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 southbound lane of Route 19 near the Zelienople Bridge will be closed Wednesday, May 20, while the bridge undergoes preservation work.
The closure is expected to last...
A Red Lion, Pa., man is accused of assaulting a man at a Taco Bell in Slippery Rock.
Christopher Lee Powell, 22, was charged Wednesday, May 13, by Slippery Rock police w...
A North Apollo man is accused of harassing a Buffalo Township business.
Spencer Thomas Baker, 21, was charged Monday, May 11, by Buffalo Township police with one misdeme...
NEW YORK — Shoppers tempered their spending in April as higher gas prices fueled by the Iran war meant less money left over for some nonessentials like clothing and furni...
BUFFALO TWP — The Municipal Authority of Buffalo Township, which provides the township with public water and sewage, was given the green light to begin work on a capacity...
A 50-year-old man was rendered unconscious in a bicycle crash Thursday afternoon, May 14, near Alameda Park in Butler Township, according to Butler County Emergency Servi...
BUFFALO TWP — Township manager Rich Hill intends to retire from his position by the end of 2026.
The news was announced during the monthly board of supervisors meeting on...
PENN TWP — From the roaring cheers following the two Distinguished Service Award recipients’ speeches, it was clear the attendees believed in the recipients just as much ...
After a trend of improvement over the past year, financial results for Butler Health System are showing signs of stagnation, according to the most recent quarterly report...
WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee announced Thursday it is investigating Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina over allegations that he created a hostile ...
MIAMI — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged Americans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of independence not with fireworks or empty platitudes, but by standing u...
The head of U.S. Border Patrol, the agency tasked with securing the nation's frontiers and increasingly tapped by the Trump administration for immigration operations in A...
BEIJING — As President Donald Trump wraps up his whirlwind visit to China on Friday, he’s insistent that relations between the world’s two biggest powers are good and get...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he issued an executive order to restrict voters’ ability to cast ballots by mail, attorneys for Democrats ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsu...
A federal jury has awarded $49.5 million to the family of a 24-year-old global nonprofit worker killed in the 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 Max jet in Ethiopia while traveli...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia on Thursday unleashed a third straight day of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, demolishing an apartment building in Kyiv where nine pe...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A ship anchored off the United Arab Emirates was seized and taken toward Iran and another was attacked and sank, authorities said Thursday, ...
BUTLER TWP — It did not turn out to be the early night Butler boys volleyball had set itself up for, but in the end the Golden Tornado were still standing after Thursday’...
SLIPPERY ROCK — Butler wasn’t at its best, but it was still better than anyone else.
The Golden Tornado’s 4x800-meter relay — made up of seniors Logan Rogers and Ethan Th...
Mars boys lacrosse made sure four-goal leads stuck just enough to win 8-7 over No. 6 Bethel Park in the WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinals Thursday.
Reed Fuller recorded a hat ...
Butler has been one of the best baseball teams in the WPIAL and was rewarded as such with the top seed in the Class 6A tournament.
The district playoff brackets were rele...
Butler County boasts four teams in this season’s WPIAL softball playoffs, which get underway next week.
Seneca Valley, seeded No. 2 in Class 6A, received a bye to the sem...
In its quest for a fourth consecutive WPIAL Class 2A championship, Mars girls lacrosse was tabbed as the top seed in the district playoff tournament. The brackets were re...
The WPIAL released its boys volleyball playoff brackets Friday, and two Butler County teams remain in action after the first round.
In Class 3A, Butler (14-4) is seeded N...
The Pittsburgh Steelers will host Denver in a 3 p.m. Black Friday game this season.
And while that won’t get in the way of the dates of the WPIAL football championships, ...
The NFL is announcing its full 2026 schedule Thursday night, but many of the dates, times and opponents for the Pittsburgh Steelers are already out after more than a week...
PITTSBURGH — Endy Rodriguez had two hits and drove in a pair of runs in his return to the majors and the Pittsburgh Pirates breezed past the Colorado Rockies 7-2 Thursday...
Even in the worst areas of light pollution, you can’t miss Venus. After hiding out in the morning sky most of the last half of 2025, it has finally entered the Western ev...
The following area residents were named to the president’s list at their respective colleges and universities.
Southern New Hampshire University
Butler: Estera Jablonska,...
The following area residents were named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges and universities.
Cedarville University
Butler: Chesna Tomko
Cranberry Township: ...
CRANBERRY TWP — While it takes a lot of focus and time for Wendy Clibbens to complete her yarn projects — like one she is working on now for her coming second grandchild ...
Catherine Tilko, of Center Township, celebrates her 102nd birthday May 17.
The former Catherine Dellich was born May 17, 1924, in Williamsburg, Pa.
She married Stanley L....
Gianna Cafasso received a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Marketing, with a double minor in Music Industry and Graphic Design from Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio.
She gr...
NEW YORK — Clarence Carter, the blues and soul musician and singer-songwriter with the raspy, emotional vocals whose hits included the sentimental “Patches” and the salac...
NEW YORK — Decades after the last “Godfather” movie and more than 10 years since the last “Godfather” novel, the story of the Corleone crime family has a new chapter, pre...
The World Cup final will feature a star-studded halftime show headlined by Madonna, Shakira and boy-band BTS.
FIFA has announced that, for the first time, the final at t...
