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.
A piece of Butler County’s medical history is on the open market, and it can be yours if you have over $1,000,000 to spend.
The massive building at 700 South Main Street ...
Schools participating in the National School Lunch Program would be allowed to serve whole and reduced-fat milk under new legislation approved by Congress recently.
The U...
The Slippery Rock Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company helped save a horse that had fallen on a frozen lake and couldn’t get up Wednesday, Dec. 17.
Several units from the f...
County commissioners revised the 2026 budget introduced in November to eliminate what would have been an $11.76 million deficit.
Commissioners met with department heads, ...
Two people are facing charges after police said they were found overdosing in the Butler Area Public Library and then brought contraband into the Butler County Prison Tue...
EVANS CITY — A fourth boy who accused a former Adams Township resident and Mars sports official of indecent assault testified during a preliminary hearing Wednesday, Dec....
NEW YORK — Teen use of alcohol, nicotine and marijuana remains at record lows, according to national survey results released Wednesday.
They consume a lot of energy drin...
Charges against a former Penn Christian Academy teacher were held for court at a preliminary hearing held Monday, Dec. 15, in Harmar Township.
Sean M. Dicer, 53, of Brack...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said in a White House speech Wednesday night that he was sending a $1,776 bonus check to U.S. troops for Christmas, indicating that ta...
The U.S. government admitted Wednesday that the actions of an air traffic controller and Army helicopter pilot played a role in causing the collision last January between...
SYDNEY — An accused gunman in Sydney’s Bondi Beach massacre was charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder on Wednesday, as hundreds of mourners gathered in ...
BROOKLINE, Mass. — Police intensified their search Wednesday for a suspect in the killing of professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tw...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — With the search for the Brown University shooter in its fifth day Wednesday, authorities were asking the public to review any security or phone footage...
WASHINGTON — Four centrist Republicans, including three from Pennsylvania, broke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday and signed onto a Democratic-led petition that wil...
LOS ANGELES — Nick Reiner made his first court appearance Wednesday in Los Angeles on two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents, actor-director Rob ...
OMAHA, Neb. — The proposed $85 billion merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads has lost the support of two unions that represent more than half their worke...
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats hammered the Federal Communications Commission's leader Wednesday for pressuring broadcasters to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air, suggesting h...
WASHINGTON — The Senate gave final passage Wednesday to an annual military policy bill that will authorize $901 billion in defense programs while pressuring Defense Secre...
Naomi Venesky’s 20 points and Hannah Dailey’s near-double-double powered Karns City to a convincing 48-35 win Wednesday night over visiting Cranberry Area.
Venesky was 5 ...
Here are the Associated Press picks for the first round of the College Football Playoff, with CFP seed and lines from BetMGM Sportsbook:
No. 9 Alabama at No. 8 Oklahoma (...
The rumors the Pittsburgh Penguins were for sale turned out to be true.
Fenway Sports Group is set to sell the franchise to the Hoffman Family of Companies, a Chicago-bas...
ATHENS, Ohio — Football coach Brian Smith was fired Wednesday by Ohio University, which cited “serious professional misconduct.”
Smith had been placed on indefinite leave...
In the booming world of NCAA volleyball, it’s Final Four time.
The championship tournament semifinals are Thursday, with Texas A&M facing Pittsburgh and Wisconsin against...
Slippery Rock University made a pair of announcements in November that will reshape the look of the athletic department over the next few years.
SRU, under athletic direc...
Generosity is shocking. Especially when it’s to strangers.
That was my first thought upon hearing of the Dell family donation of $6.25 billion to fund Trump Accounts. I h...
This year’s traditional Chanukah Celebration held in Cranberry Township started with a story.
Rabbi Yossi Feller said only two days earlier he woke up to the news that h...
Comfort at Christmas, a prayer and carol service for those experiencing grief and loss, will take place at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 19, at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 310 W...
Cross a perennial Christmas favorite with an episode of “I Love the ’80s” and the result is “The Nutcracker: New Game — A Holiday Reboot,” a musical that incorporates a m...
Valencia Presbyterian Church, 80 Sterrett St. in Valencia, is inviting the community to celebrate Christmas at a traditional Candlelight Christmas Eve Service, which begi...
This holiday season, the Butler Eagle has gathered the wishes and dreams of Butler County’s youngest residents via “Letters to Santa.”
The Butler Eagle sends the letters...
The Cranberry Men’s Chorus will cap its year with a holiday performance on Thursday, Dec. 18.
The performance of Christmas and holiday songs takes place at 7 p.m. at Cros...
Christmas traditions can span from Chinese takeout to roast dinners, finding pickles in trees to Elves on Shelves, going to church or a light show or “The Nutcracker” bal...
NEW YORK — Christine Baranski was in the playground outside St. Matthew’s Church in Bedford, New York, about three years ago when she came across Matthew Guard, artistic ...
The Zelienople Area Public Library is bringing Candyland to life from now until Jan. 17.
Life-Sized Candyland will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday,...
Butler County Parks and Recreation is taking submissions for its 2026 Snow Creation Contest.
The contest asks people to submit photos of creations they make with the snow...
Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts will ring in the holidays with two events on this weekend.
The Red Brick Gallery & Gift Shop annual holiday art exhibit will be u...
For the 27th year, Seneca Valley School District students will provide a fun and festive program for senior citizens living in the community.
The Senior Holiday Event tak...
Gil Gerard, who played television's hunky sci-fi hero William “Buck” Rogers soon after the Star Wars franchise took hold in the late 1970s, has died. He was 82.
Gerard d...
