukraine and the United States over a potential framework to end Russia’s war, Ukraini...
December 26, 2025 International News
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump said the United States launched a “powerful and deadly” strike against forces of the Islamic State group in Nigeria, after ...
December 26, 2025 International News
Sports
PLUM — Knoch boys basketball’s ability to run its winning streak to five games against Latrobe was going to depend largely on the team’s ability to do one thing. “They’re...
December 26, 2025 Sports
CRANBERRY TWP — Sam Weir’s sophomore basketball season at North Catholic did not start with a bang. She dealt with foot injuries and the flu. Then again, it’s not how you...
December 26, 2025 Sports
Editorial
Great reporting! Reporter Sol McCormick described the damages that many in public education do to families and students on Dec. 20, (“K.C. district prepares to tear down ...
December 27, 2025 Letters to the Editor
On Monday, Dec. 22, a man was trapped in a burning car in a ditch alongside Brownsdale Road when bystanders jumped into action and saved his life. As we learned in the Tu...
December 27, 2025 Our Opinion
On the front page of the Wednesday, Dec. 3, Eagle is an article titled “Feds plan to withhold SNAP money.” The subtitle is “Pa. among states that won’t provide data.” The...
December 27, 2025 Letters to the Editor
December 27, 2025 Cartoons
In the last year or so, health influencers — and a lot of women on social media — have talked up testosterone therapy as a kind of perimenopausal panacea. They promise bo...
December 27, 2025 Other Voices
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs explains how humans prioritize necessities: physiological needs form the base, followed by safety, belonging, esteem and self-actualization. E...
December 27, 2025 Letters to the Editor
Community
I was looking for a quick and comforting meal for this busy time of year, and creamy mac and cheese with store-bought cooked chicken was the perfect answer. Once the elbo...
December 27, 2025 Recipes
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Mars, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week. Lun...
December 27, 2025 Senior
Elks Cranberry Lodge 2249 received a Gratitude Grant from the Elks National Foundation in December. The lodge applied for the grant to support the mission of Gleaners Foo...
December 27, 2025 Community
Announcements
The following area residents have been named to the Dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities. Belmont University Freeport: Maxwell Kruse Mars: Benjamin ...
December 27, 2025 Deans List
Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — It is one of the most surprising music stories of the year. While streams of new music — releases from the last 18 months — were down from last year, one genre...
December 27, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died. He was 65. The band made the announcement on th...
December 27, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
“Everybody wants to rule the world,” goes the Tears for Fears song we hear at a key point in “Marty Supreme,” Josh Safdie’s nerve-busting adrenaline jolt of a movie starr...
December 27, 2025 Reviews
January nights in Butler are full of starry delights, and we have so many hours to enjoy them, provided the weather cooperates. As 2026 kicks off, you can even begin your...
December 27, 2025 Starwatch
The best parts of the “Ocean's Eleven” movies aren't the big heists. They're when the crew, that motley assortment of raw talent, is being put together. And that's perhap...
December 27, 2025 Reviews
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