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.
Sunday, April 5, marked the holiest day on the Christian calendar, Easter Sunday, as Butler County residents flocked to churches for services.
One of the largest service...
Real Estate Transactions
These real estate transactions were recorded in Butler County from Jan. 12 to 16:
Adams Township
Far View Farms Development to NVR at 3063 T...
Children got a chance to add a little challenge to their Easter egg hunts this year.
Fairview Township hosted a glow-in-the-dark egg hunt for children up to fifth grade S...
A group of individuals was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a PennDOT driver license center in West Kittanning, Armstrong County, on Friday afterno...
General Motors Co. on Wednesday reported it sold nearly 10% fewer vehicles in the past three months compared to the same time last year, when sales boomed ahead of antic...
LOS ANGELES — The screenwriters union and Hollywood studios reached a surprise four-year tentative agreement after roughly three weeks of negotiation.
The Writers Guild ...
Workers at one of the nation's largest meatpacking plants have agreed to return to work and halt a three-week strike after plant owner JBS USA agreed to resume negotiatio...
A proposed class-action lawsuit against Costco is seeking to secure refunds for customers who helped pay tariffs on imported products.
Seven Costco members — including fo...
KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa killed two women and a toddler, authorities said Monday, while Ukrainian long-range drones...
TEHRAN, Iran — Israel struck a key petrochemical plant at Iran’s massive South Pars natural gas field and killed two paramilitary Revolutionary Guard commanders on Monday...
TEHRAN, Iran — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday made expletive-filled threats against Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by his Tues...
HERSHEY, Pa. — A toddler was lightly injured by a wolf at a Pennsylvania theme park zoo after he crawled under a fence and stuck his hand into the animal’s enclosure, off...
President Donald Trump on Sunday made expletive-filled threats against Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday deadline.
A defi...
RICHMOND TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Two firefighters traveling in a utility vehicle along a Pennsylvania road during a search for a missing woman were killed in a head-on crash with...
McALLEN, Texas — For five months, the young father waited for his 3-year-old daughter’s release from federal custody after she crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her m...
For generations, human beings have wondered: What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?
It's a questi...
JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump announced early Sunday that the U.S. had rescued an aviator nearly two days after he was shot down over Iran.
The extraction came afte...
Making history became a theme this season for Knoch boys basketball senior Teegan Finucan.
Shortly after he broke the school record for 3-pointers made in a career, which...
Jence Rhoads expanded her family’s basketball legacy growing up
A 2007 Slippery Rock High School graduate, Rhoads became an all-state basketball player for the Rockets an...
See this week’s schedule of local sports across Butler County.
Monday, April 6
Baseball
4 — Wilmington at Slippery Rock
Girls Flag Football
3:30 — New Cast...
PITTSBURGH — The NFL draft coming to Pittsburgh later this month is a big deal for the city. The league’s signature offseason event will span three days and is expected t...
PITTSBURGH — Rickard Rakell scored twice, Sidney Crosby had a goal and two assists and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Florida Panthers 5-2 Sunday.
The teams faced off S...
PHOENIX — Gabriela Jaquez scored 21 points, Lauren Betts added 16 and UCLA routed South Carolina 79-51 Sunday to win its first NCAA championship in women’s basketball.
Th...
PITTSBURGH — Ryan O’Hearn homered and matched a career high with four RBIs as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-2 Sunday to sweep a three-game series an...
A Seneca Valley product has turned a Division II program into a national champion.
Easton Bazzoli, a 2013 Raiders grad, and the Gannon University men’s basketball tea...
There’s a portion of the lower Allegheny River — found within a several mile stretch that spans two navigation dams — that often excels at producing quality-sized smallmo...
South Asia has had three youth-led revolts and three changes of government — and still has three countries with problems that haven’t changed a bit.
In February, Banglade...
The South Butler Community Library is holding a bingo game fundraiser event at 6 p.m., Saturday, April 11, at Bastin Distillery on North Isabella Street in Saxonburg
For ...
Maddox Grupp, of Cranberry Township Boy Scout Troop 403, achieved the rank of Eagle Scout on March 30, 2026.
For his Eagle Scout project, Maddox worked with Mike Manipol...
A traditional Easter egg hunt is a lot of fun, especially for children. I certainly enjoyed them when I was young — about a hundred years ago!
It’s also a lot of fun to ...
