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.
A Connoquenessing Township man testified Monday, Dec. 15, in Butler County Common Pleas Court the state police trooper who followed him as he rode his bicycle on Route 68...
NEW YORK — The New York Mets’ ballpark in Queens. A Bronx golf course once operated by President Donald Trump ’s company. A slot parlor on a horse racing track near John ...
The owner of a Cranberry Township auto repair business is again facing accusations of business fraud.
Keith R. Smith, 69, of Cranberry Township, was charged on Friday, De...
For this holiday season, Experience Butler County — formerly the Butler County Tourism & Convention Bureau — is making some changes to its annual gift certificate program...
LANCASTER TWP — Township officials opted to not raise taxes as part of the 2026 budget unanimously approved by township supervisors during their final meeting of the year...
Cranberry Township will host its annual Menorah Lighting and Chanukah Celebration at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, at the Cranberry Township Municipal Center.
The event will b...
A Harmony man accused of distributing artificially-generated child sexual abuse material and stalking a former partner by posting intimate photos of them waived his preli...
MARS — Mars Borough Council put an end to a process that stretched on for months by approving a comprehensive event policy during their meeting on Monday, Dec. 15.
The fi...
Cranberry Township officials are continuing to take steps toward preserving and improving what they hope will develop into a historic landmark for the township.
During th...
The City of Butler’s plow drivers were active for 22 hours straight during the weekend of Saturday, Dec. 13, amid a winter storm that prompted widespread school closures,...
PARIS — Workers at the Louvre Museum voted Monday to strike over working conditions and other complaints, dealing another blow to the Paris landmark and home of the “Mona...
WATERBURY, Conn. — A judge on Monday disbarred Hunter Biden in Connecticut for violating the state’s attorney conduct rules, a decision that comes after complaints were m...
LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities said Monday that they foiled a plot to bomb multiple sites of two U.S. companies on New Year’s Eve in Southern California after arrestin...
NEW YORK — Leading Jewish groups in the United States are urging all Jewish organizations to ratchet up security measures at public events — including restrictions on acc...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Authorities knocked on doors Monday searching for any video there might be of the Brown University gunman, who could be seen in grainy footage walking ...
President Donald Trump’s administration is talking tough about SNAP, saying the government’s biggest food aid program is riddled with fraud that must be stopped.
His app...
Rob Reiner, the son of a comedy giant who became one himself as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation with movies such as “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry M...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday blamed Rob Reiner's outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director's killing, delivering the unsubstantiated c...
LOS ANGELES — The 32-year-old son of Hollywood icon Rob Reiner was arrested on suspicion of murder and held without bail Monday in the stabbing deaths of his parents in t...
BERLIN — The U.S. has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia’s nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely...
PITTSBURGH — Aaron Rodgers passed for 224 yards and two touchdowns, and the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Miami Dolphins 28-15 Monday night to stay stop the AFC North.
Pit...
WARRENDALE — Seneca Valley hockey is used to putting opponents on the ropes, but the tables were turned on them in Monday’s PIHL clash with Pine-Richland.
The Rams held a...
Led by Madison Romanovich’s 30 points, Slippery Rock girls basketball blew out Oil City 70-39.
One of the top scorers in Butler County this season, Romanovich also had fi...
PITTSBURGH — Ben Roethlisberger thinks Mike Tomlin should coach the Pittsburgh Steelers until he doesn't want to do it anymore.
The former Steelers quarterback said Mond...
The WPIAL released its all-conference football all-star teams over the weekend, and Mars and Freeport dominated the lists in Class 4A and 3A, respectively.
Four of the Pl...
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — The standard Madison Romanovich established for herself last season was lofty, but one she appears able and ready to surpass.
Four games into the high...
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County.
Monday, Dec. 15
Boys Basketball
7:30 — Karns City at Cranberry Area
7:30 — Highlands at Mars (ppd...
As the season of giving rolls on, we urge readers to give a gift that could very well save a stranger’s life — the gift of blood.
According to the American Red Cross, abo...
In the realm of horror, it was hard to beat the headlines in February that you were carrying around the equivalent of a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics in your bra...
The American Red Cross has a few blood drives scheduled in Butler County through the end of the year, and at the beginning of 2026.
The next local drive is from noon to 5...
Early exposure to or participation in gambling during childhood is correlated with the development of a gambling problem later in life, which can come through lottery tic...
PENN TWP — Before the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count began in 1900, bird watchers were unaware that bluebirds were on the “verge of extinction.”
Environ...
Cross a perennial Christmas favorite with an episode of “I Love the ‘80s” and the result is “The Nutcracker: New Game — A Holiday Reboot,” a musical that incorporates a m...
Mariah Carey is going to add some American pop-star pedigree to the opening ceremony for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
The local organizing committee announced ...
Comedian Amy Schumer says she and her husband, chef Chris Fischer, have decided to end their marriage.
Schumer, an actress, author and writer, announced the planned split...
Michele Singer Reiner, a photographer, movie producer and advocate for LGBTQ+ rights who inspired the happy conclusion to the 1980s romantic comedy “When Harry Met Sally…...
Anthony Geary, who rose to fame in the 1970s and '80s as half the daytime TV super couple Luke and Laura on “General Hospital,” has died. He was 78.
“We are deeply sadde...
