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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
Students at St. Wendelin school got out and took advantage of the warm weather Friday during an Olympic-themed field day. The “2026 Saint Wendelin Olympics” featured a ra...
May 16, 2026 Local News
JEFFERSON TWP — Knoch School District made an addition to its leadership team that incoming superintendent Melissa Grantz said will bring experience, leadership and dedic...
May 16, 2026 Local News
The Southern Butler County Business Association held a Battle of the Businesses event Thursday, May 14, at Fun Fore All in Cranberry Township. The event pitted businesses...
May 16, 2026 Business
Butler County Community College’s board of trustees took time out during commencement activities this year to remember the loss of a cherished board member whose impact w...
May 16, 2026 Local News
At a time when colleges and universities face concerns and uncertainty, Butler County Community College leaders have expressed confidence in the school’s footing as the 2...
May 16, 2026 Local News
The Remaley family of Armstrong County is asking for financial help from the community in the form of a GoFundMe after five of them were involved in a two-vehicle crash i...
May 16, 2026 Local News
Internet provider Brightspeed is set to enter a new yearlong partnership with the Jean B. Purvis Community Health Center in Butler to help with its ongoing efforts to con...
May 16, 2026 Business
As costs continue to rise in the ambulance service business, Karns City Regional Ambulance Service president Mark Lauer recently called together leaders from several nort...
May 16, 2026 Government
EMT and paramedic students are taught a variety of skills to prepare them for any situation they might run into, but the incidents always begin with the same step — work ...
May 16, 2026 Local News
The following items have been collected from various police departments and district courts: Adams Twp May 5 — John Theodore Elliott, 57, of Mars, was charged with one mi...
May 16, 2026 Local News
Other News
MELBOURNE, Australia — Six passengers from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak arrived Friday in Australia for a quarantine expected to last at least three weeks. ...
May 15, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is drawing down thousands of troops in Europe by canceling deployments to Poland and Germany as opposed to yanking forces already stationed ther...
May 15, 2026 National News
KINSHASA, Congo — Africa’s top public health body on Friday confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo’s remote Ituri province, with 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths record...
May 15, 2026 International News
PORTLAND, Maine — A large fire and explosion at a lumber mill in Maine's midcoast region injured at least 11 people Friday. Flames tore through Robbins Lumber in Searsmon...
May 15, 2026 National News
MIAMI — The Justice Department is preparing to seek an indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Pr...
May 15, 2026 National News
Going into the Tuesday, May 19, primary election, Butler County is broken into 95 polling precincts, each of which has its own polling location. One major change from the...
May 15, 2026 Elections
The NASA official is already looking toward what the next mission may have in store.
May 15, 2026 Local News
Sports
Butler County golf and trap results, and soccer standouts from this week: GOLF Lady Duffers League May 11 at Stoughton Acres Golf Course Points standin...
May 16, 2026 Sports
BROOKVILLE — Phoebe Brandon admits she felt a bit underwhelmed by her previous trips to the District 9 Track and Field Championships. She made up for it and then some on ...
May 15, 2026 Sports
With a 3-2 win over District 1 champion Bishop Shanahan, North Catholic’s boys tennis team advanced to the PIAA Class 2A semifinals, which will be held on Saturday at Her...
May 15, 2026 Sports
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...
May 15, 2026 Sports
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...
May 15, 2026 Sports
No. 1 seed. Ten-game winning streak. Only three losses all season. Butler baseball is in a position no Golden Tornado team has been before. When Butler (17-3) takes o...
May 15, 2026 Sports
PITTSBURGH — Before Paul Skenes. Before Konnor Griffin. Before Bubba Chandler. Before Henry Davis, there was Endy Rodriguez. An athlete behind the plate who hit 25 homer...
May 15, 2026 Professional
Editorial
May 15, 2026 Cartoons
For generations, farmers in Butler and surrounding counties have worked the land, battling the natural tendencies of Pennsylvania soil. While modern fertilizers and high...
May 15, 2026 Other Voices
Community
NORTH BUFFALO TWP, Armstrong County — The township ended a public hearing on whether to return road maintenance to township residents without a decision on Wednesday, May...
May 16, 2026 Community
The scent of over a dozen food trucks filled the air of Butler’s Main Street on Friday night, May 15, as the city hosted its first of this year’s Foodie Fridays. “We have...
May 16, 2026 Community
Turmeric (Curcuma longa), is a member of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae), and is native to India and Southeast Asia. In Southeast Asia, the use of turmeric has been doc...
May 16, 2026 Community
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week. Lunch is ...
May 16, 2026 Senior
Faith Presbyterian Church, 1329 North Main Street Extension, Center Township, will screen a religious film Sunday, May 31. The church will show the new animated movie, “L...
May 15, 2026 Community
There are several special gardens surrounding the South Butler Community Library and a group of Girl Scouts found them all fascinating during a visit Tuesday evening, May...
May 15, 2026 Community
Learn about the creation of Lake Arthur at a Grove City Area Historical Society presentation. The second in the Spring Speaker Series at Grove City Area Historical Societ...
May 15, 2026 Community
Last summer, several past presidents of the Associated Artists of Butler County returned to the Butler Art Center & Gallery. A group of them formed new goals for the agen...
May 15, 2026 Community
Announcements
Arts & Entertainment
As young men flinched and gasped around me at the Los Angeles premiere of “Obsession,” I almost had to laugh. A slight head tilt, creepy smile or strange movement from st...
May 16, 2026 Reviews
It was only a matter of time before “that octopus book” became “that octopus movie” (or, at least, “that other octopus movie”). Shelby Van Pelt’s “Remarkably Bright Creat...
May 16, 2026 Reviews
CONCORD, N.H. — As a high school student in the 1970s, Lori Guess looked forward to packing up her oboe for a summer music camp in Sidney, Maine. The lakeside location an...
May 16, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Claudine Longet, the French singer and actor who was at the center of a highly publicized manslaughter trial after she was charged with the fatal shooting of h...
May 15, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Other
May 16, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. — Ecclesiastes 1...
May 16, 2026 Verse of the Day
May 15, 2026 Daily Photo Gallery
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