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 Allegheny-Clarion Valley School District operated its buildings under a modified lockdown Friday, May 8, out of an “abundance of caution,” according to the superinten...
After facing medical mysteries with her son, a Slippery Rock mother is hoping to connect with the family, friends or doctors of the few others who share his rare conditio...
A Pennsylvania Office of Open Records determination for Butler County to provide the name of a 2-month-old boy who died Nov. 8 in Butler Township to a newspaper has been ...
JEFFERSON TWP — Knoch School District’s board released a statement on the dismissal of charges against a teacher at its Wednesday, May 6, meeting, saying members felt the...
With the current deadline drawing closer and work still ongoing to draft their newest Act 537 public sewage plan, Connoquenessing Township officials are requesting two mo...
BUTLER TWP — All nonteaching staff with Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School will see a small pay increase starting next year.
The school’s joint operating comm...
CRANBERRY TWP — When Jocelyn Christensen and her family moved to the township 10 years ago, she said she was captivated by the community’s openness to working with church...
Butler Memorial Hospital has received a $250,000 grant from Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry to support its planned preapprenticeship program.
The grant, a...
CRANBERRY TWP — At Thursday’s township meeting, the board of supervisors voted unanimously to pass the conditional use application for the planned 7 Brew location along R...
Mars Area Middle School’s seventh- and eighth-graders went to battle Thursday morning for a good cause, and they did so via water balloon.
The school’s student council sp...
HOMESTEAD, Allegheny County — Retired emergency medical services director Vern Smith, a face familiar to thousands of Butler County residents, was one of six people acros...
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican raised the “need to work tirelessly in favor of peace” in talks Thursday with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who came to Rome on a fence-...
HERSHEY, Pa. — Supreme Court justices are not “political actors,” Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday, insisting unpopular court decisions are based solely on the l...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's proposal to put a coat of white paint on the exterior of a 19th-century historic landmark building next to the White House could cos...
As storm chaser Ashton Lemley picked his way through a tornado-ravaged Mississippi trailer park, he heard the unmistakable meow of a kitten pierce the predawn darkness.
T...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department will begin revoking the U.S. passports of thousands of parents who owe a significant amount of unpaid child support.
The departmen...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran has created a government agency to vet and tax vessels seeking passage through the crucial Strait of Hormuz, a shipping data company re...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military said it intercepted Iranian attacks Thursday on three Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz and “targeted Iranian military fa...
Russian air defenses shot down 347 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday, in what appeared to be a major attack after Moscow spurned Kyiv’s ...
BOGUE CHITTO, Miss. — Anunciata Schwebel could only watch in horror on FaceTime while her friend and tenant slunk into a bathtub to take cover from one of several tornado...
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...
North Catholic girls lacrosse closed the season with a dominating 19-5 victory against host West Allegheny on Thursday.
Kate Geary scored three times for the Trojanettes ...
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...
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...
It’s a good time of year to run (or walk) in Butler County.
We’ve got three great events from wild to mild over the next two weekends. On Saturday, go wild with Glacier R...
Three seniors graduating from Butler Senior high School were selected to receive the Starwood Scholarships, provided by a local couple through the Pittsburgh Foundation.
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Forward Township has a unique connection to America’s colonial past. It’s the location where George Washington was nearly shot and killed by his Native American traveling...
First United Methodist Church, 1802 N. Main Street Extension in Center Township, will hold its annual rummage sale May 15 and 16.
The sale will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 ...
Butler Township is hosting its annual “Guys who Grill” event benefiting the Butler Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation from 5 to 8 p.m. May 30 at Preston Park.
The event...
