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.
Delta Air Lines announced Tuesday it is raising checked baggage fees, part of a broader wave of U.S. carriers responding to higher jet fuel prices tied to the war in the ...
An Evans City man is accused of first raping a woman when she was a teenage girl, then continuing the behavior for at least eight years as she became an adult, according ...
A camper fire prompted emergency responses from five companies Tuesday afternoon, April 7, in Franklin Township, according to Butler County Emergency Services dispatch.
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East Butler approved a bid for future tar and chipping work on roads and alleys in the borough at their April 6 meeting.
Out of three bids, Russell Standard’s bid of $96...
MARS — Borough council announced it has opted for the Rave Alert system from Motorola as its new municipal emergency alert notification system at a council meeting on Mon...
Knoch’s school board announced at a Jan. 14 meeting they would sign off on a teachers contract, calmly resolving a disagreement over health care language. Months later, t...
It has a catchy name — Build America, Buy America — and the lauded goal of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.
But the law has spurred a bottleneck for...
Adams Township-based manufacturer Mars Mineral has hired Elliott Woodward, son of president Clayton Woodward, as a new business manager.
He is the third generation of th...
BUTLER TWP — Butler Area School District’s board approved the termination of Series 2007 bonds in a Monday, April 6, special meeting and will vote to swap it for another ...
NEW YORK — The animal rights group PETA’s lawsuit over the health of French bulldogs and some other popular dog breeds has been dismissed, with a judge saying a New York ...
PANAMA CITY — The explosion of a fuel truck at the base of a bridge over the Panama Canal has left one person dead and prompted Panamanian authorities to close the span w...
BUDAPEST, Hungary — U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday urged Hungarians to back Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in upcoming elections, dubbing the populist leader a defe...
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine is proposing to Russia a pause in attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure over the Orthodox Easter holiday, which will be observed this comi...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian officials on Tuesday urged young people to form human chains to protect power plants, as U.S. President Donald Trump warned that a “whole civilizat...
Ford Motor Co. is recalling more than 400,000 vehicles because the windshield wiper arms can break, causing reduced visibility and increasing the risk of a crash.
The rec...
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks drifted higher in hesitant trading on Monday, ahead of a deadline that President Donald Trump has set to bomb Iranian power plants.
The S&P 500 ros...
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma City Police Department has placed officers on leave after reports of an April Fools’ Day prank that sent squad cars in pursuit of a baby bein...
Gov. Patrick Morrisey vetoed a handful of bills meant to help vulnerable West Virginians just days after signing a 5% reduction to the personal income tax.
Between the t...
PHILADELPHIA — A 17-month-old was hurt Saturday after crawling under a fence at Pennsylvania’s Hersheypark zoo and sticking his hand into a wolf enclosure. Now, the boy’s...
Madison Romanovich is the blueprint of what her teammates and future Slippery Rock girls basketball players aspire to be.
“Starting as a freshman, and kind of develop...
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...
BUTLER TWP — Monday’s meeting with Hempfield required a bit more effort from Butler boys volleyball, but the Golden Tornado remained perfect in non-section games.
Enterin...
PITTSBURGH — Germán Márquez combined with two relievers on a seven-hit shutout for his first win with San Diego, and the Padres ended the Pittsburgh Pirates’ five-game wi...
Nicco Baggetta now holds Butler’s javelin record.
The Golden Tornado junior launched it 197 feet, 6 inches on his third and final throw in victories during a tri-meet aga...
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 (ppd. April 7)
Girls Flag Football
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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...
I’m going to say something from my firsthand experience as a mom: Schools have a terrible track record with screens. It tends to be adoption first, skepticism later (and ...
Zelienople keeps proving itself to be a tight-knit community of people who will help one another when a fire strikes a business and apartment and also plan holiday festiv...
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 Richland Volunteer Fire Department will host its annual Purse Bash fundraiser April 25.
It will take place from 6 to 10 p.m. at the department’s social hall, 5857 Mer...
Butler County employees were running out of space in 2011.
With offices squeezed into the nooks and crannies of the government center and courthouse, workers were doublin...
New and experienced home gardeners can prepare for the growing season by attending an upcoming workshop led by Penn State Extension Master Gardeners.
“Spring into Gardeni...
Experience the North Country Trail at two April events organized by the Butler County chapter of the North Country Trail Association.
There will be a meeting Wednesday, A...
MIDDLESEX TWP — For John Porter, certain work days remind him to tell the people in his life he cares about them before it’s too late.
He has found — in just a year of wo...
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...
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...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The rapper Offset, a former member of the influential hip-hop trio Migos, was shot outside a Florida casino and is in stable condition, a spokesperson s...
Sydney Sweeney starring as real-life boxing legend Christy Martin in the movie “Christy” and “Hacks” launching its fifth and final season on HBO are some of the new telev...
NEW YORK — Yup, she wore something blue.
Zendaya, surprising precisely nobody on the planet, showed up in dazzling blue at Thursday’s New York premiere of “The Drama,...
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. — James 5:16
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