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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
Pennsylvania American Water crews are making emergency repairs Saturday morning, Dec. 6, to a main break on 5th Avenue in Butler. The main break occurred at 12:45 p.m., a...
December 06, 2025 Local News
When markets move, so does your portfolio. Over time, even a well-built investment mix can drift out of alignment. While most investors know that diversification is a pru...
December 06, 2025 Business
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Wednesday the next phase of a national crackdown on illegal robocalls is underway, this time targeting four major voic...
December 06, 2025 Local News
A Cranberry Township man was arrested and charged with burglary and trespassing after police said he was found in an homeowner association clubhouse. Anthony Edwards-Hic...
December 06, 2025 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — District Judge Kevin Flaherty held all charges for a man accused of lending out a care he was supposed to be repairing to Common Pleas Court on Friday, De...
December 06, 2025 Local News
Holiday-themed houseplants such as poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) and amaryllis (Amaryllis spp.) are often given as a token of friendship or as a holiday tradition. ...
December 06, 2025 Local News
Teamwork is the name of the game for Leadership Butler County participants and sometimes that reality hits harder for some than others according to Mark Buchek, chairman ...
December 06, 2025 Business
Old Union Church is holding its annual Christmas Cookie Sale on Dec. 13. The last day to order is Sunday, Dec. 7, however, orders will be taken until Dec. 10. Orders aft...
December 06, 2025 Local News
At its annual meeting on Thursday, Dec. 4, at UPMC Passavant-McCandless, a wide-ranging report highlighting the hospital’s achievements and expansions over the past year ...
December 06, 2025 Local News
December 06, 2025 Local News
Other News
DANVILLE, Calif. — At age 106, Alice Darrow can clearly recall her days as a nurse during World War II, part of a pioneering group that dodged bullets as they hauled pack...
December 06, 2025 National News
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans’ mayor-elect said Friday that a federal immigration crackdown launched this week is already causing harm as encounters between masked agents and...
December 05, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s advisers and Ukrainian officials say they’ll meet for a third day of talks on Saturday after making progress on finding agreement on...
December 05, 2025 International News
WASHINGTON — The man accused of planting a pair of pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U...
December 05, 2025 National News
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's White House is taking on the role of media critic and asking for help from “everyday Americans.” The White House launched a web portal...
December 05, 2025 National News
NEW YORK — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're...
December 05, 2025 National News
HARRISBURG — U.S. Steel said it will resume making steel slabs at its Granite City Works plant in Illinois as demand rebounds. The company shut down the last blast furnac...
December 05, 2025 Business
Sports
Matt Campbell was hired as Penn State's coach Friday night, ending a two-month search by the Nittany Lions to find James Franklin's successor. The 46-year-old Campbell he...
December 06, 2025 College
CHERRY TWP — The first quarter Friday night at Moniteau didn’t sit well with Karns City senior Naomi Venesky. “They came out with a lot of energy,” Venesky said of the Wa...
December 05, 2025 Sports
Butler dropped 26 first-quarter points on host New Castle and cruised to a 60-19 girls basketball victory Friday night. Eva Stutz scored 16 points to power the Golden Tor...
December 05, 2025 Sports
Joe Rapp hardly ever leaves the golf course, according to Union/A-C Valley boys coach Leo Marron. “I’m not exaggerating. I live on Foxburg (County Club), he lives on Foxb...
December 05, 2025 Sports
Riley Kontul booked her second ticket to the PIAA Class 2A girls golf individual championships this season. For as talented as she is on the links, her approach as a team...
December 05, 2025 Sports
MADISON, Wis. — Pittsburgh and Wisconsin have mutually agreed to cancel their scheduled 2026 matchup. The teams were scheduled to face off at Wisconsin on Sept. 19. Wisco...
December 05, 2025 College
The United States could hardly have asked for a better draw at the 2026 World Cup. The co-host should expect to stick around at its own party until at least the round of...
December 05, 2025 Professional
Mike Tomlin isn’t just hearing “Fire Tomlin!” chants from Steelers fans. A couple of the franchise’s greatest players are saying Pittsburgh needs to make a coaching chang...
