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 following divorces were granted in Butler County Courts:
Carolyn Alexander, of Cranberry Township, from Craig Alexander, of Pittsburgh
Jeannine Zaccone, of Butler, fr...
The following marriage licenses were issued in Butler County courts:
Samuel Joyce, of Gibsonia, Allegheny County, to Carrie Campbell of Irwin, Westmoreland County
Allison...
Butler Post Office postmaster Victoria Bowser recommends early mailing of holiday packages.
“We encourage all our customers to mail early with our Ground Advantage option...
WASHINGTON — This holiday season isn’t quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for bargains and feeling like the overall e...
A Slippery Rock Township farm will become a “forever farm” following a designation from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
Meadow Grove Farm, an 88-acre crop fa...
Upcoming gas line relocation work on Franklin Road has been pushed back due to weather, the state Department of Transportation announced Friday, Dec. 12.
The work, origin...
Cranberry’s Costco will soon be able to add something new to its shelves.
Cranberry Township supervisors during a meeting on Thursday, Dec. 11, unanimously approved an in...
The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission has awarded nearly $4 million in Cultural and Historical Support Grants to 177 eligible museums and official county histor...
Zelienople officials are planning to redesign Four Corners Park, an undertaking that would be the most significant overhaul of the landmark in years.
The borough, working...
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Many political candidates like to talk up their résumé in their stump speech.
Ryan Crosswell reads from his resignation letter.
A former federal prosecut...
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Friday indefinitely froze Russia’s assets in Europe to ensure that Hungary and Slovakia, both with Moscow-friendly governments, can’t pre...
President Donald Trump was sued on Friday by preservationists asking a federal court to halt his White House ballroom project until it goes through multiple independent r...
WASHINGTON — House Democrats released a selection of photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, including some of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and the former Prin...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Friday that Thai and Cambodian leaders have agreed to renew a truce after days of deadly clashes had threatened to undo a ceas...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture cap...
BURLINGTON, Wash. — National Guard troops went door-to-door early Friday to evacuate a farming city north of Seattle as severe flooding throughout western Washington stra...
WEXFORD — The whistle didn’t sound. Not when Butler needed it, anyway.
With 12 seconds left in Friday night’s WPIAL Section 1-6A opener on the road against North Alleghen...
Ian Ross scored 18 of his game-high 25 points in the fourth quarter as Moniteau pulled away from A-C Valley in a 61-49 boys basketball victory Friday night.
Dawson Cook a...
KARNS CITY — With his team trailing by one with 11 seconds on the clock, Karns City coach Jalen Price called two plays during a timeout.
His players picked the right one....
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...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Fired University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore broke into the apartment of a woman with whom he had been having an affair and threatened to...
The 12-team College Football Playoff bracket is set, and the games begin Friday, Dec. 19. The first round is hosted by the higher seed before the games shift to neutral s...
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt underwent surgery to repair a partially collapsed lung and will be out for Monday's visit by Miami.
J.J. Wa...
PITTSBURGH — Tristan Jarry is going “home” with the hope of helping the Edmonton Oilers get over the top.
The two-time defending Western Conference champions acquired Jar...
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 ...
At the end of the year, Cranberry Township will be saying goodbye to Police Chief Kevin Meyer, who has spent nearly 30 years keeping the streets of the township safe.
As ...
Vincent Sanzotti’s defense of “democratic socialism” (Dec. 7, Page A4) ignores a basic fact: the United States is a constitutional republic, not a direct democracy. Our f...
Just a reminder of what Christmas is all about.
Sometimes we get so busy shopping, baking, decorating and, of course, with good old St. Nicholas. We even get really stre...
Last Friday, Dec. 5, my wife and I were at the Texas Roadhouse in the Clearview Mall after a day of shopping. We had a delicious meal and our check was covered by another...
It’s hard enough for most of us to predict what we’re having for dinner tonight, much less how the world will look in 2100. By that time we might have cured cancer and st...
As a retired teacher, I am grateful that the students I taught were vaccinated, as they were required to be. It was the beginning of the era where people were questioning...
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Mars, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week.
Lun...
While there really aren’t any Christmas constellations in the sky any time of the year, there’s a wonderful sign of the season waiting for you in the Butler early evening...
LONDON — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setti...
Baking is a holiday tradition in many households. The aroma of freshly baked cakes, pies and cookies wafts through the air of many homes this time of year, and that makes...
The Christmas season has local bakers up to their ears in flour, sugar, icing and eggs, but the end results of their labor will ensure delicious holiday cheer for neighbo...
Mary Ann Williams, of Middlesex Township, struggles to figure out how many cookies she has made in the past 12 years for wedding cookie tables, Christmas events, office p...
Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and f...
In loving memory of our beloved mother, Marilyn E. Kane, who passed away six years ago on December 13, 2019.
May the winds of love blow softly
And whisper in your ear,
“W...
Patrick and Cathy Rumbaugh, of West Sunbury, belatedly celebrated 45 years of marriage with a vacation to the Outer Banks in July and to Key West, Fla., in August, with t...
“I can’t trust my brain right now,” says our hero, Ella, deep into James L. Brooks’ bafflingly disjointed, uneven, unfunny and illogical “Ella McCay.”
And finally, nearl...
Michelle Pfeiffer plays a mom on the edge at Christmastime in the new movie “Oh. What. Fun.” If the sarcastic punctuation wasn’t enough of a tipoff, Pfeiffer’s charac...
The Harrisville Community Band will present a Christmas concert on Friday, Dec. 19.
The concert begins at 7 p.m. at the Harrisville Fire Hall, 313 E. Mercer St., Harrisvi...
Jesus answered, "...whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." ...
