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PA American Water provides $5,000 grant to Inspired Hearts and Hands to fight food insecurity
As the holidays inch closer, Pennsylvania American Water’s charitable arm has stepped up to help combat food insecurity. The American Water Charitable Foundation on Thurs...
December 12, 2025 Local News
Clinton Township expects balanced budget for 2026, no tax increase
Clinton Township is expected to approve its proposed 2026 budget at a special meeting Dec. 22. Revenue and expenditures in the proposed spending plan are balanced at $1,4...
December 12, 2025 Government
Police reports
The following items were collected from various police departments and district courts: Butler Dec. 3 — James Erwin Fleeger, 42, of Butler, was charged with misdemeanor d...
December 12, 2025 Local News
Cranberry readies for winter road care
With snowy conditions finally hitting Western Pennsylvania, municipalities such as Cranberry Township are springing into action to keep their roads safe and driveable. La...
December 12, 2025 Local News
Cranberry supervisors approve 2.5 mill tax increase as part of 2026 budget
CRANBERRY TWP — Township supervisors on Thursday, Dec. 11 approved a 2026 budget of nearly $110 million, with a 2.5-mill real estate tax increase that will launch a new R...
December 12, 2025 Local News
Toys for Tots helps families fill stockings during holiday season
CENTER TWP — With costs on the rise and Christmas around the corner, the Toys for Tots Butler chapter is stepping in to help families make sure their children have happy ...
December 12, 2025 Local News
State agency letters left unsent by vendor
Around 2.7 million pieces of state agency mail from the last month never got delivered after a state-contracted vendor failed to send them. Between Nov. 3 and Dec. 3, cor...
December 12, 2025 Local News
Highmark announces affiliation with KC based insurer
Pittsburgh-based health care insurer Highmark is adding more than 1 million members to its base, through a proposed affiliation with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas ...
December 12, 2025 Business
3 Ohio men accused of assaulting woman released on bond
Fourth man previously posted bail
December 12, 2025 Local News
City offers free holiday parking
The City of Butler announced on Thursday, Dec. 11, that all metered parking in the city will be free from Dec. 20 to Jan. 1. ...
December 12, 2025 Local News
Other News
Hiker mired in quicksand in Utah's Arches National Park is rescued unharmed
Getting trapped in quicksand is a corny peril of old movies and TV shows, but it really did happen to one unfortunate hiker in Utah’s Arches National Park. The park famo...
December 12, 2025 National News
Amtrak’s 18,000 workers to receive $900 bonuses, funded by executive cuts
More than 18,000 Amtrak workers will receive a $900 bonus before the end of the year, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced on Thursday evening. Funding for th...
December 11, 2025 National News
Toronto police say man who died in 2019 is perpetrator of 3 cold case homicides
TORONTO — A Canadian man who died in 2019 has been identified as the perpetrator of three cold case homicides in Toronto, and investigators believe there could be more vi...
December 11, 2025 International News
Sao Paulo blackout leaves 1.4M without power, hundreds of flights canceled
SAO PAULO — More than 1.4 million Sao Paulo residents had no electricity on Thursday after strong winds caused several trees to collapse onto the Brazilian metropolis' gr...
December 11, 2025 International News
Tens of thousands ordered to flee flooding after torrential rain in Pacific Northwest
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Tens of thousands of Washington residents were under evacuation orders Thursday after a barrage of torrential rain that has overflowed rivers, sent ...
December 11, 2025 National News
Gas explosion in San Francisco Bay Area damages homes, 6 taken to hospitals
SAN FRANCISCO — A gas explosion set off a major fire in a San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood on Thursday after obliterating at least one home, blowing out windows and sh...
December 11, 2025 National News
U.S. national park gift shops ordered to purge merchandise promoting DEI
The Trump administration is expanding its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion by ordering national parks to purge their gift shops of items it deems objectionabl...
December 11, 2025 National News
U.S. sanctions Venezuelan President Maduro's 3 nephews as pressure campaign ratchets up
WASHINGTON — The U.S. imposed sanctions on three nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, among others, on Thursday as President Donald Trump looks to inflict furt...
December 11, 2025 International News
Noem links the seizure of an oil tanker off Venezuela to U.S. antidrug efforts
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday linked the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela to the Trump administration's counterdrug efforts in La...
December 11, 2025 International News
A nighttime airstrike on a hospital leaves 34 dead and 80 injured in Myanmar
BANGKOK — An airstrike by Myanmar’s military destroyed a hospital in an area controlled by a leading rebel armed force, killing 34 patients and medical staff, according t...
December 11, 2025 International News
Sports
Mars girls volleyball’s Cecilia Christy named 2-time player of the year: See 2025 Butler County all-stars
Cecilia Christy’s four years at Mars coincided with the girls volleyball team’s best stretch ever. The Planets made the WPIAL Class 3A tournament all four years, won just...
December 12, 2025 Sports
2 years into PIAA’s Black Friday start to basketball season, how are teams treating tip-off tournaments and what’s their future?
For more than 20 years, this weekend was the start of the PIAA basketball season. Two weeks after Thanksgiving, that was the schedule. But two years ago, the PIAA, under ...
December 12, 2025 Sports
Freeport girls basketball smothers Derry: Roundup
Senior Nia DiSanti drained 17 points as Freeport girls basketball opened WPIAL Section 1-4A play by defeating Derry 49-22 on Thursday. The Yellowjackets (3-2, 1-0) built ...
December 11, 2025 Sports
Freeport girls soccer star Camryn Woods player of the year: See 2025 Butler County all-stars
This past girls soccer season isn’t one Freeport will soon forget. “I knew we had a good team coming in this year, and the girls came in with the right attitude,” Yellowj...
December 11, 2025 Sports
Editorial
5-year-old can teach adults a lot about this season
In the Monday, Dec. 8, edition of the Butler Eagle, we learned about a holiday blanket drive for cancer patients. While there are a lot of collection drives this time of ...
December 12, 2025 Our Opinion
Editorial Cartoon
December 12, 2025 Cartoons
5 reasons the boat strike debate matters for the U.S.
It has been a turbulent couple of weeks in national security, highlighted by continuing strikes on high-speed boats in the Caribbean that are, according to the Trump admi...
December 12, 2025 Other Voices
Community
Announcements
Edward Sommers
In loving memory of our beloved Edward Sommers whose birthday is December 12, 1943. Loved and missed by, Bette Sommers and Family ...
December 12, 2025 Birthday Tributes
Arts & Entertainment
Director convicted of scamming $11M from Netflix and going on lavish spending spree
NEW YORK — A Hollywood director was convicted Thursday on charges that he scammed Netflix out of $11 million for a show that never materialized, while he instead used the...
December 11, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
Other
Verse of the Day
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. — John 3:17 ...
December 12, 2025 Verse of the Day
The Latest
Cranberry Township honors outgoing police chief Kevin Meyer after nearly 30 years of service
12/12/2025
Police: Man assaulted in Cranberry Township apartment
12/12/2025
Seneca Valley senior looking to improve boat launch for senior project
12/12/2025
Founder’s fund helps area nonprofit
12/12/2025
Buffalo Township tax collector resigns one month after winning election
12/12/2025
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