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.
With just over a month until proms, wedding season and Mother’s Day — a busy time of the year for a florist — Misty Evans found herself without a physical location and co...
‘Run Like a Mother’ provides Mother’s Day activity at Moraine park
MUDDY CREEK TWP — While some mothers spent the early morning of Mother’s Day getting breakfast in bed, ...
These real estate transactions were recorded in Butler County from Feb. 17 to 20:
Adams Township
NVR to Jordan and Lauren Baierl at 316 Pinewood Drive for $1,177,047...
More than 1,600 students of Slippery Rock University’s Class of Spring 2026 were honored over four commencement ceremonies on May 8 and 9.
Twenty of the graduates were me...
A prisoner on furlough is now in state police custody after he attempted to flee into the woods Sunday morning, May 10.
State police were called to the Fairground Market ...
The Butler Technical Workers will have a news conference at noon Monday, May 11, after negotiations with Butler Memorial Hospital administrators stalled following the uni...
PHILADELPHIA — The inside job began sometime after midnight at the factory in Philadelphia's Olney neighborhood where the work never stopped.
The trading card industry bo...
HONG KONG — China’s exports rose 14.1% in April from a year earlier, the government said Saturday, despite the Iran war and lingering impacts from higher U.S. tariffs.
T...
The world has burned through oil inventories at a record speed as the Iran war throttles flows from the Persian Gulf, eating into the very buffer that protects against su...
The Trump family media group posted a net drop of $405.9 million in the first quarter, largely driven by unrealized losses in cryptocurrencies held by the company.
Trump ...
A U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was due to expire Monday with both sides accusing each other of breaching the 72-hour arrangement, as American and Eu...
WASHINGTON — A man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner while armed with guns and knives pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that he...
NEW YORK — Oil prices are rising Monday as the war with Iran threatens to drag on for longer, but the U.S. stock market is nevertheless holding near its record heights.
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(The Center Square) — A state House committee on Tuesday moved a step closer to eliminating a major distraction in schools by passing a bill which — with many exceptions ...
LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting for his job after devastating local election results for his Labour Party spurred dozens of lawmakers to call for...
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that the conflict in Ukraine is nearing its end after he oversaw a military parade on Red Square commemorating the...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The death toll from a suicide attack on a security post in northwest Pakistan rose to 14 police officers early Sunday, authorities said as a self-pro...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran sent its response to the latest U.S. proposal to end the Iran war via Pakistani mediators on Sunday, but U.S. President Donald Trump qu...
WASHINGTON — Weeks before his trip to China, President Donald Trump was already predicting on social media that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, would “give me a big...
The National Transportation Safety Board on Sunday said it is gathering information about the evacuation of a Frontier Airlines plane after it hit and killed a person on...
KARNS CITY — Brock Dittman is one of many three-sport athletes at Karns City.
It’s nothing unusual. What is, though, is the Gremlins sophomore is being trained by a natio...
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County.
Monday, May 11
Baseball
3:30 — Karns City at Summit Academy
4 — Hickory at Slippery Rock
4 — Unio...
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 three Butler County teams will be in action beginning next week.
In Class 3A, Butler (14-4) is seeded ...
PITTSBURGH — Aaron Rodgers had been in town for a couple days, but as of Saturday afternoon the Steelers had not met with him and instead have been talking with his agent...
It was a record-breaking week for two Mars track and field athletes.
Colton Rearick broke Zach Leachman’s marks, set in 2019, in the boys 1600-meter race and 1-mile with ...
Butler County golf results from this week:
GOLF
Armstrong Ladies League
May 7
Points standings: Palmer’s Plungers 10, Hale’s Heat 9, Putt Sinkers 8, Pl...
SAN FRANCISCO — Nick Gonzales and Joey Bart each had four hits, Brandon Lowe drove in four runs and the Pittsburgh Pirates had a season-high 20 hits in a 13-3 victory ove...
Not all victories are won on the playing field. Sometimes the winners can be found on the sidelines.
The Mars Area High School mascot, the Fightin’ Planet, earned the tit...
The sharp rise in gasoline prices caused by the Iran war has led to bipartisan calls, and in some cases action, to reduce U.S. gas taxes. At least three Republican-run st...
In loving memory of Doris McCafferty Miller
Two years have passed since the day we said goodbye, but your love continues to surround us like sunshine on a summer day.
We ...
In loving memory of our daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, and cousin,
Stacey Nicodemus, who would be thirty years old today.
Though nothing ever separates
Two hea...
In a box office battle of the sequels, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” had the slight edge over “Mortal Kombat II” in North American theaters this weekend. According to studio ...
If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. — Matthew 18:15
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Not all par-5s are unbeatable monsters. Some can give a golfer an opportunity to shake off a bad bogey the hole before or build momentum with an layup of a birdie opportu...
It’s been a series of Western Pennsylvania false springs of late, but golf weather is increasing in regularity in the Butler area.
And that means one thing: time to get o...