December 05, 2025 Professional
WASHINGTON — Argentina and Lionel Messi will start their World Cup title defense against Algeria, while the U.S. was drawn Friday to open against Paraguay as soccer’s qua...
December 05, 2025 Professional
Editorial
For nearly 20 years now, Al Todd has helped make Christmas better for hundreds of children each year, not to mention taking a huge amount of stress off their parents. As ...
December 06, 2025 Our Opinion
December 06, 2025 Cartoons
As a lifelong Butler County resident, I support our local law enforcement officers who serve our community with dedication and integrity. That’s exactly why I’m concerned...
December 06, 2025 Letters to the Editor
As managing editor of the Butler Eagle, I would like to apologize for Friday’s editorial cartoon. It was inappropriate and does not reflect our values as a family newspap...
December 06, 2025 Our Opinion
Our current president is very busy. What with the nearly four-year Ukraine war not “settled in an hour, with a phone call.” War crimes, inflation, unemployment, cost of f...
December 06, 2025 Letters to the Editor
In recent discussions, democratic socialism is often misunderstood or misrepresented, sometimes unfairly equated with authoritarian regimes or economic inefficiency. (“So...
December 06, 2025 Letters to the Editor
While many of us are asleep, families huddle on the street, watching firefighters douse the flames consuming their home. At the same time, local Red Cross volunteers — n...
December 06, 2025 Letters to the Editor
I commute daily through Cranberry Township. Over the past couple of years, I have watched my commute time gradually increase, and I know I am far from the only one. I oft...
December 06, 2025 Letters to the Editor
Here we go again! Another insult to the most needed and wanted professions in this country. Nurses, teachers, engineers, technical workers, master of business, architects...
December 06, 2025 Letters to the Editor
Community
Christmas spirit doesn’t arrive on its own in Zelienople — the Model Train Club of Zelienople helps bring it to the borough on wheels. The club set up its “Polar Express”...
December 06, 2025 Community
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 06, 2025 Senior
Seneca Valley Senior High School alumna Sydney Brower earned the Girl Scout Gold Award after leading a project at the school district focused on food allergy education. S...
December 06, 2025 Community
Announcements
In loving memory of Clair “Scrape” Glenn April 4, 1923 - December 8, 2010 We remember you each day With love in our hearts for being a wonderful and caring Dad and Pap. S...
December 06, 2025 In Memoriams
Loving birthday wishes to our dearly missed nephew and cousin, Clair Louis Glenn. You are in our hearts forever. We love you, Uncle John and Aunt Debby, Erin and Abby ...
December 06, 2025 Birthday Tributes
In loving memory of our beloved Cierra Marie Burrows who passed away 16 years ago, December 7, 2009. My Star in Heaven We are sending a dove to Heaven with a parcel on it...
December 06, 2025 In Memoriams
Arts & Entertainment
Not so many years ago, a typical advent calendar was a basic cardboard box containing some chocolates or other candies behind little daily windows. Today, advent calenda...
December 06, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
How do you top “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” the video game movie adaptation about murderous anthropomorphic robots? If it’s a battle for insipid nonsense, the answer is bli...
December 06, 2025 Reviews
After two installments of his “Knives Out” franchise skewered old and new money, director and writer Rian Johnson targets religion in his third, a gloomy and clunky outin...
December 06, 2025 Reviews
Next weekend you can catch one of the best meteor showers of the year. It’s the annual Geminid meteor shower, and if the clouds stay away from Butler, it should be a good...
December 06, 2025 Starwatch
Imagine sitting down after a few glasses of eggnog and flipping through every saccharine holiday movie on cable, but then, suddenly, the remote is stuck, the plots are me...
December 05, 2025 Weekend Entertainment
NEW YORK — Netflix struck a deal Friday to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, the Hollywood giant behind “Harry Potter” and HBO Max, in a $72 billion deal that would bring toge...
December 05, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Two of the most popular streaming services have agreed to combine, in a move that could change the streaming service landscape. Netflix said Friday it will...
December 05, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
Other
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped... — Philippians 2:5-6...
December 06, 2025 Verse of the Day
December 06, 2025 Daily Photo Gallery
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